suspicious scarecrow
raggedy digits
forever stuffed with hay

the promise of great oz
shakes–a beast’s foot
at room’s edge

oz through speaker

artifice & switch

so much for the brick road vow
 

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Deborah Poe is author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010), Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) and several chapbooks, most recently a four-part edition entitled the last will be stone, too as part of the Dusie Kollektiv (5). Deborah’s writing is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Mantis, Horse Less Review, Bone Bouquet, Jacket Magazine, No Contest, Fact-Simile Magazine, Peaches & Bats, Sidebrow, Colorado Review, and Denver Quarterly. Deborah is guest curator of Trickhouse. For more information, please visit www.deborahpoe.com.