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Spring 2023
Volume 9.2

Jason Gray
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Nature

The pinecone opened to the heat
And fell. How it now looks
As if a propeller’s entire motion, all
Its probabilities are shown at once.

The carpenter calls it genius.
Let us set our craft down
Into a basket of multiverses
As my mother did
And know the thing we can be no better than.

Jason G

Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King and Photographing Eden, as well as two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. His poems have been featured in Poetry, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Image, and elsewhere. jason-gray.net

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