Ink Node: Jack Christian

Roseland

2010-02-12T07:44:05-08:00

It’s raining, but Matt says, that isn’t rain.
You make tea with it or it gets to you.
It’s an antelope. In other converted basements
the people speak Arawakan – I’m just saying.
Ours belonged to Harris;
we call it...

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Another from the Live Creature Series

2010-01-25T19:22:28-08:00

There’s an account wherein a piano falls in on itself and a man inhabits a stoop, but calls it his tree. When I step up on him my appearance grows around. My torso gets weird and I start to discombobulate. I swerve because I don’t mean anything. There’s a quality...

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An Ape

2009-12-01T17:48:01-08:00

I walk a dog-colored thought to the All Dog Chapel
of Lost Dog Souls
where I purchase a translucent retriever.
Though I gather he comes without a name
I know to call him Bounder.
I feel this strange fire. A statue...

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Let’s Collaborate

2009-04-13T17:27:36-07:00

I was thinking maybe you’d write one for me
and give it to me and I could say it’s mine
and never tell anyone, but always
give you credit in my mind, which, if you look at it
the right way, counts most anyway.
How...

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