His shirt rode up the fruit of abstraction
hallucinating gourd at the centrum
or sweat in Vienna. And so it goes:
water from the branch, crudest inquiries
removing his pith a heated shudder,
boys’ cologne, a spill of vodka, bardzo
bardzo in what is temporal his eyes
turn a little groove in the end of sheets.
The agreement where the blue plaza hums,
we smoked hash and curled into that prospect.
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from More Loads–it is a ‘Swipe Times Production’
You can buy this chapbook somewhere? I truly cannot even find evidence of it online
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Ted Rees is a writer living and working in Philadelphia. His most recent book, Hand Me the Limits, was released in April by Roof Books. He is also the author of Dog Day Economy (Roof Books, 2022), Thanksgiving: a Poem (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Golias Books, 2020), and In Brazen Fontanelle Aflame (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018). He is currently finishing a poetry manuscript and hammering away at his first novel.
The agreement
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