PROJECT REBUILD


PREVIOUS TENANTS

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Not failed--attempts at beauty or stating--

they are unique, answers to the particular 
questions. How can I fit my own--waiting--
family into my genitals? How hard 
can I live on the land allotted? And how 
to emulate the look of some elsewhere?
How to be of? What can't I afford now? 
Or ever. Grace in the form of front lawns,
stucco sophisticate, all these arranged
and glittering bits of glass. I am wrong?
Connoisseurs prefer the sleek and strange,
not the reflective surface, the wood 
that reminds--before its felling--of wood. 
Once more--the renovated, the revealing--
this time further east; this time with feeling.

David Wright

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RENOVATIONS:

Alexandra Pasian

Rebecca Steer

Jennica Harper

 

BIO:
Lives in Central Illinois.