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The Scandal at Pebble Elementary
Pacific reaches for the valley. / In side glances see-throughs / in fuchsia dawns and hell fire dusks / with a latent thrust of impudence: / outer space beckons to the sea trench.
Map of Matter
Pacific reaches for the valley. / In side glances see-throughs / in fuchsia dawns and hell fire dusks / with a latent thrust of impudence: / outer space beckons to the sea trench.
A Basalt Princess
Pacific reaches for the valley. / In side glances see-throughs / in fuchsia dawns and hell fire dusks / with a latent thrust of impudence: / outer space beckons to the sea trench.
Where Nobody Is
Last weekend, a friend asked to go for a walk— / somewhere without people, she said / She doesn’t want to see people: / hiking trails are packed, / so I suggest our town’s cemetery.
The Gasconade
We make Southern Missouri by dusk, / arrive at your river, park, & walk / along your shy, thin corpse. / I come to you by firefly tonight / to do what children do with mothers
Editor’s Note
By continuing to create and share with each other, we have combined our light to forge a beacon that leads us back to one another, as well as back to the tools that we may have at one point thought we didn’t have the strength to use
decant desperation
there are no words for / a mother in mourning / her cries are / swans’ calls / seeking swift shelter / no bonfire can warm her / she floats,
The Boys of Kenneth Street
We played mumbletypeg with jackknives. / We stole Playboys from the first 7/11. We played corkball and kickball / and football in the street. Cars / interrupting a game were given a / raspberry. We weren’t really hoodlums—
EXCEPT YOU
What gets archived / a song in November / a psalm in the fields / chants around a fire?
shyness can stop you
this little silver instamatic camera shoots panoramas. / fits in your pocket, if there's no chewing gum or keys in there. it’s no / picturesque paul simon kodachrome.
Unarbitrary Definition for The New Concise Modern Dictionary of Synchromysticism
because · /bɪˈkɒz/ · conjunction. 1. Because the limited, dual nature of the human mind necessitates the illusion of cause and effect.