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Thursday, May 30, 2013

JAPANESE ARCH BRIDGE CHEMIST
REGARDING THE FLASH

by Jnana Hodson

Through unemotional contempt
where the dipping bowl ferments
Emma assumed I’d been spilling Chardonnay
over my watercolor field notes.

I didn’t buy tarot-card insurance
behind a Sumerian bronze disk
no matter what I dominated
in a beaker of green-flame transmutations.

Instead, we distilled wicked superstitions to a formula
resembling a reflecting pool where you spun
torpidly against the shrouded bullfrogs,
free of the paper deck the lady fanned before us.

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