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Our Dogs Are Restless Andrew Macy and Jake Page 2009 45pgs, $10 SOLD OUT
Our Dogs Are Restless is a collection of bloody, lovelorn, whiskey drenched, ocean sprayed poems. They tenderly address the illusions that make our lives meaningful and the way our crutches are so often sucked beneath the undertow, rendering us wobbly, naked and sun burnt. The book is fully illustrated by Jake Page, whose drawings uniformly capture dogs engaged in human leisure activities
a lump of braille, sensitive by god
bring in the sadness bring in the love and fill our cups with teaspoons of disbelief and mountains of release
you don't look so good but i am certain, really i promise that what got you here, will get you back
emily heard a fly buzz when she died
where were we now leaving impressions so we can stop talking and still say 'hello' and 'here's where the peacock should be' emily heard a lot of things that never broke the air and we plaintive laugh through
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Bodega Doldrums Gus Iversen 2008 130pgs, $15 SOLD OUT
Fully illustrated book of free form poetry and sprawling prose. Deals largely with the mundane and what an intense business that can be!
Phineas Vs. The Strawberry Beverage (excerpt):
you lifted the pitcher to your lips. that hot july afternoon. it was like drinking the water in an olympic size swimming pool after a strawberry had peed in it.
you went back to his bedroom to ask him if he'd come with you to the airport tomorrow but he wasn't in there. you found him, with his gentle palette, laying in the hallway snoring peacefully. you laid down next to him on a carpet you were sure had never been vacuumed before. you exhaled and soon you fell asleep too.

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JAR Gus Iversen 2007 150pgs, $15 SOLD OUT
150 or so short poems originally written on index cards. Mostly about what if feels like to wake up really early and the concept of containing something. Dreams. Moments. Beliefs. Intentions. An entire head of hair. Also photographs, naturally.
Paint Brush Cup
The cup you wash your Paint brush in Runs with the colors Inside you Your paintings feel naked Around it
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The Prismatic Cathedral Will Lasky 2008 130pgs, $15 SOLD OUT
Short stories by Will Lasky.
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Weekends In The Megacluster Gus Iversen 2006 80pgs, $15 SOLD OUT
Poems about leaving a small town full of people that you love very much and moving to a big city on the other side of the country. Poems that take comfort in the meaninglessness of existence and the quaintness of the heart. Poems that drink deeply. Drawings too.
The Broken Tongues of Lovers
at the italian opera the music is epic full of heavy consequence, (like tom and jerry or insomnia). the singing too:
caramel thick -- these lovers flailing about in the throes of the rarest, most chaotic passion the world has ever known
ripe with romantic fits of melodrama, and the tragically inadequate sub-titles could not have been more appropriate:
"You are my love" "I am glad I am your love." "Am I your love too?" "Yes. You are my love too." "Then why must you leave me?" "I must leave you because I must leave you"
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Sleeping Fully Dressed Gus Iversen 2005 300+pgs, $30 SOLD OUT
Short stories, poems, illustrations... cheap thrills and shockers. Loneliness, debauchery, desperation, awkwardness and all around handsomeness.
Fishbowl Helmet
there is a three headed monster plotting my murder as i type there is a miserable old man criticizing the way i spread the icing there is a world famous actress, and she she wants to sign my scrapbook i used to have a cat i loved but it's gone and dead meow there is a meeting i must be missing
there's a cop car in the rearview there's a book, too many books and a thousand too many songs
i had a dream while sleeping sound i forgot it my chair at school it sits me down i've gotten good at that
you show me movies you call mother when one ends you start another drinking whisky and pissin' urine photographs of ol' van buren
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Cocktail Salute Kevin Estrada 2007 30pgs, $10 SOLD OUT
Poems by Kevin Estrada.
Queen's Rush
The queen, god save her, walks down the aisle
alone, between rows of adult plushophiles.
Her crown, pinned to her bouffant, is unmoved
by flashing glances that “belong in the Louvre
ooo-ing at paintings or whatever is art,”
she thinks, as her mascara runs brittle and hard.
Her majesty’s audience stands stiffly stoned
awaiting the moment she steps up the throne
but her excessive armills slip off her wrists,
land in the folds of the train of her dress.
The queen turns ‘round swift, her hair tilts right
then sways to the left, she collapses like a kite
when a wind dies down, or interest wanes
and the children go search for a different game
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Thinking of Saints Kevin Estrada 2005 140pgs, $15 SOLD OUT
Poems by Kevin Estrada.
The Sierra Gang Takeover
a clique of fires ablaze in the redwoods -
some of the only playing fields left untouched
near sasquatch towns where
"Tiiiiiimberrr"
is rarely cried
the overcast sky reddens the dust and ash;
shadow silhouettes pantomime life
in a ritual bonfire of archaic symbols
the sun is covered with a thin filmy haze
and serves as the devil's peephole
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Old Stories Gus Iversen 2005 175pgs, $15 SOLD OUT
Short stories with the direction, drive, and clear-sightedness of a college student sinking in the shadow of a creeping deadline.
Stranger's Song (excerpt):
Then it was night and the map collector was forced to light his only candle. He took a book of matches from the window sill and taped it to the foot of the tube. He laid the matchbook on the floor and stepped on it to keep it steady. With a grand sweeping motion he tee'd off upon the phosphorous strip, igniting the match. He navigated the tube down gently upon the wick of his apple scented candle. The candle flamed and he waved the tube to extinguish the match. Then the cardboard tube became a spear, which he lunged into the closet, which was full of rhinoceri.
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