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issue twenty-seven :: January/February 2022

  Christopher Patton :: Glitch Apple Howie Good :: Three poems Kenneth M Cale :: Three visual poems Christian Ward :: Three poems Matthew Walsh :: POACHED EGGS Jeremy Scott :: Five poems

Christian Ward :: Three poems

  Bohemian Waxwing    '80s drunks struggling  to stay afloat in a rowan  berry sea. The Pokémon  Pidgeot inspired  by their steely-eyed look, surely? Its trill call,  sharp and descending  as a toy laser gun, enough to keep the haters at bay,  trap them in a magic ball.  Look how the peach bellini sunset aims to impress the bird; a rivalry to last generations.    Condensation     Daily floods on my windowsill.  Sometimes, the cold etches a Richter scale of mountains  on the bedroom windows.  Other times: banshee tears, Jack Frost's melting fingers.  I swear I see a child making faces on the glass, leave behind pigeon feathers  bent into boats.      TV aerials ponder their existence    Pinned on roofs like Victorian insects, their wireframe dragonfly bodies hard to ignore. Morse code bones absorb whatever the sky empties from its pockets: glass eye ha...