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I Vague & Ghostly eere
Pallid FRAGMENT
scar phrased among the freedom
strings consoling crenellate
fret
swans
triplet
zither sharp bowls of proscenium
Of
The Company swerve ditch commissionTAX cook
& spreed close scrape Fanatic
II
SunBeam by Old Glory Tallies
terminus sounds I struggle to you I miss you tugging
the leap
Doctrines and stunning air
and all those little
swords of sun whispering the knuckle doors
III
Baste The Roof The Halls children open
the teething creaks The Tiger Wheel
IV
Blest all our outsized waiting
the Rodeo
Company swerve
ditch commission the
technifiedscholarhasn’tbathedin weeks because of
V YOU
downundertheabyssmoonstimmers
fly the tide
so gently breathes the
Landscape
the wrong tone words we zeroed like fools since we couldn’t even imagine
that much burning
the Company’s strongArmlove
***
face that starts a river (deafening restaurant
river glass curls no further than
greater power in virtue
than
HOROWITZ AT
HOME
to go to &silver
t o c c a t a wet spots the bone yard
dusty t o c c a t a thebones
O,
Gloria, how I kissed you
quick then moved on quick
because you were
so deep in your Lamentations
Schwanengesang Burst
The Precisionist
dares not be precise
any longer
Deafening
restaurant on an homogenous gold coast
whose concentric
street
grates
down
and whorls among ourselves float
glass
face that starts a river
Karen Garthe is author of The Banjo Clock (University of California Press) and Frayed Escort (Center for Literary Publishing, Fort Collins, CO) winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize. Her poetry has appeared in numerous print journals, including New American Writing, Lana Turner, Fence, and Aufgabe, as well in the online journals Flag & Void, Caliban, Altered Scales, and Little Patuxent Review. She lives in New York City.