The Inflectionist Review Issue 2

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The
Inflectionist Review
No. 2

© 2014 The Inflectionist Review
Portland, Oregon
www.inflectionism.com
Art by Olinka Broadfoot
Cover Art: man/woman
Desi...

No. 2 Winter 2014
Portland, Oregon

mission
The Inflectionist Review is a small press publishing stark and distinctive
contemporary poetry that fosters dialog...

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from the editors
My words take up a
space
that I would not notice
without its being taken
Is that not often the way with t...

The Inflectionist Review
No. 2 Winter 2014
Greggory Moore
Doug Bolling
Matthieu Baumier ______
Adreyo Sen
Jose Angel Aragu...

Jennifer Wheelock
Jude Conlee
Patrick Meighan
Thomas Piekarski
Adrian Koesters
Lediana Stillo ______
John Sweet
Judith Bar...

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Greggory Moore
Silenced Urge (Silence; Dirge)
My words take up a
space
that I would not notice
...

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Doug Bolling
Questions
Long emptiness of sky
within which the sojourner
pauses, takes stock,
begins the template
of...

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Our steps through the hours.
Sun and moon. The memories
held in their arms.
That distant summe...

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Adreyo Sen
This Promise
Perhaps when I am gone,
you’ll find me in the quietest of places,
not even in silent lawns...

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The hands on the clock follow each other like a couple in an argument.
Only once every hour do...

13No. 2
When a flash passes, we dip again into a loud dark,
listen to water drum across the roof, clasp with dirt.
Unable ...

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He began the night by tearing pages out of the sky
and now finds he has nowhere to hide. He re...

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15No. 2
above your portrait,
I write
a million years ago
in green pencil.
my narrow winter,
my aching house.
I say forever...

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student
of birdsong.
a million years ago.
then your name
and then
nothing.
So long

17No. 2
Clarke W. Owens
Coast
Driftwood bobbing on a wave, floating farther out
with each tidal stroke. It’s like breathin...

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There you sit, among the ruins,
calling out to come look, there is writing
on the stones, ston...

19No. 2
In a shallow bay
my father is slumped
inside a black raft,
arms flung over each
side, fingers flicking
the water. ...

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That same table carved
from a bend listens to the
chorus of wings outside
the window, oaring t...

21No. 2
Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua
Fiddlebones
But before I go, instead of an obituary, I want my feet washed by the pastor w...

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Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua
Anatomy of F
I was born on a flotilla of islands en route to the edge ...

23No. 2
— Robert Rauschenberg
Because the brain needs a wheel.
Because the light pours in silence.
Because ...

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featured artist
Olinka Broadfoot

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artist statement
I am a sculptor and I paint.
My work is varied because life is varied and I create from at least ...

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We are Here Together

27No. 2
The Red Bicycle

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Jack

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Untitled

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Toro

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Mask (Self-Portrait)

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Your body is. Exhalation.
Rainwater fingers on the
shipwreck of my ribs. You.
Lonely moon swol...

33No. 2
Brenda Taulbee
Hangman
My life hangs suspended. In the gallows
your mouth is a golden noose
breathing monsters wit...

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at night
with lights out
air appears granular
like separate particles

light retained
on the ...

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35No. 2
The proposition: a firefront, climbing the hillface, approaching lines of grey box,
an edge, a vibration, ragged, ...

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The direction of the wind: a return address, the passwords we require, the encryption
keys tha...

37No. 2
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
walking the roa...

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Jennifer Wheelock
Moor Me
I drift. Despite
anchor and ring,
stake or gravity,
glue gun or stap...

39No. 2
Jennifer Wheelock
Instructions for a Sculptor
Low Relief
If your shovel finds a hefty rock, unbury it.
Get help fr...

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How?
did I manage to make
What?
was made
were you there when I didn’t just
make but invented/c...

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Alone at a long table
A feast for a king has been
Set before you and before
The empty seats. The untouched
Food is...

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I feel the heat and cold
Like mold growing on a brass door handle.
Temperature gain and loss f...

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Remembering backwards, the dizzy recourse
of the year ahead, the one in which you said—you will say—
Remember. The...

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Behind the blinds of asking,
and tenderly ceasing, ringing
and musical the questions
Where the...

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45No. 2
distinguished poet
Rae Gouirand

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the interview
Q: Pertaining to your unique poetic structure, why did you
choose to create a bi...

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Q: Do you approach each poem with a clear mission or is a
poem’s greater purpose molded and defined by the process...

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poetry offers us. It might satisfy, or feed, or restore some piece of a self, or of an
us, but...

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our attention, but when they make other strange appearances I think of them
like anything that jumps out in the ro...

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Q: What else are you passionate about? Do you work in other
genres or art forms?
I live a kind...

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demonstrates visually what it is that I think a poem can demonstrate formally—
that when you zoom out as far as yo...

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Rae Gouirand
An Autobiography
The weather is changing in my mouth.
I could write this line or ...

53No. 2
Do I believe in figures anymore in the way
I’m watching eucalypts shake new summer light off
meanings carry one an...

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Rae Gouirand
Map
The hardest thing about blue is it seems to promise
Over time, nothing is str...

55No. 2
Rae Gouirand
Tin Man
The air outside a metal whip, window silvering, oven
After dinner I space during the story ab...

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Circuits

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the truth of gods is
the truth of rope
ask gorky’s daughters
tempt them with candy
give them
incorrect explanation...

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“We now know that the moon is demonstrably not there when nobody looks.”
—David Merman, phys...

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1.
I dread night windows.
Masks of oak-bark
flaunt textured skin,
molest fading light,
form rough sculptures
press...

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She lay in cool grass
between orchard rows
where stars lowered
their thin strings.
She plucked...

61No. 2
Fog frosts my eyelashes
like spangles on fence posts.
Gods and beasts
sleep in the same landscape,
and although on...

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You arrive late.
All night, you lie awake
over floating streets and listen
to the oracles of t...

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You can feel that slick curve
cupped in the palm of your hand.
Glass, not glass, shining, the moment
when you have...

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Kelly Terwilliger
Where the muses
The air crackles like cold fish
swimming long currents of qu...

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The air trembles. And sometimes—
just—
opens.
Dark rind. Softly, softly, peel it back, softly lift it…
what is the...

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This fragile, bone thin
porcelain cup,
cracked, but not broken,
broken, but still whole,
irrev...

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contributors
Michael Albright has published poems in various journals, including Loyalhanna
Review, Uppagus, U.S. ...

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Anton Frost has appeared in Parcel, Verdad, The Bacon Review, Grasslimb, and elsewhere.
He liv...

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Aside from a four-month sojourn in Comoros (a little Islamic island nation in the Indian
Ocean between southern Af...

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Brenda Taulbee currently lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. Her first collection
of poems, ...

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The time we made a fire
on the creek bank and
studied the flames
to invent a future.
— Doug Bolling

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