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Zach Peckham

Zach Peckham is a writer, musician, and educator. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, Territory, Poetry Northwest, on the Academy of American Poets website, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at Cleveland State, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and is managing editor at Cleveland Review of Books.

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cracks


in


cracked


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lips n-spiral


in glish


of functions


function is


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negative


gate


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mouth


could gum


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to


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hun u


hunt-u


Hun you


hunt the

edge


refresh

link thru


Ubuntu

hedge


Commodore

64 in twilight


dredge



but this

one is


not

fun-


(initiate

lament)


(initiated)


-damental


dement

-ed flush of


hours’ gush


out the men

-tal


image of


-tall -dark


horse or

thrush


or worse


a corsair

‘s crush

or mouth


of mush


of much


along

a long

spine ledge


lined


brimming


a lung


bringing in of



air (in) one


ring


singing


one


type (of


entreaty


O) type one


type 1: type


your name


in to

a garland

-ed

stripe


wreath a

ring


a round

a ringer


run a ring


around

the singing

singer


ring a song

a gong a

finger


the shade

they gave


the corpse


’s


face


the wraith the

federal interest


rate the

meal you had the


thing you ate the

service person


and the dining room and the

wheels right off the car


altogether


now

black donuts

fill a jar


flung o


-penned Vulcan


grip


space

ajar


ex-

tinct


in ancient


slick of


fruited

rotted


tincture drip


aperitif


this gap

a gape


this field

a place


this name

a space


you enter you


hit


the button


a lick


this supper

a sip


this life

a blooper


reel a blip


a number


a clip


a slumber


a slip


a horse


you ride


a box


you tick


a pen


you click


submit


and save


a lathe


a spade


a cave


a crypt



Carrion


awaiting resolve


an occlusion

gets thematic’d


the not sleeping


in the real

concorded with


precision

they were firing


a type of arc


drowned harvest


blighted in

                        heatsink


wringing toward

a zone


carry up carrying

the moon away


night vision

in the night



Other Voids


Colloidal nodes


Spectacular aspartames


Range of


Sparta’s particular crystals


Necrotic asphalt


Braided rectangular


Phosphates chromosome’d


Un


Field of party foam


Plumbed


Actual retractables


Prostrate


Omniscient blip


Pretrial vial


Concordantly dipped


Bong club formed via


Duffel bagg of porn


From some


Brambles we locate


Thicketing a swarm


Thumbed gun


Of forth


Crumpled punch


Cryo-


Plastered simp


In pitchèd pleasure


Glorious rings open


-ing O


-verhead in-


Blown rank


Cloud banks


Just incred


To see it mountain


All monumental


Incremental annulment


Berms of warrant


Varying a contract


Something factually


My vice


-roy splicing the


Root of my


Note of my


My my


O my O


My mimed


Flooded dumpster


Con figure


The chords


Throated ward


An implorement


Dear branded phantasm


I am this pro


-tracted practicum


Wrecked off our birth-


Rightful synthesis


In a breathing dream


What is


So sincerely

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