EXCEPT WHEN IT IS
Outside nothing
Is alphabetized
Two and more
Notes play at
The same time
*
She shows
Me his
People will have
To figure how
Not to blur
*
Nuance spelled
Out “mouths”
Wipe the surface
Swipe the screen
Whip it good
*
Noises and
Marks morph
Seems as if
This seems as
If it cleaves
*
From background
To background
No objective correlative
Every pronoun colonized
What to do
*
All words
Are weird
A picture of
Anything but ourselves
Everything buttressing shelves
*
Intersect with
Every object
The appearance or
Dissolution of such
Outlines as inversions
*
This a
Metastasizing caricature
Version or vision
Of a hole
New proxy horror
*
The defections
Of totality
The weather here
The falling timbre
More either or
*
Seam between
Seen unseen
Really the loops
Leaking our ghosts
Overtly conjugate pronouns
*
Possession is
A structure
Nothing really rhymes
Call me something
Call me anytime
*
Broken-down
Broken chord
Deal in fragments
That are pie(r)ced
Colors coding expectancy
*
Air attire
Retread trials
Utopian impulses plump
Sump pump routines
Almost inexhaustible apotheoses
*
Both masculine
And feminine
Please ask again
The echo chamber
Desires one can’t
*
Even after
Meanwhile some
Resistance distances separation
One should love
String and knots
*
This is
An omission
The the the
La la la
La la the
*
Alignment of
Divided along
Are saturated
Withdrawing forms
Into one another
*
Uses ghost
Vocabulary choices
Nothing except everything
Shadows regurgitate clamors
Articulate our specters
*
For which
How could
That needed no
To pass through
Leave behind the
*
The incoherence
Of what
Seeing in seizures
Ice maybe blue
Peels out there
*
End of
Preview storage
Losing a voice
Playacting evanescent gestures
Things trace hosts
*
What accounts
Reason stains
It in me
On the one
Sum of frames
*
Whole or
Revolving door
Odor scenario trailer
Staggering qua home
Mood range orbit
*
Tiny nexus
What not
Signal fake nudes
Nounal gender reversals
Positions switching tales
*
Difficult punctuation
Noisy separations
Not unparasitical on
The lowdown tattoos
In popular songs
*
Tom Beckett's most recent book is Appearances: A Novel in Fragments. It's available for free download from: http://www.moriapoetry.com/beckettebook.pdf