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Summer Breeze

K. Silem Mohannad

I have in the past diluted my true views because
they are my feeling and thoughts—
years that’s all it was—

Dirty Blues

Abraham Smith

spike face crow
come out of no
and right hand
sky go down

Bonjour

Greg Grummer

Hello.
Solicitations and grief
from the pharaohs who stole our horses.

The Annunciation

Lisa Beskin

Everyone likes poems about FRANZ KAFKA! He steps in and imparts just the right lightness and weight. In this way KAFKA is like dressing for weather with no temperature.

Glassworks

Caroline Knox

They were boiling pans of gunge to eventually make soap, and supposedly there were “towering shard-rucks of spoiled pots,”
in the early Wedgewood manufactories. Keir the Scotsman was responsible for a lot of this:
he isolated slowly cooled glass crystals

Kafka Cooks Dinner

Lydia Davis

I am so filled with despair as the time grows near when she will come and I have not even begun to make a decision about what I will offer her. I am so afraid I will fall back on the Kartoffel Surprise, and it’s no surprise to her anymore. I mustn’t, I mustn’t.

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