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for MW
or more like arabesques of light, more and more
complex, cast into another room.
…………………………Her repeated use
of the image of grass, toned into blades by the wind. Intelligence
a rendering
……………of that crushed black—that concave—that
shows forth corollas otherwise covered
in color and light. Camellias rich
…………………………in quotation, experiment
into solids and voids, layering tonally the memory
of rose over rose, impasto: blade over blade,
into a field that lays across mine. Lit, too, by
what outside casts through the drapes,
……………deepens the room to a skin-tone.
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screenshot…………of a screen of red tulips (but
modulated by subpar……………………buffering)
half-………enframing Jean-Luc's mixed breed, reed-
like, car-mine, his belly shown prone, pronoun
his seen……………as obvious re: his (also
cross-angling into the image) penis.
……………Tulips for me………if red modulated
to this day……………through………………Plath, lithium-buffered
(my……………………mom confessing yes years taking
oxycodone but saying it………'oxy-
cotton' kind of dialect-………ically
smoothing it to oxi-………………………clean, which I can see
these days …………………………into 'oxytocin' also
…………………………………………easily eliding)
Kylan Rice is an MFA candidate in poetry at Colorado State University. He has poetry published in West Branch, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere. He produces the Colorado Review podcast.