James Belflower
4 selections
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from Convictions/Involvement
Brightly and
cool outside
dusty slope slopes,
In a yard
sign of a white dog running
shitting,
bent
Guests
dog barks, pisses
domestic
tangled news-
shiver-
I hate that
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return to sawbuck 2.3
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And Also a Fountain, James Belflower's collaborative chapbook with Anne Heide and J. Michael Martinez, is forthcoming from NeOPepper Press in 2008. His honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination, the 2007 Juked Magazine Poetry Prize, two Jovanovich Awards for his manuscripts, Friend of Mies Van der Rohe and Site, second place in the Banyan Review Poetry Competition, and recognition in the Milton Dorfman National Poetry Contest. His poems, reviews, and essays appear or are forthcoming in: Jacket, Denver Quarterly, Octopus, LIT, First Intensity, New Review of Literature, 580 Split, Cricket Online Review, Alice Blue, Glitter Pony and Subito, among others. He runs PotLatchpoetry.org, a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of poetry resources.
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from Convictions/Involvement
Brightly and
cool outside
across
yellow grass stripthe man lay
tortillas, pork, milk, donutssalad a
flaxy baghis friend yelled away “open
the door, openopen the
door”We
walk betweenthem convinced
they were chocolateiced
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dusty slope slopes,
“Billy I will take
oneprivilege away,” black tiny
galoshes-unbelievable-dirtyblack
daschund in the middle side-walk
turns from Mom toBilly who
somersaults**
In a yard
sign of a white dog running
no,
shitting,
exclamatory
point byits rear calmly
bent
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Guests
knock
dog barks, pisses
on
the memory is that our carpet is spun7up bottles
domestic
tangled news-
paper chain
linkfence school yar(n)(d)
shiver-
s
I hate that
embarrasses me
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return to sawbuck 2.3
**
And Also a Fountain, James Belflower's collaborative chapbook with Anne Heide and J. Michael Martinez, is forthcoming from NeOPepper Press in 2008. His honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination, the 2007 Juked Magazine Poetry Prize, two Jovanovich Awards for his manuscripts, Friend of Mies Van der Rohe and Site, second place in the Banyan Review Poetry Competition, and recognition in the Milton Dorfman National Poetry Contest. His poems, reviews, and essays appear or are forthcoming in: Jacket, Denver Quarterly, Octopus, LIT, First Intensity, New Review of Literature, 580 Split, Cricket Online Review, Alice Blue, Glitter Pony and Subito, among others. He runs PotLatchpoetry.org, a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of poetry resources.
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