Laura Figa

VIA ANIMA

IN THE PARKING LOT

OF THE MAMMALIAN

BINGO

A FIR TREE

FLANKED BY PASSERS-

BY AND FLEA RIDDEN

PIGEONS

TWO WOMEN BOUNCING

FOR NUDITY EACH

ALLUDES TO HER TRUCK

MAKES A FRIEND

OF HER SUBJECT

A LACTIC LOOK TO HER

NODS COME HITHER

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at last, lately

spar
sweat
return to Truitt
wait on the porch
the mailbox full
as a crane’s set
arc
and near,
howlessly,
new flowers for Luis,
fresh pastries
below his image
outside a hammer’s
way

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ur wrangler of former domestic use

ur wrangler of former domestic
use was now somebody’s

fiend with a well kempt secret

done rubbed thru a leathern
country fabled for its view

that no belief without conviction

is stable

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Laura Figa is a visual artist and poet whose work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 500 Capp St., Temple Contemporary, Et al., and elsewhere. She is the author of the self-published chapbook Plenitude in Finitude (2024).