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Universal Fornication  by CHRISTINE HUME

5 September 2008
Vol. 8, No. 3

One star sharpens

and blindly pours out


all its death, one's pinned

open, a yellow surge


emerges in a slur

of eyes rolling back

Lively Dub Yourself  by CHRISTINE HUME

2 September 2008
Vol. 8, No. 3

pigeons startling out

gutted light nor dark


rubble and litter chimes

in the gut


an instance of

infinite idling

Wisdom  by SEAN NEVIN

30 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

I've learned, has nothing

in common with the relentless

metronome of carpenter bees

ticking off the aluminum siding


like the steady hail of olive pits

spit through my open window

the summer I learned to shake

martinis without bruising the ice.

Elegy  by SEAN NEVIN

27 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

The human tongue, in disbelief, obsesses

at the tender pit of a tooth,


insists on entering the empty room again

and again until it cankers…

Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths  by SEAN NEVIN

24 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2
sonnet

For ten days now, two luna moths remain

silk-winged and lavish as a double broach

pinned beneath the porch light of my cabin.

Two of them, patinaed that sea-glass green

of copper weather vanes nosing the wind,

the sun-lit green of rockweed, the lichen's

green scabbing-over of the bouldered shore…

Poem without an Epigraph  by ELISA GABBERT

21 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

It's going to be another bad winter,

as in, not a good example of winter:


you can sit on the beach in November

with no coat.

Poem with Intrinsic Music  by ELISA GABBERT

18 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

This one's like tipping

your head back to take in the sky gone


shallow, dimensionless—shot

with no timestamp, the rule of threes.


Seesaw, seesaw. One is like dust.

Cricket legs/wings.

August  by LAUREN GOODWIN SLAUGHTER

14 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

Forces sky down

like a French press


over the boil. Constant cloud

covers thunder—lightning


but no rain—a tease without

the reprieve of a drop—


lonely as the kiss you want

to, but don't need.

The Dog of Eight Breaths  by MARK BILBREY

11 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

What sigh are you

keeping, well?

What reserve in store,

what cloud before you

reap? From the leavings

of whose field harvest

wind to speak?

The Dog of Wind  by MARK BILBREY

8 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

In the spirit of breathing I

Am before the face of I

Am in the image still I

Must eat or wear out I

The Dog of Clarity  by MARK BILBREY

5 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

Sometimes I feel

like a dog in the sky,


                  a constellation of mostly not-me.

The Dog of History  by MARK BILBREY

2 August 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

Your snout slit: biolology miff muff myth

      Up front: scent enter

      Aside: the slag


So as they say about shall the twins meet

      And say get yers from out my line

      And a line goes one way forever

working on it  by CADE COLLUM

30 July 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

so i got tethered to

the fixing of things—

funny this jar won't open hot

or cold, funny this engine

had more parts before i rebuilt it.

the man in the glass vise  by CADE COLLUM

27 July 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

the newspaper smells like moth-balls & tells nothing.

chalk it up to _____.

everyday people get annoyed when _____.


just as the first dinner

after a difficult hour,

so with the wind's scratch & the calendar.

i said it like i said it  by CADE COLLUM

24 July 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

and i am less and less myself.

i speak it when memory fails

i speak it when the river touches my ankles—cold

and close to meaningless.

It Gets in the Way  by EMILY KENDAL FREY

15 July 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

Dear Outlet,

Dear Honored Guest,

Mounded inside

in fits and starts.

Dear Plaque,

Dear Meatball,

Dear Attack—

Imaginary Distance  by EMILY KENDAL FREY

12 July 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

Dear Jalapeno,

Dear Skeleton,

Dear Delight,

Dear Landslide—

This is the price

of a punch card

culture. Rip a few

mascots for the

bus ride over.

Imaginary Greenhouse  by EMILY KENDAL FREY

9 July 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

Dear Jalapeno,

Dear Vagrant,

The trees are making

fools of themselves.

I'm making faces

at the greedy river.

The sky spits

at us in our tiny

white hats.

To the Same  by JOHN MILTON

Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear,

   To outward view, of blemish or of spot,

   Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot;

   Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear

Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year,

   Or man, or woman.

On the Same  by JOHN MILTON

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs

   By the known rules of ancient liberty,

   When straight a barbarous noise environs me

   Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs …

Self-Portrait with Cockroach  by KEETJE KUIPERS

2 July 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

what keeps you up all night

listening to the neighbor


call his cats in: oh the animals

we might choose to save, put them


on a polystyrene ark to Mars: what

we start that finishes us: the seventy-


four degree day in December: …

You loved a woman once  by KEETJE KUIPERS

29 June 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

Your own body, broken into so many times, became a clear lake

for her to bathe in. Remember pulling the one tiny, suckering

leech from below her neck, the pale collarbone Braille it left.

Across a great wilderness without you  by KEETJE KUIPERS

26 June 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

The deer come out in the evening.

God bless them for not judging me,

I'm drunk. I stand on the porch in my bathrobe

and make strange noises at them—

                        language,

if language can be a kind of crying.

At the Perkins School  by LORI LAMOTHE

20 June 2008
Vol. 8, No. 2

The poem about the sea

      speaks in braille

blue translated twice.


Sun wet light salt waves etc.

 

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