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Microbiome
 

Judson Evans

We have sealed rooms already contaminated by our thought, our observation. Setting up a lab in the midst of our imprint. Did you put your face shield on? Which is nothing more than surface and overflow. Did you pocket the…

Telomere

Judson Evans

“We die because we cannot connect the end and the beginning” (Alcmaeon of Croton) We die because our intentions can’t touch their toes, because we can’t zip our freezer bag from inside or heal ends of the power strip, because…

Nude Mouse

Judson Evans

I’m time-release phosphorus− frozen to the crosshairs of your gloves, I can swallow the most primitive bacteria, recombinant contaminants, trawl any alibi thus my nickname zip-top, tinsel. I’m nude in the sense of stripped “t”, optioned out, stove in. I…

Three Poems from We Play a Game

Duy Doan

Rat-tat-tat We heard Changes three times on the radio. First on the way to Salem. Again on the way to the grocery store on the way back from Salem. And then again on the way to pick up Becky and…