Apartment Poetry Quarterly

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20F MAXWELL GONTAREK

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from POLISH MOLINO

 

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Goodnight to all my dears

The forgotten blackbirds on the twilit lawn are getting wet

The moon is so big that it can't fit through the window

I want so much at this moment lyrics swallowed by heart at night

The liquid vertical heart

Blue flow of foreground on a blue background and die easily

While we are looking for a common

 

With all the polysemic force of “projection”
Made habitable by that neither relative
When light comes to color the surfaces
             and a separation remains

 

Of wild bedding
Down

 

 

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Hadn’t we known it all before?
The last attempted inwardness
             of the blue and blown books
The promises magnetized by pastures
Little care lane and fen for object loss

 

Inhering in the externality
That enables us to remember
What requires even pain be ornate
The difference it makes whose body
Your breath passes through

 

 

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I shouted that it was finally time to fight the airport

             and start devouring each other

The bishop in the river blessed the birth of fish

The whale fled to the beds of fragrant lime trees

Someone’s hand no one’s it seemed drove a nail into my mouth

Bulging my thick neck burst forth and flooded the century with fire

 

“Figure”
             is the name Wat gives to the born in this gap
Supplementing the recesses with treble with spur
A roll of alternating “m”s and “w”s
Shot at
Saturation valleys
Absolute exteriority valleys
What it would mean to write
             without bowing and scraping

 

Vision poultices the subject

 

All earth is the color of being buried

 

 

 

 

from POLISH MOLINO

 

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Clearing a crease
             pined
Nowise
             co
Some twine
A nervous system not of persons
             that dithers the scenes

 

 

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Then I bowed to the economic miracle
And nothing was admissible

 

Then I scraped the visible plume of the volcano
And it was more than a reflex

 

Then I denoted the action of a poultice
And the precarious attained relevance
             in an intensely mobile flux

 

Then I called it existence
And the triangle became more federal

 

These prepositions are not under the real
“Cause” and “case” rose from the justification
Accelerating carnal anodyne repentance
             for the future we could not have
             redacted

 

Looking for an accent
In this space without choice
Pauses on the faces
Their context partly biscuit

 

 

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Barely there
             radii
What must be said to braid
A landscape is born at the same time
             that an agreement comes apart

 

When F says
             “the hay smells like it’s breathing”
The circumference folds plaintively
             where you can see the lamp clays
And I get this coarse languorous feeling like
             “it is the last of things they have thought”

 

As an exhale
             in the ive
             whirs
Toward mer