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  High/Low
by Matthew Mullane


        boat warblers
crowded at separate, the places we've never been
        only to catch a trap
        of knotted knives and bullets planted in two high/low swathes--
The first lower than the anxiety
of not knowing what's next.

        boat warblers
crowded to separate the holes
that designate the dulcet smell
of some low/mid/high royalty
always purple with the places we've never been

 

 

 

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Matthew Mullane is currently an Art History student at Hiram College in northeastern Ohio. There he twiddles knobs and strums his guitar as a performing improvising musician. His poems are written with pen and paper but reorganized by his computer, where the text adjusts itself according to the frequency of his sound pieces in a specialized program. He is interested in how the written thought competes with, and is altered by, the sound and feeling of one's environment.