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dennis james sweeney
from POEMS ABOUT MOSS




Leptogium corniculatum



Apothecia of longing
A threat is gathering out at sea
Wide rubbery lobes that curl into branches
Driftward
The good among us gather thorns




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Anomodon minor


Old money, bells
Bison hunched like a cathedral
In circles underwater
Even the weather is infinite and bored




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Bryhnia graminicolor


In the home life, shrill decurrencies
Ghouls and bugs of warless years
Cars we wash, cars we live in
Wet marble and the sound it swallows
In the winter voices
Harness young voices
Someone follows tracks crushed into the red coat of day




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Tetraphis pellucida


Cup-like
The variety drowns me
Perfectly elliptical
New York City
Weed
Wetted
16-ribbed and counting




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Brotherella roellii


A flightless face
Relocation efforts
Positive thinking, my chest of drawers
Your stones like water
Trust ascends and disappears into the




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Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus

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The museum would stuff us
BANG BANG
How can you not
Leaf-mother
The wrinkles are filling
We cannot even if wished to
End




​DENNIS JAMES SWEENEY’s prose and poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Five Points, Indiana Review, and Passages North, among others. He is the Small Press Editor of Entropy, author of two chapbooks of poems, and the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Malta. Originally from Cincinnati, he is now a PhD student in writing at the University of Denver.
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  • C- L O U _D
  • I S - S U E S
    • ISSUE 1 >
      • LILY DUFFY & SUMMER GREER
      • xTx
      • ESZTER TAKACS
      • JON STEINHAGEN
      • QUINN WHITE
      • RUTH BAUMANN
      • PORTIA ELAN
      • HOWIE GOOD
      • KRISTINA BORN
      • DANIEL ROMO
      • KAT FINCH
      • JAKE SYERSAK
      • MATT ROWAN
      • CODY KLIPPENSTEIN
    • ISSUE 2 >
      • RACHEL LEVY
      • MARK SCROGGINS
      • DAVID TOMALOFF
      • JULIANA LESLIE
      • JESSICA JENKINS
      • JOHN OLSON
      • KIM STOLL
      • JESSE MACK
      • NATE PRITTS
    • ISSUE 3 >
      • KEN TAYLOR
      • JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON
      • JOSHUA HARMON
      • PJ WILLIAMS
      • ERIC BAUS
      • MICHAEL JOSEPH WALSH
      • PARKE COOPER
      • CHARLES ALEXANDER
      • J/J HASTAIN
    • ISSUE 4 >
      • CAROLINE CREW
      • NICHOLAS GRIDER
      • GEORGE KALAMARAS
      • JOSEPH LUCIDO
      • LIZ MCGEHEE
      • MARTIN CORLESS-SMITH
      • RACHEL SPRINGER
    • ISSUE 5 >
      • ABRAHAM SMITH
      • MICHELLE DOVE
      • RUSSELL JAFFE
      • MATHIAS SVALINA
      • SARA NICHOLSON
      • ALYSSE KNORR & Mx MACK
    • ISSUE 6 >
      • ANDREW ZAWACKI
      • CAROLINE CABRERA
      • DAVID BARTONE
      • NOAH ELI GORDON & DAVID PERRY
      • ALEXIS ALMEIDA
      • KYLE BASSETT
      • KATIE WILLINGHAM
      • ROB MACDONALD
      • CARLEEN TIBBETTS
      • J MICHAEL MARTINEZ
    • ISSUE 7 >
      • ADRIAN KIEN
      • AMBER NELSON
      • LIAM SWANSON
      • BECKA MARA MCKAY
      • ANDREW JORON
      • CLAIRE CRONIN
      • PHILIP SCHAEFER
      • RJ INGRAM
      • RACHEL MINDELL
      • WILL ALEXANDER
    • ISSUE 8 >
      • TANEUM BAMBRICK
      • ELENI SIKELIANOS
      • GEORGE KALAMARAS
      • RYAN BOLLENBACH
      • JOHN GALLAHER & KRISTINA MARIE DARLING
      • JOSHUA YOUNG
      • OREN SILVERMAN
      • KATIE JEAN SHINKLE
      • JOSHUA COREY
    • ISSUE 9 >
      • GALE MARIE THOMPSON
      • JOS CHARLES
      • CRAIG FOLTZ
      • MICHAEL SIKKEMA
      • JOSEPH LEASE
      • EVE KENNEALLY
      • TYRONE WILLIAMS
      • ALISHA BRUTON
      • C VIOLET EATON
    • ISSUE 10 >
      • PAUL CUNNINGHAM
      • EMILY O'NEILL
      • JEFF ALESSANDRELLI
      • VINCENT TORO
      • ROBYN ART
      • MARTY CAIN
      • ZACHARY EVANS
      • DYLAN KRIEGER
    • ISSUE 11 >
      • SARAH SGRO
      • MAGGIE WOODWARD
      • JULIA MADSEN
      • BRUNO RIOS translated by ROBERTO TEJADA
      • DENNIS JAMES SWEENEY
      • TIM EARLEY
      • JOSEPH MASSEY
    • ISSUE 12 >
      • VALERIE HSIUNG
      • MICHAEL MARTIN SHEA
      • GRAHAM FOUST
      • WILL NEWMAN
      • RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA
      • JEFFREY LANCE
      • SYLVIA CHAN
      • THIRII MYO KYAW MYINT
  • M_AST-HEAD
  • SUB-MI-T_
  • NEW_S
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