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I push my landscape
as you pull at my tendencies-
& our little war
flowers.
 
About the Author
Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz has more styles than a Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon. He’s been published in Arsenic Lobster, Epicenters, Tiger’s Eye, 42 Opus, Verdad and VOX. His chapbook ‘ghost diet’ will be published by Altered Crow Press in late 2009. See the [...]

asleep, I can speak
your name as if through
a hole in the wall
I don’t know it but here
on this couch, I know its
one syllable, the space
of a single breath; a
ghost-name, a slight
indentation on
my pillow.
 
About the Author
Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz has more styles than a Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon. He’s been published in Arsenic Lobster, Epicenters, Tiger’s Eye, [...]