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crumbling attitude
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

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(from LUNA)

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topless sentence
lugubrious altitude
forlorn measurement
angry spine
crumbling attitude
hopeful facsimile
enemy noun

built upon the road
a person more disabled than me

all omissions work like a charm
or anger sadness’ twin

legs like salt
covered slugs
i wait for no reason
shop for things i don’t need
there is always time to fill

scoliosis cowboy
with hands like spiders
pink and green apartment buildings
heavy metal handles
on wooden doors
“bees stinging the heart”

a tree
frightening in its simplicity
evening drama
cherry blossoms
against yellow brick
snow filled trucks
i fall out of the world

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Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s eleventh full length poetry collection, LUNA, will be published in 2024 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). She can be reached at janejoritznakagawa at gmail dot com.