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Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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Ode to Jack
by Tasha Klein

Part One

you remind me of vitamin boy

expansive

you are: gaps in teeth
scouring for brownie crunchies in the ice-cream

box

but even then, the
tiny bits
like porn in the calvary of nuts
like tumble weeds
for tumbling down a ghost town
you reiterate
you mess their minds, all retarded, let's bridge, ass
naked
like you are the ass of you ass
bridge caramel,
(now that is a little poopy)

Part Two

things similar: guns
& gloves
under a cultish unison board
bored
by thousands every year,
billions
how daft!

this sickness is a toothbrush ---
a spinal tap!
not like the
best french toast
but like R Own Waffle Mystic - the waffle house?
a sugar

wire tap
line up
bombs & arrows
  & fort poetry:


you can't ravage,
so why numb?
I want:
cones dipped in a little
  overkill

like chocolate

even dennis rodman eventually smoked himself into a
scene of timber twine

if we were only so noneGap
and you stopped talking to the waffle with nuts

madonna: buttress-armoured 'go all the way'
giggling,please we're not on splinters

or
over
  poor
harry solitary as if they'll
beatyou
in the barren rubber america n mixed through the
valleys of empty vein
like
dude
  where's the one with ... the. pipe
ravaging the memories & again
your costumes
the metaphors

are you a
waffle treat?
or merely a big grenade, in my garden
your belly
RIPPED and sticky


or my nipples aren't the red of: those-there books
honey billiard & murdering
in the mountainsides so ridiculous deft
is there a bottom?
ney.
forgotten
orlando
cheap for crack
from street finally
home or
homeless
jack?
oops some one tasty the notes may be lots then
cuz that guy is not wave,

there ..

it's the infantry
rage
the ezCode for

not into.

remind me
you should be a smiling simile,
Scoop

poetry's destroyer,
the teacher
the cliff how I've spilled your excerpts to this knee
it lands with thin straps
& slots and a fruity drink
all for poetry
mixed & sprinkled itty bity bites
see through and ermmm
chariot!


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Tasha Klein lives in the Chicago area. She is a receptionist for a retirement facility. She is inspired by the poetry of Anne Sexton, Jim Morrison & e.e. cummings. She has been published in numerous e-zines, and her work can be found at the old Unlikely Stories under the name Tasha. Her book, Trumpets Made of Nothing But Slobbering Snow, is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications.