Not only does William Lessard have 3 gorgeously surreal poems in our Spring 2016 issue (including “advice from spirit eater” and “father,” below), he’ll have four more poems in our forthcoming issue, FLAPPERHOUSE X, AND he’ll be performing at our 8th Reading / Issue X Flight Party at Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard on June 22!
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“advice from spirit eater”
BLUE BABY ANGEL
tucked
behind your spleen
every night
he claws out,
just to watch
cartoons
can’t stop him / can
slow him down
he likes sugar
and anger—give him
vegetables
&
joy
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“father”
(After Schoonebeek’s Chorus)
SAW THE BURNING HOUSE IN YOUR VOICE
I spent
my life denying
collapse into an argument of sticks
every night
your mouth caught flame
with Canadian Club
was to be
(against the history of history
talking
into an empty glass)
the light that drove me
into a forest
where I was the only light
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WILLIAM LESSARD has writing that has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s, NPR, Prelude, Wired, Thought Catalog, People Holding,Drunk Monkeys, Voicemail Poems, Metatron, Moloko House. His chapbook Rembrandt with Cell Phone was published by Reality Beach in May 2016.
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