New Poems

Canard

Our father called jaguars black leopards. “Platitudes are not always flat,” he kept saying. Middle age had not brought a wisdom that was practicable.

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Though we separately married, we cannot stop staying in hotels together. We are used to the view.

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Xeriscaping: Two Small Decorative Poems

lapis philosophorum

milky latex a sore temptation
he threatens to find the appropriate weather

albedo

such spurge as ornaments the driveway
looks like purslane to me

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Eric Burke works as a computer programmer in Columbus, Ohio. Recent work can be found in elimae, Pank, qarrtsiluni, A cappella Zoo, and decomP. Work is forthcoming in Word Riot. You can read his blog at http://anomalocrinus.blogspot.com/