by Jim Warner
Lawyers make great poets
because they understand the
economy of language, how
to spend it, and the value of
words. Poets make poor Continue reading
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Trust Is Its Own Currency
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Water and Alloys
by Jim Warner
Who we were slowly turns the color of December dusk,
after a snow squall, where the snow slowly changes to
rain, and then sleet, and then is plowed to a dirty mush
so we can hurry home to an empty house. Your name Continue reading
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A is for Atom–An Instructional Film (1952)
by Annette C. Boehm
A giant of limitless power, at man’s command.
We found him in the head of a pin. In a pincushion.
In a sewing basket. In ships and shoes and ceiling wax
and cabbages and cranes. Continue reading
Burke’s Handbook on Beauty
by Annette C. Boehm
First, be small. A greenfly,
the tip of a finger, a hypodermic needle.
Be smooth. Sealskin, a lisp, a slip,
the freshly waxed hood of a cop car. Continue reading
Doctor Williams, Driving Home
by Tim Suermondt
This delivery went so well
he says, “I should write a poem about it
and fill it with pizzazz.” Continue reading
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