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Two Poems
by Sarah Mangold


{shoe molding injected plastics}

entire little thank yous
utmost insincerity so what
of this little song
of isolation the bass
can stand as a
child fake surprise hello
speakers arrive this corner
circuit stood read incomprehensibly
afraid of looking like
the tourist we all
are she had her
sky book mapped waiting
to get hungry the
whole park fenced off
who’s feeding the penguins



{a new newer sentence and back}

potentially genetic saline
miracle of layered
hair see they
wear gloves to
the chalkboard some
people say a
cucumber tastes better
as a pickle
it's all foxes
and lilies well
recently flight attendants
and the year
abroad the year
in the midwest
the year in
India Prague year
of other and
then other here
of course grooming
and newspapers staggers
it happens her
market meals and
political debates reciting
as if that’s
a solution her
own circle that one