Featured Poet:
Dorothee Lang

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Fri Dec 22, 2006


ballpoint

Dorothee Lang

think ink gusts as
stilt parts of time,
vigil measures to rewrite
swish centennial plans

or barring that one
patron saint of surge
& all that is there,
smug and nerve-racking

Thu Dec 21, 2006


layaway

Dorothee Lang

step up incidentally
on an admittedly moody platform,
unsettled of viable regatta
to figure skate
strident installations
of second guess superlatives

alienate an infliction
a public utility humdrum
an unprovoked postal service
subsequently clockworking
this hippie relic -
reality

Wed Dec 20, 2006


fail-safe

Dorothee Lang

telegraphs hard sell
subterfuge love summits,
the snare blurbs of
interactive memberships

stomach aches dwell pigeonholes
in dining rooms overrun
by satellite streamlined
hardball emotion wire

while midterm classes
alphabetized by conviction
perform the unification merge
with amiable indictment

around the lure hours
of an evicted marina
tacitly beset
by levity

Tue Dec 19, 2006


crush

Dorothee Lang

lava light
voltage skims
bodies sore

mists distend
faintly taste
flustered lust

Mon Dec 18, 2006


rag tag

Dorothee Lang

perform the glucose act
with lucid, obstacle tolerance
of anguished flown basics

recess thoughtfully
to succulent caprice games,
disseminate that television taste

washout what was inlaid,
achy, insolent, incumbent
luminous as fate