Lying on the floor, stretched after stir
be there before dark
emitting a toll
rain drifting
between pending flower
landscape interests him
below the ground
painted surfaces confer
and stain the F#
father the white light
the side of concrete
theatre chant sitting
by the side of cabinet chance
like a bear’s paw fell
holding his current
tied north felt in
knocking to a piece
all pure like a pickle
weather-beaten coffee
from the comfort café
its plastic mercy
painting the seed
planting her pocket
taken off a curious sheet
in the sexual abrasion
pepper shaken over skin
a tired dry whimper
bothered in the heat
showered into her slip
slit stoplight closed door
the soft part of a room
a cooked rush bursting
into her boiling sound
This poem originally appeared in The Grave of the Great Alley of Clarity Cats, an anthology of poetry written by Mike Giardina. The complete the anthology is available below:
Table of contents:
- Sun Shine Body
- On arrival in a lot of no civilization and plenty of letters,
- The unable to deliver
- An upwards slanted walk
- A familiar voice
- Those who have a standard way of going
- Left each chapter within us
- Warm smile not found in her cigarette
- To regain his composure for figures
- Food for rejecting his feet
- Even during--even if it during
- Lying on the floor, stretched after stir
- A soldier frames the wall
- A step by boulder
- A train by life station
- I was able to take the old north of town
- Fledgling
- Job
- Bradbury's closet
- A mummy's leggings
- Sipping mother's sweat
- Flash like an individual there
- I realize the skyline while playing catch with mother's death
- Running far away from a city, to return a week later
- Dysmorphexia
- Carried the clock over
- We have been meeting years
- Chocolate Italian princess
- Champion of Years
- "How much longer will I be able to remount the mothproof thrusting..."
- Over as rivers are over