Apartment Poetry Quarterly

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20C MATTHEW KLANE

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from ON WRITING

 

3

EPISTEMOLOGY

When I first began
to fragment
liberal arts college

I find it hard
to fib
so compartmentalize

I write the word “apartment”
to mean “separation”
but worse
“a leper colony”

I call IT support
“my nurses
in the sanatorium”

 

 

 

 

6

WRIT LARGE

with a fang
harp
I irritate
the nearby trees

my desire writ large
in literature’s
Sharpie:

fear
mongers
hate
wrongs

the language writ larger than
lies of these
liars

 

 

 

 

25

I WROTE THE BOOK

And yet
I don’t feel like
the same person
who wrote
eroding
“who wrote eroding”

who wrote who wrote who wrote

“your boat”

“who wrote who wrote”

eroding