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by Bruce Covey


Handshake

 show out of the box each too difficult
to beckon       gray, this lightbulb
off begins to spark and becomes president
& in the glow gives birth to the little

number keypad, the slash you scheduled you
cruise to the top of the clever mountain
only available in song sing to me sing to me
I'll give you a quarter it's lucky touched by

druids and fairies and chimneysweeps
all addressing the fine symphony of
your waistcoat, the electric readout
you generate to tell the electricity
you hate it and are



Bruce Covey is an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and author of three collections of poetry-The Greek Gods as Telephone Wires, Ten Pins, Ten Frames, and the forthcoming Glass Is Really a Liquid-all from Front Room Publishers. His work also appears in 26, Jacket, Explosive Magazine, Shampoo, MiPo, can we have our ball back?, CrossConnect, Big Bridge, Xcp, Word For/Word, Puppyflowers, GutCult, and other journals.