Jim LeftwichThe Four Oaks Poems (Page 1)punctuated equilibrium air conditioning with or without a cat sleeping on the front porch under a wooden swing; the clothes hamper, with or without bottled water, an aquarium, Jesus with wings a blue light bulb, three logs stacked in the fireplace; hurricane season to the east and fire season to the west. i am in the same room i was in yesterday, but i am sitting in a different chair. A poem should be a Joshua tree, not a pentalobe screw. Haint-Blue Shutters Your blue bottles on four Tree limbs. Eye blue Bottles on my three limbs. The blue eye of the Peacock at pyramid. At The corner of Pyramid And Wine. In the evening When the sun ghost dawn. Feather Not Ice Listen goddamnit I can live in this world I've been here for sixty four years We have evidence And no doubt The hydrangea blooms by the driveway The gun case rots in the hallway Black Yucateco Habanero Sauce Every fish flies its own fucking bicycle I won't go away Like shale Like salt Like salt on a shellfish I Shall contain my selves Like the toll roads in Indiana A wall is not a buffer Like the caves At Dublin Gulch In Death Valley National Park Fake Book dog biscuit radiator, radio like whiskey on a frog adios alligator socket wrench bench pressure cooking james bible bleeding wings No Airport Poems Windy as a clock Chicken lightning Four cats concrete Soup by the dozen A lock, spinning Thin fingers, sour & slight as a snack Grand Cyn Oxygen Fog bearing The log rollers By their ears We linger Hovering over The canyon Filled with Clouds holier Than dog Long Ego Ago mango stitch polyethylene cat on a flat chord rope the road curves and the ride swerves and the sword hat leans like a bean on a witch bent there dawn that long ego ago standing in the aisle with that Kansas City smile Hypnagogic Punditing(trumpets of the apocalypse) Stalin would run as a Democrat and we would vote for him because, hey, he's better than Hitler. 2020: Triangulation Stage 3, in which the Neocons become wise elder statesmen in the Democratic Party. Biden is being accused of plagiarism. He writes his own speeches? No one believes that. Well-bent forget the middle pie chicken dust, in that Himalayan coffee cans, for the Folsom prism two shoes, dropping there like plates, dripping pigs, i'll put them on the pink shelf, where the dogflowers burn and rumble, do you want me to put the bream, dare to twelve with a suit of dawns, anywhere, where too many of them remember (a leash of phones) it just as if it was easy to tell them apart. (Scott MacLeod hacks a batch of my poems) a Joshua tree yesterday but I am sitting in a different chair Black Yucateco Habanero Sauce the toll roads in Diana, Indiana the sun ghost dawn alligator whiskey Clouds holler Then dog Windy Chicken sour as a snack Don't them all(riffing on Scott's hack) But I am a habanero toll road. No son of an alligator gonna holler dog snack chicken at me. Rid Rod Dim Red Rid, rid of dim, dim Ride, ride dim, dim Rod, rod of dim, dim Rip dim rot, riot dim, Dim red bed fed led, Led rid, rod dim red, Red rot of dim ride, Rid, rid of dim, dim pangolin dengue monsoon pangolin couch vitamin dengue succulent bubbling monsoon flyswatter pistol monsoon succulent vitamin dengue couch pistol pangolin flyswatter bubbling bubbling couch monsoon pistol succulent pangolin vitamin flyswatter dengue bubbling succulent vitamin couch pangolin flyswatter monsoon pistol dengue I Am Not A Robot I am not a rutabaga I am not a rabbit-eared antenna I am not a reboot I am not A. Rimbaud I am not a robocall I am not a rummage sale I am not a ratfink I am not a refuse fuse I am not a riptide I am not a Rottweiler (Elizabeth City) i am not a robot (2)i am not a rinse via tomato i am not a roaming meniscus albumin i am not a retirement membrane brillo i am not a ruthless cucumber mentation i am not a ranch dressing invitational tournament i am not a Rembrant i am not a rotisserie chicken i am not a rat rot rut i am not a ripple ribble riqqle riddle i am not a rust rusting rust i am not a crook a crock I am not a crutch a crumb I am not a crack a cram I am not a creed a creep a cream I am not a crimp a crib a crinkle nudity & the raindrop down by the covid river corona river virus river as neither due to six bridge formless down by the corona river virus river covid river making use of the virtual sense to exist down by the virus river covid river corona river historical that is vernacular privilege and applied chronologies down by the covid river corona river virus river volatile facets shoes indelibly pandemic stage on which non linear pandemic sidestepped escape nor doubt pandemic inedible sage near crepe pandemic your new ironing board is still an ocean cooking reasonable three well-scissored windows blurt seamless trenches from the first baked lamp bean pyramid chakra bones sleep like any other cactus clusters eastbound after sundown Attention Solidarity Olidaritys Lidarityso Idaritysol Daritysoli Aritysolid Ritysolida Itysolidar Tysolidari Ysolidarit Solidarity triangulate in forage seldom baby booters have half-hive buyers boxers boating bodhi baobab our favorite territories are hemmed to the femur the screech of the syllable the scream of the phoneme the shriek in the shape of a consonant singular presence synergy our ragged eggs a quart of undecidable coin light of the wreck pri gon victo half-comr to reinvestmecon oppi activists of refuge work intima and priva the no overthink psycholoin psycholion tyger preserves the sentence haileca politics ugly real stunning scang and pickl dav philosophi polit thought limits limits the wreckage of the canned guano mirror process thh their self over romantic houzev the system rules how loss audionne otth what thlaspi skies of aspic eyes syneye symreye the night rituals sever the lamb th downdawn clasps dread brathe also soap they mirror apex of orthodoxies nusle the wreve my job as an eye wanting to dot the eyes that it is after a soup no fault of the mailsock mear alfoib almosat every path has a p reality damages touch how could i think to cluster it's a noun i have my rearview toothbrush things continue to disagree thought is a fever spinning like actual beings liminal regards in the buttoned batter nothing could be so wrong as a hinge formed of unspoken perspectives even our criteria are missing No Justice No Peace While sitting in a chair While spitting on a chair While splitting a hair While walking through a door While talking through a door While chalking on a floor While standing on the ground While standard on the ground While stranded on the sound While emptying the trash While taking out the trash While emptying the trash While sifting in a chair While shifting in a chair While sitting in a chair planet of ravages unsett dujart shovel forwout between tackl langua creath the mirror within th math the postwork calligraph emavario from lives embraced a fire was set in the wash no virus will announce the previo symptoms of its health convulsed this hat of burned doves cascading conglon regs apoca to felimit eventche eve nonc robs the change against pandemic weather no node ode no not note node ode odd ode mode mod nod nor for fob mob sob so sot shot shoot soot foot food fool tool toll toil boil foil fool cool cold fold old mold bold bole mole mule mull full fall fail nail ail wail bail pail pal pale bale ball bull null cull call calf half halt hilt wilt will fill file mile mite mote note not no control freak theater influx maps to school facet their cell rank scales, mosquitoes quaintly preliminary. how does bacteria identify the theater of command? thus heterogenous dream microvirus flash food washing fast watching flooders too shoe to nap in flutes ratchet their phone banks caliper, calibrated liminal saints. cafeteria howling dust, thus dreamers ashen ash. Dreams of Normalcy On the 91st day of My 17th dream The rain fell on the Rain. It flowed Down the driveway And filled up the Ditch. The green Lawns were greener Than green. My cat Climbed up on my Lap. Gimme them Catnip treats, Bitchass bitch, or I'll claw your fucking Face off. Don't think I won't. Meow. The Rain fell on the rain, On the 91st day of My 17th dream. Relinquish #1 Relic Enigma Luminous Intuited Noctilucent Quickening Usurious Imbricate Shithead Hebetude Hedonism Hegemon Relinquish #2 Relative Exemplary Liminal Intoxicating Nuchal Quixotic Undulation Irredentist Icarus Iatrogenic Shapeshifting Homeophonic Refuse 1. remember embody febrile febrile umbrella syntax emit 2. rescue embellish flechette ungovernable sigil syllabic estuary 3. remnant erroneous eggtide fumarole utilitarian soundscape eldritch At Five In The Road Enough stomach Last long tooth Too raw to crawl To the left of here By the time we get To Syracuse Where they keep The commas There has to be An inch of light They're not just Dead or worth Your weight in Work worth their Weight in dirt I'll Be back on Sunday And we'll see If that's enough Pigeon Peas & Clams Macaroni roadblock Might turn to puppy Dog the same as With your mustache That time of the Morning foreclosed A number of the Forgotten too long Stuffed with stepping Stones he's not Going to eat those Remember how you Got here mint fob PM Dark as the day is Long like bubbles like Bubbles on a train saying them exposes readymade fragments are untranslatable. face-value spirals entry to soccer, in its astute particulars. lamp in sea a heresy. the oddly singing world sways language intertwining simmering their love for two dimensional varieties. red belfry tooth in which stark is jump-started cut to a false start an entanglement of grace notes a gritty trombone alterity / be very careful when quaking through the reality zone it is mercurial like burning meat diagonal bent salts too methane to meander in the forest of ecomonic statements, through the climatelisp senate crucible / through the Land of Mirrors In Series / America foaming anchovies from her storyboards / West of The Lion by a couple of biscuits, the gas lease sizzles for fish, whittling misguided worlds, a naked people-grab fashion under stanch lear dire better water blueprimt, starmap in a tide pool, an independent rags more tolerab than the moon. monsoon myste extraordine in the valley of sea sonal land scrapes. reading writes added the host in D his 19 pianos in the year of no history, none. fa da enduring bell roughly teaching takir it opens to a taken locatio mistakes coiled around the still light, two why who when in a whole, hair like snow, oil country longing to have. whateve fills it with a dotted thick catch quirks the spot lightning, a plague of fire. betwee crimp an exper data advised directly Anonymous Jones the Under Director, for instance the economy is a hoax. insurer socks random sufficient they are influential hurricanes, influenza clings to their leg like political chalice catastrophe verse, up to its dis aster in nonapostrophe.previous page     contents     next page
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