tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59243326934758677812024-03-05T04:31:41.155-08:00The Pi ReviewThe Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-32682266671235663002023-03-23T12:59:00.000-07:002023-03-23T12:59:45.237-07:00d.find(“A person…”), by Kyle Flemmer<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">27 search result:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who operates a machine.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who runs a data processing center.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who maintains a development support library.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person skilled in the operation of the computer</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> and associated peripheral devices.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who writes programs designed by other,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> more experienced, programmers.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who maintains custody and control of disks, tapes,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> and procedures manuals by cataloging and monitoring</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> the use of these resources.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person that purchases a hardware or software system.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person that manufactures, sells, or services computer equipment.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who designs data communications networks.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who oversees the work performed</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> in a word processing center.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who operates an electronic bulletin board.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person whose regular job is directly related to the computer.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who uses a keyboard device to transcribe data.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person responsible for operating the company's main computer</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> and for keeping an eye on the numerous employees using it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who uses a computer system or its output.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person responsible for the physical security of computers</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> and the logical security of their data resources.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person involved in the design of a hardware product.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person in charge of a large collection of software.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person that has achieved a certain professional status,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> usually by passing a rigorous examination.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person trained in the information processing field, who works</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> with businesses and organizations on a temporary basis</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> helping them to solve problems.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who lays out a circuit in its original "large" form.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person responsible for the enforcement of a project's goals.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who does clerical jobs in a computer installation.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person skilled in solving problems, especially</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> with techniques involving a computer.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who wants to do something with a computer</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> but does not have experience programming.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person not trying to learn in a meaningful manner,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> but rather by trial and error.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A person who uses computers as tools in producing art.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiJkwUSZeUWR3SvPvBfDiD8AEv_4Nx0CJiBzQZBzFYVXo8NJ6TB-dVZSpGrrpbFGvomhWYRaAOvgYI9Vx7h0NGV6WbNRr_MgnAaUa_p18Hj1154MDa3mNkIHlRGYjBB-FmPy0-mMvWFfcZY-w0lwIEvYPYl9mrXNmwZLaMCVF2pc_Kt4aD5xaiM1D/s3088/Kyle%20Flemmer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2320" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiJkwUSZeUWR3SvPvBfDiD8AEv_4Nx0CJiBzQZBzFYVXo8NJ6TB-dVZSpGrrpbFGvomhWYRaAOvgYI9Vx7h0NGV6WbNRr_MgnAaUa_p18Hj1154MDa3mNkIHlRGYjBB-FmPy0-mMvWFfcZY-w0lwIEvYPYl9mrXNmwZLaMCVF2pc_Kt4aD5xaiM1D/w290-h387/Kyle%20Flemmer.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><div><b style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.theblastedtree.com/kyle-flemmer" target="_blank">Kyle Flemmer</a> </b><span style="font-size: large;">is an author, editor, and publisher from Calgary in Treaty 7 territory. He recently completed an MA in English Literature at the University of Calgary, where he researched digital poetics. Kyle founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Company in 2014 and served as Managing Editor of <i>filling Station magazine</i> from 2018-2020. He has published several poetry chapbooks, most recently<i> Little Songs </i>by No Press and<i> Gourmand </i>by Paper View Books. Kyle's first book, <i>Barcode Poetry</i>, was published by The Blasted Tree in 2021.</span></div><div><br /></div>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-39588500141264335752022-09-01T08:53:00.009-07:002022-09-01T08:58:07.064-07:00Three poems, by Rus Khomutoff<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAImfPce6d1k0gM8ynWjGyua9pP2jSK7rkebonJXyFbA-MgMLXAJxAOUkxMWS-5XEHcWRBwaV-qe3EZIbvkri-j-jVQpSCXEa3BeUkTKrOqRUEqrTAOdFBktknanzaNavy4Tw-PhWxz1T6wHfAfO8B0Vydl5Nz4vHiTl1tl33fijGvUsw6t_ENoaq/s2304/HEAR%20SPIRITS%20REJOICE%20NEW%20BREED%20PASSAGE%20SHARP%20TONGUE%20DEEPMIND%20SLOW%20BURN%20INTO%20THE%20ORBIT%20SALVATION%20TRAIN%20INNERSPHERE%20MY%20GREEN%20UNQUEEN%20KEROSENE%20WAKE%20RESET%20SLENT%20PLACES%20HAVE%20MANY%20THINGS%20TO%20SAYTHIS%20FACE%20IS%20A%20TRAVELIN%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="1728" height="688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAImfPce6d1k0gM8ynWjGyua9pP2jSK7rkebonJXyFbA-MgMLXAJxAOUkxMWS-5XEHcWRBwaV-qe3EZIbvkri-j-jVQpSCXEa3BeUkTKrOqRUEqrTAOdFBktknanzaNavy4Tw-PhWxz1T6wHfAfO8B0Vydl5Nz4vHiTl1tl33fijGvUsw6t_ENoaq/w516-h688/HEAR%20SPIRITS%20REJOICE%20NEW%20BREED%20PASSAGE%20SHARP%20TONGUE%20DEEPMIND%20SLOW%20BURN%20INTO%20THE%20ORBIT%20SALVATION%20TRAIN%20INNERSPHERE%20MY%20GREEN%20UNQUEEN%20KEROSENE%20WAKE%20RESET%20SLENT%20PLACES%20HAVE%20MANY%20THINGS%20TO%20SAYTHIS%20FACE%20IS%20A%20TRAVELIN%20(1).jpg" width="516" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAR15XFFweJ0I6pxJFy6Xuflp9dym4PFZahYTSHYenAhpGEtxqaJAwU8HA0L3ir7G9-u8v7Rsx4R_VFDm7gvEUpUqH0-AFlOeeDGs4qmBGcJfcKjMGefy8zQLt2dBcQiqErCT5eTyJSfS5aZRjpDs1HDhSBBTVVRkWgdQlzgtGCX3gD6fElheYJTuw/s2304/MIME%20THE%20ARCHAIC%20HOURS%20UNCONTAMINATED%20BY%20REASON%20TRY%20NOT%20TO%20UNDERSTAND%20IMPOSSIBLE%20POISONEROTIC%20BIRDSIMPLE%20MIND%20RELIC%20PHANTOM%20CARD%20EPONYMOUS%20NIGHT%20SPAWN%20DISCRETIONSMINISTER%20THE%20BLITHE%20EDGE%20LISTEN%20TO%20THE%20HAWKWIND%20%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="1728" height="694" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAR15XFFweJ0I6pxJFy6Xuflp9dym4PFZahYTSHYenAhpGEtxqaJAwU8HA0L3ir7G9-u8v7Rsx4R_VFDm7gvEUpUqH0-AFlOeeDGs4qmBGcJfcKjMGefy8zQLt2dBcQiqErCT5eTyJSfS5aZRjpDs1HDhSBBTVVRkWgdQlzgtGCX3gD6fElheYJTuw/w521-h694/MIME%20THE%20ARCHAIC%20HOURS%20UNCONTAMINATED%20BY%20REASON%20TRY%20NOT%20TO%20UNDERSTAND%20IMPOSSIBLE%20POISONEROTIC%20BIRDSIMPLE%20MIND%20RELIC%20PHANTOM%20CARD%20EPONYMOUS%20NIGHT%20SPAWN%20DISCRETIONSMINISTER%20THE%20BLITHE%20EDGE%20LISTEN%20TO%20THE%20HAWKWIND%20%20(1).jpg" width="521" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmbAMl1Oa8RbfhM07B15FOGw-NrIO9pGXykLathe93aJ6WHNXvdb-Z1vaPjEXEfFUtdK85HEUZw5qW_XHOlcm4V_vg-GqBTgzpD8aXc9-x9JoihmAsaDW7LNN-eUIwynVTOAtjKuQ9jEUKQetD1-dAbAvSXqu_un9HT-bb0nCJGB4e1Z2u89KQNVSz/s2304/Untitled%20design.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="1728" height="698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmbAMl1Oa8RbfhM07B15FOGw-NrIO9pGXykLathe93aJ6WHNXvdb-Z1vaPjEXEfFUtdK85HEUZw5qW_XHOlcm4V_vg-GqBTgzpD8aXc9-x9JoihmAsaDW7LNN-eUIwynVTOAtjKuQ9jEUKQetD1-dAbAvSXqu_un9HT-bb0nCJGB4e1Z2u89KQNVSz/w524-h698/Untitled%20design.jpg" width="524" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-lCUTUXz4zskVVXFkx29DxUJBfkAZhAx6N406bpy0Z1zP-TMpupqbyuxrR7wSRRBD-hjrqufiR-IDIP2TvZdNKxWnSF28gUf7jPTuOVisU2SDD1u4TSGTF_HbOyiTdbuUl_VFnP0CV1D8KxE8A8UF7c1un5tmFdBiJln8mQe3XM--RY5VVNs1g4C/s400/unnamed%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-lCUTUXz4zskVVXFkx29DxUJBfkAZhAx6N406bpy0Z1zP-TMpupqbyuxrR7wSRRBD-hjrqufiR-IDIP2TvZdNKxWnSF28gUf7jPTuOVisU2SDD1u4TSGTF_HbOyiTdbuUl_VFnP0CV1D8KxE8A8UF7c1un5tmFdBiJln8mQe3XM--RY5VVNs1g4C/s320/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Rus Khomutoff : </b>I am an experimental poet in Brooklyn, NY. I have published 3 collections of poetry since 2015. My writing has appeared in <i>Blue as an orange</i>, <i>Bold Monkey review</i>, <i>X-PERI</i> & <i>Litter</i>.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My personal blog is <a href="http://radiaworld.tumblr.com">radiaworld.tumblr.com</a></span></p><p><br /></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-38541485997531708972022-06-26T16:23:00.003-07:002022-06-26T16:23:41.921-07:00Chyron quotidienne (Package Store Parking Lot), by James Sanders<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQu0V9TXi_ZbHiv1foOwfSERBJL1gDbb7QjOnl_m5SH4Q7nfRYkfrefP58Km9M5KnOrFIBEaeKzSFv3KCEgW3gZ8bThj__tlHm1d_sBWRk12Ij1YxuaQxjMnK6xP0EYK0qjtZa6QGzEj5R4N3GFi7vftdVJDfIjJoiT0rKn9UvtNMzmoZGscQSrQlA/s5700/chyron%20package%20store%20parking%20lot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2554" data-original-width="5700" height="623" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQu0V9TXi_ZbHiv1foOwfSERBJL1gDbb7QjOnl_m5SH4Q7nfRYkfrefP58Km9M5KnOrFIBEaeKzSFv3KCEgW3gZ8bThj__tlHm1d_sBWRk12Ij1YxuaQxjMnK6xP0EYK0qjtZa6QGzEj5R4N3GFi7vftdVJDfIjJoiT0rKn9UvtNMzmoZGscQSrQlA/w1397-h623/chyron%20package%20store%20parking%20lot.jpg" width="1397" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgkI8z4S7a5cz2tJZyFT4qTwQRvebP5hDmcKLHZGYFzXCiLdwlrI4oeKycr9NqStWr8CPog_LpOaFDE1YKKD3q2wmR0jKrXFQKrn-ytFtHtGBF2xr2SRAN2GfYu3oUB72w1X78rOBSWBpwlflGnvE4fIDwOYl9RhHEIV1DLMeLR4_muKUi6KpZymp/s1751/sanders%20photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="1751" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgkI8z4S7a5cz2tJZyFT4qTwQRvebP5hDmcKLHZGYFzXCiLdwlrI4oeKycr9NqStWr8CPog_LpOaFDE1YKKD3q2wmR0jKrXFQKrn-ytFtHtGBF2xr2SRAN2GfYu3oUB72w1X78rOBSWBpwlflGnvE4fIDwOYl9RhHEIV1DLMeLR4_muKUi6KpZymp/s320/sanders%20photo.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b>James
Sanders</b> is a member of the Atlanta Poets Group, a writing and performing
collective. He was included in the <i>2016 BAX: Best American Experimental
Writing</i>/ anthology. His most recent book, <i>Self-Portrait in Plants</i>, was
published in 2015. The University of New Orleans Press also recently published
the group’s <i>An Atlanta Poets Group Anthology: The Lattice Inside</i>.<br /><br /><p></p><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-50413335831316619122022-06-24T16:37:00.001-07:002022-06-26T16:16:14.880-07:00labyrinth (a triolet), by Greg Hill<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3EnB0ycH24gWgoTB95pfPpSq711wL5JPo79hGRXS697Glvdm9u2AAvyYfmk7lb1kiZzNcTOlkZRR6i1bzRfjKXFaGiqlNQJf-fnU2X_JeWHMS7KF0ixezWu7P8pWtdca6g6hrISc3ETaI9nHGBL5XPGQAVl9SkB2fM77uT2OUAbYnNna_2If1FoY/s664/labyrinth%20(a%20triolet).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="462" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3EnB0ycH24gWgoTB95pfPpSq711wL5JPo79hGRXS697Glvdm9u2AAvyYfmk7lb1kiZzNcTOlkZRR6i1bzRfjKXFaGiqlNQJf-fnU2X_JeWHMS7KF0ixezWu7P8pWtdca6g6hrISc3ETaI9nHGBL5XPGQAVl9SkB2fM77uT2OUAbYnNna_2If1FoY/w413-h592/labyrinth%20(a%20triolet).jpg" width="413" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><blockquote>labyrinth
(a triolet) is in the triolet form, with the additional constraint that each
line is exactly the same number of characters, including the acknowledgement
line "[after Luke Bradford]" and the dedication line at the bottom
"[for Anthony Etherin]". Printed in a monotype, or fixed width, font
like Courier New, each line is visually of equal length as well.</blockquote><p><br /> </p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpuyr4um5LeHR5He-_ko6mZ1fsqGYaWZjw3QkwbbzOMpUjxgYGoApNvXHFjFtOhOkn8DJe0XohUIcbJJ1o2IxP4ys6ey9T2K0K5fDlIKOV_LcAgVlvpVxzCTyUBOd2WyFAuWY1tvy83lRtZCdrGnPKTscWKixISN7Q3G-pkp4UGLoWavB2oDtlnmOb/s320/Greg-2019-photo.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="320" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpuyr4um5LeHR5He-_ko6mZ1fsqGYaWZjw3QkwbbzOMpUjxgYGoApNvXHFjFtOhOkn8DJe0XohUIcbJJ1o2IxP4ys6ey9T2K0K5fDlIKOV_LcAgVlvpVxzCTyUBOd2WyFAuWY1tvy83lRtZCdrGnPKTscWKixISN7Q3G-pkp4UGLoWavB2oDtlnmOb/s1600/Greg-2019-photo.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Greg
Hill</b> is an experimental poet and adjunct professor of English in West Hartford,
Connecticut. He has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and his work has
appeared in <i>Pioneertown</i>, <i>Past Ten</i>, <i>Poetry Breakfast</i>, and appears in the
Penteract Press anthology<i> The Book of Penteract</i> (2022). In the free time
afforded to a father of three young children, he composes music for piano using
cryptographic constraints. Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/PrimeArepo" target="_blank">@PrimeArepo</a>. Website: <a href="https://www.gregjhill.com">https://www.gregjhill.com</a>.<br /><br /></span><p></p><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-76835762014335910962022-06-08T13:34:00.003-07:002022-06-08T13:34:47.727-07:00Two from "War Diary," by Susan M. Schultz<p> </p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>What the Hoarders Left Behind</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">29 April 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Old joy stick, wreathed in webs. Two pink
elephants, laughing in theirs. Premium oil, Value Power car battery. Old rubber
ball, once red, now flecked, beside the yellow tool. Old string of white
Christmas lights on the chain link fence. On the porch, a crumpled up American
flag to go with a sticker on the moldy truck window. Stacks of flat cardboard,
boxes of old spray cans, cleaners, squirt bottles. No one’s been here for
weeks. This is not quite narrative, not quite not narrative. Diary of objects,
the dirty carport its frame. Hard to decide which to take, which to
leave. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She puts a photograph of herself and her mother in
her war diary. They are ordinary, but so is the war. I can’t write a proper
one, as I don’t look at TikTok, or read the articles about rape as a military
strategy. After you listen to a trauma story, you double up, breathe in, fold
back into seated position. Later, you drive down Haunani, where an old woman
trudges, looking lost, carrying her Target bag. You don’t stop to ask if she
needs a ride. Your ticket got punched this morning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She was her father’s “experiment,” left in a room
alone to see how she reacted. My friend says there was no kindness in her house
growing up. She found kindness in her 50s. Avoidance of story was my self-care.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So many of the abandoned objects have to do with
cleaning, lubing, fixing, making stuff work. Yellow oil bottles sit like
trophies on the carport frame. The only vehicle is pinned in place by junk, by
mold, by disuse. I love the old trucks whose beds have ginger growing in them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mass graves left by the hoarders of war. Loss is
accumulation. We have more than you, so we lose. You have more than we do, so
you lose. The man down the street screamed obscenities when he played video
games. His dead joy stick half smashed in the carport. Easier to name the joy
stick than the flowers across the road, purple prods melting in the rain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Heidegger as a Cure for Anxiety</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2 May 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Anxiety could be experienced as a kind of calm by
holding yourself out, into that experience”: moments when you’re past worry,
adrenaline-surfing, full of everything you can’t name except it moves quickly,
curling like a leaf around itself on asphalt, mottled brown and darker brown,
and I wondered why friends thought about colors in poetry, as it was the
thoughts that seemed most to count, and count they did, by 25s or 100s, in math
that was not yet critical race theory, or anything except raw numbers. The four
on a telephone pole sits upside down, making the shape of an “I” with a handle,
as if we could hold our first person up to our lips and drink. If we take
“calm” to mean stillness, not a steady being in yourself, then calm it is.
Renovate your words and they will mean what you need them to mean.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dissolving vignettes, each a single take, holding
itself out until stopping in mid-air, which is mid-time, which is the space of
an absent narrative, or at least of one that cannot find its ending. What we think
is true—a woman captured by a psychopath in a metal container—ends. When next
we see her, she’s ironing. The psychopath wants her to show her “true face,”
not the one she assumes. The torturer always looks for truth, because the means
justify whatever ends. Body, story, the tweets of Russian torture victims you
can’t see because they’re “disturbing." Scroll past to see the latest
trades, the low batting averages, the poetry gossip. That tweet is a trap-door,
but you leap over it the way your dog does a puddle when a car comes. The water
breaks into shadow pieces; her tongue sticks out, offering a hint of color in
the drab overcast light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Those still trapped in Mariupol’s steel factory
have moved past anxiety, because where they exist is true. Anxiety assumes, but
when it’s proven, it dissolves into an after-calm, horrifying and yet certain.
This is not how you imagine relieving your anxiety; mostly, you think of
yourself lying comfortably on a beach, once again able to breathe in, out. But
the steel mill is the labyrinth that promises to hide you long enough to become
accustomed. To hunger, to terror, to fingers that push on walls, but cannot
feel them. Hongly described his body as it starved, his arms eating themselves.
New Yorkers, we read, are now terrified.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We haven’t lost our sense of proportion, though
that is our ambition. It’s our stage, where the player in a slump gets sent to
Mariupol and the soldier in the tank gets to attend his own bobble head day at
the park. Four men in a tank dream of meadows full of flowers. The tank dreams
of its origins apart from war. And the war dreams it’s trapped inside a music
room without a key. I’ll turn the house inside out to look for it. In the
meantime, lock it all out as she did the mean lover who shot faces on the
subway. Piles of books lie on the curb, each bearing the title, ETHICS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><blockquote>Note: quote by Simon Critchley, in “A Philosopher
Laughs at Death...” by Mark Dery. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Chronicle of Higher Education</i>, April 28, 2022. Thanks to Jon Morse, who
sent me the link. Some details come from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Code
Unknown</i>, a film by Michael Haneke.</blockquote><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeWCPinPjQ1AmUbsyO89lZaeZh-dDaX09duOB7vjsq0X1papoDSzdBtLt0UpCDnA4IM3MLbGL6l9OQv1gSruDdWkhPTU0WffEUWQVG_EsrOSkcNBUCSq3OZEf2_7vF1lI7qN9nudp7aYONKH4g0H5VV2n54JS46IhJJVgS_Zr_Io0a3VV10m8coi38/s200/selfportrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeWCPinPjQ1AmUbsyO89lZaeZh-dDaX09duOB7vjsq0X1papoDSzdBtLt0UpCDnA4IM3MLbGL6l9OQv1gSruDdWkhPTU0WffEUWQVG_EsrOSkcNBUCSq3OZEf2_7vF1lI7qN9nudp7aYONKH4g0H5VV2n54JS46IhJJVgS_Zr_Io0a3VV10m8coi38/w250-h250/selfportrait.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><b><a href="https://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Susan M. Schultz</a></b> is author of several books of
poetic prose, mostly recently <i>I Want to Write an Honest Sentence from
Talisman</i>. Forthcoming from that press is <i>Meditations</i>. She founded
Tinfish Press in 1995 and was editor until 2019. Susan is a lifelong fan of the
St. Louis Cardinals baseball team for whom she cheers from her home in Hawai`i.<o:p></o:p><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-2899533071511217442022-06-01T11:42:00.001-07:002022-06-01T11:42:18.469-07:00Three Poems, by Douglas Piccinnini <p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2vBQ04BMJowO-AvXJgnMjrh9VghngNcaBDHWdD3uFd-sms6Wiz6mp498Y1m3046fWNY4mtVB9q0jNNlI5qFnFr7mttswwCek6ZMUJr9zpZY8sh5rQqRuN-1t7s1asyk71IJMm5tMbbOm7yIWqaRvRuOYYdxo_DYgWSUDzcHNEKCZuIIuR3ntzui2/s2200/pi-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1700" height="745" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2vBQ04BMJowO-AvXJgnMjrh9VghngNcaBDHWdD3uFd-sms6Wiz6mp498Y1m3046fWNY4mtVB9q0jNNlI5qFnFr7mttswwCek6ZMUJr9zpZY8sh5rQqRuN-1t7s1asyk71IJMm5tMbbOm7yIWqaRvRuOYYdxo_DYgWSUDzcHNEKCZuIIuR3ntzui2/w575-h745/pi-1.jpg" width="575" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5PVkuwvjTMcddCA9W-BPDnH4_u0AeIpStiTae6LvGGMWQxvgUfZRBAmLzWQYqcfYPiJfdMp176FiZn8sQpv8HdGSXuOhs7S1EtnIrUlWFNeLaB5vp5oqZLzSqj2FQawu2EXSGkT9IqicFkA8oK_fPU65R-KN0LSjpZ7d5Dnr4an8JruTPbgXkaPa/s2200/pi-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1700" height="744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5PVkuwvjTMcddCA9W-BPDnH4_u0AeIpStiTae6LvGGMWQxvgUfZRBAmLzWQYqcfYPiJfdMp176FiZn8sQpv8HdGSXuOhs7S1EtnIrUlWFNeLaB5vp5oqZLzSqj2FQawu2EXSGkT9IqicFkA8oK_fPU65R-KN0LSjpZ7d5Dnr4an8JruTPbgXkaPa/w575-h744/pi-2.jpg" width="575" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYjTF1-_VNVgOZogGoVewEWRhlDWALjSbKisFqEd1VQQKClQWalcOFKJ2R6Vikc1dpIR420w9cwd-2sylfCKIcJ14VyarutmiBa4UUKe7k5RfybXhj_-xYOC32pD8mUYrHTiDB2DtS1UgxZaXDjql3hDp3oFRj96ggIDG45cRwcHAVIlH5a8bVU61/s2200/pi-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1700" height="744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYjTF1-_VNVgOZogGoVewEWRhlDWALjSbKisFqEd1VQQKClQWalcOFKJ2R6Vikc1dpIR420w9cwd-2sylfCKIcJ14VyarutmiBa4UUKe7k5RfybXhj_-xYOC32pD8mUYrHTiDB2DtS1UgxZaXDjql3hDp3oFRj96ggIDG45cRwcHAVIlH5a8bVU61/w574-h744/pi-3.jpg" width="574" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfcnccQ7hExl8ooOLerxQsaeFmpQ_8MfiEqwnRc8kUtNut82DBEe6qq7uevu563L93hM4KUX2RQtz0fCo5bnELJ4Z5AMKMaMIMe3I5fefI-sSFIOJScwniRjJHYog3QIuw4NInrliUoQLmIrsDHO_z3aGdxGBaIirRnbZl7Mfrdqosc-q3u_WbYl9s/s426/Douglas%20Piccinnini.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="426" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfcnccQ7hExl8ooOLerxQsaeFmpQ_8MfiEqwnRc8kUtNut82DBEe6qq7uevu563L93hM4KUX2RQtz0fCo5bnELJ4Z5AMKMaMIMe3I5fefI-sSFIOJScwniRjJHYog3QIuw4NInrliUoQLmIrsDHO_z3aGdxGBaIirRnbZl7Mfrdqosc-q3u_WbYl9s/s320/Douglas%20Piccinnini.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://douglaspiccinnini.com/" target="_blank">Douglas Piccinnini</a></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is the author of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blood Oboe </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Omnidawn,
2015) and </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Story Book: a novella</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (The Cultural Society, 2015) and the recent
chapbooks, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Grave Itself</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Ethel, 2021) and </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Western Sky</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Greying Ghost,
2022). Recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Afternoon Visitor</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blazing Stadium</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Denver Quarterly</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Colorado Review</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dreginald</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fence</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hot Pink</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lana Turner</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Michigan Quarterly Review</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">NOMATERIALISM</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Opt West</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prelude</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, and
</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Volt</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p><br /></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-19401037837522485962022-05-29T11:56:00.003-07:002022-05-29T11:56:26.361-07:00Three Poems, by Mark Goodwin<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><br /><b>Place<br /><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">whether
it be bud<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">or just</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">twig
tip at</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">the
cent<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">re of a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">spin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">ning
weather or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">some
ape’s<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">glance
or</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">rub of finger</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">tip
against<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">now or</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">if it
is a</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">flung
purse or<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">bag or
pock</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">et of</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">land
wet<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">with</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">time</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">i<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">i<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">s</span></p><p>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">poetry
is</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">not as
‘A’<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">stands</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">in
relation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">to ‘B’
nor<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">as
‘tree’</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">stands<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">for (or</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">in</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">for)
some<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">root</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">ed bran<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">ched
wood</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">en
plan t but</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">poetry
is<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">an e</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">vent
felt</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">as a<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">shape a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">throat
rotates</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">into a
vor<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">tex of
a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">word</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">‘ ear ’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">stepped<br /><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">over a
stone<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">placed
between</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Said’s
interior lamplight &<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Unsaid’s
far out en</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">mesh</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">ments
of d</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">ark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMDX1d-LQuxU8MAQpJSajftJY57azWL9D6yPGm1bBdZYA9Rc6MOk3ADf3YfdKgIJTBR5XsrmIbe7p7fp7rEq6x8KIVUEZ-LAl9Zo8USJOcE4OUo3BNUsYCSUYKLZ6SAcmwcrtM2L5q48FqHAyoBw570t0t4TbS_sRowOEETZQ-h5rSLnDysWXqJ3lw/s1766/Mark%20Goodwin.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="1766" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMDX1d-LQuxU8MAQpJSajftJY57azWL9D6yPGm1bBdZYA9Rc6MOk3ADf3YfdKgIJTBR5XsrmIbe7p7fp7rEq6x8KIVUEZ-LAl9Zo8USJOcE4OUo3BNUsYCSUYKLZ6SAcmwcrtM2L5q48FqHAyoBw570t0t4TbS_sRowOEETZQ-h5rSLnDysWXqJ3lw/s320/Mark%20Goodwin.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b>Mark
Goodwin</b> speaks & writes in various ways. He has a number of books &
chapbooks with various English poetry houses, including Leafe Press, Longbarrow
Press, & Shearsman Books. His latest chapbook – a compressed mountain
travelogue called <i>Erodes On Air</i> – was recently published in North America by
Middle Creek. His next full-length collection – <i>At</i> – is forthcoming from
Shearsman. Mark lives with his partner
on a narrowboat just north of Leicester, in the English Midlands. He tweets
poems from <a href="https://twitter.com/kramawoodgin" target="_blank">@kramawoodgin</a>, and some of his sound-enhanced poetry is here:
<a href="https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com">https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com</a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> <br /> </span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-10991897933425475242022-05-24T06:56:00.003-07:002022-05-29T11:47:37.696-07:00Three Poems, by Jason Heroux<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After Padgett</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I saw a darkened cloud of something.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I stood under it.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It did what it had to do,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and rained.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This is where things get interesting:<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">when the rain fell to the earth<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">the rain wet my clothes,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and I was cold.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This is where things get interesting:<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I was cold.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Assembly</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the assembly when they asked<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">If anyone had questions</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was the first to raise a hand.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">“Why aren’t there any numbers<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">in the alphabet?”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">No one had a clue.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They said they’d get<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">back to me with an answer but<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">they haven’t yet and never will.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They never do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A Death</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A death<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">is a guest</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">who stays<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">forever</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">then out<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">of nowhere</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">suddenly</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">packs<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">its bags</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and stays<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrHdsTPgpcvnWmgoCdf_w4iDNT-uS3daerG4y-Epozlh6D_SNokK1565kLSdOAkMLqVjgpt4izicTKdt71GBMEtnSK_iBJvXr0dXJFhLA8FtMlLB3DstDsp2_ktKseEFuva2xDapwZLR3ZgRxFziWtP_UKRe7thf2tFR0qVod0Zs0Drq7AUOHQRH4/s2506/unnamed%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2506" data-original-width="1880" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrHdsTPgpcvnWmgoCdf_w4iDNT-uS3daerG4y-Epozlh6D_SNokK1565kLSdOAkMLqVjgpt4izicTKdt71GBMEtnSK_iBJvXr0dXJFhLA8FtMlLB3DstDsp2_ktKseEFuva2xDapwZLR3ZgRxFziWtP_UKRe7thf2tFR0qVod0Zs0Drq7AUOHQRH4/s320/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="240" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Jason Heroux</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> is the author of four books of poetry: <i>Memoirs
of an Alias</i> (2004); <i>Emergency Hallelujah</i> (2008); <i>Natural Capital</i>
(2012) and <i>Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines</i> (2016). His most recent
book is the novel <i>Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow</i> (Mansfield Press,
2018). <a href="https://www.cityofkingston.ca/-/kingston-s-poet-laureate-pens-poem-pondering-pandemic" target="_blank">He is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Kingston</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-40256995458554246402022-05-23T16:29:00.007-07:002022-05-29T11:48:21.804-07:00Two Poems, by Kim Fahner<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Tiny things<br /></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like fruit flies in beakers,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and broken hearts, and mushrooms<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">that spring up where you least<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">expect them on wooded hikes,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and the absence of a voice<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">that was once beloved.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">In Your Bones<br /></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Water that is cold, but without ice,<br /></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif;">and a shiver that passes from<br /></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif;">head to toe: a manual return on<br /></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif;">an antique typewriter, with a bell<br /></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif;">that rings, or a door slam<br /></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif;">that sets a gust rushing<br /></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif;">through the house.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6JVtaVQC27M00BBBpvUlHM1cUVwiC6XgrVjadDBaVaj-Ta8VRADyYUCIuEwCTCvWj9a8y4EUfokxY6lHdDKOMtRbbvd4Em2vmCzPsJMe2QOH2NZt_tVfEjiEJZhwsAWKydTUEbu2ocxEOlc3jJrYIBn0XLPaf_7GREHBM2Z_rnl6pUT1yKi1Z_Du/s2048/GK_KF_DSC3996_WebRes_21%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6JVtaVQC27M00BBBpvUlHM1cUVwiC6XgrVjadDBaVaj-Ta8VRADyYUCIuEwCTCvWj9a8y4EUfokxY6lHdDKOMtRbbvd4Em2vmCzPsJMe2QOH2NZt_tVfEjiEJZhwsAWKydTUEbu2ocxEOlc3jJrYIBn0XLPaf_7GREHBM2Z_rnl6pUT1yKi1Z_Du/s320/GK_KF_DSC3996_WebRes_21%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kim Fahner</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario. Her latest book
of poems is <i>These Wings</i> (Pedlar Press, 2019) and her new book, <i>Emptying
the Ocean</i>, is being published by Frontenac House in Fall 2022. Kim is a
member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Ontario Representative of The
Writers' Union of Canada (2020-24), and also a supporting member of The Playwrights
Guild of Canada. She is currently working on a manuscript of bee poems, as well
as a new novel, tentatively titled <i>The Painted Birds</i>. She may be reached
via her author website at <a href="http://www.kimfahner.com/">www.kimfahner.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-85278789227262287972021-11-07T07:06:00.001-08:002021-11-07T07:06:19.596-08:00Three Poems, by J.I. Kleinberg<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />in These big gaps<br /><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjecc8VJY_RfZaF7qzeqeZy1HS8gIYWjkGlXlJl45Vdm87e1aytmH5YmXhdVnombD4POif9oimhdqT9V00OOZcrm2k719GZu4gGYGMHY0p48irr5Xu7k7ZZpSOiV0ZS1gbhePF8QAwuUI0AZu8A-3WSzMyftyFkZCPGi3n6en3gOLRvUqAAX0cWrlCM=s1160" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="900" height="617" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjecc8VJY_RfZaF7qzeqeZy1HS8gIYWjkGlXlJl45Vdm87e1aytmH5YmXhdVnombD4POif9oimhdqT9V00OOZcrm2k719GZu4gGYGMHY0p48irr5Xu7k7ZZpSOiV0ZS1gbhePF8QAwuUI0AZu8A-3WSzMyftyFkZCPGi3n6en3gOLRvUqAAX0cWrlCM=w478-h617" width="478" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>of Language<br /><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVYxE8k51iTz-h9RMO7TU_necfdixsXqWA5qL_Iz8pAyKCRGria3D-a7r6uBUQagkVl63dNCkG75j46Dh0udVhEneLEGESME4ACxXLIayCk3E27B6e8Xd6dSUvOo3U9JTjvudn4AoPXQ690ROxaHJLU6mrsw5WAp6Xn9sJ8As4WIM9XKwBjv9oZoYr=s1178" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="900" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVYxE8k51iTz-h9RMO7TU_necfdixsXqWA5qL_Iz8pAyKCRGria3D-a7r6uBUQagkVl63dNCkG75j46Dh0udVhEneLEGESME4ACxXLIayCk3E27B6e8Xd6dSUvOo3U9JTjvudn4AoPXQ690ROxaHJLU6mrsw5WAp6Xn9sJ8As4WIM9XKwBjv9oZoYr=w476-h625" width="476" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>to produce<br /><br /></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkdXKm28CHwi9XEviLrBVHKgelaMoN_ehyqVam_Gf2GIYq-Dd9zPjl7x3lEvRgvTiVL5LVgi60_w6LXOadDS1wsjQ6SkmEaaogqWcf0SldtW_klccIi3iJV28en_c6XYO-fSvn9SZadgiZJ0EfSdkc3cGv_bBSpOxHnGfnL6dVKwBP9S0xKGbwl27J=s1149" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="900" height="601" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkdXKm28CHwi9XEviLrBVHKgelaMoN_ehyqVam_Gf2GIYq-Dd9zPjl7x3lEvRgvTiVL5LVgi60_w6LXOadDS1wsjQ6SkmEaaogqWcf0SldtW_klccIi3iJV28en_c6XYO-fSvn9SZadgiZJ0EfSdkc3cGv_bBSpOxHnGfnL6dVKwBP9S0xKGbwl27J=w472-h601" width="472" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Artist, poet, and freelance writer <b>J.I. Kleinberg</b> lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jikleinberg/" target="_blank">@jikleinberg</a>.</span></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-88440319592623701582021-10-31T08:29:00.002-07:002021-10-31T08:29:43.871-07:00Four Poems from Roman Alphabet: Readings and Translations, by Grant Wilkins<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcGqiiPwfPTMXkyFQASe5N0f-9wUaHbFuI12KxsCQNmLz_NFj5Fqg4DilyT6ouKoUhe_s5XygSJXKifFYKVeBb2gO6uye4URZXE_xb65KBKRliHoKZ_UThpRd3KTZ0u4p7Zc7o8xy4oxGt1sXs6SVS6pHt6TmJm8JhP7FUUAxUwlBfe6qgbs3H8SV9=s1749" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1749" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcGqiiPwfPTMXkyFQASe5N0f-9wUaHbFuI12KxsCQNmLz_NFj5Fqg4DilyT6ouKoUhe_s5XygSJXKifFYKVeBb2gO6uye4URZXE_xb65KBKRliHoKZ_UThpRd3KTZ0u4p7Zc7o8xy4oxGt1sXs6SVS6pHt6TmJm8JhP7FUUAxUwlBfe6qgbs3H8SV9=w573-h496" width="573" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0GF8sIaaApw8-u_zomFZ_g_eXU7k1XtqmwRqfSlG-IlmY4GaqShPzU5XEPpmVLa1g6m5zo_lb6vx4dXq4D06z34V_RV5EqvAsIE64jhbKcU6uuV3xebRIjYpGCWir5QmydyzySDXmm4qdruemz9tV_rSlv5Eq5QR_rRoMwa5Qug407UxISy3DkOeM=s604" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="604" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0GF8sIaaApw8-u_zomFZ_g_eXU7k1XtqmwRqfSlG-IlmY4GaqShPzU5XEPpmVLa1g6m5zo_lb6vx4dXq4D06z34V_RV5EqvAsIE64jhbKcU6uuV3xebRIjYpGCWir5QmydyzySDXmm4qdruemz9tV_rSlv5Eq5QR_rRoMwa5Qug407UxISy3DkOeM=w345-h323" width="345" /></a></b></div><b>Grant Wilkins</b> is a printer, papermaker and occasional poet from Ottawa whose writing has appeared in <i>ARC Poetry Magazine</i>, <i>Train: a poetry journal</i>, and <i>BafterC magazine</i>, amongst other places, and who recently published <i>Literary Type</i> with nOIR:Z in Toronto. He has degrees in History & Classical Civilization and in English, and he likes ink, metal, paper, letters, sounds and words, and combinations thereof.<p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-10778376595085944932021-10-27T13:50:00.000-07:002021-10-27T13:50:02.651-07:00A hymn to stains on the convolutions of industry, by Joshua Martin<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fantastic vertebrae a
long licking corner of an unknown world spinning in its infinite dialogues
spewed like patchy grasses left off a vowel dimpled coconut millionaire at the
precipice of the bare shoulder blade tangled interspersed with algae glue &
character accolades pealed backwards with handlebar clouds razor blade glimpse
absence of leaping absence of leaping falling like scraps of wood<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>against leaf<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">wall</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">over<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">comma<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">beside</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">circle<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">underwear</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">dis-<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">integration</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">half bended paralyzed<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> sealed shielded</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">between</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">useless</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">mushroom head</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">half-regarded</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">vanguard</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of tired</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">plants</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to crash<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to fall colliding with
stairs</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">revealed like the slow</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">happenstance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">beside
broken lamps</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the depths<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">where fists<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">ooze toward the<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">doorframe &</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">surrounded<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> by
mourners</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">culpability:<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">fizzled out</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a horn
stuck<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">between the<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">minutes<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that pass<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">heavily& never out
again<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">neither more nor less<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">nor the subscriptions<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">left<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">burn<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">on the<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">stove</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">deserted under</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">tongue
sliced</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">envelope</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">squirting</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">vacant</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">vestiges
of uneducated priests carried over the soaked floors & into the creepy<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> fathomless closet</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that shivers & dissipates</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">typified
momentum<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> relegated
to cleanliness</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to life<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> returned</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">tug<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">tug<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">tugging <beware of
purification &<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> phrases like
“clean line”></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">one brain<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">attached
to<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> another</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">warp speed density<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">an
innovative approach<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to
destruction</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">removed the bandages<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">abandoned the
formation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">variety of etcetera</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">syncopated to</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sprained</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">perpetual</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">nocturnal
drooling</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of the slithering</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">inevitable</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">snake</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in plain sight</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">officially</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">less hollow than</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">bare
buttocks</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in the crystal hours of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">lilting poisons</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">regardless
of static pouring</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">inconsistencies obviously
a volcano</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">as the foggy camera angles adjusted</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">not to<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> utter a single</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">upward</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">lack of
information</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the indiscretion of a belched mother against</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">pieces fit at angles rusted beside drifting solids</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">holes<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> like</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">dismantled finger traps & hurricanes<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> drown the cities & bury all histories</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">until<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> nauseous</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">forgotten<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> cursive lines</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">battle gunshots</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">then
pass<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> out</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">this month</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">be
unspeakable<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> &</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">lips
to ear</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">surrounds</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">painstaking</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">area rug<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> less</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">otherness</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">lengthwise</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">lack of<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> spectacle</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">instead</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a fortress</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">shining</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">then lifted</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">more<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> than</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">rises</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">entrails<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of the seldom
concealed</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">postured</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">average</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">blame<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> unto the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">societies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">without<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> sufficient</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">plastic</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to succumb
to<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">melting<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> melting</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">bag over</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">striking</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">voluminous<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> potholes</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">leaning against<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> the pyramid</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">through<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
quagmire<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> of
the finite as</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">rockpile altars in corner</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">wheeze & cough over blinking lights</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">stinging body<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">varieties of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">one angle
means dark</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">agilities</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">warmth
of<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">overburdened<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> rooms</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to flood &<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to
flick</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">missed</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">bare
knuckle</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">foundation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">hear
/ hear /<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">hear /<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
volume<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> jumps
levels</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the cornerstone reads:<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of evaporation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">positioned
at the point</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">careening</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">variations</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of sinking<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">step<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> best step</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> stench
& the vividness</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">unaware to the point
of ingratitude before the under armor incline met with<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">eyes drenched in
sickness & white rage</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the spread
/ the holes that form under the feet as</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">delusions
walk with</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">deliberate</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">period
that stops</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the capacity<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to enchant<br /></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the fingers<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> ready the tiny hairs</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">yet</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">concludes</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">weariness</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the mouth<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">dry dilemmas into riverbed
roof of mouth</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that result<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">promised</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">thick
& viscose</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">renegade promise</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">spent in</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">tripping
over scenes</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">colossal</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">wrists
&</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">an unreliable<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">framing device</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">turned upward</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">looking</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">out of scars</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in
perpetuity<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> bleary</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">instinctual workings of the morning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
point of distraction</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">beneath</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">grueling</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">gaze</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">or the moistness of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">dissipated
gaze</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">dwelling</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in
constant glowing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">elusiveness</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">feeling every moment</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">blowing
in temporary</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">spectacles</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">against
reflections</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">three times the mirrors</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">separate</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">avenues
grow beyond</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">peak<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">intrigue</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">lost<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in
the cobwebs of history</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">across
foreheads<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> eyebrows
singularly</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">crumbling</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">heaving
shoulders</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">once pieced<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> together jigsaw puzzle</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">unbalanced</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the rapid</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">movements</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">blinding</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">on a foot<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> misshapen</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the dust out of the hair<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">pubic region</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">handled<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> with
a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">proudly<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> stirred</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">vagueness</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sleep</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwGUdtOZvv6yXUi2S8vTRtMt0M_e61O9pIehN9W9mRLm4uFN5NqMTpDLv9L9ri-4xuWwygB8nh7ywkBHTRLsnd7tc3e_zKV67h-xAEqsWRLc4HOucfddEL9qWCJUCrcZmc2KJeD-8dhFD8fwNZuytfhRS1Ng8xAFlReKNUT43MwuvcqRP_4NK5HDFD=s1950" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1950" data-original-width="1542" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwGUdtOZvv6yXUi2S8vTRtMt0M_e61O9pIehN9W9mRLm4uFN5NqMTpDLv9L9ri-4xuWwygB8nh7ywkBHTRLsnd7tc3e_zKV67h-xAEqsWRLc4HOucfddEL9qWCJUCrcZmc2KJeD-8dhFD8fwNZuytfhRS1Ng8xAFlReKNUT43MwuvcqRP_4NK5HDFD=w300-h380" width="300" /></a></b></div><b>Joshua Martin</b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently
works in a library. He is the author of the book <i>Vagabond fragments of a hole</i>
(Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in <i>Nauseated
Drive</i>, <i>Fixator Press</i>, <i>The Vital Sparks</i>, and <i>Breakwater
Review</i> among others.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-62622016695543367392021-10-18T12:51:00.001-07:002021-10-18T12:51:43.916-07:00Three Poems, by Stan Rogal<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Saint
Serapion</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>“I wrap myself in the robes of
your whiteness which is like<br /> midnight in Dostoevsky”<br /> — Frank O’Hara </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it is 12:20 pm in New York, a Friday<br />the sun is folding, taxis idle or cruise<br />light is bent, apparently, even curved<br />— so much for Euclidean Optics —<br />it all plays out so cinematically<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> rough
textured surface & muddled &<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> hazy
articulation of the central subject<br /></span>there, in the corner, staring at his coffee<br />[simultaneously familiar & mysterious]<br />goofy Johnny Walker grin on his face<br />eyes vague blue, blue like the sky, & changeable<br />ink runs from the edges of his mouth<br />having been up till 4 a.m. drinking, asks for an aspirin<br />eats a plate of salted radishes & pickled herring<br />with an indifferent eye<br />watches a bank of TVs all rotating their channels<br />none are to be understood solely in relation to their materiality<br />they exist only as they are being experienced<br />operatic conventions are used to elevate the melodrama<br />two young painters storm the “Art & Sex” show disguised<br />as giant penises<br />the glamorized image of a cowboy is appropriated by<br />the Philip Morris Cigarette Company<br />the waitress reappears in short skirts, freckled by beads<br />& wolves’ teeth, sporting a bright pink T-shirt with glitter<br />that reads:<br /></span><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> HEAVIER
WHEN NAKED<br /></span>the cubo-seriality is modular & multidirectional<br />half-close your eyelids, loosen your hair<br />(about suffering they were never wrong)<br />snow falling & night falling, fast, oh, fast<br />groin against groin against the wall<br /> <i>too bad for you, beautiful one, unadorned by laurel<br /></i>who winked too much & was afraid of snakes</span></div></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Saint
Shot w/Eros<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">feel free to observe the irony of<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> my current situation (which is fucked)<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> I am
supposed to pose in the nude<br /></span>for the artist J_________ J_____<br />as a model for Saint Sebastian </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">there’s something faintly unwholesome<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> (heavily made-up & neon-lit) about the scene<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> something
very Chibi & animelike &<br /></span>approximately four feet tall<br />— “the famously penetrated” — </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">with the flick of a switch aggression<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> exposes erotic drives to blindness<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> the work
very much about a degraded<br /></span>sublime: <i>Confessions of a Mask<br /></i>by Yukio Mishima, say</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I look in the mirror & witness a<br /> silly frizzy-haired
girl with no<br /> discernible
eyelashes & wonder:<br />is this me? how I see myself?<br />slightly morose slightly pretty </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">quality of being melodramatic &<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> deadpan at the same time, where gender<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> polarizations
are key elements of the plot<br /></span>(there’s a level of seduction in the work) whether<br />cinched cock or flower must view in the same way </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the question is: what is it to be familiar?<br /> bigger, brighter, more
glamorous &<br /> — in some
ways — darker, I s’pose<br />hardly any [t]errors here (much) except <i>lips<br /></i>thickly purpled & caked w/wet white foam </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Into the
[dark] Woods</b><b><o:p> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">are the woods still there? the woods<br />were [are] almost there. in a sick shade of spruce<br />moss-webbed, rock-fed, there they are<br />the soft eyes open<br />those otherwise knowing glances of trees<br />those nights in bright moonlight<br />lost along no railroad under some barkish choir<br />[people don’t usually sing in poems, do they? said the girl]<br />this walk into the wilderness is full of falls & stumbles &
pains<br />no relocation of abstraction into a tightly-locked garden of Kantian
design<br />no bright red cape, strand of golden hair, golden slipper or white cow<br />no magic beans or benevolent fairy godmothers<br />a string of dead waterfowl lines the path<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> “blue waves on a fading shift of grey erosion”<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> [poets
being bees in the invisible, according to Rilke,<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> interpreting
phenomena is deciphering one’s view]<br /></span>make no mistake, the wood, in itself, is a plurality of meanings<br />— meaning — almost all the landscapes called “events” are about
disasters<br />[violence, is, after all, our global condition]<br />rain puts a chill in every leaf, every blade of grass<br />coyotes wail, then of a sudden, their lights go out<br />onlookers go rigid when the ghostly train rumbles through<br />in the blue hubbub of the selfsame sky<br />I have appropriated the windy twittering of aspen leaves<br />woods driven deep into the grooves creates a sort-of music<br />whose laughter is full of nails rattling<br /></span><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> — I shall never put it together entirely —<br /></span>the unheroic sentences, splintered, are remaindered in an unvoiced space<br />the farther out it gets the harder it is to describe<br />unable to touch a stop or turn a screw<br />in the [dark] woods, across the [sodden] ground<br />I feel my way</span></div></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh6xIkaSZuNi6g0UO5LYtsIzmv3AT9lix60VzWeh22Pzrq_Uare5pbZ9JErADfwkVqgFnKRgjkEaB1gvFgXxqhFo9IL9BV-Ay8IPMVIca_xxnPsMYpPf9I71kKoCOSGmvbml0OPkNO4Vn22yK2kahASnfrkbMZtj7SAEpNCK3V4ytuTeBXMOjmiWqq=s1885" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1885" data-original-width="1060" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh6xIkaSZuNi6g0UO5LYtsIzmv3AT9lix60VzWeh22Pzrq_Uare5pbZ9JErADfwkVqgFnKRgjkEaB1gvFgXxqhFo9IL9BV-Ay8IPMVIca_xxnPsMYpPf9I71kKoCOSGmvbml0OPkNO4Vn22yK2kahASnfrkbMZtj7SAEpNCK3V4ytuTeBXMOjmiWqq=w278-h494" width="278" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Stan
Rogal: </b>I live and write in Toronto. Work has appeared in numerous magazines and
anthologies in Canada, the US and Europe, some in translation. The author of 26
books: 7 novels, 7 story, 12 poetry, plus several chapbooks. An MA English from
York U. I'm left-handed and have never owned a cell phone, placing me securely
in the elite 8% of North Americans.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-87267708577512632552021-07-05T10:06:00.001-07:002021-07-05T10:06:35.426-07:00an excerpt from unnamed-relation, by Dana Teen Lomax<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszDiXklVrXK3PANiizRUC6sizbPl_5iJO_ZsICsHPYdj1TGq3qOTS6ajT-wk7mW444PQVHMk1N21tpkdqbj7DK5mpmzkVOqkzbPLC7QyvQmsOOwmI5m4sGNFfBlbHjcjHgYL9SBycfLc/s1256/coming-to-terms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="272" height="1228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjszDiXklVrXK3PANiizRUC6sizbPl_5iJO_ZsICsHPYdj1TGq3qOTS6ajT-wk7mW444PQVHMk1N21tpkdqbj7DK5mpmzkVOqkzbPLC7QyvQmsOOwmI5m4sGNFfBlbHjcjHgYL9SBycfLc/w265-h1228/coming-to-terms.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhrd1RmT5oLlQOs1HxTL2enKv3sgv0vRB2-J-kMC3snHuG36H2abB9R4yUHm1YGT8NNiitPemAS1Y4fqyKzOlLHTDD6ka13NRoF8NvHf6CeO5IKNKJ2gRjWUg4rxna-SOrzECdguAAjY/s1232/our-breakfast-conversation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="274" height="1261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhrd1RmT5oLlQOs1HxTL2enKv3sgv0vRB2-J-kMC3snHuG36H2abB9R4yUHm1YGT8NNiitPemAS1Y4fqyKzOlLHTDD6ka13NRoF8NvHf6CeO5IKNKJ2gRjWUg4rxna-SOrzECdguAAjY/w280-h1261/our-breakfast-conversation.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsR1TobtML4DuhRI1Bqk32bKmFIL6PsLjTTe_WrfsIataGFSZ8gUyfdtpAFfYc8CeE1b86Z2WpXpDWLBvXbzDHXAY_2QAPAG1NnctBRMpuLoNR0R28e5TsUbI2-ixDRcbtSvHgdigfgo/s1262/gibran%2527s-your-children-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="288" height="1237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsR1TobtML4DuhRI1Bqk32bKmFIL6PsLjTTe_WrfsIataGFSZ8gUyfdtpAFfYc8CeE1b86Z2WpXpDWLBvXbzDHXAY_2QAPAG1NnctBRMpuLoNR0R28e5TsUbI2-ixDRcbtSvHgdigfgo/w282-h1237/gibran%2527s-your-children-.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSemK1gIfZjym9Bly-bmg2dEYsF6GBIZBWG5gLY58hrqmxfpwS38M3FPvgp_12HqPZnB-ZnxOvKmfaTXFKWMOljzHCA3A-GPTxdmH_L_mqIZlBh7y1i0JGORvb6HnjIzKRxP57rdQ95fA/s1245/teaching-seventh-grade-history.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1245" data-original-width="276" height="1182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSemK1gIfZjym9Bly-bmg2dEYsF6GBIZBWG5gLY58hrqmxfpwS38M3FPvgp_12HqPZnB-ZnxOvKmfaTXFKWMOljzHCA3A-GPTxdmH_L_mqIZlBh7y1i0JGORvb6HnjIzKRxP57rdQ95fA/w262-h1182/teaching-seventh-grade-history.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0g6Jnk7XK3rkcUcMgj48je6DQT3ppiSRJcVN9mOJTcpDdjNJH4oTl75EWyH3nmBazm-fO3RcBeaPZfUO6MdPexTds2PYEgdaz9xSd_NnBMBnFuB8TnrB5CmZV9Qq7NhVBgw4Och2Dwo/s2048/IMG_2863.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0g6Jnk7XK3rkcUcMgj48je6DQT3ppiSRJcVN9mOJTcpDdjNJH4oTl75EWyH3nmBazm-fO3RcBeaPZfUO6MdPexTds2PYEgdaz9xSd_NnBMBnFuB8TnrB5CmZV9Qq7NhVBgw4Och2Dwo/w302-h403/IMG_2863.jpeg" width="302" /></a></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.danateenlomax.com/" target="_blank">Dana Teen Lomax</a></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and mom. She's written several books and co-edited <i>Letters to Poets: Conversation about Poetics, Politics, and Community</i> which Cornel West called “courageous and visionary.” Her editorial project, <i>Kindergarde </i>won the John Hopkins Prize for Poetry. Dana's work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won awards from the Creative Work Fund, Intersection for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the California Arts Council, and others. She lives in Sea Ranch with her family.</span><p></p><p><br /></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-44958243790299340672021-05-16T07:43:00.001-07:002021-05-16T07:43:05.674-07:00Three Poems, by Mike Ferguson<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8empWU7qsF3hy7YUTxGopeLx4lXRmoVgId2JCbgbD9CA5IPQ2ShyphenhyphenFK0xKcLcbpDeV2kBWw8mhBArtd6x_qeQPdLdTJsM4HQBCUi2e0Sd5lsT-qyMTXV_SEwBljdn26MbU0SFBf2tlXjg/s602/mike+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="602" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8empWU7qsF3hy7YUTxGopeLx4lXRmoVgId2JCbgbD9CA5IPQ2ShyphenhyphenFK0xKcLcbpDeV2kBWw8mhBArtd6x_qeQPdLdTJsM4HQBCUi2e0Sd5lsT-qyMTXV_SEwBljdn26MbU0SFBf2tlXjg/w645-h216/mike+one.jpg" width="645" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(found in <i>Monism in Arithmetic. – Mathematical Essays and Recreations </i>by Hermann Schubert)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDXuQi9IE6srHfXHhSw0hmcyQ-E1-tl8xi5_qUVpGrGcwEzsQ5Y2D7NTZIZhuJ5qQu6HoubmJHLn06pKIQmXpjyXbQGNmqydn3nyC3KEaMTG4vrtamO5FfS0ukxhpIMnGOSjcbeDRi5o/s829/mike+two.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="602" height="782" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDXuQi9IE6srHfXHhSw0hmcyQ-E1-tl8xi5_qUVpGrGcwEzsQ5Y2D7NTZIZhuJ5qQu6HoubmJHLn06pKIQmXpjyXbQGNmqydn3nyC3KEaMTG4vrtamO5FfS0ukxhpIMnGOSjcbeDRi5o/w567-h782/mike+two.jpg" width="567" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(appropriated from <i>Chapter I: The Series of Natural Numbers – Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy </i>by Bertrand Russell)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnuXzZ1-CBdAW4uoQjK7Wm0Dbtfv8tqTGeqBdUFDT2s657ZBgAnE8pKW4nxV5tU5U6F536xy9-sGQ57ouhF5xO8Ayc5vKrPgO_Wxyf4NC8-RURjATOQA8ZDJduVhJj3h9Tp3Tka-IyAzA/s602/mike+three.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="602" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnuXzZ1-CBdAW4uoQjK7Wm0Dbtfv8tqTGeqBdUFDT2s657ZBgAnE8pKW4nxV5tU5U6F536xy9-sGQ57ouhF5xO8Ayc5vKrPgO_Wxyf4NC8-RURjATOQA8ZDJduVhJj3h9Tp3Tka-IyAzA/w599-h202/mike+three.jpg" width="599" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">(appropriated from <i>Chapter II. Classification and Fallacies. Book V. Of Fallacies. – A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Vol. II.</i> by John Stuart Mill)</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-69t6X4TsxEy5E66woPhklnigx1hA125qfpKhxRIGroD-ppB5hI_kLv92o1nIUd5-w95y_fcbDUtQGoNTNHJkQu7RJ2wqNGO2fiv2dVu1wBCAVhNPkosQMq-dpBD-VnAGhU1uP4toPmk/s2263/MF.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2263" data-original-width="2228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-69t6X4TsxEy5E66woPhklnigx1hA125qfpKhxRIGroD-ppB5hI_kLv92o1nIUd5-w95y_fcbDUtQGoNTNHJkQu7RJ2wqNGO2fiv2dVu1wBCAVhNPkosQMq-dpBD-VnAGhU1uP4toPmk/s320/MF.JPG" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/omahaglenn" target="_blank">Mike Ferguson</a></b> is an American permanently resident in the UK and widely published in online poetry magazines/journals. His most recent published work is the found poems collection <i>The Lonesomest Sound</i> (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2019) and the truth-elusive vignettes <i>And I Used to Sail Barges</i> (The Red Ceilings Press, 2020).</span><p></p><div><br /></div>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-61667375000855065792021-04-02T11:11:00.001-07:002021-04-02T11:11:16.663-07:00Two Poems, by Ethan Vilu <p><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p><p><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>First Rondel (Memory)<br /><br /></b></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b><i><br /></i></b>In
plundering the miracle of time<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">one can attack the higher court of
shame,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">collide all different meanings of a name,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and coronate a never-ending prime -<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />or else, unleash a purgatory clime?<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">A thunderous extinguishing of flame -<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in plundering the miracle of time<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">one can attack the higher court of shame,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />can hear the sweetest sound of freedom chime<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">reverberations musical and tame<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and never pen the question mark of blame,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">if one commits an existential crime<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in plundering the miracle of time</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Second Rondel (Bragg Creek)<br /></b></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b><i><br /><br /></i></b>If I could find the shade amidst the
stones<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and clear my sullen mind along the peak<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">have rambling water turn frustration meek<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and emanate those deep contented tones<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />to walk against that hard-wrought road alone<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and only have the stream with which to speak<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">if I could find the shade amidst the stones<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and clear my sullen mind along the peak<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><br />those foothills form a great undying
throne<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to look with piercing gaze for what you seek:<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a quiet darkness right along the creek<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">whose lightest touch would strike me to my bones<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">if I could find the shade amidst the stones</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_dMkH624-xLDj6L1SFKup7Q4rqfCegLvAi2uKVe9JaoZAdE7D05f40-Ak0RV_zipXeF_eKtirPXVS-HVo_4B8hyphenhyphenZ92zH0iUh0YITrcQT3cr9Ng1FUlkybHbY-B1VFFNJC0HmWqF2c4s/s2048/ethan+vilu+author+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_dMkH624-xLDj6L1SFKup7Q4rqfCegLvAi2uKVe9JaoZAdE7D05f40-Ak0RV_zipXeF_eKtirPXVS-HVo_4B8hyphenhyphenZ92zH0iUh0YITrcQT3cr9Ng1FUlkybHbY-B1VFFNJC0HmWqF2c4s/s320/ethan+vilu+author+photo.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><a href="http://www.theblastedtree.com/ethan-vilu" target="_blank">Ethan Vilu</a></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a student,
writer, and editor from Calgary, Alberta. Their poetry longsheet <i>A Decision
re: Zurich</i> was published by The Blasted Tree in 2020. In addition to
serving as the current managing editor for <i>NōD Magazine</i>, Ethan works as
both circulation manager and as a member of the poetry collective at <i>filling
Station</i>.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-62768381086860772462021-03-28T13:19:00.003-07:002021-03-28T13:19:51.861-07:00Two Lipograms, by Lydia Unsworth<p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">CENTRAL
LIBRARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">learn
literacy<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">narrate
a reality<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">train
a brain<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">recite
a litany, a yarn, a lyric</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">cranial
nectar<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">ratrace
abater<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">banality
a rarity<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
certain clarity</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">banter<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">albeit
binary latin linear errata</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">a
relatable tale<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
liberal rant<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
brilliant racy letter</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">a
cabinet, a cabinet, a cabinet<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">barely
any telly</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">ST
PETER’S SQUARE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">a
squat queue erupts, upset</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">a
request<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a spat<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>arrests</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">russet
pets tear up terra, rape, repress</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">suppress
a state, erase status</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">austere
pastures<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">spare
a rupee?</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">past
pressures repeat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">a
statue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ7s7LiDCXLpW7ky8qVHGCU4JPLAVwvzV3c_wg2tJIitS20HhQ9cEDBWjTGYTcBCkvnEK16Qo4vCkCrhzgYG9B_szPGFEekn4rFvvPi4zmfIT-TFGZGy-M404hL0CXTRRO_hPvg25IN-E/s2048/LU+%2528c%2529+Amy+MacLeod.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ7s7LiDCXLpW7ky8qVHGCU4JPLAVwvzV3c_wg2tJIitS20HhQ9cEDBWjTGYTcBCkvnEK16Qo4vCkCrhzgYG9B_szPGFEekn4rFvvPi4zmfIT-TFGZGy-M404hL0CXTRRO_hPvg25IN-E/s320/LU+%2528c%2529+Amy+MacLeod.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><a href="https://lydiaunsworth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Lydia Unsworth</a></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">
has published two collections of poetry: <i>Certain Manoeuvres</i> (KFS Press,
2018) and <i>Nostalgia for Bodies</i> (2018 Erbacce Poetry Prize), and two
pamphlets. Her latest pamphlet <i>YIELD</i> (KFS) and her debut novel <i>Distant
Hills</i> (Atlatl Press) came out in 2020. Recent work can be found in <i>Ambit</i>,
<i>SPAM</i>, <i>Bath Magg</i>, <i>Blackbox Manifold</i>, and <i>The
Interpreter’s House</i>. Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/lydiowanie" target="_blank">@lydiowanie</a><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-61962142144768216992021-03-06T11:44:00.001-08:002021-03-06T11:44:13.895-08:00Two Poems, by Elana Wolff <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Calf
Love</b><br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"> —</span></span></span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">after FK</span></i></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
were lying</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">supine
in the river. Held by the fevered</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stream
of breaking through.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
who were always</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">grieved
by the deep</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">embarrassment</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
human existence,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">found
exhilaration in display:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
write about ejaculation in traffic;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">traffic
over the river</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">drowning
you out.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
if by word association,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">one
achieves release. As if—</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but
then it’s done.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Under
the bridge and out of sight,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you
have to choose:<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do I sink?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instinctually,
you swim.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet
only between the lines,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
after the story ends. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jejune</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63954286;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63954286;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This tongue
was never altogether mine.<b><br /></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I dreamt a
guttural country,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">desert
mountains at the heart<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and woke up
parched.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I put my
ear to earth<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">for an
indication,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">heard a
soundtrack—every song I knew<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I had to
learn: how losing isn’t opposite<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to winning,<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> it’s
making space.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One only
sees the space<br /></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in looking
back.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63954286;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You were
every hydrant that July<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I was on
fire. Heat inside me<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">adolescent
/ green.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What did
you see?<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">That value
would eventually<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">increase?
That one day<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">we would
face the parent range?<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> (I
speak of mountains.)<br /></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That
language needs decoding<br /></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and
translation (whatever we speak)?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63954286;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where do
dragons live?<br /><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> —In
castles.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What do
foxes eat?<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">—Gingerbread men.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What’s as
soft as a preemie’s wrinkled knee?<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> —The
smaller wrinkled knee</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> of
the tinier twin.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63954286;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jackals
howled in the street last night,<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">beneath the
babies’ window.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Creatures
tempted</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">out of the
woods,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">into the
heart of the city.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I heard
them eating off their knives,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">licking the
blades<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">as if they
were lips—<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> like
preternatural humans.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I ran to
grab the babies from their cribs.</span></div><p></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63954286;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga4F8-hFtK1prNOfPHqiluyqVspG8Z_P2D-kA2tQ16sr40CEX23eWWTmaY7PCkAk5FGUUCJtO9EBQwSEoeQGzwRpJz6h_XxTX9Y1QErWrOMi7tZdXPksLYPFskGZKa7jIOjvpMZVP3n4c/s640/Head+shot_feb_2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="595" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga4F8-hFtK1prNOfPHqiluyqVspG8Z_P2D-kA2tQ16sr40CEX23eWWTmaY7PCkAk5FGUUCJtO9EBQwSEoeQGzwRpJz6h_XxTX9Y1QErWrOMi7tZdXPksLYPFskGZKa7jIOjvpMZVP3n4c/w315-h338/Head+shot_feb_2021.jpg" width="315" /></a></b></div><b><a href="https://www.guernicaeditions.com/author/233" target="_blank">Elana Wolff</a></b><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk60754973;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a Toronto-based writer of poetry and creative
nonfiction. Her work has recently appeared (or will appear) in <i>Canadian
Literature</i>, <i>The Dalhousie Review</i>, <i>Taddle Creek Magazine</i>, <i>Vallum:
Contemporary Poetry</i>, <i>The Banyan Review</i>, <i>Eclectica</i>, <i>GRIFFEL</i>,
and<i> Sepia</i>. Her collection, <i>Swoon </i>(Guernica Editions), is the
winner of the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry.<br /><br /></span></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-38839233114928728042021-02-06T07:39:00.003-08:002021-02-06T07:39:59.598-08:00Three Poems, by Chris Turnbull<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> <br />this, <i>from</i> "[sic]"</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Uj8FVZBVSSZSsAxFfLFPWW4C8pt8g38McC8X3QigkocAMtMWOjM7ZeI3sVR8eJstkgkSWLEQX4fB_UoDQ3d1qsgp3-UdR4ymGvV2JK-Ns0EjmGVneAfScqP-v_x25XWlEE1s0usDyN8/s2048/Turnbull+-+for+TPR+-+_this_+from+%255Bsic%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1862" data-original-width="2048" height="595" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Uj8FVZBVSSZSsAxFfLFPWW4C8pt8g38McC8X3QigkocAMtMWOjM7ZeI3sVR8eJstkgkSWLEQX4fB_UoDQ3d1qsgp3-UdR4ymGvV2JK-Ns0EjmGVneAfScqP-v_x25XWlEE1s0usDyN8/w654-h595/Turnbull+-+for+TPR+-+_this_+from+%255Bsic%255D.jpg" width="654" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>from</i> "notes from recently"</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UeCXEJBby3UqxBVWWjDyCIs8Sa1xT7fygdX7HVEABEtDldxkiQwfF-Um10f7jHPhjPh5QFFgg3aYEJPJcdUEanEtnh-1n6Rr0fViYmUM6VupnFB36tIu_MmEV2Uo8YLRyLjfeGofb9o/s2048/Turnbull+-+for+TPR+-+from+_notes+from+recently_+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="521" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UeCXEJBby3UqxBVWWjDyCIs8Sa1xT7fygdX7HVEABEtDldxkiQwfF-Um10f7jHPhjPh5QFFgg3aYEJPJcdUEanEtnh-1n6Rr0fViYmUM6VupnFB36tIu_MmEV2Uo8YLRyLjfeGofb9o/w675-h521/Turnbull+-+for+TPR+-+from+_notes+from+recently_+%25283%2529.jpg" width="675" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVB95hg-6gn3FfouW4AmouOsuZcfvQFhwyFxGjDxZeXNG87Nj7q5cqsDqySmM6hE_UFpzu_UKJY0ArGGw0AwEoSaJEpjYSAjZoNx8QDJNmZ5DzKl3ojimOrAs0uuTLT-h9mvi02lEllc/s2048/Turnbull+-+for+TPR+-+from+_notes+from+recently_+%25284%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVB95hg-6gn3FfouW4AmouOsuZcfvQFhwyFxGjDxZeXNG87Nj7q5cqsDqySmM6hE_UFpzu_UKJY0ArGGw0AwEoSaJEpjYSAjZoNx8QDJNmZ5DzKl3ojimOrAs0uuTLT-h9mvi02lEllc/w680-h524/Turnbull+-+for+TPR+-+from+_notes+from+recently_+%25284%2529.jpg" width="680" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtB44lARLte9gJ1-tyEnYQeEE7n9t4r-VzKQ3ZIuvVS7eydTu0M7g5n29YLAOLTTaA9n9G6EuyUyldLZ8cL8Cw0NDyGuX7frGlFIrDd9myts2ap6It3MzWgMlOAQ0cXuPP7ym6ubMZLbc/s1933/Chris+Turnbull%252C+bio+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1933" data-original-width="1262" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtB44lARLte9gJ1-tyEnYQeEE7n9t4r-VzKQ3ZIuvVS7eydTu0M7g5n29YLAOLTTaA9n9G6EuyUyldLZ8cL8Cw0NDyGuX7frGlFIrDd9myts2ap6It3MzWgMlOAQ0cXuPP7ym6ubMZLbc/w271-h415/Chris+Turnbull%252C+bio+pic.jpg" width="271" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Chris Turnbull</b> is the author of<i> Continua</i> (Chaudiere Books 2015; Invisible Press 2019) and<i> [ untitled ]</i> in <i>o w n</i> (CUE Books 2014). Recent chapbooks include <i>contrite</i> (above/ground 2019), <i>Undertones</i>, a collaboration with text/artist Bruno Neiva (Low Frequency Press 2019), <i>notes from recently</i> (Trainwreck Press 2020), and, with artist Dominique Cameron, a visual and poetic exchange, <i>Converse Walking</i> (stickywilly press, 2020). Other visual and text based work can be found online, in print, and within landscapes. She curates a footpress, <i>rout/e</i>, whereby poems are planted on trails: <a href="http://www.etuor.wordpress.com">www.etuor.wordpress.com</a>. </span><p></p><div><br /></div>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-66201530397616394322021-02-05T12:11:00.000-08:002021-02-05T12:11:22.719-08:00Two Poems, by Lillian Nećakov<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wreckhouse
Winds<br /><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was a lie we told for years. That it had snowed in June of ’67, because we
could,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">because
no one stopped us, because the trees that day, looked as if they were made<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">of
bone or young ice. Because the inaccuracy tasted like snow on our tongues and<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">coaxed
us into believing we were much further from the fracture zone than we were.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It
was a cloud song born of broken storm gutters and puddles on the kitchen
linoleum.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
thunderclap in place of a backhand on nights when darkness fell as heavy as a
city.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It
was you and I, weathering the wreckhouse winds, gasping for air, grasping for<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">sunshine,
because the sorrow sprouting from between our fingers, like a tangle of weeds <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">was not an anomaly. Because the funnel clouds that formed in our backyard<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">were
simply the architecture that held our father’s fury. Because the world ended<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">where
our driveway met the periwinkles and the constellations looked like they<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">were
held together with safety pins and because 40 light-years away there was<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">something
called a goat star. Because a moon as big as an opera would come<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">and
go in witness of bone being broken into fossil. And the shoals and islets of
our<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">childhoods
were like lame animals left neglected under the northern sky, and the<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">horizon,
as thin as a sheaf of wheat bridled all the madness of the killing frost.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It
was a lie we told for years because it was you and I, lilting under the whisper
of<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">the
aurora borealis in wait of grace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: ; color: #202122; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ōkunoshima<br /><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: ; color: #202122; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We remove our shoes
before entering the poison gas museum<br /></span><span style="background: ; color: #202122; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">you whisper </span><i><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Usagi Jima</span></i><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and the sky fills with
watermarks<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">a flatus slips through the ginkgo trees unbuttoning leaf after
leaf<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">until the ground is feathered yellow<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">later, we will find a secret map wrapped in rabbit fur<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">and a photograph of a fisher-wife holding a small child<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">covered in mustard gas<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">and later still<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">the cheery captain will ferry us across the Seto Inland sea<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">along the fog bank<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">back to Hiroshima<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">where the sun will scream open-mouthed<br /></span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">against a dandelion wind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8D6dW0FsqsqOglhkMLzVd-Pwb1wclytMNLzyepeQLnoBJglQr4gxLTN8g-8TYUvhbxgcTcfVwLldUIz2s4SiQgdV2AjTR3K9-4Ay9VUAD0bt_REJNTtdpedfiKy39OnP2SKDKekA-4kE/s3264/IMG_1275.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8D6dW0FsqsqOglhkMLzVd-Pwb1wclytMNLzyepeQLnoBJglQr4gxLTN8g-8TYUvhbxgcTcfVwLldUIz2s4SiQgdV2AjTR3K9-4Ay9VUAD0bt_REJNTtdpedfiKy39OnP2SKDKekA-4kE/w294-h392/IMG_1275.JPG" width="294" /></a></b></div><b>Lillian
Nećakov</b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
is the author of six books of poetry, numerous chapbooks, broadsides and
leaflets. Her new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">il virus </i>is
forthcoming from Anvil Press (A Feed Dog Book) in April 2021. In 2016, her
chapbook <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lake Contains an Emergency
Room</i> was shortlisted for bpNichol chapbook award. During the 1980s she ran
a micro press called “The Surrealist Poets Gardening Association” and sold her
books on Toronto’s Yonge Street. She ran the Boneshaker Reading series from
2010-2020. She lives in Toronto and just might be working on a new book. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-70819700485814194532021-02-01T08:33:00.023-08:002021-02-01T08:33:01.080-08:00Four Poems, by Chris Hutchinson<p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><a name="_Toc40177290"></a></b><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>MEANWHILE, MYRMIDONS</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Clouds float by<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">like the distracted minds<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of underpaid lab
technicians.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Their hypothesis is<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">thoroughbred
enlightenments<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">breed rough lichens.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Meanwhile, the faces of
Myrmidons<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">appear in the rear view
mirror, grotesque<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">like half-formed similes.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We mean what we say<br /></span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">when we say we say <br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">what we mean</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">they say<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">without really having to—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> <br /><br /></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc58577119;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>ACCORDING TO THE ART OF POWER</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc58577119;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177290;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Your resubmitted treatise on class warfare<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">has supplanted my feelings<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">which once tried to spell the word<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">“hunger” in blood-tipped toothpicks<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">on the paper plate of the moon.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An evening breeze spins around your
oyster mushroom hairstyle.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">If they were real, your cheeks might
boast a puce filigree of veins.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From this place, Jupiter appears<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">multiplied in the compound eyes of
office towers<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">before it rolls across your naked forearm
and snags<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">on a razor-wire tattoo. It’s still
summer.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another plinth gets vandalized<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">by billowing sail-shaped shadows, but
then </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">it’s too late. Liberty Island turns
blue.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc58577120;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40605154;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><br /> </o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc58577120;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40605154;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>ANOTHER POEM THAT WANTS SOMETHING TO DO WITH HISTORY BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH
ME, THANK GOD</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40605154;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc58577120;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Beneath
a blue afternoon of evergreens<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">vernacular
shadows and cerebral-colored mosses<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">once
dappled and draped themselves in slow-motion-time across<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">acres
of the exposed sandstone’s flesh.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Behind
a dust-spangled screen<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
regrets, I once heaved and scattered myself into being like this—<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">with
the charm of a pointillist, drunk on schnapps.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Today,
the sky slantwise thrusts the net of its will<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">upon
you, and me, and everyone who’s ever been<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">quarantined
with seven-billion hues, post-factual<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">grooves,
and pornographic options.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I
slaughter from afar, as always.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">You
text, twerk, invent new pronouns<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sail
away with Musk to Mars.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pastiche,
pandering, and politics<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">instead
of poetry. Clout.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I
cross my heart, hope not to die.<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Your
mind’s sun-shot<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">like
a hummingbird’s wing beneath</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">sledgehammers
of disinformation.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Together,
we once gnawed the mineral-rich air<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">spat
vapid hashtags back at the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">both
of which, today, let’s both agree<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">taste
like rust.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40177293;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
<br /><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Toc40605186"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc40605186;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>YOU’D THINK I’D NEED A TITLE</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">You’d
think vanilla swimwear would be<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
envy of chocolate statuary.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">You’d
think psychedelic lichens would mean more<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">interest
in four-player chess as a metaphor</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">for
metaphoricity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
as you — who on a cold bench facing the river valley<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">feeds
an albino skunk crumbs of stale coffee cake —</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">as
you might say — you meaty man of valor, you lover<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
the word </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">“moreover” —</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Look
on my works, ye mighty</i><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">and
disambiguate!</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
the truth is never not anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLwoIrqtNJILvUDwA2QsQ-3SnPrD5bMpdERMUxDHJrs1h2-CokMu9O_De3bWFq67vnJ5mu5gxdYKNpwZKdNsqJbBAyTytLvJeYZMVz4W0hKgRlWV_gNJLlUbylkHrcrK8-Fo6czPzbiiw/s1380/headshot+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="1380" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLwoIrqtNJILvUDwA2QsQ-3SnPrD5bMpdERMUxDHJrs1h2-CokMu9O_De3bWFq67vnJ5mu5gxdYKNpwZKdNsqJbBAyTytLvJeYZMVz4W0hKgRlWV_gNJLlUbylkHrcrK8-Fo6czPzbiiw/w359-h340/headshot+.jpg" width="359" /></a></div>Canadian writer <b>Chris Hutchinson</b> is
the author of four poetry books as well as the speculative autobiography in
verse novel<i> Jonas in Frames</i>. His most recent poetry collection, <i>In
the Vicinity of Riches</i> (Goose Lane Editions / icehouse poetry), appeared in
spring, 2020. Catch him online at: <a href="http://chris-hutchinson.com">chris-hutchinson.com</a><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-62264214078919706602021-01-29T03:33:00.000-08:002021-01-29T08:23:14.472-08:00Five Poems, by David Martin<p> </p><p class="Body"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">This
tree,<br /><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">a
furious machine,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">spewing
blossoms about<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">its
face. And fruit, obscene,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">demeans
birds who pick out<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">with
rancid shouts<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">the
limits they can glean.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Root
splines overrule<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">the
soil’s fallow pact,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and
thylakoids in leaves<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">deceive
light, extract<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">photons
and stack<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">up
throbbing molecules.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Though
engine appears<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">to
sleep, its pore-exhaust<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">will
soak into our night.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Upright,
bole burns frost<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">so
no fuel’s lost<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">in
deciduous gears.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Profit
of breath is mine.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">My
greedy instrument<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">consumes
as its bond<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">beyond
what it can vent,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and
never content<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">with
either air or time.</span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Georgia";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Georgia";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Security<br /><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">My
crank radio wound to its utmost, I ease<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">into
the smoke-lacquered cab to oversee<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">a
construction site through its night scree.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Static
cranes, stark girders — it’s these<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
guard by flashlight, flip phone, brass keys.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">After
final newsbreak, fade-in with spooky<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">intervals,
and this episode’s keen guest: he<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">solders
words into a fine wire breeze,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">segues
from stone age to neutrino quarks.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Remote
viewing. Ghost ledgers. And Ouija<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">credos.
Wrap up with Earth’s ballooning core.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
haven’t slept in dark for years, but my work<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">of
sitting watch from dead hours to sun debris<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">allows
airwaves to mute my brain’s bed roar.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Georgia";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Georgia";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">All-Ages Show, 1999</span></b></p><b><br /></b><span face="Georgia&quot, serif" style="color: #343434;"> </span>
<p class="Default" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Slam-dance riot;
stropped elbows seek the jaw.<br /></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif">The Neckers squall in
Carpenters’ Union Hall.<br /></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif">Teen punks pissed in
alleys, our hair like saws.<br /></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif">Slam-dance riot:
stropped elbows greet the jaw.<br /></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif">To practice or sign
to a label’s against the law.<br /></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif">Set’s done when your
drummer begs for a brawl.<br /></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif">Slam-dance riot.
Stropped elbow quits my jaw.<br /></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif">King Rats spew at the
Carpenters’ Union Hall.</span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #343434;"><span> </span><span><br /></span></span></o:p></span><span face="Georgia&quot, serif"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">A
Frame</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Georgia";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>for Ron Martin<br /><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">They
say the first time you do it is a mess.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Five-hole,
they’re right. I pounded with a crew<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">those
studs that will abide just south of true.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Joists,
sills, headers of our frame under stress<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">of
inexperience erected an edifice you’d guess<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">hung
by drunkards, addicts, those with screws<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">well
past loose. Again, on the nail. We blew</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">cigarette
crows from nostrils, stooped to bless<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">bungalow
sprouting at edge of endlessness,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and
saw its future, owned by the likes of you,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">gratefully
guileless of novice hands that glue<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">boards
just enough to turn backs on success,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">then
head home, blotting tissue with alcohol,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and
shrewd enough to never look inside a wall.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body" style="tab-stops: 69.75pt 239.8pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Formula<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Carrots, pasta,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">grapes, and water.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Lego, Minecraft,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Harry Potter.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Bicker, settle,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">make-believing.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Giggle, gloating,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">grudges, grieving.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Freckles, iris,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">blood type, skin tone.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Carefree, anxious,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">accident-prone.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mirrors, puzzles,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">son and daughter.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Carrots, pasta,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">peas, and water.</span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Georgia";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLb3KiAE2ILYvkNY7BVTmqRbaouNXbRL47eqPDlQNITQWKysSiXC7fYmVScI7WEeokeSTZjYAtqJfDb0no51UGOoiSkHZg1nGXXME6c47RHijAsVVxWBMsLHVDPOTREPNkuFOmZxwRRe4/s1280/David+Martin.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="1280" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLb3KiAE2ILYvkNY7BVTmqRbaouNXbRL47eqPDlQNITQWKysSiXC7fYmVScI7WEeokeSTZjYAtqJfDb0no51UGOoiSkHZg1nGXXME6c47RHijAsVVxWBMsLHVDPOTREPNkuFOmZxwRRe4/w348-h298/David+Martin.jpeg" width="348" /></a></b></div><b><a href="https://davidjohnmartinblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">David Martin</a></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> works as a literacy
instructor in Calgary and as an organizer for the Single Onion Poetry Series.
His first collection, <i>Tar Swan</i> (NeWest Press, 2018), was a finalist for
the Raymond Souster Award and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize.
David’s work has been awarded the CBC Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Vallum
Award for Poetry and <i>PRISM international</i>’s poetry contest, and has
appeared in numerous journals across Canada.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-10443546335784968242021-01-28T14:12:00.004-08:002021-01-28T14:14:24.219-08:00Rosemary oil lowered the heart, by Michelle Moloney King <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIPQE-tRZJY2NV6-tiGk4Dnxv5EZgOAnaLH64iJ1KoWzMcpa01KHSIW9q1m2fkNKc6SJi8Ry_eS5zKxYpXmcqJI8Tg7fvkLJHuFO8vliRP9F-XFU2X9np3eN4JYPSb6ruEaaZ-kyDfog/s2048/Rosemary+oil+lowered+the+heart+.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1448" height="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIPQE-tRZJY2NV6-tiGk4Dnxv5EZgOAnaLH64iJ1KoWzMcpa01KHSIW9q1m2fkNKc6SJi8Ry_eS5zKxYpXmcqJI8Tg7fvkLJHuFO8vliRP9F-XFU2X9np3eN4JYPSb6ruEaaZ-kyDfog/w392-h555/Rosemary+oil+lowered+the+heart+.jpeg" width="392" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://michellemoloneyking.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"></a></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVP-1gKhLHGTwuSpdBfSp_StRlLemtI6UC5lKBKR9ULDzktO_U_qBBs3nvoIfZKEO1I3JJknoCcgiiJnVV6he_7zWwQya_jHduYH9F-Kyy43dMEYgxeKEZJdGvkiI_aqJc_5rfhhzm9gc/s1562/20210120_165730.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1562" data-original-width="1340" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVP-1gKhLHGTwuSpdBfSp_StRlLemtI6UC5lKBKR9ULDzktO_U_qBBs3nvoIfZKEO1I3JJknoCcgiiJnVV6he_7zWwQya_jHduYH9F-Kyy43dMEYgxeKEZJdGvkiI_aqJc_5rfhhzm9gc/s320/20210120_165730.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><a href="https://michellemoloneyking.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Michelle Moloney King</a></b>, {she/her} neo-postmodern poet, asemic poet, & editor of <i><a href="https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Beir Bua Poetry Journal</a> </i>/ Academic background ~ computer science, primary teaching & Hypnotherapy / Work published in <i>Spillwords</i>, streetcake, <i>Artistic Differences Project</i>, <i>Babel Tower</i>, & others / Holds Pushcart Nom / Visual Artists Ireland member / <p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-54525099929295047842021-01-26T06:00:00.030-08:002021-01-26T06:00:04.861-08:00Three Poems, by Chris Banks<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Reverse</b><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Conquistadors
sail back to Spain<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">leaving
the Amazon untouched.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">An
old man regains his memories,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
child her innocence. The giant oak<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">over-hanging
the street is an acorn<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">with
mighty ideas. The marriage<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">never
happens because </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I love yous<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">slip
backwards into the lover’s mouths.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">How
runs the stream? Strange to think<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">time
running opposite. Hindsight<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in
front of you like a coxswain telling you<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to
pick up the pace as you row<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">towards
old tragedies and delights.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maybe
you will handle things differently<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">this
time. The dead dog is a puppy<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in
your arms. Your deceased friend<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">smiles.
The cancer cells gone. Despite<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
creams, you are getting younger<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and
younger looking. Where does it end?<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With
no surprises. Tomorrow is already<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">yesterday.
Perhaps it is best time runs on<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">ahead
of us, the past a guide, and not a bully<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">waiting
up the path, taking off his rings<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">one
by one, saying this is going to hurt.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I
guess I will take the future even if it means<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">our
lives unravel unknown like red carpets<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">at
a debutante ball where fate is only a minor<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">player
at the party in a tuxedo handing out<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">pickled
or d'oeuvres, while the rest of us<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">look
for dance partners, or maybe leave early,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">because
lost as we are, at least we are moving<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
way sharks do not stop moving,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
days, the hours, the minutes,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">wild,
unfamiliar, free.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><b>Edward Gorey<br /><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
feel most times like an Edward Gorey character<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">pulled
from an illustration, made to stand here<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">among
the traffic lights and the mall renovations.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Just
the mere act of living one day at a time now<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
diminishment of all the romantic possibilities<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I
dreamed of in my twenties. No one ever dies<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
ennui. At least you can hit two or three words<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">together
to spark a new idea or a conceit but<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’ve
grown too old to explain how images work<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to
the young. The world happens with or without<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">you.
The tree in my yard will be standing long<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">after
I’m gone. A poem persists whether anyone<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">reads
it or not. In Montreal, I remember long<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">winters,
my own inability to write anything<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">but
failure, which reduced me to reading and<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">rereading
the work of others who were like Gods<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to
me, the way their poems flowed through,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">eddied
around forms, a consciousness that<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">seemed
semi-divine, but really was the product<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
hard work and ambition. You can’t teach<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">ambition
which is the pilot-light of any poem.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mostly,
I want more from a meagre lifetime<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
teaching which is why I catch a glimpse of<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">my
former self scurrying down St Urbain street<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">with
the snow falling lightly on iron staircases<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
the many houses while I try to find my way<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to
the Graduate party where I will no doubt<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">be
embraced by friends. I remember the lights<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">lining
the street, the warm glow coming out<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
the houses, my trudging along sidewalks<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">through
snow, thinking life does not get<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">better
than this, this soft sifting of memory<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and
experience, which itself is like a Gorey<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">illustration,
the tiny figure in the foreground,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the
houses looming about him, a stirring<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
menace somewhere in the frame. I’m forty-<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">seven,
and I still love that kid who will not<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">know
addiction for at least ten more years.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
way his life is still unwritten. His only<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">thought
whether to pick up a quart of beer<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">from
the Depenneur where a twelve year old<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">boy
sits smoking beside his grandfather, or<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">whether
to pick up bagels on the way home.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’m
hungry for that life but I can touch it<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in
a poem. The pleasures of the authentic.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Memorandam</b><br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
moon is moving measurably<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">away
from the earth every year.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In
space, you do not cry because<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">there
is no gravity to make tears flow.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Not
sure this has anything to do<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">with
1,800 thunderstorms sprawling<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">over
oceans and continents at any<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">given
time. I learned most lipstick<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">contains
fish scales. To testify,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">derives
from a Roman practice of<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">making
men swear on their testicles.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Coca-cola
was originally green,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
detail sparking neurons in my brain<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to
fire 200 times per second,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">when
really all I wanted to say<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">was
something nice about flowers,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">like
how tulips were once a form<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
currency, or how their bulbs<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">can
be substituted for onions,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">which
are stray facts sitting in<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
surgical tray until I place them<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">here
for safekeeping. So what?</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The
truth is most facts will never<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">give
me a night’s satisfaction, no<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">matter
what I say about Leonardo<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Da
Vinci inventing scissors,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">roller
coasters being first designed<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to
help people avoid sin, Buzz<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Aldrin
urinating on the lunar<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">surface.
No wonder the moon<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">is
moving away from us! This is<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
memorandum of understanding<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">between
me and Voyager I spinning<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">its
golden record way out past<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">our
solar system, Mozart playing<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in
the vacuum of space, as if<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">in
its data stream, its little sighs<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">of
ones and zeros, there might be<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">an
official important message,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">and
not just a random assortment of facts<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">calling
collect to the stars<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">that
have no answering machines.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://chrisbankspoetry.com/" target="_blank"></a></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSsyr3aotTC4i3DWCWOzaIQaRXTRCG3vOztq7ZMuSiRx-xtNGyGM67otux9_pxe78fKDf8HXs6iVK2yHIFetKS_T0xyfderjbWn_vn1gMUb5gHy1kDGP65WCTIWQbfIODqTP8Ei4Zx7c/s960/Banksphoto.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSsyr3aotTC4i3DWCWOzaIQaRXTRCG3vOztq7ZMuSiRx-xtNGyGM67otux9_pxe78fKDf8HXs6iVK2yHIFetKS_T0xyfderjbWn_vn1gMUb5gHy1kDGP65WCTIWQbfIODqTP8Ei4Zx7c/w338-h451/Banksphoto.JPG" width="338" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chris Banks</b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is a Canadian
poet and author of six collections of poems with <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Deepfake Serenade</i></span> from Nightwood Editions forthcoming (Fall
2021). His first full-length collection, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Bonfires</i></span>,
was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’
Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award
for best first book of poetry in Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His poetry has appeared in <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>The
New Quarterly</i></span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Arc Magazine</i></span>,
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>The Antigonish Review</i></span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Event</i></span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>The Malahat Review</i></span>,<i> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">GRIFFEL</span></i>,
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>American Poetry Journal</i></span>,<i> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Prism International</span></i>, among other
publications. He lives and writes in Waterloo, Ontario.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924332693475867781.post-6282727030977151352021-01-24T13:31:00.007-08:002021-01-24T13:32:28.119-08:00Driving, by Chris Johnson<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>after John Newlove</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">how lonely & lovely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">car wheels on a<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ontario highway &</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">the hills ahead<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">shrouded in clouds.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">rain is on the route,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">with views of rocks</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">constant creeks, trees.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">home is a cold</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">beer & warm fire,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a familiar smile that asks</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“how was the drive?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifoKa5Tr0wLZcK8Vk0JMxxslhKdj4WaW1Mjz8-agHwsJjxWpcIKGNDxYSZ8-AfprD8TdiKdWdXm2hHAbCUePn1X5Q_c_xV0qEBDL5HiO15AdwoQbPwiFDpiXPx7wfbFxGOX1DIz9Lu5w8/s952/unnamed+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="750" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifoKa5Tr0wLZcK8Vk0JMxxslhKdj4WaW1Mjz8-agHwsJjxWpcIKGNDxYSZ8-AfprD8TdiKdWdXm2hHAbCUePn1X5Q_c_xV0qEBDL5HiO15AdwoQbPwiFDpiXPx7wfbFxGOX1DIz9Lu5w8/w281-h357/unnamed+%25281%2529.jpg" width="281" /></a></span></b></div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Chris Johnson</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (he/they) was born and raised in
Scarborough, and they currently live in Ottawa, the unceded territory of the
Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation. He is the Managing Editor for <i>Arc Poetry
Magazine</i>, and his previous chapbooks include <i>Listen, Partisan!</i> (Frog
Hollow Press, 2016) and <i>Gravenhurst</i> (above/ground press, 2019).
<a href="https://twitter.com/ceeeejohnson" target="_blank">@ceeeejohnson</a> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Photo credit: Nicolai Gregory</span></p>The Pi Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662457973887815531noreply@blogger.com0