Poets/Sy Hoahwah

Sy Hoahwah

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Sy Hoahwah

Noted to be the definitive bright morning of 10,000 calendars. …

Sy Hoahwah

Spanish captive, Hoahwah, married twin sisters. …

Sy Hoahwah

The Ozarks are where defeated assassins, the unholy, …

Sy Hoahwah

My ancestors were not diligent …

Sy Hoahwah

In the month of cleaning family plots, I learned football among graves. All summer, fangs were plentiful. I fed only on fruit and acorns next to a nest built in a discarded doll marking the 50-yard line. …

Sy Hoahwah

The wagon and mule, Time and Eternity, stop to change places. Their lean and slope-back shadow, my reservation. The moon moves like infested flour. At the river, bloody victories meet bloody massacres. They tell each other about their dead. …

Sy Hoahwah

Velroy de-jays the séance-turntables, …

Sy Hoahwah

Severed finger of a convicted murderer uncurls like a waking pet. …

Sy Hoahwah

. . . makes a noisy entry into Texas …

Sy Hoahwah

This is the deepest part of the world. …

Sy Hoahwah

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