Angelo Maneage

Angelo Maneage is a poet and book designer in Cleveland. He has work on or in or coming to poets.org, Wax Nine, HAD, The Hunger, others. His plays have been produced by convergence-continuum. Visit him at angelomaneagethewebsite.com

PINCH FORWARD MOTION OF TUMBLING by Angelo Maneage

Now we are walking down the riverbank and we still hear a dryer. I am confused by this. My mom says you should never get wet clothes but there is a garage sale by the riverbank where they are cheap. My mom says do not buy the clothes because they will be wet. I hadn’t even bought anything yet before she told me that they will be better if they are already dry. There were barely any things to buy. My mom kept saying go on buy them then she ran the dryer and looked at me.  + Standing idle…

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WAKE, ZIPLINE by Angelo Maneage

The waters are synchronized. There is a decanter of coffee fuming. Grandma is sad. Eating pizza, strangely. Songs are playing, strangely, and I catch one directly above the table we are at in this separate room (but all the doors were open, so it was more like a section of a bigger room, like a house is a room with sections of itself). My grandma, aunt, grandpa, my Uncle Bobby are all sitting here, with a few other people and pastries that are covered that I’m told to eat but confused to because they are not eaten. Pizza boxes were…

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