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issue 03.

two poems: Okay / These Kinda Scales by Corey Hill

6/30/2020

 

Okay

So yes we’re okay
We say it with our saying apparatus
We are good this is
The answer assessed as appropriate 
You register our response
On to the next task to optimize
Cool, great, yeah you too 
So yes we’re okay
You’re okay too
Everyone continue with your assignments

These Kinda Scales

I’m a thousand odd shimmering scales of wonder and terror
A few shards short of cool crystal symmetry
I’m busy bouncing back beams of sunlight 
I’m charred and obdurate all at once 

I’m good and slippery with incantation varnish
Drunk gutted bug eye gonzo heart bombing
Do it! Point out the unworthiest among us 
I got mean magic to dole under duress 
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I’m half of this and half of that 
Crow feather/ rainbow of oil 
Don’t touch me/ do touch me I guess
I’m big and glorious and I will burst
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Corey Hill

is a human rights activist, journalist, and occasional lizard chaser. On the masthead at Taco Bell Quarterly, the literary magazine for the Taco Bell arts and letters. Journalism at The Independent, Alternet, Yes!, others. Fiction and poetry at Clarion, The Moth, Antithesis, Sierra Nevada Review, Cordite Poetry Review, more. Second place in the St. John's County Creative Writing Contest, Fifth Grade.


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