Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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W. Scott Howard


 Cusps
 
 
 
Into the snowfield
 
tunnel-song slope        slipped & lost
 
eyesandears in murmuring
 
quick otherselves.
 
 
 
No kettle whistling
 
here tonight                 below tree line
 
erasure steps. We’re seldom
 
moon-steeped within