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II. Mephistopheles’ Complaint (78)

Peter J. Grieco

Dreaming has been compared with the random
cacophony resulting from “the ten
fingers of a man who knows nothing about
music, as they wander over the keys

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The Avenue

Alfredo Barnaby

At dusk the skirt would unfold from an inkblot.

I would follow each hem,
vase of barren soil tilting forth,
palms welled for a spare garden,

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Still

Craig Evenson

Without the thrashing snake
it is till:
a cross, i,
a pair of trainless rails
a vacant trail

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Umwelt

Sophie Strand

def. the world as experienced by a particular organism.

All I want is a red dress. I can circumscribe the island
in a day’s walk. My forays into other worlds always involve me

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Chinese Dream 24

Timothy Yu

Dr. Timothy lectured till
his tenure came and then
he stole a voice & lectured to the world.
They publish again & again, like war,

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Chinese Dream 22

Timothy Yu

I am not the man who spoke & spoke.
I am not the girl better, braver but.
I am not thinged for your school.
I am not wise. I keep my selving shut.

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Meanwhile

Sandra Kolankiewicz

Instead, we bought things even though we knew
purchasing would improve nothing, would make
the days worse as the bills came in, too fraught

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Hinge

Ruth Madievsky

The flight was cancelled. The Ativan failed.
My grandmother got cancer.
I wore a white coat, a pharmacy badge. My patient
went into cardiac arrest

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Space Rocks

Ruth Madievsky

I mouth you into a corner.
I mouth you as if there’s a gun to my head,
a man in a ski mask
shouting, Mouth him or it’s all over—

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In Good Faith

Kirsten Hemmy

How to be honest about this?—
The mind with its revisionist self,

all intention & ego. You want to say
something about your heart, the soul,

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Vanity

Florbela Espanca
Translated by Carlo Matos

I dream of being one of the elect, a poetess
that says and knows all,
whose inspiration is pure and perfect,
whose words gather immensities about them.

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Vaidade

Florbela EspancaENGLISH | SPANISH Sonho que sou a Poetisa eleita, Aquela que diz tudo e tudo sabe, Que tem a inspiração pura e perfeita, Que reúne num verso a imensidade! Sonho que um verso meu tem claridade Para encher todo o mundo! E que deleita Mesmo aqueles que...

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Come

By Bhaskar Chakraborty
Translated by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Outside, fitful moonlight

Our dream-train has halted at our courtyard –

Come, pull out from beneath the bed

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[ M O R P H I A ]

By Gabrielle Lessans

1.

Dawn said how can we talk about gender without talking about race? You think how can we talk about earth where our air is easy.

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Sobriety Tomorrow

By Eli Sahm

I can’t wait to smile hummus

organic, ooze carrot-like composure

and be OK with time. I’ll sketch

pictures of my future kids, intuit

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Wrack

By Jonathan Louis Duckworth

she prepares her face

to be perfect for death

rouge, a dash of mercury on her
cheek

a golden ring for each finger

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The Light Thieves

By Jonathan Louis Duckworth

Languedoc, France

One day the mayor of St-Siffret

orders every third lamppost snuffed:

bulbs removed, radiance plucked.

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Night Places

By Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated by Mary Jane White

The darkest of nights’
Places: a bridge. –Lips to lips!
Really should we be lugging
Our shared cross to these nasty places,

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A Girlfriend

By Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated by Mary Jane White

“I’m not leaving!—This isn’t the end!” And she clings and clings . . .

But in her breast—the swell

Of looming waters,

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[misread graffiti]

By Laura Post

I have bursts of being a body, but they never last long.

I buried a lightbulb,
thought it might hatch fire,
set those lazy fields ablaze.

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Broken Chord

By Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & Steve Davenport

You are the woman

from the television show who would rather

be sedated than cry—my one friend

always this species of correct

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Pangea

By Sharon Coleman

Before radiation conjoined continents. In those windy days by the Pacific, when we went to empty our hands of grades, bills, unpaid work.

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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