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My heart broke within my chest
and the pieces got stuck between my ribs.

I pulled on a sweater and moved to Wisconsin.

My Fake Anthology

Lisa Eizenga’s Anthology

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Rae Armantrout

Dark Matter/1                                                                                                                          

Music/3

Resounding/4                                                                                                                           

 

Erica Bernheim

The Oversized World/6                                                                                                           

I Love How Your Eyes Close Every Time You Kiss Me/8                                                       

Like a Face/9                                                                                                                          

 

Emma Bolden

At First/11                                                                                                                               

 

Jennifer Boyden

I’d Have Presented a Cup of Water or My Own Small Ax/12                                                  

 

Laynie Browne

Letter II/14                                                                                                                              

Anemone/15                                                                                                                            

Interlude:/16                                                                                                                            

 

Rick Bursky

Cardiology/17                                                                                                                         

 

Brigitte Byrd

 (quixotic cooking)/18                                                                                                              

 (looking back it was easy/19

 

Ashley Capps

Hymn for Two Choirs/20
Reading an Ex-Lover’s First Novel/21
Conventional Red/22

 

Paula Cisewski

 Ghost Fargo/23

Ode to Tethers/25

Hell, MI/26

 

Juliet Cook

Venus Tree/27

 

Brenda Coultas

An Early Alphabet/28

Black Boxes/29

 

Cynthia Cruz

 Twelve in Yellow-Weed at the Edge/30

 Shoot/31

You Will Be Like Your Dreams Tonight II/32

 

Jim Daniels

The Tenured Guy’s Trajectory/33

The Tenured Guy Handles the Evidence/35

The Tenured Guy Calculates Salaries/36

 

Julie Doxsee

On Yesterday’s Statue/37
 
Magnetic Strips/38

Rock Erodes a Lifespan/39

 

Norman Dubie

The Canvas Boat/40

Sasquatch/41

Landmine: Field of Copper Wings/42

 

Carolina Ebeid                                                                                                                      

Havoc Yonder World/43

 

Nancy Eimers

A History of Navigation/44

No Moon/45

In the New Year/47

 

Graham Foust

 Skull/49

 

John Gallaher

The First Chance I Get I’m Out Of Here/50

 

James Galvin

 January Thaw/51

 Promises are for Liars/52

 So Long/53

 

Louise Gluck

All Hallows/54

Epithalamium/55

Descending Figure/56

Beckian Fritz Goldberg

 Beached/58

 

Brent Goodman

To the Student Who Asked You What My Poems Mean

for David Graham/59

 

Martha Greenwald

 Crosswalk/60

 The Story of the Day/61

 Cardigan/62

 

Kimiko Hahn

A Dream of a Pillow/63

 

Tom Healy

A Labor of Moles/64

Alarm/65

The Metaphysics of Being Well-Mannered/66

 

Jay Hopler

 In the Garden/67

Approaching the Tower/68

Green Squall (for Kimberly Johnson)/69

 

Paul Foster Johnson

 R3. War of Maneuver/70

 R5. Marcelled Men of War/71

 R13. Written into the Bestiary/72

 

Laura Kasischke

Riddle/73

 Pharmacy/75

The Key to the Tower/76

 

Jesse Lee Kercheval

Straight Line/78

 

Yusef Komunyakaa

Light on the Subject/79

Back Then/80

Letter to Bob Kaufman/81

 

Susanne Kort

Street/82

Black Painting #2: The Dead/83

Discarded Clothes/84

 

Li-Young Lee

In His Own Shadow/85

Become Becoming/86

Little Ache/88

 

Jon Loomis

Conspiracy Theory/89

 

Louise Mathias

Satine/90

 

Ross Middleton

Family Circus/91

 

Malena Morling

From the Train/92

Everything is True/94

Late at Night/95

 

Lori Anderson Moseman

How Became I an Aircraft Carrier/96

On Ice/97

In the Way a Cow’s Grazing Is/98

Julie Moulds

Late Summer Litany/99

Dog Grows Fish Scales/100

There Was a Soldier, Not a Sparrow, Inside the Golden Cage/101

 

Michael O’Brien

Confetti/103

Ephemera/104

Some of the Days/105

 

 

 

Carrie Oeding

I Have Been In More Uncomfortable Situations Than This/106

Poem in the Shape of a Trumpet/108

‘All My Friends’ Barbecues Need Attending’/109

 

Sharon Olds

When/110

Topography/111

 I Go Back to May 1937/112

 

Dzvinia Orlowsky

First Rain/113

Inherited/114

If I Can Feel the World Tonight/115

 

Martha Rhodes

Our Bedroom Wall/116

Into the Fens/117

Telling Mother about My Troubled Marriage/118

 

Martha Ronk

“Self-regard played across the walls of the room like

shadows”/119

With interstitial vacuities, a network of light/120

 “So they say: ‘This is what happened’; but they do not

say what the person was like to whom it happened.”/121

 

Mary Ann Samyn

Another Word for Small/122

 

Christopher Schmidt

All Tomorrow’s Parties/123

Arcades Palare/124

Making Eyes/125

 

Herbert Scott

My Father’s Fortune/126

That Summer/127

Evening, Milking/128

 

Frederick Seidel

From a High Floor/129

The Hour/130

 
 

Jason Shinder

The Pitch of Childhood/131

Eternity/132

Summer Night/133

 

Jennifer Snyder

Cafes at Night/134

 

Frank Stanford 

The Nocturnal Ships of the Past/136

Linger/137

Sun Go Down/138

 

Larissa Szporluk

 Io Remembers/140

Ghost Continent/141

 Crocodilia/142

 

Brian Teare

 –In the Library of the Fairy Tale,/143

 House in Summer with a Slapped Face in It/144

–Of a Sleeping Man,

 & a Second Man Awake

 (for John Wieners, 1934-2002)/145

 

Chase Twitchell

The Wars/147

Makeshifts/148

Walking Meditation/149

 

Gail Wronsky

A poem for and against sonnets./150

Sunday./151

Friday./152

 

Dean Young

Roving Reporter/153