trapped in a blizzard
of mink-clad
nymphs
drowsy with donor
fatigue
in the land of
edward
scissorhands
where the
infomercial is king
as instinctive as a
vine
in the blue marble
organism
which doesn’t allow
the other—
the sea or the shore?
“this is me,” says
she,
saying ‘good-bye’
and the door
becomes murky
and I’ve seen this
murk before
is anyone asking
questions
anymore?
while in
this détente
you give me a
“pre-emptive strike”
so how are we
supposed to be
a six-legged couple?
right now, I’m going
to go
into town and rape
some
grand pianos
intention is one
thing
effect is another
but nobody’s name
goes on
the small of my
back!
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The Poultry Put the Pieces of the Abduction Puzzle Together
Barring the necessity
to castrate the bull,
the fence mender’s
ineptitude,
the cows wooing mooing—
an altogether staid day
begins on the ranch.
The smoking chickens
share a toke and a scratch
wearing clam digger feathers.
A bantam Red
was robbed last night.
Two foxes—unregistered
sex offenders.
Below, the souls of urchins
ruined by time and masters.
Subterranean red riverbed dried
springs amaranthine crops,
spirals and keys—
a dance of foreign semaphore.
Babylonian Bride
this is no artist
statement
this isn’t about
troop movements,
ship sailings,
or war
equipment
this poem
writes itself
and wants
to be
a sonnet
I have not
said
a word
I am only
the bride
welcome
to the
agency
of my poem
I have been
fired
and I wish
to file
a grievance
that this
is not even
Italian
it is my
life
looking
downward
sterling
cross
kinetic
around
a soft nape
moaning
God bless this chest
how can
the heart
go on
from beyond
the living?
dead heart fools
how do they
attract?
do they come
out from
behind
the cold,
like summer?
I am at
the altar,
betrothed to
the 1st thing
that comes
down
the aisle
I am
an arranged
Babylonian
bride
a Christian
for the
lion
this wants
to be
the volta
what good
is a
volta
going to do
me now?
I washed
myself
like Jackson
Pollock
clean scented,
standing in
black
and grey
shoes—
one of each
I exist
in couplet


