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Ian Lockaby
Juniperlips lining the freeway
/ so split with heat—
banjosstrings
wrapped w/ underwear
swagged feet in linoleumswamp s
Tossing a spout of gas across the face of the self
the checkout the machine the purp
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Ian Lockaby is the author of Defensible Space/if a crow— (Omnidawn, 2024) and A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal, 2025) and translator of Probable Synonyms of the Word Sololoy by Diana Garza Islas (Carrion Bloom Books, 2025). Recent work appears in Works & Days, West Branch, Bennington Review, etc. He lives in New Orleans.