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Permission

A Poem by Anna Auel

I enlisted the services of a team of surgeonsto carve my heart outof this cavity"my community chest. With jabbing knives they cutand cut and cut an..

Armored(illo)

A Poem by Anna Auel

Treasure seeker not a Treasure keeper slathered on the Skin-So-Soft smoothing my goal somewhere along the skin of things “I..

Knowing in the Gift-Wrap

A Poem by Anna Auel

I keep my soul close like letters in the floor wrapped with rubber bands But now I reach inside myself and with my can opener fingers chink ..

toothbrush philosophizing

A Poem by Anna Auel

The center of the universe is a small square box of broken hearts that reaches infinitely to the coastal shelf, then drops to the bottom of a bottom..

Effacement

A Poem by Anna Auel

Paying daily reverence to machine dreams thoughtless electronic buzz Then Coalesce the sunshine and the shade. Spread branches ove..

big mouth

A Poem by Anna Auel

Running a comb through my hair hole-punch circles in my skin so the pressure abates. (can’t say I didn’t see this coming) ..

Hydra

A Poem by Anna Auel

Pouring chloroform in an open wound�" hoping it will deaden the nerves, put this agony to rest. Dreading the time when the monster awake..