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Lines Written During an Anxiety Attack

A Poem by Anthony J

With memories embedded in the hail at my heels, I cut wholly to my center to address what was trembling. My heart’s rapid beat too terrifie..

Tree

A Poem by Anthony J

I planted a tree, and postponed my master plan:to die. It lifted my spirits to imaginea future shoot sprouting up from nothing, with filamentsand cell..

Leaving

A Poem by Anthony J

I asked if there was room left in your heart for one more. You gazed lasers through your ratty sneakers and sighed.Inside the pauses in your questions..

On Forgetting

A Poem by Anthony J

There is a certain distress comes tied with forgetfulness. That we might forget our love is a truer mutilation than death, somehow more ..

A Vision in a Funhouse Mirror

A Poem by Anthony J

There were specks of spacetime sprinkled on your lips like confectioner’s sugar. The perfectionist in me said wipe them off, but..

To That One Girl

A Poem by Anthony J

Well it's blue old 12:24 a.m. and the sun is bright somewhere not here and I think I’ve struck the right balance of ennuiand sleepiness to sit ..

Cathedral

A Poem by Anthony J

Let there be a cathedral of the mind, divorced from any skull. Hovering above our bodies like a doveflying it’s constellations in ..

Rose-buds Love Rain

A Poem by Anthony J

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separation

A Poem by Anthony J

Her eyes are head wounds.I must kiss them closed.Time is white waterand we are a dry canoe. His eyes blow darts through mine and tranquilize the..

Dream Me

A Poem by Anthony J

Dream me in vectors shooting between stasis and obsession, with levers and pulleys yanking words from nonexistence into the lines of..