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What the Metamodernist Manifesto Means…
SDA
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I. / We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world. We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of…
Trash Can
Dena Rash Guzman
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I’m mean and lean, // sullen cream cheese / cake on the counter. I baked. . I’m hot. I’m sweet. / I’m the wrong thing to do. That doesn’t stop you....
Bob Charles, “Why I Left the Poetry…
SDA
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{Posted by Charles on Blogger in 2008, subsequently deleted, still available via WayBackMachine.com. —SA} / Back in 1994, when I began to not just…
under the larches
Ming Holden
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come spring woods will / tell: from dark mouths of angels / / erupts the realm of impulse, its own sop within / the skull, every last…
A New Axe: The Density of Forgiveness
Shannon D. Bushnell
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The night birds hit the window and / I am both cursing and forgiving you / as I chop wood. // They light up in panic / flapping violently. // I…
Qasida of Half-Widows
Shadab Z. Hashmi
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Qasida of the Teahouse by the Lake / / Zephyr’s saffron-sigh hanging in window / closed to news of Kashmir, window unlock- / ing almond- and…
Last Acts, When You Know
Lea Marshall
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stop counting / fill the car with dirt / make way / say no / cut the handles of plastic bags / finally kiss / plant bulbs / take off the dog’s…
Memorial Day
Mary Zartman
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Put me in the Pudding River when I am gone. / Let my mistakes melt into silt; / add a few minerals to the oak; / grow an acre of grass; / or float…