Chat Room Deletions

May 2, 2018

I am not /
I am an involuntary /
a near-in-
valid from not
getting /
not getting inside /
where the hurt is /
inside
her and her is where /
the hurt /
the hurt is her /
her /
where I
and I
and I
are not getting
any / any!
an amplification /

a ramping up /
a rampant ample
justi-fuck-ation

 


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Devon Balwit teaches in Portland, OR. She has six chapbooks and three collections out or forthcoming, among them: We are Procession, Seismograph (Nixes Mate Books), Risk Being/Complicated (A collaboration with Canadian artist Lorette C. Luzajic); Where You Were Going Never Was (Grey Borders); and Motes at Play in the Halls of Light (Kelsay Books). Her individual poems can (or will) be found here as well as in The Cincinnati Review, apt, Posit, The Carolina Quarterly, Vector Press; Red Earth Review; The Turnip Truck(s), Drylandlit; Eclectica, SWWIM, Peacock Journal, and more.

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