Harvey Keitel Movie

the landscape for her flesh
asphalt broken sidewalk
sagging pock-marked face
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The Origami Promise

Unfold, unfold, re-fold, straighten.
Leda and the Swan—amazing.

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Sweet Absurd

wasp nest
tail pipe
third wife

washing off with gasoline
when the wheelbarrow
ignited

I made a coat from a tarp,
wrapped my head in a sandwich bag,
Momma swore off smoking

we found a record player
got it to work
patty-cake, patty-cake

in the witch’s oven
I needed a new skin
home from the doctor

a temple of mud
the neighbors visited
our ruin

in forbidding earth
I said, “I’m sorry”—
the end
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Wizard

the light in the forest
a quick look back

my beard, the newspaper
and yesterday, I was clean

sat by the fountain
young girls splashing

purses tight as an itch
fish a coin

a wizard tends to
light in the forest

Submitted by: Jeff Crouch