By Mike Andrelczyk
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The Logrollers
The two of them are always there – eternally
In my mind balancing on a spinning log beneath their wooden shoes
Rolling on the river
Wearing green caps with feathers in them
Spinning their log
As I:
Season an omelette with fennel, dill and sage
Type the words “fresh heist”
Waive all inspections
Piss blood
Hit a ping-pong ball into the net after a thrilling 8-minute volley
Try to sleep
Leaf through an outdoor magazine
Call my dad
They keep spinning on the log with their funny little green hats
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Tahiti 2134
aurora borealis but you have to listen to a car insurance ad to see it
the ghost of the gecko pasted to the anthurium
barking dog sample sneakers with flame resistant tongues
the translucent blue hockey player in the sea
of hovering hibiscus blooms
I’m gluing my disastrous shoe again
I’m wearing wraparound shades on an aluminum hydrofoil
I’m tranced-out and sweating bullets in the tranquilizer garden
as the fire ants swarm my strawberry-shaped wound
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Soap Bubbles
I’m doing the dishes and I feel great
because you’re describing a meme you saw
and you just did that laugh style
I really love
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Secret Poem (100 mph)
I saw a yellow gibbous moon on two legs sprinting between dark
hillocks
I saw a pigeon-colored crescent moon tripping down a spiral staircase
I wrote a secret poem called “100 mph”
It goes:
The sky has never been
Bigger and more meaningful
I am crying and driving
100 mph
And I’ll never be able to tell you about this
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Cornflower
Speedwalking through the graveyard
into the cornfield and then crossing
the highway without watching the traffic
looking up at the chinook
forgetting to update
speedwalking through another graveyard
mumbling to myself “I don’t give a fuck”
stopping at the garden to register the blue and to scan a cornflower
always talking to myself
and maybe to you too
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Mike Andrelczyk is the author of four collections of poetry, including “!!!” with Ghost City Press. He lives in Pennsylvania. On Twitter @MikeAndrelczyk and Instagram mike_andrelczyk.