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Kate Colby
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Roberto Harrison
Animate, Inanimate Aims
Brenda Iijima
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Kerri Sonnenberg
Emptied of All Ships
Stacy Szymaszek
>> Euclid Shudders
Mark Tardi
The House Seen from Nowhere
Keith Waldrop
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Danielle Collobert
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Isabelle Garron
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Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Takako Arai
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Eva Sjödin
Another Kind of Tenderness
Xue Di

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Excerpt from Euclid Shudders

series 29

Assemble its reciprocus

with a vacant knot
blood silence

disaffected by

weathered in wire

antic pillars
sunken skyward

the plastic velocity

otherwise unseen

folding sleep
between two keys

some indistant auricle

identical orphan
said with shorn eyes



series 31

The pivot chord is B which sounds as A in the new key of E. Folds of sleep between clouded and out loud. Its portion of night remains leaf-long and less than a foot away. A ladder of liquid. Or city forgetting to ask. Exactly like a statue. Old fires and profitable ghosts. A phrase worth repeating.