Randy Prunty

The Affective Beast Sonnet

Every
grave
is
a
groin
at
night.

Gravity
catches
all
things.

Act
out
accordingly.

Poet’s Almanac and Planting Guide Sonnet

The
waning
moon
shows

how
a
metaphor
makes
a
difference

by
masking
a
difference.

At the Level of Story Sonnet

Lying
naked

knowing
nothing.

Tonguing
a
word
called
stumble.

Allowing
how
rupture
is
luck.

Transfiguration Sonnet

I
expected
you
as
spectral.

But
as
spectacle?

Still,
welcome
back.

And
nice
hat.

Weaving the Sail Sonnet

Awakened
from
drowning

I
now
see
things
clearly

but
only
as
they
once
were.

Semiotic Sonnet

If
you
see
a
tow
truck
towing
a
tow
truck

then
there’s
your
poem.

Randy Prunty lives in the Bay Area where he works as a bus driver. In 2022 BlazeVox published Test Camp, a collection of his poetry. Other work can be seen in Poemeleon, Volt, the tiny, Concision, Poem Alone, Parentheses, New American Writing, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Fence, and Trilobite. He has a chapbook forthcoming from Three Count Pour, a Selva Oscura Press imprint.
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Susan Lewis (susanlewis.net) is the Editor-in-chief and founder of Posit (positjournal.com) and the author of ten books and chapbooks, including Zoom (winner of the Washington Prize), Heisenberg's Salon, This Visit, and State of the Union. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies such as Walkers in the City (Rain Taxi), They Said (Black Lawrence Press), and Resist Much, Obey Little (Dispatches/Spuyten Duyvil), as well as in journals such as Agni, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions online, Diode, Interim, New American Writing, and VOLT.

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