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a yellow wash overwhelms
Reclamation
Accidents
Seagull
Computer Dreams
Pete and Me
Traduction
Exasperations
Crack
The Budding Cubist
Motion
Untitled
A Doctrine of Recollection
The Lincoln Tunnel
Soft Spot for Strays
Zeugma
Here's Johnny
Fidelity Mates with a Deaf
                Spouse
Capable of Being
Television Reality
Suicide
Reminiscing as Anti-Depressant
After Dinner at McDonald's
Untitled
The Speaker's Last Thoughts
Cityscape – Scranton, PA

Front Cover:
    Untitled
Inside Front Cover:
    Venerable Space - C.S.
                Lewis's Desk

Inside Back Cover:
    Hugs and Kisses
Back Cover:
    Breakfast

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a yellow wash overwhelms

 

Nathaniel Underland

 

a yellow wash overwhelms
this dog in an elizabethan collar
waiting to be set and

i can hear the static stitch
from his sudden canvas
though the citrus wave misses
me sparing dimension reduction i

you     wait     he might say wait
for me not because you
ought to but because you
might learn something about yourself

hes     saying     hes pushed to the limit
in which his self makes sense
and leaving behind a lot of colors
and enjambing important parts

but im still just     watching     him
and anything could spring next except
this clacking aural fuzz distracts
me from joining him

as he focuses effortlessly

he wags his tail though
hes set against yellow and deprived
of touching himself     he wants
to tell you not to wait
in such a flat space

 

   

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