Jane Virginia Rohrer
$5
new city dark & I am slammingpublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
those busses that bend
in the middle freak me out the assault
of squeezing between headphone bodies
the streets I etch hours into, a new city,
and then another one, another each one
saying prove it
key knuckles headlamp man arms
I want to pretend to be home every new time
every carpet-walled liquor store every
skinned knee running to the car
every cute boy in the coffee line every
hard stare in red lights every
place begging transparent but
I don’t care to usher in the poem’s access
sellable poem
brittle & boring something
someone might pay for
and therefore know how to love
new city of immutable shapes
we are not idiots to time
I couldn’t quit looking at the meat of it
August 2019
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Cover design: Joseph Schmidt
Jane Virginia Rohrer is a writer and teacher from Southeastern Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh where she studies sound, radio, and contemporary poetry and poetics. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Peach Mag, Metatron, Bone Bouquet, and others.
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