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  • Herman Beavers (bio)

In the new video Flyy girls forget how to cry    silk lining the heart veers toward the pigment of violence    slashes passing for eyes    words ending like shadows along uneven ground    assassins capering in arrogant shade done by themselves    hair minimalist & modern force a matter of appetite     balance devoid of words    times when there is nothing doing a mind will pare away the superfluous  leave the difficult the very core of pleasure a conversation eager to convey comfort  convenience simpler & quicker than hate    fantasy defiles indifference & in Iowa there are men swallowing lozenges of revenge & bitterness    the backs of their minds sticky like the floor of the balcony @ the Alhambra's Saturday matinee    all the things they mean click click clicking across the eye's imperfect curve

Herman Beavers

Herman Beavers is author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of James Alan McPherson and Ernest J. Gaines. Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies, Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama, Cross Connect, and Peregrine are some of the anthologies and periodicals where his critical articles and poems have appeared. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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