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4.

 

Scissioned by the horologe

a baldachined parvenu,

innubile, gravid with fondant

obtunds the intestate day’s sere solfeggio

 

For the inamoratos

there is only effulgent suttee.


she walked by a bush and it burst

into flame sparrows wings

 

a bullet can pass through only

so many bodies before it stops

 

my mind craves her like narrative

her lack is the start of my stories

 

noah called the animals two by two

the dove was a fool to return

 

life keeps dropping the soap

i keep bending over to pick it up

 

it is a january night even the smallest

birds have left my feeder


a bible bound in human skin

her body holds all my commandments

 

she is here but impossible to believe in

like a dolphin dead by drowning

 

we topped the hill and the moose shuffled off the road

ran beside the car like… no. like… no. like… and then gone

 

my hands fall open

like a book of mourning

 

hank williams no show jones sit down and have a beer

before you play your final set

 

a black cat crossing everyones path

my body has no fixed address

 


(4kl)

 

i mouth something into your belly

more than words pool in your navel

 

now just where the hell did you come from

dear god your buildings named shangri la

 

de da my friends say but sometimes

life is even wankier than poetry

 

moonshine and these milkwrapped dunes

your naked back in the bed beside me

 

whodve thought id find some sexualspiritualthang

baby if the korans a rockin…

 

so here i am the dyslexic blues singer finally

unemployed by all this happi fuckingness

 

 

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SENTINEL POETRY (ONLINE) #31, JUNE 2005. ISSN 1479-425X