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Dion Farquhar 

 

Dion Farquhar is a poet and prose fiction writer interested in her formative experience of the 1960s. Her work has appeared in AUGHT, Rogue Scholars, Xcp: Streetnotes, boundary 2, Sulfur, Hawaii Review, Lip Service, American Letters and Commentary, Exquisite Corpse, City Works, Cream City Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others.

 



Pack

after-thought frail as fracture
failed trials, to die trying 
this clenched act of trust 
leaving the cell 
at home, open sea 
these suburbs, scatology
extant corps morphing into 
corpse exhuming the corpus


Alphadebt

agency 
beginner 
class 
dead 
egg 
forms 
ghost 
happily 
infecting 
junior 
king 
last 
master 
numbered 
originals 
post 
quicken 
rage 
shifting 
total 
upping 
victims 
woman 

yolk 
zero


Orbits

Progress weighed in carats 
labor's still the stick 
the we-I-you stabled 
with blinders 
out to pasture 
nibbling hay


history without hiatus


the sign spiels 
on the stretch -727: 
fasten seatbelts 
while seated, 
solo round trips 
your many Beatrices 
spin the soul's 

revolving doors 
only possible response 
to be private jets 
of writing so 
fly me east 
where the sun strikes 

only on the right 
modern mules 
we-they 
express ferrying 
word to endless 
image and back 

again, no stop 
to sense representation
hankering 
for a tune 
the clear approach 
snivelling for 

a supersignified

 

 

Blowback

Mobile tromboning
just another 
double dipping 
capital-evading
arbitrage opp 
countered by 
connection directives
controlling the very
consumption they’ve created
bandwidth border patrol
fixed network charges
enforced registrations
curbing media 
traffic to locals
rerouting redundant legs
the new feltching 
transparently inefficient
incentive always
loving 
taking long arms
to play a cock
while lips tongue
the mouthpiece
of an anus.








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