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  September 2023     8 months ago

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R + N 4ever

Their initials are scooped
into the curb of the
grocery’s parking lot,
the remains of a promise
collecting age,
the glances of passersby.

 
I imagine the
authors crouching
there, fat-fingering
into concrete their
receipt from having
...

– by Elliot Greiner

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On Seeing a Neanderthal in the Natural History Museum

The bones convene again,
after forty thousand years –
spine straight, knees bent,
fingers curled around a spear –
Resting? aching?
Perhaps anticipating the mammoth across the room,
making clear the old normal,
the moment’s potential
when...

– by Elliot Greiner

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Hunt

On his branch
the lizard becomes
the extent of the cat’s desire.
Still, jewel-eyed,
his wisdom the color of his touch.

 
Who knows what he
doesn’t –
this humming stupor of life –
a prospect too old
to change, or look...

– by Elliot Greiner

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