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Vial

She came bearing
A dark-green oil.

The Great Loneliness

By March the hay bales were ripped open
exposed in the open fields
like bloated gray mice
who died in December.

Pastorelle 2

reminder that the object is a song
for which the troubadours commanded themselves to a life between
risk of holding back
risk of not holding back and the death of desire

from Writing is Never By Itself Alone: Six Mini-Essays On Relational Investigative Poetics

Kristen Prevallet

Currently in the U.S.A., the practice of intellectual analysis seems like an act of defiance. Fundamentalist logic pervades and is being used to justify many domestic and foreign policy decisions—from the notion that poverty can be controlled through faith-based initiatives, to establishing the parameters of an “axis of evil” that threatens “freedom.”

Did You Know?

Jeff Johnson

Did You Know?

1957 — U.S. public school/elementary student pie consumption — at least 14 pieces annually (school year)

1982 — student pie consumption — 4 pieces

1999 — s.p.c. — 1.77777703 pieces

Did You Know?

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Michael Farrell

a pleasure & a torture courtesan in me a snake with enviable bells of culture dried thing in that reputation beg ging noticed avoided wearing comfortable guarantee & forced to currency of drink to the winds would you come gold & layered pro gramming which a essence a sailors fleet our liabili ty the sun […]