air strike              (“what comes over the wall”)

air struck       oxygen to burn

blaspheme

start with a shaky principle dependent on how the relationship goes

______________________       ___________        _____________
(family name, first name)           (domicile)              (occupation)

cover huge swaths of the world with vanishing languages

cut border into the gorgeous distance

where honeybees gather

flight paths           unravel

(we still haven’t dealt with the money)

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Paula Koneazny_The Death of the Beautiful Subject

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Paula Koneazny lives and writes in Sebastopol, California where she earns her living as a tax consultant. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Aufgabe, New American Writing, bone bouquet, OR, and Interim. Her reviews have been published in American Book Review, Verse, Rain Taxi and Tarpaulin Sky. A version of her chapbook Installation was a finalist for the 2009 inaugural Firewheel Chapbook Award. She is currently an assistant editor of Volt. She can be contacted at paulagraphpress@gmail.com.