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Poetry

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21ST CENTURY HAIKU



& the nature of
their electric chairs is they
stay Electric Chairs...




POLAR VORTEX



bone cracking
cold rock
candy

cracking bone
rock cold
hold

he got candy
red rock redrum
Grit my bones

cracking up
broke cavemen
avalanche

government

more currency
more candy
more rockslide

resist against
rock cold
against cracking

that’s some
cold bone
rocking candy

big beat
in my bones
redrum

blackslide the
government

break up
the big grit
crack me up

there there
there there

red girl here
have some
nice candy

chill tf out

can’t change
the weather

can’t beat
what’s broken

Contributor

Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in The Nation, Brick, American Poetry Review, Witness, Kenyon Review, POETRY, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (2019) from Bloof Books. She is also the author of an artist book called “Operation USA” through the Baltimore based book arts group Container, a project acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. Her third collection, Waterbaby, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2021.

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