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  • Shaving in 26°, and: The End of January
  • Matthew Gavin Frank (bio)

Shaving in 26°

There's a bullet in the eggplant.It's too early for the nightshades.

Someone will have to pick it freewith finger or fork. The tongue

was the first rejected tool, in spiteof its muscle. Put some lipstick

on that tomato. A tie on the corn.When a garden freezes, we eat

liver from the freezer, throwa tarp over, keep our machines

warm. Our simplest words for water,unpronounceable if whispered. How

everything we've domesticatedwill bleed from the ears. [End Page 56]

The End of January

Look there: another sexualized Buddhasits by the cat-ass coasters, dreamingan immigrant's enlightenment. At the airport

today, so many signs shed their glitterto the snow. Neither embarrassesthe other, exactly. [End Page 57]

Matthew Gavin Frank

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America's Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, Pot Farm, and Barolo; the poetry books, The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop, and 2 chapbooks. His forthcoming nonfiction book, A Brief Atmospheric Future, is due out in 2020 from W.W. Norton: Liveright. He teaches at Northern Michigan University, where he is the Nonfiction/Hybrids Editor of Passages North. He persevered through this past winter via the occasional one-handed cartwheel in his mind.

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