September 19

Big Fun by Alison Stine

Julie: A line can make a poem, or overshadow it, or destroy it, or change it. And there are times when I can't say what a specific line is doing, which of these transformative motions it's causing. I can only say that it's happening. Something is happening.

In the blood, in the body, I am hard little
stars.

Awwww yeah.

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Blue Visits by Rane Arroyo

Julie: First, the name "Rane Arroyo"? Rocks. In any case, this poem starts with a real bang, and I was really impressed with the first strophe, but then things sort of slip away from me, like the drowned circling a drain.