Gwynne Garfinkle

Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in such publications as Big Bridge, Exquisite Corpse, Shampoo, Shuffle Boil, papertiger, Fish Drum, Scarlet Letters, and Gynomite: Fearless, Feminist Porn.

a brief history of impermanence

planning for the past
issues such as lightning

sometimes
we drank champagne
courtesy of the French

also the syrup is looking promising
the unity the room once had in mind

sometimes we ate
dirt, courtesy
of the Germans

spurious luminescence
hairy & diffused, future-proof

relative humility
those evasive salt crystals

pleasure of ruins, largesse
earthquake history

no cards, no table
either/ore

we all need
direct contact
with real things

a few days before the new

dialogue with the ruined work
the paper is devoured by the ink

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is his butter dead?

a brew ha ha
a brass rust attitude
an irate IUD

a squirt
quart of snits
a quintessential debt

hubbub of nub butter
underhanded dad
beast bust

start here heart
undress and heed
this hair and rant