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  Tuesday
by James Belflower

We read obsession over the
Sunday comics; "but why does he
squat outside?" Questions still bucking
and braying; my eyes are strong but void
of answers. It must be 1:30. Call me

"babe" again; I love that. The sofas'
crushed as circus women slip
from the trapeze; words are nurses
with brawny shoulders, who maintain an
aroma of cinnamon. "I don't?" . . . sleep now,
I will have all the answers
on bright Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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James Belflower's work appears or is forthcoming in: Jacket, Octopus,
Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, New Review of Literature, Barrow
Street and LIT, among others. He runs PotLatchPoetry.org, a site
dedicated to the free exchange of poetry books, journals, chapbooks
and broadsides.