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Table of Contents
Return to Home PageFor Murphy Glow Stick Fingers Jade Riordan
Ode to the Cockroach my tiny minnow Cara Waterfall
Victims of Captology
Kyla Jamieson
The First Treatise
The Second Treatise
The Third Treatise
Yara Farran
Marketplace
Road Trip, 1985
Christopher Evans
If You See Something, Say Something
James Cagney
Poetic Outcrops poetic extracts: study #8 Sean Howard
Tulips for Barbara
Ann E. Michael
Re: Wards of the Crown
Jeremy Luke Hill
Under the Arbor
Heather Bourbeau
Phantom
Courses
Steven Ray Smith
George Bowering: Scatter-Gun
Ken Cathers: the sum
Craig Dworkin: The Déjà Vu of Déjà Dit
Stephen Bett
forbidden music
we should probably
Conor Barnes
Ganapati Brume Yuugen Gulf Adam Day
Friendly Nuts
Carl Joesf Homolka
Courses
Most common is the loop,
a circuit from start to finish.
There is also the out-and-back, outing
to a distance and reverse.
In both, your friends will be exactly
where you left them, tending the ice chest.
Rarer is the point-to-point, start here and end
you don’t know where.
The world’s most storied,
The Boston and The Athens Classic, are these.
The crowds who waive you off will not see you finish.
Every step must be proven anew
to cheering sections that don’t care
how your foregoing fans pepped you up or highballed the sky.
The only job: finish fast.
This passage is also a point-to-point.
Like the canon marathons, only the cadence
of your next footstrike matters and no
devotee will witness more than one.
The only difference: finish slow.