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{talk of oil and elevation} those weeks a giant poodle on the corner we’ve asked and passed reassured by the window it seems in a certain populace alpha pets in the dumpster this is a real cherry and the New Year begins bail and slower good friend an article there are years of speech therapy she sits down with a plan of recounting near misses possible fatal encounters that may not be avoided you wrote out two pins outward slug gloss whiskers new drop in {our business with her} her trills undone endless circling and gift giving yes you have to attend some lyrics I spare happy big fat girl I am dissolve perfectly you are perfectly aware essentially the other stuff in terms of pages I started turned perpetual boredom in stretch fabric {happily perforations} enjoyed the narrative shift straight into possibility of historical the idea of small is true (flair) for women's activities collapse exact size of thighs throw suitcase in trunk because everyone is coming caught shoulders caught assembled even in town I wonder this entire page want her horses on sticky velvet still idea and space might be snakes aren’t hard to come by quietly premised the acids are limited several abrupt e-mail configurations Dragon from an ordinary well The conditioners and the conditioned otherwise left alone to a third person tend to bet on anything Obliged to observe adorable at the same time oddly limited It isn’t practical to wear under the heel of evil architects of the effort such freedom Drive up prices think of the movie twenty-four pages my sister and me Albany is a state capital measures of violence try suspicious thought When the red ink began there would be no secrets in short a repairman up the roof There is no equivalent of delays |
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| sarahmangold's work appears in the Chicago Review, Colorado Review, 26, 580 Split and Pom2. Her first book, Household Mechanics (New Issues, 2002) was selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize. Chapbooks include Boxer Rebellion (g o n g, 2004) and Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets, 1998). She currently lives in Seattle, where she publishes Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art (www.birddogmagazine.com). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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