40° 25' 23" N / 104° 42' 32" W
Matthew Cooperman
That phenol these rashes of family extreme
Deficit holes for arsenic drillers
Spontaneous practice tested near a goat
Trade secrets legal that lubricant rub
Of mortals a coil of metals in wells
That phenol abortion sensory extreme
Heavy near drillers for even the horse
Spontaneous poisoning for wastewater spread
Extreme deicing of dust farming roads
Heavy metal nosebleed tested the drillers
Spontaneous arsenic considered in schools
Hospitalized for nosebleeds even the goat
A year's replacement for suspected rashes
Spontaneous wastewater practice for wells
Suspected deicing of horses on roads
Family of secrets tested child near a goat
Perhaps down there metals rub that phenol oil
Drillers for deficits died frequently lethal
Trade secrets lubricate sensory holes
Spontaneous rashes spontaneous drillers
Spontaneous abortion in and around schools
Suspected senses extreme near children
Schools many legals a drilling fatigue
A sign down there among oils that phenol
Spontaneous mortals coil near the test
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Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), as well as Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. Four chapbooks exist in addition, including Little Spool, winner of the 2014 Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize. A new full-length collection, Spool, is forthcoming in 2015 as the winner of the New Measure Prize, from Free Verse Editions. A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and co-poetry editor of Colorado Review, Cooperman teaches at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their two children.