chapbook quiz

which of the following poem titles piques your interest?

let's imagine your birth

deskinning a spider

technogurgle

Ash the bonsai

SC456 [Science 456] asking for help directly

ekwus cosmology III

tree-venge (what the kid whimpers pt. 2)__

an armchair from 1928

something else

to which of the following lines do you feel connected?

how far ahead you see will not be up to you, but what you see in front of you will be

you can know intuitively what you have never seen, all limned in the desire object, an ambiguous and anachronistic reflection of designed lack

swift hillswept larceny

the flower buds caught in my periscope drink in the sunlight as it lays in a moonlit field.

the swelling burden activates our adrenergic system, the anxiety bug that cranial crawls over our heads, stomping on neural reminders and chewing on the thoughts of rejection.

Creation strung a bow from the king’s mane and played Anna Clyne’s prince of clouds on a double necked violin.

dr quiet creeps over the laboratory leftovers and rung leaves bringing leechcraft.

with the demeanor of someone who has permenately forgotten something of importance

something else

to which of the following lines do you feel connected?

choke on a fish bone. while choking, a paramedic will arrive and use a compass with saw blades to cut a triangle in my esophogus. a vacuum nozzle tickles my uvula and sucks in my scream. blood gets in my pasta sauce.

without the taste of lavendar or the mosquito's lonely thirst

tossing the elephant to catch it again and again i am fearful for the memory within

trying to strike your aura while the fizzle of pulp soda plays on the record player, another match shaves into ginger and a map of gesticulations.

it broke a bit of me to tell her she looked like fine china at a news stand.

the devil tucks a nightgown into his wife’s suitcase. he is meeting the casual interference of touching an ancient surface.

the tree in my throat started budding, i coughed up flowers shaped like nipples and my doctor called the government

take the stuffed version of you from the prize rack and sleep well with it at night

something else

to which of the following lines do you feel connected?

a scar from careless woodwork. a bad haircut. the neighbors will know.

labor for that feat which endureth unto

binning arcana, lift refuse quintessential, latent-use loon : earache canon tell

vitruvian heron and a half buried wheelbarrow giving me ideas about breaking kneecaps.

beyond unsanitized hand shakes exists a repugnant adiposity born of woven bald spots and property line hostility.

waking with drooling lateralism under a well of concussed songs and the headrest item cairn.

as the acreage rattles against the truck’s side, a condition comes in like the cotton left on my old bed.

whisper blaze - "i ain't got time to bleed"

something else

what do you prefer to find on the cover of a chapbook?

cat scratches on an elevator

a thermal map of a silhouette

the ghost of a dog in the snow

a museum bouquet over graffiti.

cherries on a fire hydrant

flowers imposed on spilled jello

teddy bears blindfolded by a bra in front of a bowl of lithium

veiny dock seating

something else