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January 2023 Issue [Poetry]

Two Poems from Vexations

Colonies popped out of empire like mushrooms
Coral reefs thinned out their amenities, the entire pluck
Could be removed en masse for complete evaluation
Daughter landed wrong at the bottom of a slide
The weight of the ice melt slowly tilted the Earth
As for the starry crown, we didn’t know what to do with it

We volunteered to make phone calls to lonely people
A shy mimosa cringed when you touched it
A compound connected with a receptor and a smell occurred
Daughter stared at her plate, she wouldn’t eat

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’s book-length poem Vexations, titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition for solo piano, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in March.



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