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Here are things
that go into your open mouth
while you are sleeping:
Spiders, ninety a year.
A flock, migratory birds.
A crawling kingsnake, baby.
A tongue depressor.
A second tongue.
A second bout with depression.
A string of electrons leaking from a wall socket.
Words spoken during the day returning to their origin.
A bony finger.
Harrison Fisher has published twelve collections of poems since 1977. Four are book-length: Blank Like Me, Curtains for You, UHFO, and Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real. He held an NEA fellowship in poetry in 1978. In 2024, Fisher has new poems appearing in Book XI, Misfitmagazine, Rundelania, and Transom.