Caleb Puckett
Caleb Puckett is the author of Tales from the Hinterland, Market Street Exit and Fate Lines/ Desire Lines. Some of his recent writing has appeared in mgversion2>datura and Rasputin. In addition to writing, Puckett edits the literary journal Futures Trading.
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Gallery body, dissolve in body, dissolve in body the taste of eyes, eyes blinking such a mysterious smile below plate of attribution, arm covers chest, the concealed treasure legs cross, uncross, conjure echoes on the cold floor a crime, this crying shame snaking its path home rogue’s gallery, Christie’s catalog, sign of four seeming to say a worn wooden haft, prick of blade, shape made in high relief art’s the aftertaste, memory the pedestal peace a distant pulse under sheets of whitest cotton odd, the ongoing admission of strange company, the witness of metaphysical conceit Procession Generational speech sprung in a dim lot service terms before the dam broke, before the bar’s salute dinner’s silver nod snaking mirrors, queening hearts & those shovels sold by suits gilded by rain, mud-caked birthdays bygone in 8 mm birds flare in the steps back shadow witnesses, real for the insects bleeding not in silk but the desert under heel, the desert hell in blue brilliance remember to recall well the features by February the issue must slip— to settle the living will into a series of last regrets que pasa? quelled the same sepia tone awarded purple from the toiling custom but somehow free in the offing of yet omnivorous intimations keep those stones coming beyond an us the urgency of finery, metallic finality in speech patterns beating back from caliche The busy might curse the slow in passing & the short of it— how many returns show themselves mercies?
Caleb Puckett is the author of Tales from the Hinterland, Market Street Exit and Fate Lines/ Desire Lines. Some of his recent writing has appeared in mgversion2>datura and Rasputin. In addition to writing, Puckett edits the literary journal Futures Trading.
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