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from Head / lines
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

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directors of surrogates
preoccupied valves with dripping sentences
wavelength of diminished returns
porcupine sunset shallows my phone
fiber uncle tomorrow is from
privileged phraseology and flotilla scalp
vehicular waterway tortilla
moves from edge to riot soul
solar fringe a garbage sound
making my points and rattling my baton

feast til noon a fastener note
gathering on my tongue
pluralistic prejudices aware in mine

velvet storm
hallucinates my perfect dream
dramatic fall for underaged
resting on my arm

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stand hoop
hula point
fire land
home escape
cover wave
heat age
tick flop
flip tock
think some
trouble er
fear suit
law monger
teen type
stereo age
slip state
aloha stream
hyper mate
ship active
roller home
bound skate

do not abandon the body

  You can read for free Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s ebook Head / lines with images by Mayu Kanamori from Argotist Ebooks here  →

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Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s eleventh full length poetry collection, LUNA, 2024 published by Isobar Press (London/Tokyo). Recent books include Poems: New and Selected (also from Isobar) and, as editor, the anthology women : poetry : migration [an anthology] with theenk Books (USA).