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Night Music in Five Acts

from Children of the Anxious City by Al Russell

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I
It's just the cold white
of your naked back lumpy
with vertebrae when the moon
comes in. It lights the yard's tree green
from underneath. Show. Explain.

II
And why can't I sleep, oh yeah, that letter
I fear from what feels
like ages ago.
Dumb shit
why didn't I lock the front door?

III
I did put my hand on that head stone.
It glowed eyeless pink when I took my hand away.
I was there
it was night
and it was night.

IV
Who cares
about the war on, the riots,
or what year it is,
we've all been
the shrimp,
the cloud, the boat,
the cormorant, the bebop xylophone, the estuary,
the clown wig. Right?

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from Children of the Anxious City, released January 14, 2019

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Al Russell North Carolina

Al Russell is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. She is a poetry editor at Outlook Springs literary journal. She is also an ordained minister of the Church of the Subgenius. She lives in North Carolina.

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