APHORISM (SONG OF THE RUBICON)
Markers that
make halfway
a home
compare
to breathing
what can’t
take care
for granted
has for
feeling.
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OLIVER’S SONG
Oliver’s Legos
all of his legos
alive with us legos
golum in legos
lord of the lego rings
legless legolas lego
laser-like legos
ladylike legos
leprechaun legos
lego my legos
littlest legos
laziest legos
lava cake legos
la la land legos
little red legohood
I second my legos
I sleep with my legos
lacunae of legos
I sleep with my legos
I second my legos
little red legohood
la la land legos
lava cake legos
laziest legos
littlest legos
lego my legos
leprechaun legos
ladylike legos
laser-like legos
legless legolas lego
lord of the lego rings
golum in legos
alive with us legos
all of his legos
Oliver’s legos
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David Bartone is the author of Practice on Mountains (Ahsahta Press, 2014), selected by Dan Beachy-Quick for the 2013 Sawtooth Prize for Poetry, and Spring Logic (H_NGM_N, 2010), a chapbook of poems. Some new poems are or will be at jubilat, Volt, iO, Handsome, Jellyfish, Mountain Gazette, and others. He lives in Easthampton, Mass.