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H o w i e G o o d
One of Our Planes Is Missing
Teenage hackers listen
through massive headphones
for the ping of sonar.
“I still have hope,” one says.
The degree of cunning
required to escape being born
just continues to multiply.
J e a n i e T o m a s k o
Afternoon Still Life
A warm afternoon rain after which
light changed everything the way
stepping outside after illness does.
When I said I want a small window
with a yellow curtain, I’m not sure
what I meant. Maybe I want to live
here with you, and the rain.
K a r i n O l a n d e r
on leak day
sorry to alarm
it’s just the good cells
attacking the bad ones
the country map fluttered
each state looked suspicious
i’ll take the right hand
corner, you take the left
seize up now. a foreign body
attacks another foreign body
where do we go to escape
i mean return
where are you going
give me back the free highways
and porches. the yellowing trees
speeding up in open air