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Archaeology of Gap

lacunae

            fissure

                       mnemonic lapse                ravenous

to fill, to cloak the

empty in the wardrobe of

commotion, blank ren-

dition, empty appeal,

vanished verity

tremoring in the archives of a

reedy destitution, in

eleemosynary vapidities,

crazed spasms carom in

the vault of a

shunned

dexterity

Heller Levinson’s most recent books are Query Caboodle, Shift Gristle (Black Widow Press, 2023), The Abyssal Recitations (Concrete Mist Press, 2024), Valvular Ash (BWP, 2024), Query Caboodle 2 (Sulfur Editions, 2024), Crossfall chapbook (Sandy Press, 2024), with Crossfall (BWP, 2025) & From a Reduced Philanthropy (The Bodily Press, 2025). Upcoming is FLutterrudderbutterfly planned for a spring 2026 release.  His book, Lure (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the “2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.”

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See submission guidelines here. The arbiter of the feature is the magazine’s poetry editor, John Mulrooney.

— Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx