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Parlor Tricks Issue No. 5 | Winter 2019 | Poetry & Art
Web Design Maye McPhail
Crosswalk
Noah Cowit
I see you across the way the secondary motor of my being and a daffodil
Ode To Flea Market Strapless after alexander li Tyler Tsay before we knew not to spill our new faces into the streets where the children flock like feathers starved for a match. before the burning in all our homes stayed inside our bodies where our lifetimes chatter – stag goddess, trainspotter, upright-bass player. the way it sounds like a bad joke, how one minute there’s three of us laughing at the bar & the next dad’s hands done with this, with me, turn on himself & fire twice. before kiss became every black-blue meteor
falling from my mouth. before red satin everywhere. before i had faith in another faith. where jesus is a redhead & kisses like death. hucks stones into the river until one flies & never stops. this he’ll christen with lightning before the prayer b/c nowadays how do you find beauty in ordinary things without something sharp. before strapless. before wild thing. o, how small you were to make these crooked arms into the river shadow. into goddess of rusted pipe. into ripped satin glory. into slow crawl of water melting stone in the forest. into lullaby my arched waist. into glory through split face. into glory. where are you now, o wild thing. into glory. where are you now when i need you most.
The Fastest Way To Get Here To There Caitlin Ubl
feet flashing beside a field of wind-brightened water, a sky tented over mountains stripped of green. She bends in the garden, pulling leaves off the stalk. She sings to the valley as the mist burns off the foothills, with its silvery peaks and lurching, pitching falls. It touches rock and leaves it changed.