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4/21/2018

Poetry by Peter Burghardt

Picture
     Ben Churchill CC



Snooze button


                                                                         it takes long so

mystic becomes streetlights where day used

                                    to come     a bird on the fence

                                                     is banded       elsewhere

                                   notness grows into you



                 washing my neck       in the dark

                                                    I said I’d see no

                                  nothing     but meant


                     I’m with the mud and can’t

                                                 walk inside or ruin it    



                 imagine it’s like

what you beg for when you shouldn’t

                 mix insomnia with your other abyss

                                 you tell yourself you’ll pay for it     we’re

                                                  always paying



for what we thought

                                                  inheritance would be
        
                                 though the mail still comes on Saturdays

                our neighbor is thinking of slaughtering

                                  his rooster




Coach


                                Our sleep’s raw plume

                 trailed in the sky

after the experience

                  our friends had

                                  taken to be

                                                   with each other

its not time that

               we expected

                                  to compact our

                   rituals that pass

                                   into the eye and past

                                                   the instant I

                                   take a lyft back home

                   to my work though

    now it is raining again

                                    turbulence relegated

                                                    above me
        
     a seat without walls

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4/10/17



                               I build glimmer and it turns

                                             out to be as reckless as

                                                              it sounds every person

                                                                              I know does

                                                             this too builds that

                                              which is so tangible

                                                             in one’s apprehension one

                                                                           becomes the eye

                                                                                            touching the dark

                                                                                                            with its own

                                                                                                                                              antennae a wand

                                                                                                                             of parlor tricks to help

                                                                                                            sleep and feed the life

                                                                                            of the brain which I

                                                                            hear is an ever

                                                            depreciating asset

or worse worth

                                nothing like your testicles

                                               nothing to science

                                                               and if science won’t

                                                                             hold our shared

                                                                                        delusions then we should

                                                                                                        find Nate Silver and bury

                                                                                                                       the present deserved

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Bio: Peter Burghardt is a poetry writer based in Oakland, CA, where he co-publishes speCt books. He is the author of Cosmic American Music (Old Gold, 2017), and his recent work has appeared in such journals as The Elephants, Tammy, The Offending Adam, Witness, The Laurel Review, and White Stag.

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