Fall/Winter 2015 ~ Poetry
Dan Encarnacion lives in Portland, Oregon where he co-curates the Verse In Person poetry series. Dan has been recently published in The Atlas Review, Eleven Eleven, Upstairs At Duroc and forthcoming in Assaracus, The Los Angeles Review, Whiskey Island, The Blue Mesa Review, Word Riot and and/or. He was the featured artist for Reconnaissance Magazine’s 2013 issue and is included in the anthology Reduce: A Collection of Writings from Educe Journal 2012 (Educe Press).
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Jane
To murder is muzak. To murder is the wave-rolling breath of
wordless languor caught behind the flat, cold palms of soft-
shutting office doors. To murder is to see Dick run; run Dick run.
To rape is youtube. To rape is to rain stitches of quick,
digestible images on the family room floor. To rape is to
see Jane . . . anyone seen Jane? To pillage is hallmark.
To pillage is the unraveling tongue of the tumbling tide, under cry of
skyward gulls, lapping away footprints pressed in the tiles of superstore
aisles. To pillage is to see Dick run and to see Jane . . . Jane?
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