Poets/Daisy Fried

Daisy Fried

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Korean monster movie on the SyFy channel, …

Daisy Fried

“Even Duccio can’t match …

Daisy Fried

Bored in the balcony reading your novel …

Daisy Fried

You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year. Remember the pregnant woman? in a Fontainebleau café, I meant to reset it in America when I wrote the poem, she was sordid with mammalian culmination, dissatisfied with the first table she chose, the chair, with too much too hot sun soaking her through the picture window, she gathered crockery, groceries, her unsatisfactory handbag in order to move but the space between tables was small and the deadweight of  her near-term baby in the moonbounce of  her body made her clumsy, trip, fall, splash, and spill her au lait into a man’s open laptop. …

Daisy Fried

The girl grew and grew, her mother couldn’t stop it; it terrorized. …

Daisy Fried

“I fucked up bad”: Justin cracks his neck, …

Daisy Fried

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