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Tuesday 30th June 8:00 PM
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Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics
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The journal of experimental poetics. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED A place for prose that listens as much as it speaks. Based in Nottingham, UK, with a global readership. www.futchpress.info
![I. What’s This Little Evening Impossible? [Lachrymose]
Learned in the day’s margins is the standard-flop’s overachieve,
As the chastening reminders of routine perma-prick with harry.
Calloused by constant call to alarum at others’ sleight-moves.
Harrow through shopping aisles with mumbling mire miasma.
Rigmaroles of order-ardour emote in the soft patters of walking.
Youth no longer and subject to the pathological fantasies of finality.
Maudlin in a mordant mesmerism of life un-earned, these
Otiose incidentals track their unfathomable way down cheeks.
Simpering in simple exasperation at the car’s steering wheel;
Engaged in hope to hold off a public display of becoming unfettered.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sx4pokgqq5zcqmfi4c3pv5un/bafkreicswce6shvlnqxdb4iqgzoei6tnrqarsgcbd6u4iiifeixfx2s2ca)
![Angel bearing a sponge, by Antonio Giorgetti, with the inscription “potaverunt me aceto” ("they gave me vinegar to drink", Psalms 69:22), western side of the Ponte Sant'Angelo à Rome. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5. White statue with bright blue sky behind.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sc4wry7vh2ijjavxbacov7jb/bafkreif6yqiwce4245cy6yixdjzon3v3t4vbyf4udqi4xf4l76nogpm4py)
