Excerpts from
P O E T A _ E N _ S A N _ F R A N C I S C O
Barbara Jane Reyes • 2006 • $13
Design by Karen White and Colin Wilkinson

calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica

your methods are unacceptable :: beyond human restraint :: things get confused i know :: the heart's a white sepulcher and no man guards its doors :: against the growing dark :: incessant blades beat air :: incessant blades :: what means are available to terminate :: gook names :: with extreme prejudice :: you may use those :: blades beat :: easier than learning their gook names :: your boys don't know any better than :: gook names :: dead men hanging from trees so far from the known world :: how does it come to this :: being blown to hell :: incessant :: gook names :: in panic mode trigger finger instinct efficiency :: incessant blades beat air :: blades beat :: dead men hanging :: gook names :: no sin committed :: no dead men :: to forgive.

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley and her MFA at SF State University. Her work has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her first book, Gravities of Center, was published by Arkipelago Books (SF, 2003).

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