Issue 10.2 Spring 2015

10.2 cover image

 

 

One Feels a Shift/Now There is a Certain Amount of Blood
—After A. Baraka’s “Dutchman”

 

Jonah Mixon-Webster

 

 

and for this I can’t seem to beat the dialectic
your tongue makes a tangle of its own


leaving me watered and left to die in the blank
but you knew that, didn’t you?


you knew better than to stuff me with your qualifiers
I’d only eat them alive or worse


give them left-over milk until they grow a brain
there is a face, but don’t take my word for it—


***


my mirrored-self, a dead Clay, lying wet and unjawed
cataloging wishes only to be more godlike


as if thinking hard enough can plus the moon inward,
knock it off its axle, give it a dry hard sucking sound


while running one’s mind over other people’s flesh—
there is a face, but I can’t tell what else


there are too many apples in this bag
and not a place to store my fruit

 

 

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