Poetry
Notes on Her Dear Perversion
Finalist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize G. O’Keeffe is invited to the Islands by Dole to paint pineapples. They want someone who understands the hard poke of deciduous hunger. …
Read MoreThe Bone Chapel
Finalist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize What you are now we used to be; what we are now you will be. The friar’s hologram greets us thusly. Says if …
Read MoreMoving Back to the Bakken Play
Finalist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize Oil derricks on the outskirts of Estevan gesticulate like dawn-risen monks bowing at unseen shrines. Around here, everybody’s working overtime. The new Ford …
Read MoreScarecrow Maintenance
Winner of the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award The old man’s itchy greatcoat fell to me and given his complaint of its intransigence I landed on the notion …
Read MoreThe Coin Under the Leftmost Sliding Cup
Winner of the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize
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Poetry Is Barbarous
“The extra lines are probably all wrong, but—right as you are—I could not stop. By the time you get this note, I will have gotten rid of them, myself.” —Samuel …
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The Last Matador
It is good to be finished, finally. I am relieved. The protesters and politicians have their points, and if a certain species of man is allowed to fade into extinction …
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Plan to Be Ready
My intern swings a lantern through the swamp. Bloodhounds on the track of the elusive mind map, in our boat we nose over ghost orchids, cull lucid proofs from the …
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You and Your Rich Inner Life
External conditions conspire to slip along the waxy thread of your nerves and hunker down, cathectic, in the carry-on you keep at the ready for a flight from the everyday. …
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