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Peatsmoke
A Literary Journal
New York City as a Fidget Spinner

Mitchell Jacobs

balanced on the thumb
of a security guard
at the MoMA,
he does not even watch

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PoetryPeatsmoke February 9, 2016Spring 2019, Mitchell Jacobs
Incubation

Mitchell Jacobs

When I was an infant
and my two brothers were infants
and my mother and father

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PoetryPeatsmoke February 2, 2016Mitchell Jacobs
Poem in Which I Attempt to Exorcise Deer from My Poems

Michelle S. Reed

All my life I’ve known deer
unbodied—heads mounted
on our basement wall, eyes

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PoetryPeatsmoke January 26, 2016Spring 2019, Michelle Reed
I Don’t Want to be a Woman

Michelle S. Reed

who shakes when she’s touched
in the dark, but this is a fact

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PoetryPeatsmoke January 19, 2016Spring 2019, Michelle Reed
It Was January

Anthony Sutton

and I still didn’t know you
well, but you stayed when I ran
into you at the chili place by campus

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PoetryPeatsmoke December 22, 2015Spring 2019, Anthony Sutton
Violence

Anthony Sutton

Very often, a female Monk
Seal will be mauled by males
digging their teeth into

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PoetryPeatsmoke December 15, 2015Spring 2019, Anthony Sutton
Memoria

Jeremy Michael Reed

Coming across North Dakota plains,
sunlight sifts against the bluffs. 

Grass turns orange, brown,
sky turns itself to dust-

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PoetryPeatsmoke November 24, 2015Spring 2019, Jeremy Reed
On recognizing again my surroundings, the way my body feels cold-alive when bared to rain

Jeremy Michael Reed

We walk along the bridge,
rain drifting as if effortlessly,
filling each sidewalk indent. A pity

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PoetryPeatsmoke November 17, 2015Spring 2019, Jeremy Reed
@ Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park

Samantha Tetangco

you tell me
that an iceberg
700 floors above
our heads carved

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PoetryPeatsmoke November 3, 2015Spring 2019, Samantha Tetangco
Upon Learning About Michael Slager’s Conviction

Samantha Tetangco

Our bodies are built for death.
I am talking now of Walter Scott,
a black man who was shot

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PoetryPeatsmoke October 27, 2015Spring 2019, Samantha Tetangco
 
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