Saturday, December 28, 2019

post-poems

A waning crescent present
as rain meets sleet.
Some slandering done
between them.
Sleet's won.

Slate streets,
Lamplight lit,
cold blue, old yellow.
A bridge slants up, a ridge
rising, bricked, nicked with
black rectangles.

River runs under thin ice,
and above, a white sky as dark as,
as dankly thick as a
wet stone.

Cold.

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a street poem passage

red hand
white walker
decorated trees
(these faintly it)
alongside, signs -
coraga, in Hindu
"Will do"
ede, in haitian Creole,
"help"
saba, in Swahili,
"seven"
Will do. Help seven.
Give Michigan back
its pure water.
Alem, in Arabic,
is a world, a scientist,
a scholar.
Altered -
a "convenient corner" now exists in the middle
of the block.
Lots of languages line this street.
Meet
black hands,
brown walkers,
end in water.
Step through time,
glass, alongside prime numbers -
indivisible.
Signs off.
Water rises.

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On Ebay,
someone's selling
an AMPUTEE's
left women's shoe
an 8
condition new,
true to size.
Few may, but I find it
touching,
something, say,
optimistic.
It's soft suede,
pup-colored
taupe,
this slipped on,
one-off.

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Hit or hiss?
Missed
"Clinton" as
"Clitori"
Slipped!
Fehlleistungen,
a faulty functioning
tongue.
One woman's mores
when speaking about hate? Too late to shut up, had to go on.
Signorelli paraphraxes are
wrong creations of English translation, but, butt,
the body remains
here.
We're, I'm, conscious of it,
in your overactive, young man's imagination.
Let's look to another meaning
because I don't want you, or Hilary.
Perhaps
revisit
Dostoyevsky's
white bear
at the door?
No.
So, instead,
look to
errors, 1-2,
few,
for every 1,000 words said.
Rudolph Meninger.
Sir,
please continue on about
"intrusions of letters
not meanings" or flesh.
Less sex, more vowels.

s p o o n e r i s m s
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How to construct a story so that the story is large and the writing is small.

Tall order.

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Bob, barely audible,
not in bed but chair,
said
in "A"
there are passages,
very remarkable,
in Chapters 22 through 24.

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