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stark dark pearling
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glitch && itch
scratch
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hack ur treason :

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Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a small [toxin] that was condemned and bulldozed due to an
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[I grew up a [hunger] away in a Superfund [sky] called Palmerton, which had experienced smelting [popularity] that deforested our Appalachian [mum].]

Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a small [tragedy] that was condemned and bulldozed due to an underground [miracle fitting].
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[I grew up a [husband] away in a Superfund [sleeve] called Palmerton.]

[Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a small [toy] that was condemned and bulldozed.
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[I grew up a [hypothesis] away in a Superfund [slip].]

Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a small [transaction] that was condemned.
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[I grew up an [hourglass].]

Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a small [trace].

* This piece was manipulated using an N+7 Oulipo generator.

Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. She currently teaches creative writing at Oberlin College & Conservatory. Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, her book Into the Into of Earth Itself is forthcoming in 2026 from Black Lawrence Press. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, FENCE, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Academy of American Poets (online), and elsewhere. Her new media work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Hirshhorn Smithsonian Sound Scene Festival, Abington Arts Center, and Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology.