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the ace of swords would like to buy a bridge
the gents are bent in the task of rending cracks in Kakhovka Dam * there’s nothing but
chips two by two & swarms of tingles sing
like paper crowns from don’t know they’re dying
cream & sugar dream the gents three by three
the gents can’t stand it * across their scalps
the lost & found * they for someone else’s
as the ants collect by the endless sea.
possibility
the ants collect bad
in its destruction * ideas one by
one * this isn’t your blades into ploughshares *
water to claw through drown Kherson * the ants
standard beating of
their commander wants
the embankment & collect the concrete
Dillon is from Fairbanks, Alaska, and Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, Copper Nickel, Dia- gram, Steam Ticket, Alice Blue, apt, and other journals. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and placed second for the 2024 Vivian Shipley Poetry Prize. and works as a legislative reporter at the Texas Capitol.She
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