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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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Nathaniel Underland
The crumbliness which fuels
our cells feeds the electricity
surging across a synapse
or quietly pecking in our chest,
the same arid loaf which between us
creates companionship, leavening.
So when she said like a fish
in troubled waters, it fell on us equally,
the onus swimming unpredictably
like rain in the shadow of a conifer.
We dined, but her words
sustained me, a seed almost physically
lending shape to the brain, at least
it seemed to change as I rose
from the moist umbra, pining for
the pregnancy of mind which sustains
contradiction. I now hold
one thought alone, and you, her
faith with sparks leaping upward,
fertile fire cracking your resin.
I am lashed vapor thrown outward
and filling everything, yet still hesitating
to equate explosion and expulsion;
they only modify the same beginning.
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