Jordan Stempleman is the author of Their Fields (Moria 2005) His poetry has previously appeared in magazines such as Milk Magazine, MiPOesias , New American Writing, Otoliths, and Shampoo. He lives with his wife, daughter, dog and cats in Iowa City, where he is a Teaching/Writing Fellow at The Writers' Workshop.
After is Personal into the possible century, barely two feet away from saints picking through the end of meals, there’s scarcely two clean floors left, connected lamblike as works of art, unused, confounding the statistical evidence of polish overcoming the urge to weep, the shine, dependant on daylight, reflects back lonesome replicas of flawless berries, held remarkably still in strokes of crowded grace, the implied belief there’s perfect vegetables, fingers, underwear or households, easy wants caught by one filth or another for some summer monger to override an earlier, more earthy fixation such as indifference, its sheer numbers its sheer thumbs, committed to intermittently bend
© Jordan Stempleman 2006.
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