The Iowa Review

rinsing out your ziplocks chewing dirt

- Rusty Morrison

wrote the quote in your notebook but not where you found we love to hold the continual failure in one another reading can be like having the kind of sex that makes your

body into a country where every vote counts even if one & one & one vote won’t add up won’t save you when the phone starts its ringing & it’s your surgery calling

you never paid the bill did not read the demand notice since the language of others is unintellig­ible retorts Bolaño in a used copy of ANTWERP you

hadn’t realized you were looking for the random page that it opens to & in the very sentence that you begin to read it’s not pure intelligib­ility

you need to find visible but the traces of recent fires

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