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Kevin Sampsell
Kevin Sampsell writes a couple of poems and haiku every year or so.
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countdown
Kevin Sampsell
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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
Kevin Sampsell
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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
Kevin Sampsell
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I. / Eating Animals / Everything Is Illuminated / Here I Am / Tree of Codes / Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close / // II. / Extremely…
Money Is Murder
Kevin Sampsell
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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
Kevin Sampsell
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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
Kevin Sampsell
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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
Kevin Sampsell
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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
Kevin Sampsell
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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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