Hugh Tribbey’s experimental verse has most recently appeared
or is forthcoming in Jazz Cigarette,
Malpais Review, Experiential-Experimental Literature, and Truck. He is
the author of eight collections of poetry.
His most recent is Wrinkle and Mechanism published by White Sky
E-Books.
Tribbey holds a Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State
University and teaches literature and creative writing at East Central
University in Ada, Oklahoma.
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1. CRAVE MIDNIGHT FELDSPAR
crave midnight feldspar
buzzsaws steep claw Palestine steep
gorge mirror
scummy spill bitterness envelop
Palestine rubber urgent thick hire
attack acoustic
rubber urgent dung breed rubber
skin night spinal thorax gem
3. FRED HARRIS #1
folded overalls rub-board glad equals
right iron never doubts
earlier earlier loyal
dad occasional living take
hungry end Acme thought
alike lean end
red idle north dad
rode interest neighbor drive
Indians late longhorns
Snaked east attracted looked
4. YOU’RE RAD
you’re rad
lona hand
learnshing
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thinover
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like roup
been out in come
Harvard ake
convenln’t
famiday
I know hased
marrised
we geou’ll
what itle and
deattended