Category Archives: poetry

Uptown Kennel

By Rob Zanin | Published: February 7, 2010

Connoisseur of cute judgment: micro-authenticated pedigree’s top-floor teeth in throat. The dizzy mutt retreats, slowing motion: its pivotal grin at the cracking footfall; ears perk for the snared mistake chewed free from boutique ego.

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Blind Corner

By Rob Zanin | Published: February 2, 2010

bang into the starting line like it’s the ribbon, confused collapsed gasp, rounding the corner, into your ribs, hard leverage, splendid collision sticky knees stand up to destinations before right here

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JFK

By Rob Zanin | Published: January 29, 2010

Released doves, white prism Snug-patterned plume tugging the perch Like goosebumps on each dead animal

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Bibliography for Your Doctor

By Rob Zanin | Published: January 28, 2010

1. If the Gurney Hits Both Doors, Why Can’t She Wait, 5th ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press; 1992. (to revive the dead?) 2. Blame the memory. Each body who has forgotten New York, NY: Springer; 1994: 211-215, how to build cells alone.

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Post-holiday Crash

By Rob Zanin | Published: January 27, 2010

merrily, santa threw left hooks for which our stockings hanged; dismantled, as the fireplace embraces envelopes whose season’s greetings at last deliver warmth

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