William Brewer: “Oxy 40”
“Think of the mason jar / we use to kill yellow jackets”
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“Think of the mason jar / we use to kill yellow jackets”
“I tried for some radical joy yesterday.”
“Do you know what / you are when your eyes are shut”
“Green ferns bend a breeze / under summer’s awning”
“Statistically, memory means little to a wolf”
“a ripple that eats / then spits out an outline of the woods.”
“From the estuary, up comes the mist in faltering heat.”
I never learned to fix anything
“the wiring / won’t respond to water, or lighter fluid, or / my own bald nakedness”
It always comes / back to light.