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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."

- Jessamyn West:

GET THE PEANUTS

Andrew Riley Clark

bright lights go further down
scratching all you have around this table
assuming immaculate

winnowing, we can write nothing
all lines, two words
it's a race, a sphere, octagon

a tiny cabbage bush hole-in-the-wall
technical oblivatory standards
the lattice tremendously obstinate

a seagull disappearing in opulent sea-foam
formulated in stark black morning Kafka
peer summoning, the moaning some mornings

hitch in fine grave mourning dove flight-paths
gravel haymaker and the bees sing
foxes ring in dunegrass

a pass on obvious stones
a shell, 17 shells, 35
one rectangle & several other rectangles

the white spaces unforeseen traps
and spiky hold-ems, stick-um
between the nail and glue

a four-ton fortune in each glitter bag
held a true guttered downpour
a host of watery semaphores

tap tap tap on nothing space
the face of Roger, Susan
the neighbor's glowing harlequin of perpetual recognition

a pet is the mind, crosswinds abut
feed and caterwaul
single green pixel flanks an entrance hardly expected

jubilant fortunes prick the screendoor
tracking things before were vacant

all over the map