WORD CHOICE
SIX POEMS

by Adam Fitzgerald Jan 18, 2013

Esteban Longoria. The Gang’s All Here. Oil on canvas, 84×60 inches, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.

 

Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read six poems by Adam Fitzgerald with art by Esteban Longoria, selected by Jozeph Herceg.

 

ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING


                                                          HYDROPHOBE BORN UNDER WATER

Forgive me for asking, but why in this mottled world would you expect another? Eccentric pilasters stand in the rain: ruins for remaining ruined. My dreams meanwhile occur in mercantile factory houses whose shelves represent gaps in the Now Culture. Reduced, though not so enervated today, the reality of dingy parlor casements helps me parachute to bed for lack of better thing to think or do. The lanky, still sun ravishes an arching colonnade.

 

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