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Jamie Cavanagh



Cavanagh states: "Permit me to forgo sending a bio, please. I never know what to write that doesn't smack of self-aggrandizement. I cover this failure with the trite-sounding profession that the poetry is all that matters."




goodness to the market borne


and the stone-buckled streets turn to walls turn to veins turn
to macadam hiways bisecting the thinning turn
to dirt dusty branches splayed through the farmlands
where calves are calved and foals are foaled and
green wheat golden turns tit high in a giant sun

and the dirt dusty branches turn to macadam hiways turn
to clogged arteries through a calcified land turn
to funnels of neon turn to barbed walls occluding turn
to stone-buckled streets lined with faux feeding shops
where the golden wheat goodness lies raped of all meaning

exhausted with weeping
puffed to importance
stale as the air in an unopened tomb.



the constant risk


the dog envelops a bone.
secluded world
with curtains drawn:
paws, drool and bone.

she looks up with such glad eyes,
knowing she's got her bone.
not understanding why
but knowing.

dog becomes the bone.
true zen master practice.
moments cease low agony.
bone becomes the dog.

she looks up with such sorrowful eyes,
unsure always, so dependent.
she knows the risk of abandonment.
such depth from the edge of the precipice

so much like love.




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