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SWITCH: Youth Poetics

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Welcome to Paradise Limited & Co Est. dawn of time/discovery of Arctic Our Great White Sale best bargains: $3 for a pair of black-as-coal mining hearts (perfect for energy company galas) $5 for penguin & choking plastic bottles statue on bloated seal skin by neighborhood-water-bottle-dump $7 for dicey packs of Gamble the Future cards (aces […]

The Arctic Tern’s Prayer

Tell the air to hold me in the rushing heart of it And keep its paths straight Away from home let there be a land that Flows with fish and flies And let it taste like it tasted at home Home take this salty scent of home from my head Cut away the memory of […]

Green Tears

The winds whisper words of warning for the World The Father Tree looks up to the eye of the hurricane Circling above him Like vultures Or mankind Wires Now climb the thick trunk Transmitting profit and expenditure statistics to the Queen Ant Metallic impulses spit in the spiralling wires Strangling him as they climb Ever […]

FAO

Taken from the fridge, a child’s drawing of a family holding hands straw-haired, stick-armed, happy-faced this is what we looked like An old man’s collection of apple stickers or faded ID labels the Granny Smiths and Pink Ladies this is what we were called A sack of rusty copper coins engraved with scripture and the […]

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