Issue 11.1 Fall 2015

11.1 cover image

 

 

How to Hit on Ladies

 

James Croal Jackson

 

suck in the vacuous space
separating the lines of the
ceiling and the hard cross
of vagary carpet mites –

 

wave the dueling paintbrushes
until the rims break but ever
so coquettishly whisk
the centipede eyelashes –

 

twist the crescent mouth to hark
the worthy obeisance of
patriot songs in a way that
conducts mosquito perseverance –

 

patch the augered suitcase leaking
carrot water but do it so
the bullish cockroach shells
remain intact and walking –

 

reassure her that the future
is a flowing faucet unhinged
like the music of the Grecian
harmonica in gathered cicadas –

 

 

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