You will hear
in the expanding lungs.Each breath forgets the last
and thus the questionis how to do
in this small room.There is the desire
to abandon the city.The people live as birds
tapping on surfaces.One morning I woke
and stopped for minutes.There is a sad in speaking:
a crushed castle, sold dog.The cause in fact is in our
mouth, and in the wordwe speak in secret.
A question is what to saywhen the whole freaking
comes on down uponthe blockbusting world
and especially when itdoesn't. There is the fear
sometimes of sleepand the thickness
in the waking head.The disaster is
it doesn't know this room.
32: ZOMBIE 2.0
Poetry Editor Ivy AlvarezReleased 1 April 2010
Index of Poems
Cover Image: Katerina Sakkas
We went back to the future for our thirty-second issue, revisiting ZOMBIE (2003). Why? Well, It was a chance to pay homage to the issue of Cordite with the most braaaiins, so who needs any further excuse?





