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~ midsummer's eve 2007 ~
the
reunion issue
uglycousin experimental poem: a
reunion of chopped lines
Scott and Angie mess
with our contributors' poems. .
Reading a Coworker's Obituary
by
Corey Cook
before being asked to leave, she answered
/ the phone breathlessly, always breathlessly, / and tried to direct calls, tried to take messages.
The 24 Hour Cock
by
A. Raymond Johnson
The first time her
cock appears, Audrey calls up her boyfriend and insists he come over right
away. He’s quite good at following orders, but she knows it will be at
least twenty minutes door to door and she doesn’t wait that long to test
it out.
The Man Who Would be Me
by
Bob Knox
“Rick Johnson,” he persisted, sounding a touch less certain. I disabused
him and he went away, somewhat crestfallen. With a shake of the head, I
returned to my solitude, pondering the possible causes of the stranger’s
mistake and the reason for his inquiry.
The mind is fertile
by
Ryan
Uellendahl
The darkest midnights turn to a metropolitan / cumstain of streetlights and taxi exhaust
/ as the stars burn like block party lanterns.
Pictures at a Reunion
by
Paul Hostovsky
Let us go then behind /
gothic iron fences matted with ivy and weeds /
and roll in the damp, mossy, crab grassed grounds.
Dopo che lasci la barra
by
Pedro
Marrero, Jr.
a shifting shape of love in bloom. /
It is the spark of tragedy in a piano tune, /
And Chopin, I imagine poor Chopin,
In the desert of her mind, /
sinking in the sands of a sonata
Uglyrejects
Links to the mags
and rags that rejected the great stuff in this issue.
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