Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Joshua Martin - 2 pieces

 Altered habits and routines


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     obeyed     ,     bindING PoLity scale KING autonomy MeaT aforementioned precious Rise OF     .


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MiSSed Connections SuPplanT


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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Joel Chace - A Lesson

 She speaks the sentence.  Then, a

                                                                                          






student at the board writes, 

In English, there are three 







to’s.  Next one, …there are

                            three too’s. 












                                                                                                             Finally,…three two’s.   

                                                                                                  Prof:  “So, 

you see it?”  Usual 







     silence.  

“No one?”  







Usual blankness.

                                                            Prof

                          again:  “And how about










these:

                 ‘ I watched my mother 

   exhale for the final time.’  ‘My 







little boy looked up with his 

                                                                            sad face, and smiled.’  

‘We saw fog spread







across river flats.’”

                                                                                                                Usual

              inscribing in notebooks.


Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Morley Cacoethes - 3 poems

Pebbles Upon the Narrow Road II

She beckoned, and I could not settle down

to be possessed by the cobweb spirits

of they that all but deprive and sweep

away. The Barrier of wander.

There was mist upon the road,

and spirits close. When spring arrived

and the year was spent, I could not settle.


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Pebbles Upon the Narrow Road V

 

In a row, not doubt, to watch

until we were lost to sight. The first

of my friends standing ahead,

for when I looked we barely kept going

ahead, for when I looked back I saw

my journey, but I could look back.

I saw my friends standing this verse,

the first of my journey, but I could

barely keep going, barely keep ahead.


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Pebbles Upon the Narrow Road VI

 

In this year, the second of the era,

my thoughts take a walking to the future.

A thought somehow crossed my journey

to see places I had long heard about

but never visited. It did not matter if I

might take a walking trip all way

to a post-town which we were barely able

to come home alive to. Leaving this uncertainty

if I should be fortunate that I might take

a trip all way to decide, I pursued my journey

to me instead. I might somehow cross

my travels, for I want to seem to leave

all the way to reach the future. It does not matter

if I should be unlucky, for I want distant provinces.