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Kevin Sampsell

Kevin Sampsell writes a couple of poems and haiku every year or so.

Recent Work

countdown

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music ends next week // radios will look dumb / jukeboxes impossible to explain // colored vinyl pretty but mysterious / tell your kids that justin…

The Button

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A poof inside my chest / I press on my left nipple like / A button / It is five in the morning / I want nothing more than blankets / To be…

JSF

333 views

I. / Eating Animals / Everything Is Illuminated / Here I Am / Tree of Codes / Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close / // II. / Extremely…

Money Is Murder

1,332 views

I once heard // of a teenager / who threw a fifty-cent piece / off a highway overpass / / The coin pierced through / the windshield of a…

In Utero

734 views

My earliest memory / is stepping out of a / long white Cadillac / and landing in your mouth / / Behind your teeth / there was a horse / …

Alone At Home At Night

1,395 views

I want to dance / like Nicolas Cage / if he knew how to dance / // I don’t care / What the radio says / It is not a beautiful night / // …

Full of More Air

1,280 views

God this air is so German // Waiting for some exotic love // flavored dental floss // A cloud with doors // / And then I told you // I’m tired of…

Plate-like

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How come your face is just a face / / My face is sometimes / a plate / you can eat / off of / /

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From Poems for the Burning West

Dena Rash Guzman

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“Like the Mom in The Road?” // fire woods fire brush fire towns / fire summer fire fall fire spring fire winter / suck breath / drought heat…

AND FOR THAT WHICH I CAN NEITHER ACCEPT…

Meg Hurtado

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When Piggy squeals, / No, Kermie, no! No, no, no, no! / she does not mean, Why rescue me? / Save you! I’m just an actress-model! // / Many…

Palimpsest

Ross Robbins

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(after Basquiat) / / * // Words scrawled over / older paint dig down / through canvas / in pursuit of birth / and before. Whether // a…

The People’s Pandemic Prayer

W. Vandoren Wheeler

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// Matthew 6: 9-13 // // / Our (Dead / Beat) Dad, / who art, I hope, / in heaven… holy / shit, man— what / the actual hell? / / Give us this…

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