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issue 1: CARNIVAL

may in millvale

JAMES CROAL JACKSON
​chugging along the narrow streets 
between metal barrier and wisps 

of weeds along the edge of concrete 
mystery sedans pass proximally 

close and the rush of wind against 
shirt the rush of your arm against 

me we flirt walking toward eventual 
destination through sleeping hoods 

nestled in the hills overlooking the 
Allegheny and when we get where 

we thought we wanted to go the bar 
is purple and loud so we sneak to 

play a fishing game in which you 
get the quarters and I get us caught

James Croal Jackson (he/him/his) is a Filipino-American poet. He has a chapbook, The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017), and recent poems in DASH, Sampsonia Way, and Jam & Sand. He edits The Mantle (themantlepoetry.com). He works in film production in Pittsburgh, PA. (jamescroaljackson.com)
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