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SAY ANYTHING by Austin Adams
SAY ANYTHINGby Austin Adams
Carrion Flower
Faint fragrance of aFlower too subtle forHuman sense.It is there.
What one cannot know,Call by any name:Iandipan, aruzzrula,Dogwood.
There are no lessonsThat cannot be learned.All things, inarticulate, are.That is no lesson.
I Will...
MEMBRANE by Alfred Fournier
MEMBRANEby Alfred Fournier
Membrane
The cat had been missing for days.
Mom was home, behind French doors.Her hospital absence stretched, a membrane under each precise day:Teenaged sister who drove us to schoolthe chores we never failed to domeals...
LOOKING UP AT THE SKY by John McKernan
LOOKING UP AT THE SKYby John McKernan LOOKING UP AT THE SKYI always stop what I am doing at two o’clock in the afternoon and wait ten minutes for Death. I do this every day....
THE FROGS by Bruce Morton
THE FROGSby Bruce Morton
Holocaust Memorial, Berlin
It is a stretch to transform sorrow, ash, guilt—loss.But the stelae are concrete, not abstract starsFallen in firmament, a hard grid that is buriedLike piles for a pier where...