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issue 1: CARNIVAL

that spinning moment

FRANK G. KARIORIS
Why do so many people disguise themselves 
             with masks or clothes or words

when what they want is simply to be seen, 
out       amongst the crowds     they linger
where once their lives              stretched onwards. 

             Paint your face & you may well disappear. 

Those books about the past are more about 
ourselves than anything, like a way for us 
to review & renew our world, what’s passed. 

             Let us call this spinning; an ongoing process. 

The drums come in, rattle walls / & intoxicate 
we will dance / we will come / we will become
made whole in rain / flashing blue & white lights
cool ground / adorned / ring them bells all night. 

             ​People to people / bohemia is between us.

Frank G. Karioris (he/they/him/them) is a writer and educator based in Pittsburgh whose writing addresses issues of friendship, masculinity, and gender. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Collective Unrest, Maudlin House, Sooth Swarm Journal, and Crêpe & Penn amongst others. They are a regular contributor to Headline Poetry & Press.
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