from ATLAS
PILLAR on marble to run hands folds or false holding hands now paper skin smudge her wheelchair "just a repellant artifact" the not slaying body absorbs (morality) taste repellant a taste of art of elegant proportions shortened limbs distinction "at least I didn't' get there by " should be limbs should defect (phocomelia syndrome) not male not wearing male not dead in uni- form not wearing male there by slaying to pass out Bibles |
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LOT interlocking s(t)ate paralysis conduit statue-look swollen breasts and belly away clay fixed cast caste claw yet whom shall nesting sets of waltz just so so light so liberty ultimate limb limb oh there paired or solo anthem a posture one two three one two excise off with it or her a mother does this is done to boy child or fathered feather sense feather slight limb lower vocables erased with feather-touch whom nerves (untucked) touch |
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rescue net
knot of
recourse question
cue the
dream to carry perch un speak pick up dry lips sooth which pills pilled pulled nubs to cut or smooth beneath a hollow of ticking recluse and skid I swoop he hawks who presides oh! obey (ocular proof) fallen well-nest who sings not rosy turn turn lift my rescue my reckless weight-free lift-body is not a metaphor to move to sleeve oh would I one two three one two three |
jillmagi is the
author of Threads, a hybrid
work of text and images forthcoming in 2006 from Futurepoem Books, and
the chapbook Cadastral Map,
published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
Her work has also appeared in The New Review of Literature, Aufgabe,
Chain, Boog City, Pierogi Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City Review,
and murmur and is forthcoming in Freehand. Her visual work has
been exhibited at The City College/City University of New York gallery,
the 7th International Meeting of Visual Poetry, and the Brooklyn
Working
Artists Coalition group shows. Jill edits Sona Books,
a
community-based chapbook press with a corresponding web-zine. She
teaches at The City College/CUNY Center for Worker Education, an
interdisciplinary liberal arts degree program for working adults.
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