wheelhouse archive

Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2008

 

The work you will be doing by Sarah Mangold

 

Reading we barely glimpse
brain washing could be permanent

it signals feeling
plumbing lines

oddly assertive characters
to her mother’s brain

decode these sounds
now the lid is off

crush or be crushed
really his to choose

literate and backward
a piano in a suitcase

her body shifts between launch dates
envelopes addressed

trucked back and forth
aluminum foil had to be bought

valuables go missing
the buyer knows Missouri’s standard

in any case
serious water shortages

major implications
on the ships

the wealthy tend to elbow through
something of the same situation

the vowels and consonants
his errands wrapped in himself

there is no saying its entire flight
for people who go in for this sort of thing

don’t like the ladder draw a circle
he will respond