Month: June 2026
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My individual decision makingIs immaterial. But I’d like to be on time todaySo in an idealization I make the trainAnd there’s a clean blue square for meWhere I can sit with the babyWho wants to kick meWhere it can kick me. Hello baby.A concrete version of events whizzesBy like a…
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I look around. cookbooks are lined up. moths trapped between the season and the god. an infinite mistake funhouse. otherwise, the death outside persists. the space of weeding. another row. I realize it has not begun. vague spaces from the surrounding apples. the rumblings of thunder. the space of the…
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[I]Where I spent my life, I spend my life.The spell recedes,I pitch a tent. I squint at wind.I came to see what I could.I thought it was a doguntil it was a frog & there were twobetween the divotsby the nightshades. Withinthe lens of my eyesized 10 × 5, I…
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And I never needed ground to undo reciprocal villainy, or discover a frog, moreover. Bitter ash and guts and a twisted field of rye to habituate the baby, a secret disease that speaks to the grey maestro of manifolds. You don’t know how I destroy the years in a scribbly…
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The instructions are clamped to a clipboard hanging by the door of my trailer. The objective: we don’t know how to communicate with the unknown: gods; the dead; plants, animals, minerals; inhabitants of other planets or space; the interior and secret mind of the person beside us. This is an…
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— from Nerves Between Song–published by Beautiful Days Read more here — Geoffrey Olsen is the author of Nerves Between Song (Beautiful Days Press 2024) and many chapbooks, most recently In Sleep the Searing (New Mundo Press 2025) and Neck Field (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs 2025). He lives in…
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i am unsure of half the things i sayat this time. in 1961, while running therapeutic groups, Bion noticed people pick up one another’s sound. from queue to queer to care to acreage. this sympathetic formation like a hand heldunder the table of semantic content. he considered it, i think,…
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— from Row with Your Hair–published in 1969 by Kayak Books Buy it online somewhere? — By James Tate 👍
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— from Debauch–published by Bottle Cap Buy it here — By Brooke Spalding 👍
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Chased me down a half-whippox of wanting you The negative edgeI feel when you pluck outthe joy that only you and I But understand I was glasscat-eyes, the gloss of my bare nod — Your cheap facesome $20 of snake materialprotruding like a testicle Go pale and bend under, somedayyou’ll…
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