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Gone Lawn 66
buck moon, 2026
(July 29)

Featured artwork,
3 Clouds, by Julie Ahlfeld

new works

Heikki Huotari


The Interval of Confidence 50

It's why my devices fly. The curvature is negative and I'm inside. The president pro tem is not just any old amygdala. I'm not convinced. I'm not amused. As innocent the standing pat so guilty the absconding. I put my own exoskeleton on first. On Tuesday it's a fashion faux pas if the citizens are different or the snowflakes are the same. The dots connect themselves. I was abducted by republicans. The algorithm is for us so who can be against us. Cats amass when dogs disperse, there is a rise and fall to simulate a forward motion and each tradesman's eye is on the other's patron saint. The causal chain may be circuitous but I'm as agile as an influencer in the outback. I'm as agile as an influencer in the outback so it might as well be autumn in New England in New York. In here it's linear but out there hyperbolic. Now weigh me without my soul.



The Interval of Confidence 52

My senses independent, I was thinking of a house between two horses. What house was I thinking of. If a bird in the building is worth two cakes in the rain it's lucid pareidolia v acquiescent synesthesia v beatitude ad infinitum ergo blessèd are the bullies, the unrighteous and the random actors for they'll have a second childhood and they'll check out mentally before they check out physically. I'm in the field but I'm not of the field so I may neither toil nor spin. So hypothetical and red are the containers and suspenders of belief and disbelief, these trees are made by foolish gods like me and even shouted some sweet nothings soothe. The subdivision zoned for only Goldilocks or for free speech, the infrared or ultraviolet extraterrestrial need not apply. You're not the greatest lower bound of subsequential limits that I thought you were.



Heikki Huotari wrote their first poem the morning after the major died in the adjacent bed. Since retiring from academia/mathematics they've published more than 500 poems in literary journals, including Pleiades, Florida Review and The Journal, and in six chapbooks and six collections. They have won one book prize (Star 82 Press) and two chapbook prizes (Gambling The Aisle and Survision Press). Their Erdős number is two.