Recenter Press
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    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews

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BY JOSH DALE.


​Heat and goodwill
stimulates combed strands of corn
exactly as the bounty prescribes;
Mother’s farce and
artifact unearthed.
The sporadic altruism 
of the hand-sown field
is where we shall be;
it’s where we always should’ve been.
With the hoe at our feet,
shoveling down a lack
of uniformity,
we gorge the possibility
in minute bites.

Food isn’t free 
but it roams all around us;
is placed on shelves
and placed in the dumpster.
If food is in your belly, 
you’ll keep eating, hoarding.
It’s an instinct when you're famished.

Josh Dale loves cats, is a freelance editor, bicyclist, and an MA candidate at Saint Joseph’s University. He’s the founder and editor-in-chief of Thirty West Publishing House where he folds pages and pokes fingers with every book. He’s published two chapbooks and a poetry collection, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West, 2016) and select works can be found at his site  www.joshdale.co.
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews