• Black Flight

    Douglas Kearney

    Fall 2019

    Came I was way out as it flies
    but an easy green and skies
    isn’t it? My cul-de-end is a nice, though
    it’s like the knot I keep my knickers in
    to hey there stay here. Damn right
    I’d rather not not squat some pissy asphalt
    plot not. Rather put-em-up where I got
    to picket in self-defense?

    Foundation for Contemporary Arts CY Twombly awardee Douglas Kearney writes interdisciplinarily and has published six books. He teaches at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

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    Blank Page Gets to Work

    Glyn Maxwell

    May I say that when you’re gone
    I get to work.
            I got to work
    just then.

    The Sloth

    Ben Loory

    A bunch of sloths were hanging out, eating leaves in the forest, when one of them suddenly spoke up.

    Hey guys, he said. I think I'm gonna get a job.

    Gonna get a what? another said.

    A job, said the sloth. You know, something to do. Don't you guys ever get tired of eating leaves?

    History

    Michael Bazzett

                                                        And yes,
    this too was history. Is history. Our ability
    to take a moment here to quibble over verb tenses
    is a consequence swollen fat as a paperback
    some thoughtless person left out in the rain

    of history. The melodramatic line breaks
    in this poem are history.

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