A poem that succeeds through the authenticity of its confusion rather than the elegance of its resolution. The fragmented structure—preamble, synesthetic catalog, music confession, political binary, philosophical question—mirrors a mind...
A poem that accomplishes more in sixteen lines than its casual surface suggests—the mineral metaphor (rock → pebble → rocky) is sustained with quiet consistency, and the tonal shift from...
The most politically ferocious poem in Plahm’s catalog and a significant extension of the civic voice that emerged in “I’m Tired” and “The Logic of Descending Power.” Where those poems...
One of the finest poems in Plahm’s catalog—a piece that takes the well-worn “body as text” metaphor and revitalizes it through the specificity of its observations and the consistency of...
The most compressed and most formally achieved poem in Plahm’s catalog—six lines that do the work of entire sequences. This is the distillation that “Your Gravity,” “Time and Two Fires,”...
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