Andrea Spofford

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Andrea Spofford's work can be found in The Indianapolis Review, Journal Nine, Vela, Underblong, Bone Bouquet, Nightjar, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Sugarhouse Review, and other journals. Her book The Pine Effect was published by Red Paint Hill Press and she has chapbooks available from Red Bird Chapbooks, dancing girl press, and Quarterly West.

P	Q	P˄Q	P˅Q
T [disaster is determined by two factors: toxicity and biotic dependency]	T [natural equivalents are: gilt-edging, gold leaf(s)/leaves]	T [grass soft on banks and a field of coneflowers, sunflowers, a field of blanket flowers, asters, a blanket of flowers, a flowering field full ]	F [threads, a food-web collapse]
T [backbone/ breastbone/ wishbone & a cut fruit]	F [a blossoming]	F [a troubled length of thigh wakes & sleeps]	T [this nightly wail]
F [all disruptions are scaled to the face—the bridge of the nose, the blanket of forehead	T [think of it like this: a glass filled with water is held by surface tension]	F T [cheeks and brow, an eco-systemic resiliency]	T [a furrow or a grin]
T []	F [a river, a nose]	F T [cheeks and brow, an eco-systemic resiliency]	F [

P	Q	¬P	P∧Q	P∨Q	P⊕Q	P→Q
T [position yourself from torrent-borne branches]	T [we reckon an alligator is the same as trees fallen to river]	F [a logical symbol	T [a predicate to a body of persons]	T [a bursting forth of skin to water, an accumulating & rivuleting & rivering a stream]	F [froth of teeth]	T [scream]
T [tumultuous waters/seditious waters]	F [pulsing, the gunpowder’s shot of collapse, the slide of trunk down mud]	F [beads and droplets chemical substance, elements of ancient philosophy]	F [down banks, all willows falling to river, roots chasing water]	T [we explain what we cannot know by what we know]	T [a monstrous tail]	F [ & qualities of water]
F [bursting steam above the horizon]	T [plural P and Q]	T [riverbank]	F [flood]	T [scar]	T [we reckon]	T [antithetical to fire]

P	Q	¬P
T [we will not ride this sunset, gold and orange sinking beyond our reach, our grasping]	T [the nature of meaning is painted on Western skies]	F [fallen like leaves, embers]
T [we will not end on this note, terminarch of wings]	F [the repeat of twang and thistle vibrates]	F [this kudzu will overtake us all]
F [we will not love more than this water]	T [as iron courses our rivers]	T [and our memory will be felt only in Earth’s longing
F [we will not live beyond this horizon]	F [a brackish beast with minerals we lap as if dying]	T [in heartbeat, in hum]