If you use Oz in a poem, I will take note.
from “Heroin with an E” by Benjamin Garcia
… dull halo of dust
where the kitchen TV was // where you were once
entranced by Technicolor // Emerald City Oz
you were just a girl and couldn’t help but fall // asleep
before Dorothy even reached // the nodding flowers
dusk fielding the sepia window …
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I preserved the line breaks. The double slashes are the poet’s.
The passage captures a mood, doesn’t it?
source:
Thrown in the Throat
by Benjamin Garcia
2020. Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis MN
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