42opus

is an online magazine of the literary arts.

12 July 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 2

Imaginary Distance

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.

She chews it,

Dear Passerby.

Parentheses (anger).

We suffer,

Dear Spice,

Dear Faceless.

You took it

in your hands

and found you had nowhere

to put it down.

About the author:

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work is forthcoming from New York Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, and Knock. Collaborative work with Sarah Bartlett will appear in Portland Review, Bat City Review, and the horse less press anthology New Pony. Poems from Something Should Happen at Night Outside, a collaboration with Zachary Schomburg, will appear in Pilot, Sir! and Diode.

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