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Mary Jo Salter
Rebecca Hoogs
Arianna Kelly
Matthew Zapruder
G.C. Waldrep
Richard Kenney
Zach Savich Part 1 Part 2
Sierra Nelson

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Zach Savich

Post-script (1)

Quiet trilling     To apple meaning
to pick apples or     to quarter something as
one would an apple     or (appellation)
to name     This morning, I
put a letter in the big     mail box
then opened the lid again     not to make sure
the letter went down     but hoping
a reply was already     I've bound
the letters so they read only     dear love dear love
dear love

 

Post-script (2)

A small alley
like the small of a back     Coffee with so much cream
I taste only cream     I open each book
to see if I can imagine     myself reading
the words I am reading     I looked at you and saw

 

Post-script (3)

I looked at you and saw     something I felt
during a moment of personal     significance, for example
traveling     Loving the book
you gave me so much     I stop after each page
Isn't anything continuous     necessarily a landscape?
Even listening is     a letter I am writing

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