Naked Oyster by Poppy Cockburn Jon Glover but the strange detours consciousness

but the strange detours consciousness must take to know itself--”I’m interested in the edge/I strive toward

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Naked Oyster by Poppy Cockburn Jon Glover but the strange detours consciousnessNaked Oyster, the debut collection by Poppy Cockburn author of pamphlets such as Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon and feed notes gathers 100 odd of her pithiest, prettiest and most coruscating poems. A specialist of the aphorism, the two to four liner in her hands is turned like a joke, a curse, a mirror, a glowstick, a dart; precision and point hasnt achieved this density per inch since the Roman eprigrammists of the 2nd Century. Sly, sensual, comely,