congratulations on the city’s landfill redevelopment project / for recycling trash & earth //
hope is a strange word //
rare as a sapling without knifed initials / like a valley slope so steep its beauty repels
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unsettling dimple / uneven divot / unsexy wrinkle / disconcerting indentation / inconvenient gradient / uncomfortable incline / unnerving gap / discomforting ravine / incongruous gulley / unscalable crater / unfathomable—//
– blue ridge parkway education sign / sun hazed & faded
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gray silver graphite tin aluminum / it’s really a theory of age / read the chart right-to-left //
I love humans / (primarily myself) / corpses / future me with various dongles & goggles & subdermal batteries //
love less hot / but compared to the alternative / it’ll do
Jason Fraley is a native West Virginian who lives and works in Columbus, OH. Prior and forthcoming publications include Quarter After Eight, DIAGRAM, Jet Fuel Review, I-70 Review, Copper Nickel, West Trade Review, and Forklift, Ohio.
Image: “The Weeping Belt” by George Weinisch
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