TO WANT THE PRESENT

Surgeon sleep,   the waste land’s miles away

the purity that’s miles’ anyway .


thinking is the feeding forward of anguish

motion of an apple in sunrise



oh yeah   detached from that

these are the top ten tracks

everyone’s will be different

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from Granite Metal

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Josh Barber lives in Philadelphia with his family and writes the poetry review A New Measure. His work has recently appeared in Aphor, Feral Dove, and Boxx Press.