The Fox Chase Review
 
   
   

Thomas Devaney

   

Pasternak

Piano, piano, piano,
A decrescendo.
Such desires as he knew.
Transparency of the house.
Error made him lose another
     chapter.
Right that he should leave
     the enjoyment.
Now the name of an enormous variety
     of satisfactions.
And he started forward, fell, arose
     fell again, walked.
Kursk station on a hot summer
     morning in the year 1900.

Saline

Saline blood solution.
     A bird's visitation.
Loss to make.
It's for you.
     Notice the dawn.
Extinguishing an insect.

Manichaean

My ideas of the prize.
A ship taken by force.
Nautical waves, nautical waves of light.
In a privateer The Manichaean.
Chilling night, steam-engine afternoons.
Here I am without you.
At moments all can spring from all.
Evil is a catch-all crime pitched
     to its own composite ends.
Again away from you by the river dock.
NIKE the Greek goddess of victory in billboard
     bold.

Three acrostics from the series "Little Dictionary"

 

 

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