David Wojahn
Kerosene & cowshit & a rented truck, heavy-laden
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& we have "a low-order explosive device."
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Remote engaged. Radio waves, surfing to detonation.
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Pock-marked sky, the color of a bruise,
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then recoil, the building's trepanned north side.
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Working your proofs, second set: I misread crucial for cruel,
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this for your description of the world,
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burning crucial, burning ruthless. The feral
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blood-compounded cry, the child in the rescue worker's
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lemon and black asbestos gloves, the wail
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precise, articulate as theorems. They stagger
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camera-ward. The screen goes dark as braille.
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Book to be read in the dark. Book-for-the-abyss.
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Crucial world. Only world. Pomegranate seed. The famished goddess.
Tables of Content
Seventeen (Fall 2003)
Sixteen (Spring 2003)
Fifteen (Fall 2002) Fourteen (Spring 2002)
Thirteen
(Fall 2001) Twelve (Spring 2001)
Eleven (Fall 2000)
Ten (Spring 2000)
Nine (Fall 1999) Eight (Spring 1999)
Seven, (Fall 1998) Six, (Spring 1998)
Five (Fall 1997) Four (Winter/Spring 1997)
Three (Summer/Fall 1996) Two (Winter 1996)