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Study Prey amiss, study is met. Actaeon imbruted, speech bereft of Artemis -- no Artemis, speechless else -- a learned grove, this, to teach of Artemis. Deceit Foul Duessa flies, exposed her fox tail. Can one not say Deceit has beauty, though the wrong kind? Say Deceit has beauty less hospitable than Her counter. Mouth mewed up, stitched shut with hart's teeth, Actaeon, can you not? Scythe In the barn a scythe hangs, and the verse asks which is the more disused. The verse is surely the genius of the place -- Oh, another inhospitable delve. When the scythe is whetted, does it make the sound of hospitality, a word to brandish -- what a flambeau is ignis fatuus in hand! -- before even the savages of Gehenna? Jeff Harrison has publications from Writers Forum, Persistencia Press, Furniture Press, and MAG Press. His poetry has appeared in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II (Meritage Press), The Chained Hay(na)ku Project (Meritage Press), Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Otoliths, Xerography, Moria, NOON: journal of the short poem, Dusie, MiPOesias, Big Bridge, and elsewhere. He has e-books from Blazevox, xPress(ed), Argotist Ebooks, and Chalk Editions.
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