Twyckenham Notes
Issue Sixteen
Spring 2023
21 JEWELS
The world twirls around memory like a model of the old rotations in time where eight becomes nine by a steel spring tempered with beryllium Now trees are coming round again the limbs sprouting flowers repetition reassuring as pendulums though a more comprehensive view is still obscured by childhood
GALAXY
A book lay before me black & glossy but splattered with powder white and fine so I brushed it off It did not brush It was the Milky Way the powdery way the Wakah Chan The age of miniaturization had shrunk half the galaxy to a book cover In amazement my pockets ate my hands
SYNCHRONICITY
Jet dragging a streak of erasure A sentiment rewritten below by a hognose slick in the underbrush A needle racing through waves of fabric silver like a fish An osprey followed aft by its shadow
ALLAN PETERSON‘s most recent book is This Luminous, New and Selected Poems. Some other titles include Precarious (42 Miles Press); All the Lavish in Common (Juniper Prize); and Fragile Acts, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon. Website: www.allanpeterson.net
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