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Ted Powers

Ted Powers is a person with a left hand and a right hand. Also feet. Other poems of his appear at NOO Journal, Strange Machine, GlitterPony, Sixth Finch, and other places. He lives in Western Massachusetts.

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from PLEASE LIGHT UP

Ted Powers

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My money blows down the street. / You walk towards the street. / To help me. You shove me. / I blow down the street. / It is a long and dirty…

from PLEASE LIGHT UP

Ted Powers

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When I say night is blooming / I am trying to fool you. / I am content / to hold on to it / that picture I have of you / that I don’t really…

from PLEASE LIGHT UP

Ted Powers

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Because we are in love / I can know five or six things. / If the band plays inside the barn / and we stand outside the barn / we won’t need…

from PLEASE LIGHT UP

Ted Powers

(2)

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The red train went west. / A piece of the moon showed up / in the sky. It said nothing to the sun. / Three children played on green grass. / …

from PLEASE LIGHT UP

Ted Powers

(2)

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Margot was upset. / She had a dream she had a cat / and the dream killed the cat. / The cat bled from his eyes / in the pattern of her sheets....

from PLEASE LIGHT UP

Ted Powers

(1)

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I jumped over a fence. / Cool, come on in / it said. It was a fence / around a strip club. / I didn’t understand it. / I was bored by the…

Lust

Ted Powers

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“I do not believe you will not still kill me,” I say into the phone / and she replies, “But once you and I were lovers.” I roll my eyes / and…

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YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING

Emily Kendal Frey

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/ When I laugh I’d like you / / to imagine me sleeping: / / terrible & sudden, a Greek / / stringing her golden / / bow, no longer…

MEMOIR/COMPOSITION WITH FISH

Evan White

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When we were in the ocean a long time waiting / in the school of the lifeesque sun // There as an abstract silver quality not belonging / to any…

CLASSIC REGRESSION

Evan White

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I entered The Lives / of the Great Composers through / unruly diagrams, the hard way / through northern forest. / I beckoned myself as bear / …

I DO NOT KNOW IF I AM OWED

Emily Kendal Frey

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1,790 views

As it is almost noon / / / I will speak / / / An axe for the frozen sea / / / Abha is a good city / / / I am hard / / / …

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