POETRY
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By TERRELL JAMAL TERRY | 13 June 2016
Image from page 160 of Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson | 1909
I was seduced by a hoax with teeth
In the back of my skull
A horn & a damaged computer
Search me sidetracked
Erased from stations
At the distant age of six
I raided a tent made of yarn
For large flakes of understanding
Silver genre, gender & osmosis
Wired through a merciless globe
Thin wrists of lassoed words
Arms monitored
Furniture & fragrance
Altering knots into a nice cast
I have no taste for torture
I was grieving the lack
Of comfortable rain
Or a sweet potato breakfast
Who have you seen
From beginning to end?
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Terrell Jamal Terry’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Volta, West Branch, Crab Orchard Review, cream city review, Washington Square Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere.
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