Issue 11.1 Fall 2015

Four Wooden Steps, a Pear Tree,
Seven Push Chairs, and Sad Wallpaper.

Sarah Gregory

A typewriter Chicago.
Felt like home-
Felt like the suburbs.

Oil sings it way
Around your block. Clockwork on a kuku-
And lemon wallpaper.
A thrift shop remix.
An American remix-

Lithuanian mixing with the Polish.
In the pretend suburbs,
With the pretend windows-
Where the clearance Barbie’s go.
Where the clearance Barbie’s missing their left leg go.
Where the clearance Barbie’s missing their left leg go To be played by two tongue households.
First tongue: this is not a boat.
Second tongue: this is how you bake apple pie with pear trees.

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Issue 11.1 Fall 2015

Four Wooden Steps, a Pear Tree, Seven Push Chairs, and Sad Wallpaper.

Sarah Gregory

Four Wooden Steps, a Pear Tree,
Seven Push Chairs, and Sad Wallpaper.