tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30855948366031215312024-03-14T03:21:16.804-07:00RASPUTIN: A Poetry ThreadRASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-33731579642707684542023-03-04T05:57:00.002-08:002023-03-04T05:57:50.211-08:00Vernion Frazer Lives Where All of the Surrogates Are Illegal, the Modicum's Steerage Is Worn, the Seizures Montage, and the Somehows Are Recently Completed<p><br /></p><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Bridging the Distant</b></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">regal pneumatics lean</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a bandwidth forum squint</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">leading</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span>past notches</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to forum</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> dimension hatching</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> as unsold vision <span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span> divested</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> at the burn</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> entertains banana flair etudes</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span>*</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unbridgeable collapses</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">detonate the heralds as they flume</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> illegal surrogates assemble</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> whispered drudgery </span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> where blotches gleam broadly</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> coastal anorexia vacant</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> as a humdrum lotion file </span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br aria-hidden="true" class="x_x_webkit-block-placeholder" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> satiates<span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span> bloating</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the first command unit</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a mediocre sabotage</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br aria-hidden="true" class="x_x_webkit-block-placeholder" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span>*</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">when skin peals</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the ring astounds its hiding</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> angle</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span> bent to spoon</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> delinquent errata</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> recreating <span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span>meta </span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> tarsal <span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span> shafts</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> footing </span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the bull</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by the horning studio monitor</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> steering to <span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span>clear</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span> rafter</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span> debris sealing</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the modicum with its worn steerage</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="">Apology Unsold</b></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class=""></b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class=""></b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class=""></b><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">empty rehearsal </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to play a well-bent repentance </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> despite scenario swallowers </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> forego the somnolent wilding </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> currency disjunction filament </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">motoring the ravenous frenzy mustard </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> gray breath </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span> almost glows</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span> nominal will </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the umber-toned ease quandary utterance </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span>*</div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gloried contour confused revenge </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">occlusion boom rang frontons before vantage </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a steaming elision </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> eyes a patois <span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span>matter salons </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span> fallacious cover </div><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" class="" /></div><div class="" style="border: 0px; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vernon Frazer's newest poetry collection is <i class="">Secret’s Exhibition.</i></div></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-24612455802331575742022-12-12T22:33:00.002-08:002022-12-12T22:33:45.292-08:00Steve Brisendine Contemplates Giving God A Free Shot, The Angel-Slain Firstborn, And Thickets Of Fingernails<div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">edge of evening, edge of storm</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>everything is just short</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of something</div><div><br /></div><div>in this moment: almost</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>dusk,</div><div><br /></div><div>almost rain, almost time</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to go</div><div><br /></div><div>home, almost tempting </div><div>to grab that almost-wet</div><div>flagpole </div><div><br /></div><div>and say </div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>hey God,</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>free shot</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Sahara haze: a plague of 2020</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>breathe in bone-remnants</div><div>of the angel-slain firstborn;</div><div><br /></div><div>what blood can cover</div><div>our own doorposts, ward away</div><div><br /></div><div>one more chastisement for who</div><div>we have failed to be?</div><div><br /></div><div>the discarded of this land</div><div>cry out from dark soil;</div><div><br /></div><div>we who exist between dust</div><div>and dust must give an answer</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Unsafe</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>In which Erato, muse of love poetry, admonishes her followers:</div><div><br /></div><div>Enough.</div><div><br /></div><div>Still your trembling</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(from need</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>exhaustion)</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>pens.</div><div><br /></div><div>Come out from</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(on one side)</div><div>your tangled burnings and yearnings,</div><div>long looks and looks of longing,</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(and on the other)</div><div>your thickets of friction and fingernails,</div><div>shudders and satiated silence.</div><div><br /></div><div>Stand here,</div><div>on the bridge between yielding </div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>yes</div><div>and claiming </div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yes,</div><div><br /></div><div>and do </div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>breathe, </div><div><br /></div><div>for not even air can be steady here,</div><div>where all is slick and shaking</div><div>and everything rests upon</div><div><br /></div><div>one</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>point,</div><div><br /></div><div>thin as two layers</div><div>of skin</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(and only one </div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of those</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>yours).</div><div><br /></div><div>Wait.</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Look down.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Now write.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Steve Brisendine is a writer, poet, occasional artist and recovering journalist living and working in Mission, KS. He is the author of two collections from Spartan Press: The Words We Do Not Have (2021) and the upcoming Salt Holds No Secret But This (2022). He was a finalist for the 2021 Derick Burleson Poetry Prize.</span></b></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-46087594535570723952022-12-12T22:04:00.000-08:002022-12-12T22:04:00.679-08:00Rp Verlaine Explores Where Androids Go To Die, The Dissolving Fish, That Heaven We Knew, And The Hemlock Of Repetition<p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 15pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Inadequate Patterns </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Like dissolving fish </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">on the computer </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">screen saver, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">we disintegrate </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">each new kiss, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">each pale white room </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">where we suffocate </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">asking for air </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">others took from us. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Like fragile tape, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the data truncated and bereft </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">starting points or ends, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the wheels just spin, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">no sticking to facts </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">erased in fail-safe </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">where androids go to die </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">when love neither life supports </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">or dies. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Like sleeping patterns </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">void of stimuli, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">all noiseless night </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">or blinding light </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">no eyes to guide us </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">we drift between days </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">conscious of nothing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">we take turns defining. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Yet we can't be alone, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">malfunctioning toward </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">final decay, but </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">we can't be alone </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">like the stars, planets </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">oceans, and the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">dissolving fish </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">for which no hook exists, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">at least not yet. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Recalibration </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Disengaged to wonder </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">past the indifferent portals </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">of strangers, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I still reach out </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">to your vaunted charm </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in its invisible setting </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">no longer there. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Phantoms now </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">lost in the glittering </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">streets of chaos </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">we once navigated </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">with the confidence </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">of having such arrogance </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">we played by calculations </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">that never failed before </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">transfixed by the astonishing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">blur of a roulette </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">wheel we bet on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">once misnamed love. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Now disengaged </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">from all we assumed </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">yet unable to validate </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">With religious fervor </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">all former preconceptions </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">we reach out looking up </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">to that heaven we knew, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">no longer there.</span> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"> <b style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Safe Place</b></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In utero 1st </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">antiseptic scrubs </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">videoed stirrings to preschool </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">slow crawl walking past </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">temporarily eclipsed friends, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">sports, desires each familiar </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">foreign in solemn proximity </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">to a safe place no longer. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">A cautious double </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">take. Comes up empty. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a kiss held, treasured, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">missed marriage if... </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the immune two-step </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">backwards the counter </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">forwards to children </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in solemn proximity to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a safe place no longer. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Work... drone drone drone, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the hemlock of repetition </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">of time's spaces between </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">cracks, sickness, retirement. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">death gives its notice </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">stronger yet, ‘til finally </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">blessed with acceptance </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">yes, this life, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the same game lost </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 15pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a98bba53-7fff-dfde-9c2b-af69af6f8043"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 45pt; margin-right: 27pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a safe place no longer.</span></p><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The Extended Temporary</b></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Into the ridiculous</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we fall seemingly safe</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">absent this safety net</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we pretends is real.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obscure as distant friends</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">avoiding us in passing</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we turn out the lights</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and pretend the familiar</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is no longer a lie.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our latest meal together</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">full of empty plates</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and text's to others</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the new clever fictions</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">no rescue in sight.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Additions and subtractions</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we note on the abacus</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">video diaries without</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">endings or purpose. </div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every reason obscure</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">clever with evasions</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">getting at the truth</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">kissing with closed lips</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">crashing cars in new avenues</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of thought with suspended</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sentences we cant finish.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Each night, turning out lights</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in separate rooms pretending</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the familiar is no longer a lie.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></div><div lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br aria-hidden="true" /></b></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rp Verlaine lives in New York City.</span></span><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He has an MFA in creative writing from City College.</span></span><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He taught in New York Public schools for many years.</span></span><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His first volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames</span></span><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">& Drinking was published in 2017 and another – Femme Fatales</span></span><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Movie Starlets & Rockers in 2018. A set of three e-books</span></span></b></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #4d8fdd;">titled</span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lies From The Autobiography vol 1-3</span></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"> were published from</span></b></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #4d8fdd;">2018 to 2020. His newest book</span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;">Imagined Indecencies</span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span></span></b></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #242424; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #4d8fdd;">was published</span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"><span lang="en" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in</span></span><span style="color: #4d8fdd;"> February of 2022.</span></b></div></div></div></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-74917385157372816422022-11-22T03:07:00.002-08:002022-11-22T03:07:52.633-08:00Matt Borczon's Oak Cabinet Legacy, Perils Of Bad Jobs, And Being Hung In The Tulsa County Jail<div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: #45818e;">It Was</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b>a story<br />I heard<br />many times<br />both from<br />Sherrie and<br />from Dottie<br />her mom</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">how one time </div><div style="text-align: left;">in a department store </div><div style="text-align: left;">Dottie was </div><div style="text-align: left;">really wanting</div><div style="text-align: left;"> this beautiful</div><div style="text-align: left;"> oak cabinet</div><div style="text-align: left;"> but told her </div><div style="text-align: left;">kids she wanted </div><div style="text-align: left;">but did not </div><div style="text-align: left;">need it </div><div style="text-align: left;">when Sherrie </div><div style="text-align: left;">says mom </div><div style="text-align: left;">we have </div><div style="text-align: left;">all the things </div><div style="text-align: left;">we need </div><div style="text-align: left;">but none </div><div style="text-align: left;">of the things </div><div style="text-align: left;">we want </div><div style="text-align: left;">so Dottie </div><div style="text-align: left;">bought it </div><div style="text-align: left;">with the </div><div style="text-align: left;">child support </div><div style="text-align: left;">check they </div><div style="text-align: left;">only sometimes </div><div style="text-align: left;">got in </div><div style="text-align: left;">the mail</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sherrie died</div><div style="text-align: left;">about ten</div><div style="text-align: left;">years later </div><div style="text-align: left;">of an </div><div style="text-align: left;">overdose </div><div style="text-align: left;">proof that </div><div style="text-align: left;">she was </div><div style="text-align: left;">always more </div><div style="text-align: left;">interested </div><div style="text-align: left;">in what </div><div style="text-align: left;">she wanted </div><div style="text-align: left;">than what </div><div style="text-align: left;">she needed </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">and Dottie</div><div style="text-align: left;">died at 80 </div><div style="text-align: left;">of old age </div><div style="text-align: left;">and a </div><div style="text-align: left;">broken heart</div><div style="text-align: left;">I don’t know </div><div style="text-align: left;">which of </div><div style="text-align: left;">her kids </div><div style="text-align: left;">got that </div><div style="text-align: left;">cabinet when </div><div style="text-align: left;">they cleaned </div><div style="text-align: left;">out her house. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><b>Today is all</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">about the </div><div style="text-align: left;">grinding gears </div><div style="text-align: left;">the rattle </div><div style="text-align: left;">and hum </div><div style="text-align: left;">the icy </div><div style="text-align: left;">wind across </div><div style="text-align: left;">my windshield </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">as I </div><div style="text-align: left;">drive too </div><div style="text-align: left;">fast towards </div><div style="text-align: left;">a job </div><div style="text-align: left;">I really </div><div style="text-align: left;">don’t want </div><div style="text-align: left;">to go
to </div><div style="text-align: left;">at all. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><b>I want you to</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hang me </div><div style="text-align: left;">in the </div><div style="text-align: left;">Tulsa County </div><div style="text-align: left;">stars sing </div><div style="text-align: left;">me lovely</div><div style="text-align: left;">lady May </div><div style="text-align: left;">I want </div><div style="text-align: left;">you to </div><div style="text-align: left;">hold me </div><div style="text-align: left;">like the </div><div style="text-align: left;">baby Jesus </div><div style="text-align: left;">in the </div><div style="text-align: left;">painting of </div><div style="text-align: left;">the 3 </div><div style="text-align: left;">handed Madonna </div><div style="text-align: left;">I want </div><div style="text-align: left;">you to </div><div style="text-align: left;">make me </div><div style="text-align: left;">a pallet </div><div style="text-align: left;">on your </div><div style="text-align: left;">floor cry </div><div style="text-align: left;">me a river </div><div style="text-align: left;">love me </div><div style="text-align: left;">like a </div><div style="text-align: left;">blues song </div><div style="text-align: left;">drive me </div><div style="text-align: left;">like you </div><div style="text-align: left;">stole me </div><div style="text-align: left;">out of </div><div style="text-align: left;">a banker’s </div><div style="text-align: left;">four car </div><div style="text-align: left;">garage.</div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #93c47d;">Matthew Borczon is a nurse and Navy Corpsman from Erie Pa. He served in the busiest combat hospital in Afghanistan from 2010-2011; he writes about his experiences on Camp Bastion and about the difficulties he has had since coming home. </span></b></p><p> </p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-71634083598408948802022-11-21T07:34:00.002-08:002022-11-21T07:34:07.641-08:00Howie Good Returns With Invisible Powers, The Titanic Shipyard, And Bonfire-Sized Roses<p><span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">In Lieu of Flowers</span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E145" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E145" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E146" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E146" style="font-size: 12pt;">I told the doctors flat out, “Cure me or kill me,” only to be strapped down like the ladder on the roof </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E147" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E147" style="font-size: 12pt;">of the white work van, but not before I managed to channel the zealotry of a martyr an declare every day should be a mental health day, something that was feeling suddenly necessary now that a first cousin about my age had died from an overdose, an unsuspe</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E148" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E148" style="font-size: 12pt;">cted heart condition, invisibility, if the invisible is defined as “what light cannot illuminate,” or just so much sadness.</span>
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</p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E151" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E151" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E152" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E152" style="font-size: 12pt;">My da</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E153" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E153" style="font-size: 12pt;">d tried </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E154" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E154" style="font-size: 12pt;">to kill </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E155" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E155" style="font-size: 12pt;">himself three times. Well, </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E156" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E156" style="font-size: 12pt;">four if you count the time he fell asleep </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E157" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E157" style="font-size: 12pt;">smoki</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E158" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E158" style="font-size: 12pt;">ng in bed </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E159" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E159" style="font-size: 12pt;">an</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E160" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E160" style="font-size: 12pt;">d woke up with the mattress on fire. That country no longer exists. I remember because I arrived on</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E161" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E161" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E162" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E162" style="font-size: 12pt;">a ship b</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E163" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E163" style="font-size: 12pt;">uilt in the same </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E164" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E164" style="font-size: 12pt;">s</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E165" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E165" style="font-size: 12pt;">hipyard as the Titan</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E166" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E166" style="font-size: 12pt;">ic. Othe</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E167" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E167" style="font-size: 12pt;">rs </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E168" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E168" style="font-size: 12pt;">who </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E169" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E169" style="font-size: 12pt;">c</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E170" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E170" style="font-size: 12pt;">a</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E171" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E171" style="font-size: 12pt;">me from</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E172" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E172" style="font-size: 12pt;"> faraway don’t want to beli</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E173" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E173" style="font-size: 12pt;">eve their own memories</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E174" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E174" style="font-size: 12pt;">. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E175" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E175" style="font-size: 12pt;">Each night the moo</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E176" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E176" style="font-size: 12pt;">n gro</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E177" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E177" style="font-size: 12pt;">ws darker.</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E178" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E178" style="font-size: 12pt;"> T</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E179" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E179" style="font-size: 12pt;">he family dog wails like a soul in hell demented by unbearable pain. A lot of things happen that ju</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E180" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E180" style="font-size: 12pt;">s</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E181" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E181" style="font-size: 12pt;">t kind o</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E182" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E182" style="font-size: 12pt;">f happen</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E183" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E183" style="font-size: 12pt;">; </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E184" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E184" style="font-size: 12pt;">for exa</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E185" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E185" style="font-size: 12pt;">mple, the human skull</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E186" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E186" style="font-size: 12pt;">s on sa</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E187" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E187" style="font-size: 12pt;">le on Ets</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E188" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E188" style="font-size: 12pt;">y.</span>
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</p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E191" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E191" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E192" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E192" style="font-size: 12pt;">I w</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E193" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E193" style="font-size: 12pt;">as born in the rain and th</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E194" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E194" style="font-size: 12pt;">e</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E195" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E195" style="font-size: 12pt;"> dark – a vague but sinister omen. Almost </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E196" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E196" style="font-size: 12pt;">immed</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E197" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E197" style="font-size: 12pt;">iately, familiar words </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E198" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E198" style="font-size: 12pt;">were given unfamiliar meanings; familiar objects, unfamiliar names. I grew up surrounded</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E199" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E199" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E200" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E200" style="font-size: 12pt;">on three</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E201" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E201" style="font-size: 12pt;"> sides by ghosts </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E202" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E202" style="font-size: 12pt;">imprisoned behind bar</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E203" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E203" style="font-size: 12pt;">bed wire. Today’</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E204" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E204" style="font-size: 12pt;">s rain f</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E205" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E205" style="font-size: 12pt;">alls on yesterday. A 100-y</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E206" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E206" style="font-size: 12pt;">e</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E207" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E207" style="font-size: 12pt;">ar-old former concentration camp guard has</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E208" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E208" style="font-size: 12pt;"> been</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E209" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E209" style="font-size: 12pt;"> arrested in Bavaria on</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E210" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E210" style="font-size: 12pt;"> 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder. Up, you corpses! Get up! Wounds heal from</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E211" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E211" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E212" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E212" style="font-size: 12pt;">the insi</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E213" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E213" style="font-size: 12pt;">de out. It’s only</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E214" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E214" style="font-size: 12pt;"> a matter of weeks pe</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E215" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E215" style="font-size: 12pt;">rhaps before the</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E216" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E216" style="font-size: 12pt;">re are w</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E217" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E217" style="font-size: 12pt;">ild roses the size of bonf</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E218" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E218" style="font-size: 12pt;">i</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E219" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E219" style="font-size: 12pt;">res.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E191" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E191" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E219" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E191" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E191" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E219" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Howie Good is the author of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Failed Haiku,</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> a poetry collection that is the co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest and scheduled for publication in summer 2022</span></b></span></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-33340564888224845742022-10-14T00:25:00.005-07:002022-10-14T00:25:56.333-07:00Joshua Martin Explores Fireflies Trapped in Eardrums, Avant Guarding Angels, And Rechristened Zombies<div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section id="E47" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E47" style="column-count: 1;"><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Leaving a Piece of Mind Beneath a Wheelbarrow </span></b></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">After an ounce. In point of</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">fact. misspelled abbreviations.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a curse on the purse</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>that laid to waste</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HENRY & his day</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>old</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SOUP of heavenly</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>delight.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">i have an EYE to</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>expand,</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>unable & un</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>willingly</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">average. without the light</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">Of</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Delight. Of a daring escape</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>artist composer</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">trapping</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>fireflies in eardrums</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>& the</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">SYMPHONY of a THOUSAND</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>four wheel drives. Dusting</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">off the violin penis size</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>boiler</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>plate</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ligaments</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>wound<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>around</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">the neck tattoo</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>parking lot. an</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">intention</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>square root. dismissed.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">missed.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Used. Grief stricken</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">bass solo. i had to glisten</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">to be a typhoon.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">No Kind of Criteria</span></b></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">Coming to blows,</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AVANT guarding angels</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sniffing</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AIRPLANE GLUE.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">soothing lotions</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">up to the eyeballs</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">& w/ curmudgeon</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">folding feathered</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">paper, let a touch</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">be the guide to</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">an approaching</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">seat. rivers RUN</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>through</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>visions wooded,</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>fenced off</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">j</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">e</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">s</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">t</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">e</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">r</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">pulls a face to the</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">water’s surface,</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>abandoning blood</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>curdling,</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>swimming,</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>race car driver</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>left in the supermarket.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>tears/</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">fears / <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>peer pressure</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>skimming.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">potassium production expo</span></b></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">queen of meaty palms</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> panning LeFt</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> cross = iNG landscape</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">suicidal telepathic </p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> muse</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> , fearless ogre chuckles</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> BRIGHTLY</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> [!] Across centuries</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">of polar paranoia</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">, rechristened zombies</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> murmur thumping</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> genealogical suites</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> [?] Lisps</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">poison LAW,less igloo</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> / diametrically</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> unabashed /</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> perversity at the equator</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">& sullen chirping</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> manhole cover</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"> in silhouette.</p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Coven, Scud, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com</b></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E48" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E48" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p></qowt-section></div></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-90802297222118790962022-07-23T06:54:00.001-07:002022-07-23T06:54:50.276-07:00Dan Raphael Navigates The Sun's Illusory Slippage, A Mole That's A Library, The Heresy Of Power Tools, A Breathing Trampoline Sidewalk, And The Waste Disposal Light Of Stars<div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section id="E51" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E51" style="column-count: 1;"><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E52" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E52" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E54" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E54" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Three Months ‘til Christmas</span></b></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E55" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E55" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T7" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E56" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E56" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E57" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E57" style="font-size: 12pt;">a feeling of spring</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E58" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E58" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E59" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E59" style="font-size: 12pt;">three days into autumn</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E60" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E60" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E61" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E61" style="font-size: 12pt;">or just a feeling of change</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E62" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E62" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E63" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E63" style="font-size: 12pt;">a coincidence of waves of different frequencies</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E64" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E64" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E65" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E65" style="font-size: 12pt;">most with their own particular sensors</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E66" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E66" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E67" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E67" style="font-size: 12pt;">one</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E68" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E68" style="font-size: 12pt;"> that hears the oak leaves getting ready</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E69" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E69" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E70" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E70" style="font-size: 12pt;">something internal charting the sun’s illusory slippage</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E71" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E71" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E72" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E72" style="font-size: 12pt;">as some organic gyroscope still feels the earth</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E73" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E73" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E75" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E75" style="font-size: 12pt;">penduluming</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E77" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E77" style="font-size: 12pt;"> from equinox to equinox</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E78" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E78" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E79" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E79" style="font-size: 12pt;">the deceleration and reversal</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E80" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E80" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T8" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E81" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E81" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E82" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E82" style="font-size: 12pt;">morning rush hour louder than usual</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E83" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E83" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E84" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E84" style="font-size: 12pt;">though it’s Saturday</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E85" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E85" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T9" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E86" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E86" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E87" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E87" style="font-size: 12pt;">explanations take too long and seldom click together</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E88" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E88" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E89" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E89" style="font-size: 12pt;">still something appears building, whether just a bubble</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E90" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E90" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E91" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E91" style="font-size: 12pt;">to pop or a crescendo like an instant tree</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E92" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E92" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T10" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E93" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E93" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E94" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E94" style="font-size: 12pt;">most collisions are so incremental</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E96" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="font-size: 12pt;">you hardly feel the friction, the air</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E97" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E97" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E98" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E98" style="font-size: 12pt;">compressing around me, how molecules </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E99" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E99" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E100" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E100" style="font-size: 12pt;">say excuse me, or watch where you’re going </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E101" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E101" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span break-after="" contenteditable="false" data-mpb="true" id="E103" is="qowt-page-break" qowt-divtype="qowt-pagebreak" qowt-eid="E103"></span>
</p></qowt-section></div></div><p><qowt-page is-first-page-in-section="" named-flow="FLOW-1" style="height: 792pt; width: 612pt;"><qowt-footer class="style-scope qowt-page style-scope qowt-page" contenteditable="false" id="footer" style="min-height: 72pt; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"></qowt-footer></qowt-page></p><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section break-before="" indexed-flow="SI12" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E51" style="column-count: 1;"><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E104" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E104" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E105" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E104" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E104" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E105" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E105" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Road the On</span></b></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E107" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E107" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E108" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E108" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E109" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E109" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E110" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E110" style="font-size: 12pt;">mouth cannot open wide enough</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E111" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E111" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E112" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E112" style="font-size: 12pt;">as if the air is resisting me,</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E113" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E113" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E114" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E114" style="font-size: 12pt;">whenever 5 per cent of me flexes</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E115" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E115" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E116" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E116" style="font-size: 12pt;">that much electricity illuminating the small town</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E117" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E117" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E118" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E118" style="font-size: 12pt;">in my armpit, a tendon that’s a river,</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E119" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E119" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E120" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E120" style="font-size: 12pt;">a mole that’s a library</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E121" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E121" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T14" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E122" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E122" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E124" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E124" style="font-size: 12pt;">i</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E126" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E126" style="font-size: 12pt;"> am anywhere. in motion</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E127" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E127" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E128" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E128" style="font-size: 12pt;">a nebula of partial foci/coordinates</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E129" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E129" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E130" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E130" style="font-size: 12pt;">waiting to choose/open portals at what cost</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E131" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E131" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T15" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E132" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E132" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E133" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E133" style="font-size: 12pt;">strap in for another day, another 1500 miles</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E134" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E134" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E135" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E135" style="font-size: 12pt;">turning around at the halfway point </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E136" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E136" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E137" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E137" style="font-size: 12pt;">and seeing where </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E139" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E139" style="font-size: 12pt;">i’ve</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E141" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E141" style="font-size: 12pt;"> never been,</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E142" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E142" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E143" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E143" style="font-size: 12pt;">so much changed by sweat and gravitational wind</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E144" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E144" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T16" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E145" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E145" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E146" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E146" style="font-size: 12pt;">if </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E148" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E148" style="font-size: 12pt;">i</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E150" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E150" style="font-size: 12pt;"> spin will the floor spark, will the carpet</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E151" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E151" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E152" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E152" style="font-size: 12pt;">become permanently attached to me</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E153" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E153" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E154" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E154" style="font-size: 12pt;">as if </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E156" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E156" style="font-size: 12pt;">i</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E158" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E158" style="font-size: 12pt;"> now have a few spare brains.</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E159" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E159" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E160" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E160" style="font-size: 12pt;">the challenge of floor plans, the heresy of power tools</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E161" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E161" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T17" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E162" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E162" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E163" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E163" style="font-size: 12pt;">two bright hands on a dark table</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E164" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E164" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E166" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E166" style="font-size: 12pt;">i</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E168" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E168" style="font-size: 12pt;"> can’t see the other end of</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E169" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E169" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E170" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E170" style="font-size: 12pt;">as a thousand steps become just one</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E171" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E171" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E172" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E172" style="font-size: 12pt;">my head its own GPS number</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E173" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E173" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E174" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E174" style="font-size: 12pt;">my feet potential lanterns, waiting for</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E175" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E175" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E176" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E176" style="font-size: 12pt;">the right darkness to trigger them</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E177" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E177" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E178" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E178" style="font-size: 12pt;">a cluster of switches </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E180" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E180" style="font-size: 12pt;">i</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E182" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E182" style="font-size: 12pt;"> may never know</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E183" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E183" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E184" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E184" style="font-size: 12pt;">what </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E186" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E186" style="font-size: 12pt;">i</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E188" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E188" style="font-size: 12pt;"> turned on or off</span></p></qowt-section></div></div><p><qowt-page named-flow="FLOW-1" style="height: 792pt; width: 612pt;"><qowt-header class="style-scope qowt-page style-scope qowt-page" contenteditable="false" id="header" style="min-height: 72pt; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"></qowt-header></qowt-page></p><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section break-before="" indexed-flow="SI19" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E51" style="column-count: 1;"><template class="style-scope qowt-section" id="headerTemplates"></template><template class="style-scope qowt-section" id="footerTemplates"></template><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E192" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E192" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E195" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E195" style="font-size: 12pt;">E</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E197" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E197" style="font-size: 12pt;">xcognito</span></span></b><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E199" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E199" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E200" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E200" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E201" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E201" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E202" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E202" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E203" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E203" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E204" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E204" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E205" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E205" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E206" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E206" style="font-size: 12pt;">everybody knew who I was but few agreed with each other</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E207" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E207" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E208" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E208" style="font-size: 12pt;">were the shadows or </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E209" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E209" style="font-size: 12pt;">my</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E210" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E210" style="font-size: 12pt;"> features moving, was my height fluctuating</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E211" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E211" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E212" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E212" style="font-size: 12pt;">or had the sidewalk become a breathing trampoline</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E213" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E213" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E214" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E214" style="font-size: 12pt;">no one thought I was speaking their language</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E215" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E215" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T22" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E216" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E216" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E217" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E217" style="font-size: 12pt;">daylight melted like a pile of snow teleported to July</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E218" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E218" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E219" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E219" style="font-size: 12pt;">night</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E220" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E220" style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E221" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E221" style="font-size: 12pt;">water was rising through my heels, not yet enough</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E222" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E222" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E223" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E223" style="font-size: 12pt;">to wash my face, to write on the dry pavement</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E224" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E224" style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E225" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E225" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T23" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E226" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E226" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E227" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E227" style="font-size: 12pt;">when I said I was hungry it sounded like </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E228" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E228" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E229" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E229" style="font-size: 12pt;">“get the fuck out </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E230" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E230" style="font-size: 12pt;">of </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E231" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E231" style="font-size: 12pt;">my way” which caused a few to </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E232" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E232" style="font-size: 12pt;">bolt</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E233" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E233" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E234" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E234" style="font-size: 12pt;">some</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E235" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E235" style="font-size: 12pt;"> clutched whatever </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E236" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E236" style="font-size: 12pt;">protection</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E237" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E237" style="font-size: 12pt;"> was under their shirt</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E238" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E238" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T24" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E239" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E239" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E240" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E240" style="font-size: 12pt;">a </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E241" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E241" style="font-size: 12pt;">city </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E242" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E242" style="font-size: 12pt;">bus pulled up</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E243" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E243" style="font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E244" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E244" style="font-size: 12pt;"> the driver came out and handed me the keys</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E245" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E245" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E246" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E246" style="font-size: 12pt;">as I got inside the bus became a bicycle with squirrels for pedals</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E247" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E247" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E248" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E248" style="font-size: 12pt;">in the mirror I saw the leaves of my hair were beginning to change colors</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E249" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E249" style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E250" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E250" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E251" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E251" style="font-size: 12pt;">where my watch w</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E252" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E252" style="font-size: 12pt;">as</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E253" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E253" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E255" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E255" style="font-size: 12pt;">was</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E257" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E257" style="font-size: 12pt;"> a lens that could also receive</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E258" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E258" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E259" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E259" style="font-size: 12pt;">transmitting </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E261" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E261" style="font-size: 12pt;">gps</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E263" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E263" style="font-size: 12pt;"> confusion so </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E264" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E264" style="font-size: 12pt;">no </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E265" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E265" style="font-size: 12pt;">one would know where I was</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E266" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E266" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E267" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E267" style="font-size: 12pt;">even if I refused to move</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E268" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E268" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E269" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E269" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E270" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E270" style="font-size: 12pt;">but soon I was heading the other</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E271" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E271" style="font-size: 12pt;"> way</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E272" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E272" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E273" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E273" style="font-size: 12pt;">turning onto wider and wider </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E274" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E274" style="font-size: 12pt;">roads</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E275" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E275" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E276" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E276" style="font-size: 12pt;">bordered</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E277" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E277" style="font-size: 12pt;"> by denser and denser forest</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E278" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E278" style="font-size: 12pt;">s.</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E279" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E279" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E280" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E280" style="font-size: 12pt;">the median became a canyon filled with ziggurats of shipping containers</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E281" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E281" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E282" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E282" style="font-size: 12pt;">glowing with light, exhaling </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E283" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E283" style="font-size: 12pt;">so many origins and fuels </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E284" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E284" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E285" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E285" style="font-size: 12pt;">throwing ropes of water up to the surface that always slid back</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E286" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E286" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E287" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E287" style="font-size: 12pt;">up here the road don’t mind slicing under mountains</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E288" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E288" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T25" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E289" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E289" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E290" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E290" style="font-size: 12pt;">as the light of stars is mostly waste disposal </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E291" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E291" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E292" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E292" style="font-size: 12pt;">so many pictures ahead and above </span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E293" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E293" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E294" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E294" style="font-size: 12pt;">at least one of them is me</span>
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E293" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E293" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E294" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E293" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E293" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">dan raphael's poetry collection Maps Menus Emanations was</span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E293" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E293" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">> published this July by cyberwit. more recent poems appear in Unlikely</span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E293" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E293" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">> Stories, Otoliths, Oz Burp, Lotus-eater and SurVision.</span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E296" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E296" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined">
</p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E298" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E298" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined"><br /></p></qowt-section></div></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-11556822408081844802022-03-19T01:50:00.000-07:002022-03-19T01:50:02.764-07:00Jason Ryberg Contemplates The Nostalgia Of Panasonic Boom Boxes, Bukowski Schtick, And The Great Grandpappy Progenitor/Original Sinner Of The Species<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">1) Skipping Your Ten Year</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">High School Reunion</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Then there was that time</p><p>me and Big Earl Corby were</p><p>out there on HWY 40, driving </p><p>around just like old times in his </p><p>primer-grey pick-up truck (that </p><p>was somehow still holding together </p><p>and running after all the years) </p><p>with a twelve-pack of Schaffer </p><p>or Black Label or one of the other </p><p>old reliables and one of those basic, </p><p>standard-issue Panasonic boom boxes </p><p>(also somehow still holding together </p><p>and working, despite the wear and tear) </p><p>that everybody had at some point </p><p>back in junior high or high school </p><p>in the late 80s before, presumably, </p><p>moving on to bigger and boomier things, </p><p>and an old cassette tape (once again, </p><p>still somehow working, despite the odds) </p><p>with Black Flag’s Rise Above on one side </p><p>and the Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for</p><p>Rotting Vegetables on the other, </p><p>and we’d flipped that tape four or </p><p>five times by then that day, just </p><p>retracing the old back roads we</p><p>used to explore way back when</p><p>we had nothing better to do and, </p><p>yessir, it was damned near</p><p>like old times.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">2) Dead and Buried </span></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>The last of them what could still get away with that </p><p>schtick (at least in a no bullshit / in your </p><p>face kind of way) probably would had to have been</p><p><br /></p><p>Bukowski, and they made damn sure to bury him </p><p>deep and seal the tomb up good and tight when </p><p>he died just to be sure the last whiff of a trace of </p><p><br /></p><p>the spirit of the rebel / outsider / rock star</p><p>poet stayed dead and buried in there with </p><p>him to serve as a warning and example to </p><p><br /></p><p>any others; so you might as well deal with it </p><p>now and just move on: cuz nobody and</p><p>I mean nobody gives half a flying fuck-all</p><p><br /></p><p>about the sad and lonely sexistential angst </p><p>and pain of middle-aged white male poets,</p><p>and all their demons and their old baggage, do they?</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">3) Tripping Me Up</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like I’ve spent the better part </p><p>of the past two decades reviewing and sifting </p><p>through all the old security tapes, </p><p>going over all my hastily scrawled notes, </p><p>retracing my footsteps back through </p><p>the winding, rollicking lollapalooza of it all, </p><p><br /></p><p>trying to track down and identify </p><p>the one original misstep (in a life </p><p>of so many notable missteps), </p><p>that set things into motion and </p><p>would come into play, over and over, </p><p>for years to come. </p><p><br /></p><p>We’re talking the Prime Mover / </p><p>Pater Familias of all FUBARS, </p><p>the exact x/y coordinates from which</p><p>the continuum of its progeny of lesser faux pas, </p><p>fumbles and faceplants have ever since issued forth </p><p>for their own respective moments in the sun, </p><p><br /></p><p>replicating the original memetic material </p><p>in various mutated forms, to the best of their ability,</p><p>but never again quite regaining the former glory </p><p>of their great, great grandpappy progenitor / </p><p>original sinner of the species, </p><p><br /></p><p>but still, to their credit, somehow managing </p><p>to jam my frequencies and trip me up </p><p>whenever they can.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Jason Ryberg is the author of fourteen books of poetry,six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders,notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is Are You Sure Kerouac Done It This Way!? (co-authored with John Dorsey, and Victor Clevenger, OAC Books, 2021). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters. </b></span></p><p><br /></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-36874361872770559842022-03-02T04:05:00.000-08:002022-03-02T04:05:06.163-08:00Mark Wilson Contemplates The Phallic Oar, The Fugue Flux Odyssean Complex, And The Sirenshrouded Houdinis<span id="docs-internal-guid-6f0f066f-7fff-f77f-51a5-6ef39563a2cb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Mythopoeia</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(i)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The phallocentric epic enters</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the gynocentric counter-epic,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">& is all but swallowed up.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(ii)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modernity, Myth, Sign are a fugue-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">experiment, trying hard to forget</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that flux is Necessary Angel</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who arrives: ironic, blunt as Asrael.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(iii)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parian, plastered, admiring ‘rosy fingers’;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">marmoreal is my liquor-dark ocean.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(iv)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slough off Mauberley’s skin,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shed your Odysseus complex.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A phallic oar suffices,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">marginally better than limited</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">edition print-runs to the elect.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(v)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Literature’s no friend to sinecures,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr Nixon advises from his gilded deck.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friendship only with equals,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">opines Kung fu Tcheo with know-how</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the obvious; so take down this memo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which still mesmerises millennials:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We dock with little-known circumspection,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">latterly dine with asphodel-ridden scops</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">during the lock-down. Why not turn down</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that radiophonic poem because it carries</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on appalling your sensibility?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(vi)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helen’s currently in high definition,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all her hermetic traces are occluded</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by the airbrush’s scythe.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(H.D. faints in Elysian cornfields).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Mysteries are common or garden lore.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No-one manufactures ethics or a praxis any more.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indiscretions are de rigueur.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confessionalism is the condign currency.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sphinx plays Chinese Whispers with Tiresias</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eye-deep in the Tunnel of Net Gains.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before you have time to climb</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this rusting tree of your theogony,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surveillance, juridical flamingo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the state, issues your subpoena</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not a micro-managed second too late.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Sectioned</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inside White Mariah: sirenshrouded, her inmate</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mot-swinging at windfarms in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gloria excelsis,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tempest-tost your mind out-Houdinis its internal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">triple-locked schoreograph, claims only an End-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gamer’s phanic-zone in paradise of slycensed fools</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">& zanier mountebanks. Inside the Cream Mariah’s</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">futerus are padded walls which aerily enwomb</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">your antic-dispositioned scop, whose only hope</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for taolvation’s to be twice-born in the nicodemus</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of time, to samsara thru the swarm-maternal cavern</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">& re-hibernate through wintry-jiscontent season;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hopefully emerge a sans-formed monad: Lazarus-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seawildered, staggering out of antiseptic kinema-doors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conscious only of a fulti-framed </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sweetholymarie</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vision, absolutely lantern-elided & unleathered; who,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the oapposite mirror, is that alien shaven-headed?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Mark Wilson has previously published four poetry collections: 'Quartet For the End of Time' (Editions du Zaporogue, 2011), 'Passio' (Editions du Zaporogue, 2013), 'The Angel of History' (Leaky Boot Press, 2013) and 'Illuminations' (Leaky Boot Press, 2016). He is also the author of a verse-drama, 'One Eucalyptus Seed', about the arrest and incarceration of Ezra Pound after World War Two. His poems and articles have appeared in: The Black Herald, The Shop, 3:AM Magazine, International Times, The Fiend, Epignosis Quarterly, Dodging the Rain, The Ekphrastic Review and Le Zaporogue.</b></span></span></p></span>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-28537327807406284512022-02-13T04:32:00.003-08:002022-02-13T04:32:45.365-08:00Laszlo Aranyi's Homunculus Mask, Halo Gallery, Puppet's Wax, Gilles de Rais Chants, Gas-Masked Fenris, And Broken Reeds<p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E51" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E51" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-align: center;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E52" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E52" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 16pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Aquarius: The Revolution of Predators</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E53" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E53" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T10" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 16pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E54" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E54" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T11" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E55" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E55" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T12" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E56" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E56" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T13" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E57" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E57" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E58" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E58" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Hieroglyphs:</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E59" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E59" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T14" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E60" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E60" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T15" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E61" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E61" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E62" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E62" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> <span style="color: #660000;"> thousands of mysterious drawings made of drops of salty sweat</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E63" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E63" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E64" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E64" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> on a creased tin-plate-like homunculus-mask</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E65" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E65" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E66" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E66" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> Gelded , the good Abélard,</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E67" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E67" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E68" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E68" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> (A pair of spiders weaving webs from Héloise's brittle bark-hole </span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E69" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E69" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E70" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E70" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> to the varicous crust of the moon...)</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E71" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E71" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E72" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E72" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E73" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E73" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T16" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E74" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E74" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E75" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E75" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> Mourns the galleys that sunk in the depths of the sea </span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E76" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E76" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E77" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E77" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> "This is not our world," she whispers gently,</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E78" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E78" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E79" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E79" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> and like guilt incarnate, she is embraced by a God </span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E80" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E80" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E81" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E81" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E82" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E82" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E83" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E83" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E84" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E84" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E86" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E86" qowt-runtype="qowt-tab" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E87" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E87" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">trembling with pagan intoxication</span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E88" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E88" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E89" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E89" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> A hideous, degenerate witch's night,</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E90" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E90" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E91" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E91" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> The age of Aquarius is coming. He gives names to hitherto nameless rivers,</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E92" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E92" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T17" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E93" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E93" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E94" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E94" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> rowing on a halo galley.</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E96" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Gorgon-cluster: a multitude of coagulated, dried-up serpent -</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E97" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E97" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T18" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E98" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E98" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T19" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E99" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E99" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E100" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E100" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> whips snap,</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E101" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E101" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E102" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E102" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">he’s submerged, the incessant siren calls </span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E103" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E103" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E104" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E104" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">summoned him to ancient realms.</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E105" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E105" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T20" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E106" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E106" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T21" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E109" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E109" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-teid="T22" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E110" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E110" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" id="E111" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E111" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">(Translated by Gabor Gyukics)</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E110" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E110" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E111" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E110" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E110" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E111" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E110" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E110" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font6-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E111" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E52" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E52" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt; text-align: center;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E53" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E53" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 16pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Eon</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E54" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E54" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E56" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E56" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E59" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E59" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Tarot, Major Arcana XX.)</span></span></b></p><p class="qowt-stl-Nincstrkz x-scope qowt-word-para-3" id="E60" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E60" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E62" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E62" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E64" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E64" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E65" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E65" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E65" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="color: #660000;"> <b> Initially, the beginning seemed closed,</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Nincstrkz x-scope qowt-word-para-3" id="E66" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E66" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E67" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E67" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> the serpent bit its own tail... Now, opportunity</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-3" id="E68" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E68" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E70" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E70" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E71" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E71" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> drifting fateless. </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E73" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E73" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E74" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E74" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close to certainty, the answer is no longer clear. </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E76" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E76" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E77" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E77" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Amorphous drops of wax on the wrinkled, pink </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E79" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E79" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E80" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E80" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> crepe-paper: the puppet's wax flows...</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E81" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E81" style="display: inline; font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E83" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E83" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E84" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E84" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">A balancing plunge on the edge a peeling message</span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E86" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E86" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E87" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E87" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dirty green parasite-coating, </span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-3" id="E88" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E88" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E90" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E90" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E91" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E91" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emperor Domitian poking caught insects, </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E93" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E93" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E94" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E94" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sticky abdomen substance on the quill.</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E95" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E95" style="display: inline; font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E97" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E97" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E98" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E98" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Gilles de Rais chanting dirty rhymes</span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E100" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E100" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E101" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E101" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the ears of fat brats, writhing and whimpering. </span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-4" id="E102" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E102" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E103" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E103" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only the acceptable </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E105" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E105" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E106" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E106" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> work where the structure explodes (the supports and other handholds </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E108" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E108" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E109" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E109" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">are just sneaky traps of interpretation). </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E111" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E111" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E112" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E112" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The artist is a Dual God: the manifesting Ra-Hoor-Khuit, </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E114" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E114" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E115" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E115" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the hiding Hoor-Pa-Krat.</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E116" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E116" style="display: inline; font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E118" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E118" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E120" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E120" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E121" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E121" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The wind’s yanking a ragged "Jolly Roger" </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E123" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E123" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E124" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E124" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">(elongated, artificially distorted skull, </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E126" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E126" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E127" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E127" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a cauldron’s foaming from below, the marks are</span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E129" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E129" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E130" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E130" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> self-sufficient and indecipherable,). </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E132" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E132" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E133" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E133" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The slimy wreck of a ship is grinning on the beach. The islanders(a sophisticated, degenerated species, close to extinction) are </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E135" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E135" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E136" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E136" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> watching all the arrivals from the steaming marshes. </span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E138" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E138" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E139" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E139" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midgard is dead, so is the gas-masked Fenris... the broken reeds </span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-5" id="E140" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E140" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E141" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E141" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">would love to smile, "ashen jasmine leaves..."</span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E143" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E143" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E144" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E144" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">- the poet sings again wildly.</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E145" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E145" style="display: inline; font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-4" id="E146" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E146" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E148" is="qowt-line-break" qowt-eid="E148" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important;"><br /></span><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" id="E149" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E149" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Translated by Gabor Gyukics)</span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-4" id="E146" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E146" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E149" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-4" id="E146" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E146" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E149" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-4" id="E146" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E146" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span class="qowt-font3-Verdana" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E149" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-4" id="E146" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E146" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.27; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) poet, anarchist, occultist from Hungary. Earlier books: (szellem)válaszok, A Nap és Holderők egyensúlya . New: Kiterített rókabőr. </span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">English poems published:</span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Quail Bell Magazine, Lumin Journal, Moonchild Magazine, Scum Gentry Magazine, Pussy Magic, The Zen Space, Crêpe & Penn, Briars Lit, Acclamation Point, Truly U, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Lots of Light Literary Foundation, Honey Mag, Theta Wave, Re-side, Cape Magazine, Neuro Logical, The Daily Drunk Mag, Unpublishable Zine, Melbourne Culture Corner,</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beir Bua Journal,</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crown & Pen,</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dead Fern Press, </span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coven Poetry Journal,</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Erato, Lothlorien Poetry Journal,</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spillover Magazine, Punk Noir, Nymphs Literary Journal, Synchronized Chaos, Impspired Magazine, Fugitives & Futurists</span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dope Fiend Daily</span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mausoleum Press, Nine Magazines, Thanks Hun,</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Downtown Archive</span>, </b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal, Our</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Archive (OPA)</span>,</b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Ears (India), Utsanga (Italy), </span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Postscript Magazine (</span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">United Arab Emirates), </span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The International Zine</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project (France), Swala Tribe Magazine (Rwanda), </span></b><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The QuillS Journal (Nigeria).</span></b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Known spiritualist mediums, art and explores the relationship between magic.</span></b></span></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-29562927444561296682022-01-06T05:19:00.003-08:002022-01-06T05:24:04.028-08:00Michael Lee Rattigan and a Fridge-Door to Heaven, A Tree's Seamless Hem, And A Cross Lit From Behind<div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section id="E47" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E47" style="column-count: 1; display: block; position: relative; tab-size: 0.5in; z-index: 2;"><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Lines in Search of… </b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>foreign welcome a switch on language never learned </b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>prayer for those who sleep in strips of cloth a sought-for question </b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>a tear-polished image a picture scribbled on a fridge-door to heaven. </b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Reparation</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>the eyes’ warmth</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>or heart’s milk pouring</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>down the neck</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>a tree’s seamless hem</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>spanning</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>to replace or repair</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Eucharist</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>sky-cornered blossom’s comprehensive dazzle</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>bridging the way to will</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>the base of a cross lit from behind</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>wishing to be raised</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>golden-silver-white script’s</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>conquering sign</b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-NoSpacing x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Michael Lee Rattigan (Caterham, UK) is a poet and translator who has lived and taught in Mexico and Spain. He translated the first complete collection of Fernando Pessoa's Alberto Caeiro poems (Rufus Books, 2007) and contributed to the Selected Writings of César Vallejo (Wesleyan Press, 2015). He is the author of two poetry collections, Liminal (Rufus Books, 2012) and Hiraeth (Black Herald Press, 2016).</b></span></span></p></qowt-section></div></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-52072344644992665262022-01-03T06:05:00.000-08:002022-01-03T06:05:10.194-08:00Miguel Escobar Guides Us Through The Familiar Trappings Of An Apocalypse, A Gold Rush Chaos Flash, And The Aftermath Of A Pleasure Cruise<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">EXERCISE TO INVOKE AN UNTESTED
FORM OF ACTUAL COGNITION</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>the movement between truth and no longer </p><p>the not exactly <span> </span>a grey spectacle what unfolds </p><p><br /></p><p>a question <span> </span>of <span> </span>consciousness’ presence as</p><p> narrator <span> </span>affixed like <span> </span>appendage <span> </span>the new </p><p>as it breaks one more rigamarole </p><p><br /></p><p>could this be it <span> </span>what <span> </span><span> </span>others proclaim</p><p> an apocalypse <span> </span>with such<span> </span> familiar trappings </p><p><br /></p><p>leave it to the beavers<span> </span> to build dams<span> </span> bask </p><p>in sunlight<span> </span> with their <span> </span><span> </span>accomplishment </p><p><br /></p><p>because <span> </span>where are we<span> </span> purveyors<span> </span> of failed </p><p>condos<span> </span> when from<span> </span> <span> </span>a concurrent<span> </span><span> </span>sidebar </p><p>clarity presents <span> </span>and it is<span> </span>mommy dearest <span> </span>you </p><p><br /></p><p>not quitting your<span> </span> day job<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> guarding </p><p>a semblance<span> </span> of<span> </span> destiny<span> </span> writ black<span> </span> and inky </p><p><br /></p><p>yet even as<span> </span> everything around you<span> </span><span> </span> twirls </p><p>in the air <span> </span>balanced <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>behind the scenes </p><p>you know the drill don’t you s<span> </span><span> s</span>taying alive </p><p><br /></p><p>the clatter<span> </span> of dishes<span> </span> being <span> </span><span> </span>cleared by </p><p>a busgirl <span> </span>the crystal <span> </span>with residue of tomato</p><p> and spent lemon wedge <span> </span><span> </span>to scent air </p><p>itself<span> </span> already<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> <span> </span>colored by <span> </span>sea salt</p><p><br /></p><p> this is where consciousness chose to <span> </span><span> </span>arrest</p><p> you lead you through a maze<span> </span> to<span> </span> a <span> </span>cell </p><p>proclaim all your needs met <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>except </p><p> just possibly the one</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">SUMMONING A PRINCESS OR TWO</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>don’t ask was voiced but in the head calling </p><p>the meal Porridge <span> </span>quaint micro <span> </span>morph </p><p>to the macro meta <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>walk a thing back</p><p><br /></p><p> into childhood <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>from grains </p><p>& oats the safe familiar <span> </span>enter <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Funge </p><p>it is not like <span> </span>UFOs <span> </span>or anything <span> </span><span> </span>meaning </p><p><br /></p><p>believing in them <span> </span>says <span> <span> </span></span>we might <span> </span>dare go </p><p>ignite some other form of cognition <span> </span>Thomas</p><p>the Bahamian does not go in VIP <span> </span><span> </span>or even </p><p><br /></p><p>in Focused for that matter <span> </span>for the paradox of </p><p>a ban on iconoclast art <span> </span>segue <span> </span><span> </span>to when</p><p>irony is dubbed a thing verboten <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>witness </p><p><br /></p><p>my relationship <span> </span>to mail <span> </span>sent <span> </span>from<span> </span> this </p><p>Blackberry<span> </span> insert woman fishing thru purse </p><p>insert beer so good it amazes<span> </span> the city as We </p><p><br /></p><p>the city as We! <span> </span>going through the roof <span> </span>on </p><p>every metric <span> </span>here is what you need to know </p><p> except you don’t <span> </span>gold rush <span> </span>chaos flash </p><p><br /></p><p>everything dead <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>a true princess </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>awe this one lifetime knew </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>her </p><p><br /></p><p>a voice demanding <span> </span>clarification <span> </span>but only</p><p> of sorts in all honesty <span> </span>the whole of history</p><p>is a paraphrase <span> </span>a repetition of only France </p><p><br /></p><p>between untimely deaths <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>an actress </p><p>and her role <span> </span>one of a lifetime <span> </span><span> </span>consider </p><p>parallel wisps of clouds rise <span> </span><span> </span>from statues </p><p><br /></p><p>upended <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>death given </p><p>meaning <span> <span> </span></span>a thing <span> <span> </span></span>outside <span> </span><span> </span>oneself </p><p>incense <span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span>in veins <span> </span><span> <span> </span></span>& tea leaves </p><p><br /></p><p>the city as We! <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>the city as We </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>who find <span> </span><span> </span>cognition</p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>transparent</p><p><br /></p><p> the question of outliers <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>scores to </p><p>settle rampant speculation <span> </span>as to <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>a thing </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>beyond grasp</p><p><br /></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>a missing metaphor </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>that makes you<span> </span><span> </span> ache</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A NARRATIVE WANTING TO PASS FOR A THING CALLED LIVING</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></p><p></p><p></p><p>inside a whirr of constant creation spinning black lace</p><p>what the daring system attempts outside</p><p>spreads </p><p>across the map <span> </span>no longer paper <span> </span>no longer dark ink </p><p><br /></p><p>gauge <span> </span><span> </span>from horrid aftermath of a pleasure cruise</p><p>the true meaning of pleasure </p><p>everywhere you look </p><p>nakedness is voluptuous alive<span> </span> using <span> </span>the wind </p><p><br /></p><p>choose a context even a cover-up or<span> </span><span> </span> a hoped for </p><p>conceit <span> </span>resurrect into<span> </span> a lifetime <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>arrive at </p><p>the soon to be preordained</p><p>stripped <span> </span>of<span> </span> what</p><p><br /></p><p> incessant everything lobbies hard to be </p><p>something mattering </p><p>a shade-less lightbulb to the stars gawking </p><p>curious anti-shadow <span> </span>to the spy <span> </span>the cold<span> </span>the bleak</p><p> </p><p>back alleys <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>the side deemed wrong</p><p>a narrative</p><p> wanting to pass for a thing called living <span> </span><span> </span>departed </p><p>notion <span> </span>of a theme <span> </span><span> </span>for the statuesque to bridge </p><p><br /></p><p>perception of the wide gulf <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>as any number of </p><p>distant scenarios appearing <span> </span>to <span> </span>dissipate <span> </span>rather </p><p>than crumbling <span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span></span>doubts surface <span> </span><span> </span>once more </p><p><br /></p><p>morphed from a time years ago when father</p><p>turned out to be <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>mortal </p><p><br /></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>and then again </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>mother the same </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>the both </p><p><br /></p><p>deducing the moral of any random parable </p><p>plays tricks <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>might you <span> </span><span> </span>be fully destined </p><p>to always<span> </span><span> </span> barely just <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>discern them </p><p><br /></p><p>you may think <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>you’re still about this thing </p><p>only <span> </span><span> </span>break lapse to find <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>newly </p><p>prescient <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>one actual gulf omitted</p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Miguel Escobar’s poems have appeared on-line at Vext Magazine, Diaphanous Press Fall 2017,
Diaphanous Micro 2.5, Luciole Press, in the Wordpress blog community, as well as in smallish
literary/art circles on social media both since late 2015 as well as circa 2007-2008. He resides in the
northern California city of Sacramento, at the storied confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers.</span></b></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-42161157942855375412021-12-26T15:20:00.001-08:002021-12-26T15:20:09.872-08:00John Tustin Ponders The Squeak In Your Bedroom Door, Being Fourteen Forever, And The Running Clockwork Keys Of The Sun<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">PUDDLES AND GUTTERS</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I reside in the puddle beyond your back door</p><p>Where the daylight stinks</p><p>And mosquitos spawn.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am in your roof gutters</p><p>Strangled between the rotting leaves</p><p>And the bird dung.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am trapped in the spider web</p><p>Spun on your windowsill, strangling</p><p>While the spider is away.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am in your keyhole;</p><p>The squeak in your bedroom door;</p><p>The dust upon your books.</p><p><br /></p><p>I live in the knot in your hair</p><p>You comb out again and again</p><p>After you bathe.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am stuck in the grease</p><p>In the clog of your kitchen drain,</p><p>The cockroaches clambering over me for freedom.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am in the drool stain on your pillowcase.</p><p>I am just where your lips</p><p>Meet the flesh of your sleep.</p><p><br /></p><p> I am everywhere you are.</p><p>I stalk you from the dirt and the mud</p><p>And the static on your radio.</p><p><br /></p><p>I reside in the puddle beyond your back door</p><p>Where the daylight stinks</p><p>And mosquitos spawn,</p><p><br /></p><p> Rising out to dine</p><p>On the blood of the living,</p><p>Bringing pestilence and nothing more.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am the small insignificant thing</p><p>That holds on to the mosquito’s leg,</p><p>Swatted down with it or escaping, depending.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">SEVENTEEN</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Three A.M. and thinking about</p><p>How pretty some of those girls were</p><p>Standing on the subway platform,</p><p>Bending to adjust their socks</p><p>Or reading a book, back up against a column,</p><p>Wearing their best denim,</p><p>The trains going by and blowing their hair into their unclouded faces,</p><p>Oblivious to my glances</p><p>Or my hunger.</p><p>Thinking about the friends I had</p><p>(I thought I had)</p><p>Who flung their daggers</p><p>All along my back</p><p>As I felt not a thing at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am forty five now</p><p>But I will hear a song</p><p>Or smell a smell out of place</p><p>Yet familiar,</p><p>Or hear a coin falling to the ground and spinning</p><p>And I am reminded I will always be fourteen</p><p>Or sixteen or seventeen,</p><p>My heart a slimy frightened thing,</p><p>Beating in the shadows of the rest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am thinking about the woman I wanted to love</p><p>And how I was a fool and she a charlatan,</p><p>Whipping me with her duality</p><p>And her nonchalance.</p><p>I am thinking about my friend who, it turns out</p><p>Was anything but best.</p><p><br /></p><p> I remember names and faces</p><p>And I remember moments.</p><p>Moments when I thought I had found my tribe</p><p>And how little by little</p><p>Those affirming moments eroded with each truth</p><p>That they were not like me at all</p><p>And I was glad I was not like them</p><p>Although I wished so to belong.</p><p>Gradually I just came around less and less</p><p>And no one called me, asking me where I was.</p><p>It was right I should not be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of them one day</p><p>As we were traveling by train told me,</p><p>“I don’t like you.</p><p>I don’t think we should take the train together anymore.”</p><p>Out of the blue, there it was.</p><p>The rest of them just said things about me</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was not present.</p><p>He is the only one I respect.</p><p>He is still a fucker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just thinking about meeting one of them</p><p>Purely by chance on the street</p><p>Brings back my stutter</p><p>And a desire to duck into the next store,</p><p>Waiting for them to pass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coming close to half a century old,</p><p>I am still a little boy</p><p>Alone in his room</p><p>Crying over nothing</p><p>In the near dark</p><p>While outside</p><p>The rains falls</p><p>And falls,</p><p>Creasing the windows</p><p>From the outside.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">UNEARTHED SILVER</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I have not and will not forget</p><p>The blood that formed in my mouth</p><p>Like unearthed silver</p><p><br /></p><p>The birds that swooped and glided</p><p>Before the trees that stopped their swaying</p><p>In a wind that carried you to me</p><p><br /></p><p>For what turned out to be mere moments.</p><p><br /></p><p>My heart, my lungs swelled with a love</p><p>That lasted longer than we</p><p>But are now shriveled and crumpled foils</p><p><br /></p><p> That rot on the surface of what was falsely believed</p><p>To be</p><p>A strong and fertile soil.</p><p><br /></p><p> I have not and will not forget</p><p>The blood that formed in my mouth</p><p>Like unearthed silver</p><p><br /></p><p>And the perceived love in eyes</p><p>That seemed to be the turning of the world,</p><p>The running clockwork keys of the sun</p><p><br /></p><p> But I try</p><p>I try</p><p>I try.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online.</p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-68302967646818246882021-12-22T10:46:00.001-08:002021-12-22T10:46:17.346-08:00Yuan Changming Endeavors In The Most Mindful Moment, An Extra Year Of Satan, And A Jade Philosopher's Stone<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Into the Reality</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>You see, here’s the leaf dyed with the full</p><p>Spectrum of autumn; here’s the dewdrop</p><p>Containing all the dreams made on the</p><p>Darkest corner of last night; here’s the</p><p>Light pole in the forest where gods land</p><p>From another higher world; here’s the swirl</p><p>You can dance with to release all your</p><p>Emotional intensity. Here you are in</p><p>Deed as in need embracing</p><p>The most</p><p>Mindful moment, when you can readily</p><p>Measure your feel with each breath, but do</p><p>Not think about time, which is nothing but</p><p>A pure human invention. Just point every</p><p>Synapse of yours to this locale. Here is now </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Features; for Hengxiang Liao</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p>Not coincidentally, I have met many a person</p><p>With a strong appearance of a lower species</p><p>For instance, one school mate of mine carries</p><p>The features of a rabbit, another close relative</p><p>Those of a horse, a colleague of a familiar dog</p><p>An acquaintance of a hedgehog, a fifth of a</p><p>Snake, a sixth of a pig, a rooster, a rat, a water</p><p>Buffalo, a donkey, a goat or chimpanzee &</p><p>Each seems fated to fall within or without some</p><p>Chinese zodiac year</p><p>While my wife often</p><p>Looks like a nasty cat, she says my face oftener</p><p>shows all the hideousness of a demon, as if to re</p><p>Mind her like every other fellow human, I was</p><p>Born in an extra year of Satan though we were</p><p>All created equal in His image </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Lover’s Stone for a Shadow Wife: for Qi Hong</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1/ Jinzhou, October 7, 2021</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>After celebrating your father’s birthday, you</p><p>Went out of your way to see my mother in</p><p>Jinzhou as my shadow wife rather than in</p><p>Any other dubious capacity. Though you</p><p>stayed there for 15 minutes only, you left a</p><p>Handsome red envelop containing all the</p><p>Filialness of a Confucian son on my behalf</p><p>Indeed, I may not survive the Pandemic, nor</p><p>Might she hold long enough for me to cross</p><p>The Pacific, but your special visit has given</p><p>Her the best comfort from a daughter-in-law</p><p>She felt sorry she did not take a photo with</p><p>You, but I assured her to commemorate the</p><p>Meeting in a poem in a foreign language</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2/ Zhuhai, October 7, 2021</b></p><p><br /></p><p>No, no, no, you should not have had a thief’s</p><p>Conscience when you went to see my mother</p><p>On my behalf, for a heart-stealer is no thief</p><p>To begin with</p><p>As for the gift of a big stamp</p><p>Jade, it was given not to you alone, but to both</p><p>Of us, which you can cut into two, one to</p><p>Carve into an artist’s seal for you, the other</p><p>A poet’s signature for me. More important</p><p>From the same piece of jade, they are one</p><p>And the same, if put back together</p><p>Like a philosopher’s stone</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #254e79; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3px;">YUAN CHANGMING grew up in a remote village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age 19 & published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently lives in Vancouver, where he has worked as a tutor, translator & publisher. Credits include 11 Pushcart nominations, 10 chapbooks, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry: Tenth Anniversary Edition, Best New Poems Online and appearances in more than 1800 literary outlets across 46 countries. Additionally, Yuan served on the Jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category).</span></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-40665186272810897622021-12-20T04:50:00.003-08:002021-12-20T04:50:52.379-08:00Aleathia Drehmer Amidst The Hyparxis, The OCD Fingers, The Bad Viral Movie Lines, And The Vaulting Spines Of Ferrets<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Dismembered</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Sleep (Study 1)</span></b></p><p>Nightmares</p><p>turn life</p><p><br /></p><p>upside down</p><p><br /></p><p>creating hyparxis</p><p><br /></p><p>twofold, and inversely</p><p><br /></p><p>you</p><p>stand there</p><p><br /></p><p>an inflated representation</p><p><br /></p><p>of the man I love</p><p><br /></p><p>nonchalantly telling me</p><p><br /></p><p>your brain is near bleeding;</p><p><br /></p><p>your life, measured.</p><p><br /></p><p>What disturbs me most</p><p><br /></p><p>is how I go about my routine,</p><p><br /></p><p>OCD fingers in their motions</p><p><br /></p><p>rotating stacks of papers</p><p><br /></p><p>and books; double checking</p><p><br /></p><p>keys jingling in my pocket</p><p><br /></p><p>while your existence</p><p><br /></p><p>hangs in the balance.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Dismembered</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Sleep (Study 2)</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>it’s</p><p>a bad movie line</p><p><br /></p><p>gone viral</p><p><br /></p><p> --dude where’s my car?—</p><p><br /></p><p>frantic pacing</p><p><br /></p><p>waiting for it to appear</p><p><br /></p><p>in the sea of concrete</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>you tell me I parked</p><p><br /></p><p>by the river</p><p><br /></p><p>your brain is dying--</p><p><br /></p><p>flesh sagging and </p><p><br /></p><p>progeric</p><p><br /></p><p>i’m running through fields</p><p><br /></p><p>to get to the water</p><p><br /></p><p>legs made of lead</p><p><br /></p><p>cumbersome</p><p><br /></p><p>unending</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>how will you forgive me?</p><p><br /></p><p>how will I forgive myself?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Dismembered</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Sleep (Study 3)</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>At</p><p>the river’s edge</p><p><br /></p><p>I see it—the grey goose</p><p><br /></p><p>only more compact</p><p><br /></p><p>and incredibly wedged</p><p><br /></p><p>between concrete walls.</p><p><br /></p><p>Black</p><p>boys fish on the shore</p><p><br /></p><p>poles dipping the surface</p><p><br /></p><p>pretending to whip flies</p><p><br /></p><p>like those redneck boys.</p><p><br /></p><p>The</p><p>water churns violently,</p><p><br /></p><p>not with trout or perch,</p><p><br /></p><p>but with vaulting spines</p><p><br /></p><p>of ferrets—teeth bared</p><p><br /></p><p>and angry.</p><p><br /></p><p>I</p><p>roll up my pants</p><p><br /></p><p>to cross the water.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is my only chance</p><p><br /></p><p>to save you.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Aleathia </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Drehmer was once the editor of Durable </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Goods and In </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Between Altered States, but now spends most of her time writing </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">novels. She has recently published poems in Rusty </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Truck, Spillwords, </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Piker Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Cajun </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Mutt Press. Aleathia has upcoming work in </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">58 Poetry. Her first full-length collection Looking </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">for Wild Things (Impspired) is due out later this year. www.aleathiadrehmer.com</span></b></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-64269297609875725142021-12-12T04:47:00.003-08:002021-12-12T04:48:17.776-08:00Vernon Frazer Returns With A Burnt Symphony, A Lighthouse Resolution, And A Bandit Terminus<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Driven Home by the Concert</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>linear loan forced </p><p> traps </p><p> a fashion </p><p> tract </p><p> enameled</p><p><br /></p><p>new irrigation rollers</p><p>past any sextants to</p><p>cartilage incumbent</p><p><br /></p><p> insinuations</p><p><br /></p><p> a burnt symphony</p><p>connects worn dissonance </p><p> a faded</p><p><br /></p><p> loop of melody trousers</p><p><br /></p><p> first sounds resound </p><p>different canyons smoky</p><p><br /></p><p> cantatas roving undone</p><p> straining where the frenzy</p><p> gives operetta barging</p><p><br /></p><p> the hard strategy</p><p><br /></p><p> daylight revenge </p><p><br /></p><p> a sudden wisdom</p><p><br /></p><p> no translucence boogie</p><p> from the curvature scanners</p><p><br /></p><p> the morphine tenant </p><p> dumps a consonance freak </p><p><br /></p><p> hostage</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> against the listeners present </p><p> and set the tumult from their</p><p> balding tympanist inanimate </p><p><br /></p><p> centrifugal camphor </p><p> at histories for the next titanium swizzle</p><p>the sending metronomes </p><p> faded </p><p> other polyrhythms</p><p><br /></p><p> imploding wisdom</p><p> a riff in crescendos lost</p><p> the spin-off veneer</p><p><br /></p><p> sizzling reprisal listeners </p><p><br /></p><p> never a marginal key</p><p> past traction hemming the sky screen</p><p><br /></p><p> overindulge clavichords </p><p> while a wider ear diluted innuendo</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Reflecting on the Future’s Past</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>gone brassiere</p><p>riffing the last pavilion</p><p><br /></p><p> its controller </p><p> grounded sky in enzyme flourish</p><p> the nonchalance legation</p><p><br /></p><p> knows (brink included)</p><p> effects protruding</p><p> unstocked congress</p><p> the isolate</p><p> gravestone</p><p><br /></p><p> iconic supplication</p><p><br /></p><p> ( )</p><p><br /></p><p>alien schemata</p><p>possible monetary detonator</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> lighthouse resolution </p><p> the noisy panorama appetizer</p><p> delivering</p><p> commotion retching</p><p><br /></p><p>before a protruding schoolhouse breath</p><p><br /></p><p> tensing decorator pabulum</p><p> to right blockaded preface</p><p><br /></p><p> full or fruitless</p><p><br /></p><p> ( )</p><p><br /></p><p>shrapnel bough</p><p>keeps many bursters bent</p><p>past an idling verb</p><p><br /></p><p> a lowered patois</p><p><br /></p><p> good vowel alongside</p><p> workhorses songbirds</p><p><br /></p><p> screaming, bitten</p><p><br /></p><p>“a verbal pandemic with an ovoid specular”</p><p><br /></p><p> slowly </p><p><br /></p><p> turned </p><p><br /></p><p> encyclical</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Stuck in Human Trafficking </span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> deflation plastered</p><p> ombudsman follow-ups</p><p><br /></p><p>as thoroughfare sturgeon invigorated briar</p><p><br /></p><p> flayed adjutants </p><p> garbled past basilica jacks</p><p><br /></p><p> not rooted in the motorboat</p><p><br /></p><p> valence returns</p><p> pituitary facings</p><p><br /></p><p>turbulent between padding cottages</p><p>sullen fellow, concrete protuberance </p><p><br /></p><p> sly timetables</p><p> the respite logarithm arrived</p><p><br /></p><p>where the filtered make legacy babes turn castle</p><p><br /></p><p> ( )</p><p><br /></p><p> coned samosa threesomes</p><p> report kangaroo monsoons</p><p> ramped with monosyllables</p><p><br /></p><p> northward</p><p> salutations humored illuminati</p><p><br /></p><p> rumor abduction </p><p> gathered regulations implosion</p><p> bandit terminus</p><p><br /></p><p> casually semantic</p><p><br /></p><p> the code stationer</p><p> then expostulated </p><p> that atlas fulcrums </p><p><br /></p><p>eluded bland clients and humored bridging</p><p><br /></p><p> ( )</p><p><br /></p><p> neurosis junkies</p><p> benefit theatres learning</p><p> legacy </p><p> collapse</p><p><br /></p><p> a guildhall mechanism</p><p> spotted lost pitchforks</p><p><br /></p><p> where the backbone vesper</p><p> behind an octopus mascara</p><p> enhances a sonic wallflower</p><p><br /></p><p> from shallow fastening</p><p> to the railroad’s thriller</p><p><br /></p><p> milking the portly mandarins </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Vernon Frazer’s new poetry collection is Gravity Darkening.</span></b></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-23697080379870251852021-12-06T07:53:00.002-08:002021-12-06T07:53:57.652-08:00Laura Anella Johnson With A Periphery Sofa Stretch, An Ageless Residency, and Weekly Lesson Plans<p><span style="color: #6aa84f;">my cat</span></p><p>(for Gracie)</p><p><br /></p><p> a creak—you nosing through the door </p><p>to head butt, knead, and collapse.</p><p><br /></p><p>a subtle swish and click—</p><p>pouncing, arching hair-tie whack.</p><p><br /></p><p>a periphery sofa stretch.</p><p><br /></p><p>a dark-hallway shift and glide.</p><p><br /></p><p>i turn, adjust my eyes, </p><p><br /></p><p>it’s merely a shadow, </p><p><br /></p><p>a whispering mail-stack slide and clack,</p><p><br /></p><p>a wayward breeze-tossed leaf (you’d like that),</p><p><br /></p><p>a settling, cat-hair-sprinkled house, </p><p><br /></p><p>the dog lifting her head (remembering</p><p>your goodbye lick?)</p><p><br /></p><p>a door-disturbing draft,</p><p><br /></p><p>nothingness afoot,</p><p><br /></p><p>or somehow my cat.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">What</span></b></p><p>(for Anthony Perotta)</p><p><br /></p><p>When you searched my eyes, our faces inches apart,</p><p>we were seated in a breath-filled dining hall.</p><p>Banter bounced off the 1970’s-paneled walls, </p><p>silverware clinked dinner plates.</p><p>Seven or eight other writers-in-training sat around </p><p>our white-clothed, breadcrumb-scattered table</p><p><br /></p><p>still laughing about some thing you’d said at lunch,</p><p>too dirty, they surmised, for me to hear.</p><p><br /></p><p> “Whisper it in my ear,” I tempted,</p><p>and you—Mr. Laid-Back Uproarious Bostonian Accent—</p><p>looked at me—Mrs. Sheltered Bible Belt Twang—</p><p>like you were measuring something...until </p><p><br /></p><p>silver-and-purple-haired Susan’s “If he whispers that in your ear, </p><p>your husband will have grounds for divorce!”</p><p><br /></p><p> and now it doesn’t matter of course because </p><p>you’ve broken away, slipped unforeseen into </p><p>an ageless residency midway through </p><p>our writers’ residencies,</p><p><br /></p><p> and what made your eyes </p><p>look like that...almost...almost </p><p>telling me something you didn't tell me, </p><p>what stood tipped-toed, peered out</p><p>your spirit window into mine,</p><p>what held it back and </p><p>what wanted to let it go</p><p><br /></p><p> and the other whats </p><p>that hid behind </p><p>your eyes, and deeper, </p><p>have drifted away...</p><p><br /></p><p>floating intangible tidbits</p><p>—dirty, pure, painful, hopeful—</p><p>beyond reach somewhere.</p><p>Those ones you measured</p><p>and determined best unshared.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Lost </b></span></p><p><br /></p><p>The inklings that nudged me while driving or in </p><p>a meeting, or chipping away at some </p><p>other required business, ideas I can’t list in</p><p>this poem because I’ve forgotten them... </p><p><br /></p><p> the impulses I didn't </p><p>explore have sunk and drifted deep beneath </p><p>waves of things to-do...and will never be poems. </p><p><br /></p><p> I sacrificed them to </p><p>busyness, to typed-up ESOL instructions</p><p>sent in the timeliest manner possible to </p><p>my students’ other teachers,</p><p>to undoing my Infinite-Campus-online-gradebook</p><p>errors listed on my error report. </p><p>To learning BlackBoard and loading it with </p><p>content to show I've embraced our </p><p>school’s vision,</p><p><br /></p><p> to teaching the newest high school generation—</p><p>a welcome reprieve from other responsibilities—</p><p>until the class clown in the front row yells</p><p>“I try! I try! I try! I try” </p><p>while I give grammar warm-up instructions, </p><p>then stop and fill out her lunch detention form;</p><p><br /></p><p> to weekly lesson plans </p><p>laid out in six-by-seven charts,</p><p>to exit and entrance letters sent home to </p><p>parents who may or may not read them,</p><p>who may or may not be able,</p><p>to our new way of testing new students, </p><p>that one that pulls them away </p><p>from more and more classes, as I am </p><p>pulled away from another crack of light—</p><p><br /></p><p> an impulse sacrificed to my paycheck</p><p>which I’ll use to buy a new mattress</p><p>—whenever there's time—</p><p>to relieve the ache in my lower psyche.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Laura Anella Johnson is the author of Not Yet (Kelsay Books, 2019) and The Color of Truth (coming soon by Kelsay Books). Her work has appeared in a range of online and print journals and anthologies including Literary Mama, Snakeskin, Reach of Song, and Tipton. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University and teaches English/ESOL at Fayette County High School in Georgia. </span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-18886860242145945592021-11-16T17:53:00.000-08:002021-11-16T17:53:07.195-08:00Shine Ballard Owns Phobos, Reveals the Misanthrope, and Gives the Mien to the Strangerface<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Whom</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Phobos was not beckoned, though He is mine</p><p>We struggle, unwilling to relinquish—</p><p>Dismay, oft below, remains at my side</p><p>I feign control, though I could be His</p><p><br /></p><p>We struggle, unwilling to relinquish—</p><p>Tug of war for the soul, spirit, and mind.</p><p>I feign control, though I could be His</p><p>When one owns the day, the other will sigh</p><p><br /></p><p>Tug of war for the soul, spirit, and mind</p><p>The vibrating always persists</p><p>When one owns the day, the other will sigh</p><p>I cannot discern : to whom, whom is?</p><p><br /></p><p>The vibrating always persists</p><p>Dismay, oft below, remains at my side</p><p>I cannot discern : to whom, whom is?</p><p>Phobos was not beckoned, though—</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He is mine.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">trussed</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p> a soured soul : illtempered pessi<b>mis</b>t</p><p> malignantly bound by a putrid x<b>anth</b>ous lanyard—</p><p> the indissoluble <b>rope</b> of loathing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">dissociate</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>when i face my confront in the mirror,</p><p>i sight the see of a stranger—</p><p> indeed,</p><p>a strangerface</p><p><br /></p><p> like when a word spoke so often,</p><p> such as <i>awkward</i>,</p><p> it begins to fail its sense</p><p> as if both subconscious</p><p> and intuition</p><p> have somehow slighted</p><p><br /></p><p>i might, now, mean something i cannot comprehend—</p><p> i may have lost all mien</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Bio:</span></b></p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Shine Ballard, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">the</i> dégagédabbler, currently creates & resides on this plane(t).</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">@xShine14</span></b></span></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-39775290464308463782021-10-18T00:31:00.001-07:002021-10-18T00:31:23.060-07:00Joe Balaz Presents The Egghead Tsunami, Jeffrey Spearfishing, And Opening a Crab Like A Locket<div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section id="E48" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E48" style="column-count: 1; display: block; position: relative; tab-size: 0.5in; z-index: 2;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c37ca598-7fff-a2fe-659a-6ef722236bc8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">HALF DOZEN DONUTS</span></b></span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I need some donuts.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can I keep my opinions up</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">witout my half dozen donuts?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virtually impossible.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To keep pace</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I need wun sugar fix to fix da fix.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, I’m responding</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to da latest gossip around town.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Watevah it is</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it needs addressing</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cause deah’s new stuff</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">every adah day.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Da tsunami of comments</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is ovahloading da ovahload.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From da idiot to da egghead</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all kine viewpoints </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are going around</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and I going add to everyting too.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eh, I love to contribute,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cause I stay community oriented.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wen all da stories circulate</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sometimes up is down </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and down is up.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consequently speaking</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dis temporary rant is up too—</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dat is</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">until I visit da bakery</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and finish my half dozen donuts.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">SMALL KINE LUAU</span></b></span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you saw Jeffrey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as wun young teenager wit his spear</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at first you would wonder</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wat he wuz doing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He wuz wun tall skinny kid</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">walking around and looking down </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in all da cracks</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of da rock formations</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dat lined da beach at Papailoa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">between da sand and da sea.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Da single head spear dat he wen use</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">had wun barb on top</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and if he wen nail someting</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">most likely </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">da ting wuzn’t going get away.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeffrey wuz searching</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">foa da many black island crabs</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">scurrying around</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and hiding out</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inside da cracks.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you tink about it</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dats not wun easy ting foa do</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to catch crabs li’dat.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You figure every once awhile</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you would hit someting</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and maybe da ting </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">would stay on your spear</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but if you kept watching Jeffrey</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you would notice</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dat he wuz scoring moa often den not</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wit each thrust among da rocks.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Da fact dat he wuz doing dat</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">since he wuz five years old</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wuz probably da reason </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he wen perfect his special skill.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeffrey prided himself</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in da payoff.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wen da family got home</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aftah spending da day at da beach</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his maddah would take</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">da small bucket full of crabs</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and she would wash ‘um </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in da kitchen sink.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Den wit her thumb</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wit each crab </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she would flick open da top</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like she wuz opening </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wun locket</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">foa put some salt inside.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fast food Hawaiian style</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wuz right deah</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aftah Jeffrey’s maddah</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wen get wun bowl of poi</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from da refrigerator.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just watching her eat</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wit full on enjoyment</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in da small kine luau</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">made Jeffrey’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">crab hunting efforts</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all da moa worth it.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">luau Hawaiian feast.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">poi Staple pudding-like food made from taro.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Joe Balaz writes in Hawaiian Islands Pidgin (Hawai’i Creole English)</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">and American English. He is the author of Pidgin Eye, a book of poetry.</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In July, 2020, Balaz was given the Elliot Cades Award for Literature as an </span></b></span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Established Writer. It is the most prestigious literary award given in</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Hawai’i. Balaz presently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.</span></b></span></p></span></qowt-section></div></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-54158883458689725472021-10-15T14:36:00.004-07:002021-10-15T14:39:19.836-07:00Howie Good And Frida Kahlo's Bland Indifference Punctuated By Private Audie Murphy's Baby Face<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">SPLIT IMAGES </span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Frida Kahlo, in a loose robe that allows for a glimpse of her breasts, poses against a background
of fussy flowered wallpaper. In a further incongruity, she wears enticingly low on her hips the sort
of cartridge belt a Mexican bandit would wear in a Hollywood Western and holds a six-shooter
with both hands, the barrel of the gun pointing down like an arrow at her etcetera. The expression
on her face is one of bland indifference, but her eyes are huge and round and stare darkly back at
the viewer with justifiable suspicion.</p><p><br /></p><p> &</p><p><br /></p><p> The movie was called To Hell and Back. He played himself, Pvt. Audie Murphy, the most
decorated soldier of World War II. On the screen, he single-handedly stormed blockhouses and
machine-gun nests while lesser men cringed in foxholes or got hit by bullets and crumpled. I was
only 8 when I saw the movie, but I remember it was in black and white, and that he was slight in
build and had a baby face, making his battlefield exploits seem all the more heroic. Years would
pass before I realized the guy sitting behind me who kept crossing and recrossing his legs and
kicking the back of my seat would, in one fashion or another, always be there.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Howie Good is the author most recently of the poetry collection </span><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gunmetal Sky </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Thirty West Publishing).</span></span></b></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-43026090589416824102021-10-05T23:11:00.004-07:002021-10-15T06:51:43.678-07:00J.D. Nelson With New Shoes For The Moon, Neil Armstrong Nomenclature, And The Coal-fired Goose Of The Warm Hark<div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section id="E50" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E50" style="column-count: 1; display: block; position: relative; tab-size: 0.5in; z-index: 2;"><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E51" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E51" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E52" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E52" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">sloak</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E53" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E53" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> now</span></b></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E54" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E54" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E55" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E55" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E56" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E56" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E57" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E57" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">that lost angler west of the dream</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E58" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E58" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E59" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E59" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">why</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E60" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E60" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is there a lion in the clean air, floating?</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E61" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E61" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E62" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E62" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E63" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E63" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E64" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E64" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">we reshoed the moon that afternoon</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E65" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E65" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E66" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E66" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E67" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E67" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E68" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E68" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a phantom sound</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E69" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E69" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E70" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E70" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the milk was pink</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E71" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E71" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E72" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E72" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E73" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E73" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E74" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E74" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the same earth bones</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E75" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E75" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E76" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E76" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to sing the frog wind of the window</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E77" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E77" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E78" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E78" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E79" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E79" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E80" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E80" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the creature needing the salt for the first time</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E81" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E81" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E82" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E82" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to make a simple why</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E83" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E83" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E84" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E84" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E85" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E85" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E86" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E86" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">it was a cold box of the corn</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E87" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E87" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E88" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E88" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the alien bread</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E89" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E89" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E90" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E90" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E91" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E91" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E92" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E92" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a crawling crumb</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E93" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E93" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E94" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E94" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E96" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">one of those winning hands from the poker game</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>there exists a second moon</b></span></span></p></qowt-section></div></div><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section break-before="" indexed-flow="SI7" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E50" style="column-count: 1; display: block; position: relative; tab-size: 0.5in; z-index: 2;"><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E103" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E103" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E104" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E104" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E105" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E105" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E106" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E106" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">were</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E107" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E107" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you in the dust, rusting?</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E108" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E108" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E109" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E109" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a slithering hush</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E110" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E110" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E111" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E111" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E112" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E112" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E113" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E113" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">not a real turtle, but a machine</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E114" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E114" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E115" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E115" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the open earth opera</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E116" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E116" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E117" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E117" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E118" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E118" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E119" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E119" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the sun was a friend of the other stars</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E120" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E120" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E121" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E121" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E122" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E122" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">burd</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E123" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E123" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> makes his home in the rocks</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E124" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E124" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E125" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E125" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E126" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E126" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E127" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E127" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">that faster “yes” from across the room</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E128" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E128" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E129" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E129" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">we named it after neil armstrong</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E128" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E128" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E128" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E128" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E128" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E128" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">the midnight yodel of yo-dell the decca (the right to warm a tortoise)</span></b></span></p></qowt-section></div></div><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contentsContainer" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 72pt;"><div class="style-scope qowt-page" id="contents"><qowt-section break-before="" indexed-flow="SI8" named-flow="FLOW-2" qowt-eid="E50" style="column-count: 1; display: block; position: relative; tab-size: 0.5in; z-index: 2;"><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E137" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E137" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E138" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E138" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E139" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E139" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E140" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E140" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the hamlet of pigging</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E141" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E141" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E142" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E142" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the plate of snouts</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E143" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E143" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E144" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E144" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E145" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E145" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E146" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E146" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the coal-fired goose of the warm hark</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E147" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E147" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E148" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E148" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">now a blustery hum</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E149" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E149" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E150" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E150" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E151" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E151" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E152" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E152" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a special effort to clone up</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E153" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E153" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E154" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E154" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a non-pathetic choice of vegetable</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E155" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E155" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="E156" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E156" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E157" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E157" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E158" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E158" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a living being sporting the nacho pants</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E159" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E159" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" id="E160" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E160" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">your gold luck was too good for the ghost</span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E159" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E159" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E160" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E159" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E159" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="font-family: Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" face=""Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif !important" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E160" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0" id="E159" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E159" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "Times New Roman", Tinos, "Baskerville Old Face", "Bell MT", serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. His poetry has appeared in many small press publications, worldwide, since 2002. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). His poem, “to mask a little bird” was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Visit http://MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Colorado.</b></p></qowt-section></div></div>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-25297932682992389632021-09-18T21:26:00.000-07:002021-09-18T21:26:41.712-07:00Mark Young Returns With A Cryptic Coffin Shoe, Noomi Rapace And Anna Akhmatova Fragments, The Performance Enigma, And An Altac In A Gulag<p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A line from Michelangelo</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>A new state of the art skate</p><p>park has more than forty</p><p>houses of worship within its</p><p>precincts, but still remains</p><p><br /></p><p>monochromatic in its mourn-</p><p>ings. Weavers of flax mats sing</p><p>dirges, miners of peat wail</p><p>under incoherent light. That lamp</p><p><br /></p><p>has burned for some time now. To</p><p>remind us that the foot is more</p><p>noble than its coverings, a single</p><p>shoe is placed on the coffin lid. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A line from Noomi Rapace</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I watch couples practice modern</p><p>dance. Even in their reflection</p><p>in a nearby window it is obvious</p><p>there is a hierarchy, & strict gender</p><p><br /></p><p>roles. I find myself endlessly re-</p><p>playing situations in which I wish</p><p>I'd performed differently. It's a</p><p>bit of an enigma as to why I do it</p><p><br /></p><p>because I really don't know which</p><p>hand is which, & that's how you</p><p>get bruised no matter what the out-</p><p>come. Another scenario involves a cat.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A line from Anna Akhmatova</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I had to look up what alt-</p><p>ac meant, & even then</p><p>wasn't sure that it applied</p><p>to me. True, I worked out-</p><p><br /></p><p>side of academia, yet had no</p><p>home to return to. The past</p><p>several months have been</p><p>agonizingly lonely. I was an</p><p><br /></p><p>accidental guest in a place</p><p>where guest houses didn't</p><p>exist. Only gulags, & even</p><p>they didn't seem to want me.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Mark Young was born in New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty years, & is the author of around sixty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, creative non-fiction, & art history. His most recent book is The Sasquatch Walks Among Us, from sandy press, & available through Amazon.</span></b></p><p><br /></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-56721970103732664872021-09-15T13:25:00.005-07:002021-09-15T13:25:55.772-07:00Heller Levinson Revels in the Burlesque Avante, the Backfired Transparency, and the Nightglue Luster Lure<p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Negative Dancer</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>aplomb-ing <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> ring-a-lev-i-</p><p><br /></p><p>o<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bowl burlesque avant toe</p><p><br /></p><p>derrière port de bras dip dolphin drizzle</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>porpoise slick</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bear brigade</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>por-cu-pine</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>periwinkle</p><p><br /></p><p>Calliope calypso antédiluvien liquesce</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sum-mer-time</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>hypericum</p><p><br /></p><p>turbinate jounce ramp radical gravity decline</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>declaration</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>deciduous</p><p><br /></p><p>unbridle legere legacy leap sus-</p><p><br /></p><p>pend<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>float<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ar-tic-</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>u-</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>late</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">NUGATORY</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>dart diminish<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>dispirit draw</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>malfunction</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>obviate</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>deprive</p><p><br /></p><p>the suitors wore trucks.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>transparency</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>. backfired</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bareback provides superior</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> contact.</p><p><br /></p><p> illustrious of alien is the cuttlefish.</p><p><br /></p><p> not too close not too far</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> forthright furthermore</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>won’t you at the right moment</p><p><br /></p><p>plume array cross junction superlative</p><p><br /></p><p>permutations enliven sitting cross-legged</p><p><br /></p><p>pleurisy in all its forms</p><p>companionship wears thin</p><p><br /></p><p>scrutiny</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">lure in salubrious slumber</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>inundate disrobe<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>scatter shutdown</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> simmer<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>swell</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> diffuse</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>slur, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> slide parade</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> en—</p><p><br /></p><p>sorcell</p><p><br /></p><p>moisten</p><p><br /></p><p>bounty stellar gloam nuzzle gussied slumber sartorial</p><p><br /></p><p>calamitous dethrone repose respite</p><p><br /></p><p>under-tow</p><p><br /></p><p>gleam sonorous nightglue luster lure of asynchronous spur</p><p><br /></p><p>bipedal loiter</p><p><br /></p><p>nugget psalm</p><p><br /></p><p>u-</p><p><br /></p><p>biq-</p><p><br /></p><p>uitous</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> The originator of Hinge Theory, Heller Levinson lives in the lower Hudson Valley. His most recent book is Lurk (Black Widow Press, 2021). His upcoming Lure is scheduled for a Spring 2022 release (also BWP).</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-29502353992505370742021-08-24T17:11:00.006-07:002021-08-24T17:11:56.992-07:00Joshua Martin Ensorcelled In Mad Mandibles, Stopgap Mansions, A Removed Cowlick, Panther Strikes, Pig's Feet, And Spasms Galore<p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><u>Cannibal sun</u></span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Cannibal sun</p><p> look! look! look!</p><p>an oil rig</p><p> a sheet of disasters</p><p> spreading</p><p>stammering verse until</p><p>greener earthquakes ensue</p><p><br /></p><p> mad mandible</p><p> maverick staircase</p><p> stains</p><p> & all the</p><p> other catastrophic</p><p> mementoes</p><p><br /></p><p>once a laser thin operation</p><p> away! away! away!</p><p> an army of</p><p> medieval mummified</p><p> remnants</p><p>the size of a carpet sample</p><p><br /></p><p> awake to invoke</p><p> stadium seating</p><p> visible snake charming</p><p> folding under like a shirt</p><p><br /></p><p>in limping tattoo</p><p>overpass of a</p><p>highway</p><p> skull lessened</p><p> grouped together</p><p> according to</p><p> guttural sounds</p><p> dropping a<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p> droplet</p><p>never made sock puppets</p><p>into heroes</p><p> or stakes</p><p> into ornaments</p><p> or brides into</p><p>fathomless lashes</p><p>brimming to fill</p><p> stopgap mansions</p><p><br /></p><p>then through storms</p><p>beach covered speedo</p><p>skipping to beating</p><p>tornado puddle</p><p> saddled w/</p><p> debt trampolines</p><p><br /></p><p> forthcoming dimensions</p><p> spear themselves</p><p> soiled enough to be</p><p> refuse</p><p> wasteful in</p><p><br /></p><p> diameter</p><p>speeches yonder wonder</p><p> taken as a</p><p> given as a</p><p>raging</p><p> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>crumb</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>worm kissed</b></span></u></p><p><br /></p><p>worm kissed scrawny tongue</p><p>and collapse beside a stove</p><p><br /></p><p>w/o pipes a grimace shivers</p><p>the flight it takes to sign a membership</p><p><br /></p><p> last enhance</p><p> against a fence</p><p> posted chalkboard</p><p> headless promenade</p><p><br /></p><p> whether running</p><p> in place of division</p><p> intervention could</p><p> spell constant</p><p> foiled zone of</p><p> multiplied rejection</p><p> mattered less than</p><p> horizontal symbols</p><p> used to spell</p><p> a dear john letter</p><p> pasted to an</p><p> apple core</p><p><br /></p><p>then this did</p><p>to an unto to</p><p>an enormous hawk</p><p>wingless as contrarian delight</p><p>famous injunction</p><p>against a train conductor</p><p>of the spirit engulfing</p><p>cowardice like a stone</p><p>unturned</p><p><br /></p><p>to be the cowlick</p><p>once removed</p><p> fatty fatty fatty</p><p> advanced state</p><p> of disrepair</p><p><br /></p><p>decomposing teeth</p><p>to meet a formal dress</p><p><br /></p><p> a tire attired</p><p> in the latest</p><p> membrane</p><p> monstrosity</p><p><br /></p><p>clever enough to will a motorcycle</p><p>to sleep</p><p> for a limb is a cellular</p><p> mishap </p><p> for a branch snapped</p><p> a diamond</p><p><br /></p><p> full title</p><p> left un-</p><p> observable</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></u></b></p><p><b><u><span style="color: #6aa84f;">spasms galore</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>spasms galore</p><p> gunk</p><p><br /></p><p>sinking ships masterful</p><p>zoned out to a zonk!</p><p><br /></p><p>buried enough spare feathers</p><p>to contemplate a swing set</p><p>through letterbox deception</p><p>the panther strikes at</p><p> midnight</p><p><br /></p><p>help! there’s</p><p> a</p><p> GOETHE in my</p><p> SOUP! &</p><p>i don’t know</p><p>what to do about it!</p><p><br /></p><p>the healing power of</p><p>sulking the dripping</p><p> perfume of</p><p>pig’s feet &</p><p> for the cost of</p><p> a corner</p><p> you could</p><p>get a dime</p><p><br /></p><p> for the sake of a</p><p> priest you could</p><p>get a</p><p> disease</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in Prolit, E-ratio, Nauseated Drive, Fixator Press, The Vital Sparks, and Breakwater Review among others. Check out Joshua's blog at <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com/" id="LPlnk625894" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com/</a></span></b></p><p><br /></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3085594836603121531.post-19884136322722060642021-08-23T17:42:00.000-07:002021-08-23T17:42:17.633-07:00Harris Coverley with a Velvet Straightjacket, a Turning of the Page, the Flesh of a Peach...<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Say Anything</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot make love to you right now</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">the moon glows too bright on my back</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">the sallow beams tickle my eyelids</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">it cools and burns in all the wrong spots</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot focus with all that going on</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot make love to you right now</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">the sea so near to us</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">is simply too loud</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">whistling and bending its turquoise waters</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">back and back and forth and rolling, rolling</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">it’s giving me a headache</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">or the likeness of one</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">at the base of my skull</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and eye sockets</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot make love to you right now</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">my joints are sore with the day’s walking</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">my jaw is sore from the talking</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">you had me do with those people at our adjoining table</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">sore also from the ribeye steak you had us share</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">(tough, so tough)</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot make love to you right now</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">the sheets are too rough in some places</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and too softly kept in others</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">it makes me itchy and drowsy</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and distracted and too calm</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot make love to you right now</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">your dress is fitted too tightly</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot work it loose</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">it’s like a straightjacket made of velvet</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and money</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">(too much money)</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot make love to you right now</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">for when I look into your eyes</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">they are mirrors of a memory</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">in which are reflected back some other lover</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">like a stain</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">something soaked into a carpet or wallpaper</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">like a fear of something</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">an unspoken oath</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I cannot make love to you right now</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">the air of salt</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and seaweed is making my nostrils sting</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and my stomach rumble</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and my heart feel heavy</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and lost</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">a pebble in the sands</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">of your skin.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Equinox</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I am not the mere sum of my parts</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I yearn for more than this fragile body</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Sat by destiny’s river</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The waters of life flowing</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The stones crouched like old men</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The grass sweet with innocence</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">A smile is on the sun’s rays</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Love on that brown horizon</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I turn the book’s page and...</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Drowned in Love</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I am not raw</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">or burnt with love</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I am softened</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">humbled</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">meekened</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">like I have been broiled</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">in love’s little oven</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I have passion for a phantasm</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">a nothing</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">a ghostling</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">the feeling of a woman</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and yet she remains</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">a faded picture on desire’s wall</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">she is like the gold of a temple</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">laid out on a bed</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">like the flesh of a peach</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">between my lips and teeth</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">like the taste of sweat</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">umami on a wandering tongue</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">smooth like marble</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">on a freshly shaved cheek</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">buoyant like joy</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">in a man-child heart</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I am drowned in love</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">the nicest death of them all.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 15px;">Harris Coverley was nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award and is a member of the Weird Poets Society. He has had verse most recently accepted for Polu Texni, Spectral Realms, Flying Fox Flash, Scifaikuest, View From Atlantis, Ordinary Madness, 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, and Better Than Starbucks, amongst many others. He lives in Manchester, England</b></p>RASPUTIN: A Poetry Threadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151570427784955748noreply@blogger.com0