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EDITORIAL

ARCHIVE

LAGNIAPPE

MAST

SUBMISSIONS

Poem
by I X Key


Parallel Plan

1.
plutonian plank

2.
[monocle diaphanous piston] [course ring difference] [within myself directly] [related to the] [size of inner] [life — how do] [I act in] [this external world] [all enough to] [have separated all] [enough to have] [become invention piston] [stick piston guide] [piston transplant keep] [asking film formed] [on leak fly] [flung

herself right] [through filamented design] [of a species] [overflowing ocean conductive] [a sign appears] [to select where] [to take lens] [like ark scraped] [it sings off] [key the perpetual] [looping no tedium] [abandoned an invent] [near Atlantis I] [pray in order] [to be below] [my ghosts my]

3.
[hopes I pray] [in order to] [be below the] [current passing — negative] [that’s paradise — if] [it weren’t much] [then wouldn’t it] [be easy — I] [test myself I] [press myself on] [ladder of arteries] [pumps vitreous body] [between ice forest] [& heavily veined] [cloud of

commitment] [no infiltration like] [lightning the skis] [noun down trope] [foundation — noun was] [verb — things before] [doing are breeding] [once the pupil] [is raised then] [it may make] [caves — the arcs] [have intersected — step]