Michele Sharpe
CRACKER
As in born in Florida, left Florida, came home
and left again. Came home to die. As in here I’ll lie.
As in daddy’s...
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Jane Hirshfield
The rain is string / for wrapping a package no one knows / the inside of, they just keep trying to mail it.
Damien Ober
“If you had to have sex with one dead president, who would it be?” / Claire puts a hand directly on top of her head. “Well, Reagan is most recently dead, so he’d be least decomposed.”
Paul Otremba
They used to say the soul / gets in like that, // and so we had meat to knock against, / a tin plate for ringing out the bars. // The without-which-nothing-so- / you-hunger came next, // or like my fists held out—Pick one.