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Author Archives: Matt Rasmussen

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October 20, 2014

Matt Rasmussen

Your jet contrails stream across my face of sky like a money shot in slow motion. Only, I receive no money, just the muffled sound of jet fuel transforming your tiny plane into frosting. O great blue cake, inspire the … Continued

Canal

April 28, 2014

Matt Rasmussen

After the photograph Manatee Drive 02 by Isabella Hayeur, 2011   No one who has ever seen a body of water has not imagined drowning. Surface divides my eye and my breath holds me. The underskin of the canal grows … Continued

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