Apartment Poetry Quarterly

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19D ELISE THI TRAN

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ENTRY NO. 3

treatyed, the gleaming rinds and wingspread cormorant

log the break & out of reach conspire for the bank.

a line, the cast of Rest a growing mark


                                        that breeds the creep.

Tall Daughter of the Field aflame in wing—

hark! she takes a tennis-courted breath.

 

 

 

 

ENTRY NO. 4

warping light, a hinge The Even hoards & hoards.

a low gauze drawn across the vesper window’s gaping

thresh & hair


                          lye-soaked up & up upon the walls.

O, sepulchur, erred & precious, summer-boned.

Downstair Voices summoning The Moon.

 

 

 

 

ENTRY NO. 5

dal & aubergine starred board, precious wen swells

black & white—perplex sprawled upon the living-floor,

smokeshowed through the ad breaks.


what is: Production Staged Within a Public Pool?

who is: We Closed Our Eyes & Turned

Our Mottled Faces to The Sun?

 

 

 

 

ENTRY NO. 6

dirt & hair & sinew spoilt & sifting for the atlas.

meanwhile the wrinkled heads evade us, poplar hidden,

elm felled & skinned


                                        alive.

the roving loam, its worm-gnawed ciphers,

helms the rot shone knife.

 

 

 

 

ENTRY NO. 7

the Local Murder wets their beaks

& crafting stratagem, conspire for the needle’s

             eye.


noteheaded cable overlords the mockingbird sight-songs

into mutant overture. hail, hail, Betrayer Moon!

—capsize the bloodlet lattice mast.