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London Air as All Air

Ken Walker

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/London-Air-as-All-Air-read-by-Ken-Walker.m4a The only time Parliament left town, they blamed the boreholes. In Joseph’s canoe, arms were found floating next to clovers growing out of the pestilent mudbanks. Bazalgette begged others to consider the miasmic as if it could become an occult. But before the king, there was the crown’s cause beneath all those irretrievable, counting […]

Two Poems

Eric Pankey

Backward to Zero On the unclutter levelness of a tabletop, A still life performs stillness. One falls Into language. One fails at language. One feels one’s way by way of words. Thought’s structure branches, and like roots Confronted by obstacles, contorts. The tension, contained, is called nightfall. To keep from levitating, one lies down In […]

Two Poems

Stephen Danos

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Danos.Fence_.Empathy.Spectators.m4a EMPATHY Cattle herd, rattled, rumbled the pale gravel roads Rushed through orchards, trampled shriveled apples A spectacular view          Where I was looking I saw a cow’s brown eyes—an exchange of glances flooded with panic & choice Then, she strutted right up to me I swallowed hard a short lifetime When […]

Primordia Study

Kaitlyn Airy

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Primordia-Study-by-Kaitlyn-Airy.m4a         with end words by Jean Valentine Concerning vibrations & pitch a stone is never silent. Consider the walls they spackled around me, singing as all stones do. It is not easy being your anchoress but someone must listen. The body is a window upon which the world presses little showings. […]

RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION

Tommy O'Rourke

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Tommy-ORourke-Received-Pronunciation.m4a I am sorry I knocked over your Waterford ice bucket. I get so nervous when you make me sing. What with the wasp nest swelling on the ceiling. What with the hatchet whispering on the wall. I know these things because I’m hungry: dawn comes in like a bow pulled across the strings of […]

Bird Song

Walt John Pearce

It’s so nice how you are and how nice it is to be around you and I think you’re amazing. You make this one face that I love so much. Is it this one no not that one. Less scrunched up. Is it this one no it is not that one either. Is it this […]

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