Three Poems by V. Joshua Adams
Apophrades Freud says when you go to bed with someoneyou are really going to bed with their parents,and they with yours. It’s like this sometimes with poems, too,even if you...
Apophrades Freud says when you go to bed with someoneyou are really going to bed with their parents,and they with yours. It’s like this sometimes with poems, too,even if you...
A stabbing pain, refrain, my abs / from running thickets through / the core, an apple, saccharine, / in leaves like lamb’s ears, queer / again, to grab at lungs like lace.
That AME graveyard in Backwater, Md.inhabits an eighty-foot by eighty-footplot of blighted grass between the landscapedlots of three squat prefabs and a beveledtier of emerald soy.
If you forget your friends, even if you forget them all
On a hillside outside of Tokyo, / a man has built a glass booth / with a disconnected rotary phone / for calling lost relatives, / for speaking to the dead.
O I could fill a cinema. Bent road of jade birds' loft bed rain ruining the mountain and my own little hooves beating a repeating question. In winter. Ordinary life....
Help Desk All is not lost, in my opinion.Something in the way of how anything can happen ends up meaning most anything doesn’t, and did you ever notice it never...
January I am too much in my body.Mornings spent wishing for optical science and invisibility cloaks.I dream of being pregnant again, even as I sweat through next-stageluster.The iced-over lake makes...
In the ghost capsuleLaika the cosmonaut dogwas still alive.There really is no solace even in this 4th space I try to make.This poem is not the right door,the sort of...
When I walk up, Zeke-the-Dog is already in the car. They're taking him in. Gentlyput: helping him die. Gentlyput: killing him with less pain. On the radio,the Angels erase our...
Rebreaking a Bone Before means chronology has logic;means outpaced prior-faced enmity -lacking of punch, drunkless. Dressed less. My prologue, I harken. Has teethmade of cartilage. No, bones. Side flesh. What husband? What has...
After what had gone before was gone, it was afternoon,
our babysitter hangs from her seatbelt in an overturned jeep / across the field a farmhouse glitters like a chandelier
I didn’t put your place (cafo – concentrated animalfeeding operation) on Counterglow.By now I guess the algo knows. I don’t know what I wanted to save – my embarrassment. To...
Loud Laughter It wafts out of the same demented hallway monsters march out of also: the vampire sings, laughter follows. A machine modified to present clear and present danger keeps...
a swan a swan a silver swan automaton articulates articulates a remove from time tells time itself mechanical fool proof at 2 pm in the provincial museum, the dial...
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