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October 2018

 
  • John Lee Clark
  • Ari Banias
  • Meena Alexander
  • Clint Smith
  • Deborah Landau
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Poem

From the magazine:

Otto Dix

In Exodus
Moses is hidden

in a cleft, behind God’s hand,
begging,

and he sees — rushing past him — 
God’s back, diminishing.

Moses stops begging.
God’s back is black fog.

I know. He, we guess,
means to do it,
to do all of this.

The brute center part
of an iridescent moth.

The carnation
against the...
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Poem

From the magazine:

Where Are the Days of Tobias

The fresco cracks cooperatively over time. Not to give a secret away
but gradually to break off keeping it. In the sky you make birds
like this, one wing longer than the other, an asymmetrical v
wedged against wind, one stroke longer than...
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Poem

From the magazine:

Panic at John Baldessari’s Kiss

The aftermath always happening like an airplane falling, or a man
midair falling from a horse, and an arrow, a gun, many guns
pointing away, at us, our all bull’s-eye-on-the-mark. This is what he
sees when he sees. Maybe Wrong or not, the...
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