MiPO 2005

GUEST EDITOR GABRIEL GUDDING ~THE STRANGE CALL
VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 ISSN 1543-6063

an Iowa boy massive

an Iowa boy massive
drizzling down

oh and forgotten

unfurled, robeless

the world’s appliances

humming in hours

typeface of fog :: please wrists

an overpass lit by border homes

photographer suckling stork,

the legions

dente means poem (ate pie)

teeth how does a degradation

hefty apparatus

She took a mantle) (the army corp of engineers)

her deceased

(Is mother hardback)

fire tugs a good sign) (these

(a mirror, transcriptions

spats

(we kicked) (show me to useful)

of

a candle, a chandelier (a yellow

(the pill in two) in the ravines)

become)

(her the

Carver’s (blood

a wick (three prongs)

(wounded jute) envy is not working

constant grief snaps swamp into

(she dreamt that) (stories poseiden’s trident had (two days)

curtains would make)

on top of me (i have various

discovered the bed

melancholy

blood in a good dress (choose he

book off meds while sitting)

turn a river

ice creams)

the crevices it’s boundaries)

Randall
Williams

Randall Williams is a freelance reporter, anti-war activist and member of the Lucifer Poetics Group. He lives in Hillsborough, N.C. His articles, poems and literary reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in McSweeney's, Salon, The Independent, Word /for Word, Displayer and Gut Cult. Since 2001, he has taught journalism and creative writing in the Office of Continuing Studies at Duke University. Junk Horse Press published his two chapbooks Empire and 40 Days in 2003 and 2004. His most recent news article dealt with the U.S. Army's tactic of landing Blackhawk helicopters outside high schools as a recruitment strategy.