about the author

Charles Shields’s work has appeared in Prick of the Spindle. This fall he will be entering The School of the Art Institute of Chicago to wrap up his undergraduate degree.


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THE A / BIOTIC ISM IS / A GOOD GHOST

Charles Shields



between the S / heets
between the 3 / fold frequency

any symbolic gem is
sunlike in its con / fluence

with color / I won’t believe the wind is not alive
wherein we went / we can gel

at the last minute / the last
inaccurate minute split into its constituency

of individual facets
and you thought / I thought

the wind is not alive
as I am not a condition of myself but what is

touched / and isn’t the
de you can’t hiss to enscribe this structible love with / a history

of its construction / ductile
ghost tapered to a point / a penile un- /

til you come
in reverse across the poppy field

to the place from which
the notely name / the fragrant mote / first boned you





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