FREE SPEECH

sentences wish to my speech foreign to be wrong (illegible) pure & experience its own slowing down ironically takes times out of context the weathers bad I say over my shoulder an America on the verge of ocean towns is poverty Im alive says a lot restless rooms alternating trying to outpace how unreal life so thin it falls off to find it some feral thing

EPIPHANIES

no one remembers their first what it be a memory if much of everything is not cant give up the feeling Ive got something to say quote me my errors of thinking where to begin Im tired of executing all day she says at dinner define myself Ive always disliked if there is such a thing as the ideas were mine & so to say was

Matt Reeck is co-editor of Staging Ground magazine. His poems have been published in five chapbooks, including "The Necessary City," forthcoming from Konundrum Literary Engine Review, and "The Pastoral City," forthcoming from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. Bombay Stories, his translations with Aftab Ahmad from the Urdu of Saadat Hasan Manto, was published by Random House India last winter, and will be released by Vintage Classics in the US this spring.