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The Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
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the making and unmaking of person
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Six Poems
by Peter Jay Shippy

Homeland Defense

Our driveway is covered with eggshells to warn us of birdshot.



In the Orchard

I lie on my belly. I screw my mouth into the earth, and begin to hum.
After a few hours I hear roots snapping, tapping. Next.



Breathing Machine

The choir is required to wear surgical masks.



When Your Grow Your Hair In

Through the transom the bees come to flower, to go the grain of names.



Logoless, at Twelve

There were still minutes of night we grew for ourselves.



With the Juvenile Deliquescent
in the Parking Lot Above Echo Beach, 1977

Oh, the stoned starlit Noh of it.


 

 

 

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diaries and memoirs translation and her retinue
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the making and unmaking of person the corpse reads classics letters

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