Author: Elizabeth Wing
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The Subway
Precision facegaze -Covert masterbatorsBehind inflammatory newsprintAn ad for a psychic cleansingTucked into the window caulkingHot plastic seats, thighs stickDalmatian in an IKEA bag,Tentacles threaten between the platformAnd the train Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry so that it sings like Elizabeth Wing’s poem THE SUBWAY, click here.
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Luna Park in Winter
And the waitress at IHOPWas so kind When we came in goth and giddyAnd flushed from the snow Extra whipped creamI was eating dirty carrots Out of my pocketWith a hand in my greasy TopknotAnd you said I looked Like the kind of girlWho turns men to deer When they see her bathingIt was one…
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Bee
Nectar – extractionOf temple techniquePetals AjarHeathen spiral to theInner scarSoliciting leg-clotsOf soft bronzeEgg-yolkCloying sinnerSegmentedExoskeletonTiny breadwinner Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry so that it sings like Elizabeth Wing’s BEE, click here.
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The New Day Comes Quietly in the Apex of the Night
Out of The showerButtering the wetSkin With melon-scented lotion SoftSnow outside And the heaterOverworking The oldBlind woman Sticks her fingersIn my eyesAnd forgetWhat I was saying Roommate washing her underwearIn the sink This is theTime beforeThe earth cracks open Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry so that it…
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Like a Dart Frog
The golden dart frog Has enough neurotoxins To kill ten grown men, Evolution starts With something Useful, Spiral luxuriously up, Out, Past the horizon Of the rational. Love’s like that. Perhaps once, There was just enough To drag the dripping mammoth flank Back to your pregnant sister in the…