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LINDA KING
BLAZEVOX[BOOKS]
Buffalo, New York
antibodies in the alphabet
by Linda King
Copyright © 2019
First Edition
ISBN: 978-1-60964-339-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019930788
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foreign alphabet in the guest house
13
the always hungry are at the mercy
14
anticipating high tide
whatever is necessary
to contain
like a child
in imagination’s shelter
storm jackets
15
shut and latch
every message
a sound bite
on a secure line
16
language is too odd a thing
at any moment
and scattered…
self-evident fundamentals
deconstructed
line breaks
17
you are in a gallery
no longer exists
18
all night radio
in present tense
everything ordinary
catalogue particulars
of past plotting
washed away
on old sneakers
19
blizzard of narrative clues
in caffeine conversations
is a textual current
of constant revision
scrambled
a nod to Aristotle
an in-between
20
no theory holds true
there is no remedy
although
words pile up
someone
clean of seedpods
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your pink birthday dress
in any language
resembling grief
make it real
22
your descent line is suspect
something is missing
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