3 poems by Paul Hoover

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shutters


heard in error


            “the candy man klan”


wore gnat             suits in summer


            and also             the finnish


can’t stop dancing            cheek to cheek


            frowns on their faces


arctic stations            terns


            thick and thwarted word


this I know            for certain

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bitters


                  if arrows were in rows


handsome planners gather            wherever lights are on


      terror in the hand            when two are in the bush


                  an inward ceremony            sleeble pleekly


cinematic people            murky creatures            soon achieve


     floodstage


            events most recent


       warrant not            fondness

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memory



it’s on and off            the local towers falling


            cell phone traffic


in that rigorously formal way            chatty’s in cathay


            the word rump            an otherworldly


butcher            hope evening comes            sluggard-


            ly            mugging            always just



beyond            we are granted love            brain’s


            blue water            muons

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