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STEVE ISHAM
View at the Edge
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- At the edge
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the
clown’s make up
- meets
- razor nick skin of the man.
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- Fast food/gas station/motel
- cluster,
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make
up the clone,
- American gaudy,
- LA to DC.
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- I, this oasis edge pedestrian
- alien at terminus tide line of
jetsam’s
- tattered plastic graffiti
- most visible in Spring,
- gravel chemical aqua at
- snow melt salt line,
- and beyond, hunched uneasily
- the domestic weatherboard
evidence
- of this intersection ghost
- chilled out
- by deep fat KFC heat,
- bungalow cheap rent now,
- a wrecker’s lunch.
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- Three slumping halloween
pumpkins
- grin from low porch perch
- pastel walls behind
- blanched to near invisibility
- apart from these infrequent
footfalls
- at the edge.
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