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Prelude to a Quieter Epilogue

Bombus Press (Issue 2)

https://bombus-press.squarespace.com/michael-caylo-baradi

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A piece I wrote a few years ago.

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(The current heat wave in Los Angeles, CA made me think of the poem I wrote for Ink, Sweat & Tears more than two years ago.)

Cruising Country

The heat wave settles on the dashboard. We’re cruising it below the eighties. Beside us are fields of green, vast as boredom uninterrupted. Music from the radio takes the AC to another level of cool. It’s like 7pm dinner without frills; the silence belongs to the food we’re taking apart. Later, country music gives it a different spin, as we imagine highways accelerating us out of these routines.

Link to where it appeared: http://bit.ly/292U9Tz

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Resuscitation

We free expectations on the edge of roads, encrusted with dusts mute as distance expanding on rear-view mirrors. We're now cruising altitudes orbiting around your neck, plunging down curves animal as fields secured by instincts for blood. We levitate in premonitions of hunger, fortitude for new beginnings banging in labyrinths of spit.

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Signs do not alarm us. Only the length of roads, how they cluster as veins beneath this city, winding as streets of expectations, curving, twisting down valleys snaking down your spine, slippery, frantic for adornments mettled in touch animal as any expanding universe.

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Speeding you northbound on the 110. Into the abyss of tunnels hungry as vocal cords dying for the ecstasy of screams.

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Consolations & Extensions

Some folks in Germany included my poems [ CONSOLATIONS & EXTENSIONS ] for the first of #Null issue of LUTT MAGAZIN. You can downloand it here as a PDF file. It feels good to be in a journal where you sit right next to Mark Strand's work.

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Horizon

My poem "HORIZON" is part of the 36th issue of OTOLITHS (Australia). Many thanks to Mark Young.

Along with exciting new work by:

Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Lakey Comess, Stephen Bett, Greg McLaren, Philip Byron Oakes, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Robert Lietz, Stephen C. Middleton, Nick Ravo, Chase Gagnon, Owen Bullock, Caleb Puckett, Kyle Hemmings, Despo Magoni, Craig Cotter, J. Crouse, Michael Martrich, Bryan Young, Halvard Johnson, dan raphael, Jeff Dahlgren, Jeff Dahlgren & John Lowther, John Lowther, Pete Spence, Howie Good, A. J. Huffman, John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Vittore Baroni, Thomas M. Cassidy & John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy & Cheryl Penn & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, j4, Felino A. Soriano, Andrew Topel, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Andrew Topel, Jack Galmitz & Fotis Begetis, Joel Chace, Mark Melnicove, Sally Evans, James Sanders, Joe Balaz, John Martone, Raymond Farr, Carol Shillibeer, Carol Stetser, Natsuko Hirata, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Stuart Barnes, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Ric Carfagna, Nurul Wahidah, Anne Elvey, Jeff Harrison, Robert Sheppard, Stephen Nelson, Cyriaco Lopes & Terri Witek, Daniel John Pilkington, Eryk Wenziak, SS Prasad, sean burn, Jonel Abellanosa, Michael O’Brien, Mark Pirie, Márton Koppány, Willie Smith, Kit Kennedy, Toby Finch, Naomi Buck Palagi, Marcello Diotallevi, Stu Hatton, Brendan Tang, John Pursch, Charles Freeland, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Luc Fierens, Angad Arora, PT Davidson, Steven Alvarez, George J. Farrah, bruno neiva, Bob Heman, Richard Kostelanetz, Bogdan Puslenghea, hiromi suzuki, Tony Beyer, nick-e melville, Marilyn Stablein, Ria Masae, Susan Gangel, Michael Brandonisio, Katrinka Moore, Gian Luigi Braggio, Texas Fontanella, Aditya Bahl, Tom Snarsky, & Trijita Mukherjee.