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Scantily Clad Press, 2008
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The poems of this chapbook have appeared in:
Blaze Vox & Wicked Alice
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Class
I must not forgetTo check
The status ofRasika
And Esther—To hand out
The classes’Chance to judge
Me—callingFor Heather’s voice;
Now—insisting“Nigger-eye[s]” aren’t
Like blackberriesNor phones—
Yes cellular—Too many black men
Yelling un-listened—“Practically
Speaking”Out of my ken.
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Truth
Can thereBe true
Or onlyTruly?
The truthIsn’t all
Good—enough’sThe best love.
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Catholic
Out of proportionLike censers swinging
His faithWas rock-solid
His goodnessWinging
A test that can bePrepared for;
In thisCase failing
Is a flower-grown guard-railNot breakage
Greening acreage
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Heartbeat
Silence saysEaster
Flowers—Rosemary
Savor sprungOut mineral
Tang—yellowNoses a
Polyp—Speechless
Bleeds intoCries.
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Unbroken
Speak “yesAnd no unSplit”—life’sNot a bitch.
We’re in FezTomorrow—Till thenGoodbyes!
There’s beenA big break:Don’t restore.Birds call.
I hear tinLightningStrikes.
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Emily Dickinson Rocks
ThrowingUp I
“HemispheresReversed”
Fall leavesMe colder
I do notMake fall up
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ThroatBloom
GlottalSings mapleLeaves meWithout mySelf—serves soul:HumusFlowers.
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Authority
Says who You-I aren’t theExpert dew
Shines arrivalDo you feel
Tug that’sSoul an eggHatches legsHard as hooves
Club anyone.
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Reason Beyond
I’m a man holding a dandelion—trying to reasonBeyond female/male. What your average family in Mali does on Sunday: do you believeThis an interruption or inclusion? Am I correct thinking I’m human in Sanskrit?We is most when mixed company.In Colorado. In Mexico. In Mexico eating Mole Colorado.
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Sustenance
It won’t just go one wayNor be one thing.
Mrs. Porter mightBe here in the spring.
So much depends onA wheelbarrow:
Women Eating.
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“Rainbow Country”
In the windy light motes makeDust mixes with water wipesThe air clean. The road’sA mess we barelyPass by on:Cheerfully low-downLooking at clouds rush-off Revealing a rainbow.
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Brother
There is always something“To say” to nobody:
Clouds cover:Jade waves
A dolphin ridesWith my brother.
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Visionary
Please help me to make sense
Or when is sensual
Sensible versus screwing up?Birds on poplar boughs cheer me. The sky endears me
To blue along with oceans and a period of Picasso; in a different period heDrew less and less of a bull until there’s no doubt.Grit from gentrification dusts wing-feathers.Because desire’s like that thereThere’s a big fight in the interstice. I need the “untranslatable Ice to watch”: Is gapPrimarily problematic distance or spaceTo see through to? I’m fond of Ferdinand the bull—frown at the kingWatching cruelty in rings—fingering his wife’s bands—full of hope For a new world.
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Mission
Across a bridge from a tribunal Flanked by roses
Essays on iniquity in the makingAt an address the mailman rarely gets right. A week ago swallows Arrived at the mission.
I believe in Bluegrass: Admire a berm for its word.
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Tradition
I’m for tradition: a sandstone rock in wind or PicassosMounted on the wall at Alta Mira.
I hope someone sends me a postcard from there.Is woman Sanskrit? I hope—in any language—means strong.
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Attempting Direct Address
In the interior—hand against
A bough splitting into blooms ride currents of air
Feels like tail-feathers touching.
At this moment can there
Be a we? Empirical evidence suggests
No until there’s a reader: you who
Statistically—if you are a woman—is less likely to be literate.
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Adam Strauss is in the MFA program at UNLV. He adores Las Vegas, along with George Herbert's The Temple and Melvin Tolson's Harlem Gallery. He has an E-chapbook, Nation-State, out with BlazeVox. The poems of Addressare from a manuscript titled From Feminism.