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DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!!DOG PRAYER!!

DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!!

Chris Sumberg

This block of dogs rants,
a million fat ids
screaming for love,
their non-factor benefactors
raining deep, shuddered roars,
as gods in black moods.
Fangs bared, spitting, bawled to the sky:
"We are good! We are good! We are good!
We are goooooooooood!”

Chris Sumberg’s poems have been anthologized in MWPH Books’ Local News: Poetry About Small Towns and tdotSpec’s The Hamthology. His poems also have been published by RealPoetik, Poetry Café / Wide Load, Tin Wreath, Chronogram, Thunder Sandwich, Lilliput Review, Ant Farm, and Pemmican.

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ISSUE TWENTY FOUR: Systemly Real


Karen Neuberg
   Advice
   All my shoes are dancing shoes,
      all my shadows lead home

Nicholas Alti
   dance dance dance ghoul sing ghoul be
   I, EXACTLY LIKE RAINWATER,
      SLIP TOWARD WORMS UNNOTICED

Chris Sumberg
   DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!!
      DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!! DOG PRAYER!!

Colleen Anderson
   Schrodinger's Box