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Spring 2008
Prose Title
Invitation to Glazed Street
by Jack Morgan

Broken bats
in humble hearts
like wounded umbrellas.

I mean lamb,
my godhead,
aorta lover,

in saccharine night,
where slowness slouches,
rough molasses,
through thyme,

cries at the chronosphere,
where rainy stars blink,
blank hunters,

beating wings and chambers,
in the warmest wool,
where I,
it is myself I mean,

blinder than a bellows
whisper shining shadows
to the wind.

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Few poets have faced more criticism and controversy so early in their careers than JACK MORGAN, who, despite the efforts of frightful enemies, whose sternest stretches of imagination vie with slanderous tongues to hold him down, has become one of the bay area's most famous poets, authoring several chapbooks, publishing variously, co-editing Sorry for Snake, a poetic journal. He is an award-winning blogger at "the Trainwreck," where you are invited to watch poetry destroy his life.