Outing
FEEL FREE TO WRITE MY BIOGRAPHY Just leave me out of it. WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT? He yelled at me. In Spanish. SANCTIONS Always sweeping, ever so stiff. IF YOU’RE HAVING TROUBLE VIEWING THIS EMAIL You deserve more from your points. THE […]
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Write Up The Road’s Blog Posts
Bird Count
James Tate. Gary Snyder. Anne Sexton. Sylvia Plath. Frank O’Hara. Lisel Mueller. Galway Kinnell. Weldon Kees. Randall Jarrell. Richard Hugo. Allen Ginsberg. Robert Duncan. James Dickey. Robert Creeley. Gregory Corso. Elizabeth Bishop. John Ashberry. Tradition is they always depart on a certain date. They straggle in but on a certain date they all leave.
Three Poems
THE WORST IS OVER UP SOUTH The sky is local red rock cod. On the horizon a dory sparkles Like sandal straps on B Street. The center of the universe Is over there, somewhere. I’ve had it with playing catch and release . The outcome is more predetermined than pro wrestling And nowhere
An Interview with A.R. Tist
I was born to be an artist. My mom named me, and I’ve never been too excited about what she picked out, so I use my initials. “A” is for Arthur; she thought about naming me “Arthur Rackham Tist” but my dad said, “What kind of a middle name is ‘Rackham’ nowadays?” So she settled
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Eucalyptus Buttons
LEARN HOW Watch this video. Earn $200 cash back. THAT THING BACK EAST A lot of employees are angry. They’re blaming it on that thing back east. HUMMINGBIRDS The little pigs, Siphoning from the oriole feeder, Not nice hosts to our seasonal visitors. SIMPLY FOREVER
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Clinging to Shallow, Rocky Soil
Too much certified sourcing, Ipso facto pirates Moving at a snail’s pace In outer space, Getting their capsules detailed. Too many prompts and bodyslams, (I get them confused) With wind harps in all the colors of the Snacks and sports drinks aisle, Plus other things to penetrate and inflict . Too little every day
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Josè Martí
“To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.” Josè Martí was a prominent leader for Cuban independence and an influential poet; journalist, and newspaper founder, philosopher and professor during
The Phlebotomist from Brazzaville
The world is a rage room overrun By carbon-based stink bugs and lizards Whispering have you gotten vaccinated yet? Adults killing over coloring books, Kids using cell phones for vaping, Underscoring the need for hot stones and medical peels, Framing the need for decolonial poetic intervention, Directed against the epistolary stasis and essentialising
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The Littlest Iceberg
MY DORTER IN WORSHINGTON STATE Gorsh yes. THE #1 DRY CAT FOOD IN ALBANIA Boosts capillary resiliancy. WINTER IN YUCATAN You don’t have to shovel sunshine! THE DARKNESS THAT IS HAWAII Oversized tension. A broken electric heart. Curled up on the rocks. The language of smoke. SAN
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Two Poems
THERE IS LITERALLY SO MUCH ICE ON THE ROAD Even after I lost all that weight I’m like I cannot rule out total chaos. He’s all I don’t like your attitude. Dxed with too much zooming, Dosing in micro, mega or maxi, It drug on for probably three months But the funniest