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Brooke Spalding



PIE-O-MY

Diamond bone nudging
ahead   rest in the hay
             until daddy arrives

an itch
sparks

hay flame flames flames flames climbing hay fire fire fire fire dry wood fire
fire barn fire fire goat bleating fire fire fire hair fire fire legs fire torso fire fire

call goes to voicemail
and again
and again

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PIE-O-MY III
“We KNOW what art is! It's PAINTINGS of HORSES!”
                                –Jack Donaghy

Fat man all
bovine faced
wakes with
violetness

much pastoral

                        in meadow most regal

gaudy hotel
starched bedsheets         broken nail searches
                                        through TV snow


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Brooke Spalding is the author of the chapbook DEBAUCH (Bottlecap Press 2026). She lives, writes and teaches in Kansas City, Missouri.

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