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Because I Love the
                   Woodchopper's Ball:
                   A Blues Sonnet
Scream it and Scram:
                   A Blues Sonnet
Wrinkles
Comfort
Seas and These
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Word in Words
Adam
A Lilliputian Script
31/2 Parrots
Jihad
Sparkles
Occlusion
Mother's Cradle
Me against the Music
Arash
Sex Appeal
The Poet's Brother and the
                   Language of Asperger's
Trinity
Together
Einstein's Afterlife Postcard
                   m=E/c2
 Our Skin
Poetry

Front Cover:
Central Park

Inside Front Cover:
Suicide

Inside Back Cover:
Peace

Back Cover:
Samsara

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Occlusion

 

Brianna L. Noll

 

O is a beautiful letter,
sheer and crisp as organdy
around a woman's waist;
modest, delicate as translucent egg yolk.
It shapes the mouth like chicory-bittered coffee
into Os of surprise, rapturous Os
that linger in the air long after
the lips have closed.

I long to ring like the O,
to wrap myself completely around something,
as my lips embrace words like
oolong and oogenesis, and there's
that sound again, the one
reverberating like a note
pedal-sustained on a piano.
I curl my toes as it washes over me.

  

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