Joel Chace

Joel Chace has poems in publications such as Lost and Found Times, Tomorrow, Big Bridge, pith, Coracle, Three Candles, paper tiger '01, 6ix, xstream, sidereality, and shampoo. He has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, including, most recently, Uncertain Relations--Birch Brook Press, Greatest Hits--Pudding House Publications, and o-d-e--Runaway Spoon Press. He is currently Poet In Residence at Mercersburg Academy and is Poetry Editor of 5_Trope Magazine at Webdelsol.

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blithe ass grabbers restless with the rest of usual luck so he gets

up to o carp o the name you want then listen like hell for the

first window of heart of two all the secret flesh we can in

occupies the biggest fuckin circle of em all YOU IDJIT THAT MEANS

. . .

the open already death glazed eyeball and the tiny lolling RAPTURE

IN flickering dusty blackened may be laughin on down to dinner on

the flats course the fish just keeps squirtin away and finally jesus

why he walked out after positive arbitrage let him hack

. . .

sick at heart the promise crammed air the kissing in Detroit than it

is in winter and republicans bout as much as he needs the turkey's

ass with you guessed hand and what he ought to do with ARBUCKLE

SHORTS cocks and simonize your love

Joel Chace