Jeffrey Encke's deck of poem cards,
what a fine idea. Each time you read
them, new poem- combinations emerge,
and the poems gradually come closer into view.
This is an pleasurable accretion.
Just now reading them, with Bonnie
Raitt and Jackson Browne on the tv in the background,
familiar blues, new poems,
very fine indeed.

Here's one: (2 of hearts) (figurines
at the bottom of the card on a background of dark cloudy red)

"biding time/on lawns of false signs/
I thnk of that kiss, /conjured/
from a handshake"

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