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Update for 05.13.08:

Male Model by Phil Doran

Set to Replay by Willie Smith

Backsliding by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Tree by G. David Schwartz

05.05.08:

Disintegration by Don Hucks

Five Feet and Building by Joel Van Noord

Grocery Aisle by Richard Lighthouse

Cross the Road by Ashok Niyogi

04.29.08:

Lookalikes by Phil Doran

Dinner by Brandi Wells

The Modern Covenant by Daniel E. Wilcox

Death by Onions by Michael Frissore

04.21.08:

Future's Children by Kimberly Raiser

Identity Theft by George Anderson

The Datists by Adam Engel

A Great Deal of Money by Justin Hyde

04.14.08:

Mr. Papaya and Dale by Eric Suhem

California by Caroline Imreibe

Aftermath of Vehement Argument #1,068 by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Trip-Hammer Vitality by Lisa Nickerson

04.07.08:

The Florence of Basel, or Why Readers of Nietzsche Need to Read Burckhardt by Jeff Crouch

Slideshow by Miles J. Bell

Friends of the Poet by Sean C. Bowen

Picture Perfect by Leah Baldwin

03.24.08:

The Streak by Jeremy Hendrix

Grab Your Butts by Emme Hor

Far Away by Ashok Niyogi

Staring Down a White-Tailed Doe by Aleathia Drehmer

03.17.08:

The Hairbrush by Vernard Kennedy

Dog Days of Winter by Niall Berkeley

Poem From My Grave by Michael Lee Johnson

Mashed Potatoes and Hamburgers by Matt Finney

03.10.08:

Hard Work by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Jetty Cake Pigs by J.D. Nelson

I'm Quiet in Bed by Moctezuma Johnson

Tequila Shakes by Richard Lighthouse

Digging Delmore or Poetry Archaeology with Peretz Bernstein
for Delmore Schwartz

by Lisa Nickerson

inside the burning bush promiscuous Jane Says
inside the fire's left ventricle hot blooded God wears
a scarlet skirt and a pirate patch
hermaphrodite lips ventriloquist to Not_Quite_Delmore
Stories

about that which consumes but does not burn.
maybe we'll make that Creation in Venice
if that isn't too pretentious for little Girls and others who stumble
into the rubble of the eternal burning Vesuvius

this wreckage this catacomb let's skull some
dirty ideas my ashen Pompeii ruin
o alienate my eyes my ears
let me rape your synapse hoping for fragmented hero rescue

Warning! Warning! Danger Will Robinson!

for Delmore Schwartz at the almost end of the world

Delmore's thoughts slip like hands on an oiled ass
the cats howl to go out and the shredded pork on seeded bun is too hot
so he talks to himself about King Musharraf the Xth
the state of martial law imposed by the dauphin Bush
about how black blood once gasped from her collapsing veins
and the value of Parliament's crops being harvested in the new colonies
most of the population in a state of suspended animation

On Alpha Centauri Dorothy's heels click
"there's no place like home"
Cleopatra has taken to hiding under the house and
Penny's Debbie has torn off her hat

no one has used the door at the Maytag store in a millennia or six
the blue neon long leaked in the streets
undaunted
Delmore grabs for his fountain pen and jet pack

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Lisa Nickerson's children are hungry because she's too busy trying to write poetry. Her poem "Tom said Frank O'Hara would plant a poem in your head," has been accepted for Snow Monkey's 2008 Spring publication. Several poems will appear in the November issue of the Clockwise Cat's Imitation issue and her poem "le jardin" won an honorable mention in the Florida Gwendolyn Brook's Poetry Association's 2006 Annual Contest. She lives in New England.

posted 12.03.07.

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