Two Times Four, Or: Eight States Of One Sentence
Suspiciously like snow
Falling failing dead bodies lit blue
From under inside kith insidious coil
Promises no more tall malaria
Frames lintel I inter my self
Along its casuistry circuit cold glow
Gorges calla leaves me lily leavens or
Plash the lash the ash the
Tree honors eviction itinerant
Oath oats edge pond mallow fences
Some pearl we tongue on parole
Did it won died it thrice
Spied lit sped light
Deadened only out loud
Speakers spackle clear
Cuts and cutlass bouts
Like cold fronts quiet
Or I am on diet of blood
Wort torque ordered
From ere before here
Ever verified its turn
Thus I unto I stare down burn
But love unclipped quicker
There fur sheds that we can’t
Keep budget-torn limbs warm in gut intra
Mural ardent mirror limbic distills
Noxious looms this louvers his warped wind-
Eye along starlit lengthy burr
Drops clarity unto clear beer Vienna
Tropes Eau Claire subtropical snow breathed
On like ontologies gyroscopic fall laughing
Gas assigns mother her lode hirsute boredom
Called him by his crappy foot loves pyre
Rips rot rudders gut tug o’ tag officiates slow
Justice some slick soma morose static we
Cancel keep cooler than collar that one
Times one timothy too did peer dialed pear ill
Root Taurus simmers
Me down eider town
On which I conch
On which I wrack
Like bladder lick sea-
Soaked rags fish flash
Then freeze, fossils could
Not tell more adroitly
To you, ruin under
Ruined yew, tree for
Rooting out
Poison, silver
Seam I drink neat,
Nettle for chaser
Chased why blued where
Scared me some fresher fresh air
Freshened weir yes water yes weird
Staked to and through dialed bone
Bandied tone for plus here pick
Out and outer banks serried
Ranks ankh wild she pickles
Stems mastic sunny lactation
On call only one wonder
Full fathoms live stream
Reels lyric quanta fords
Parched marrow arched tectonic
Ate slow return breath
Wreaths briar reef culls glow
Throws shade, shares
Allotment of
Shadow we recall,
Calligraphic fecal
Matter tame repeals
Then throws
Up pearl, irritant makes
Possible rappel and
Please, please, give
Me some knots, bumps
Laced through with
Quartz; look! Each foot of
Descent glows, slows
Sense to utmost savor
Left felt fled flitch borders blue
Asphyxiation nitpicky oxygen mouth stuffed
Full o’ fulsome cotton yes wretch
When you venue seeds ceded
Watch awe sums tousles
Error in its air entre regency regnancy
With blood for lips pissy appellate prone
To sluice slice licentious fact checks
Veracity at door revolves internment diaphanous
Lobe bellows Ebola below zero regrets
Ice exactly translates sun targets
Language for shadows lashes we
Call eyes ipecac for nerves fur foment dregs
Plush ampule lush ply sheer pale leashes pallid
Took bones, clacked
Them together like some
Hailing, proscenium
Stages weather and why
Dozes through, plucks bright
Berry dozens Zen feeds
Back unto some lariat, milk
Teeth channel, vector corvids ride
Like ponies crop my nape, hiss nepenthe
Pants bright star, wood eroded, asp as
Thou art, kernel
Daemonic ken plants in cochlea
Cannot tell sentence, stop
Nor go farther than now.
Bouquet For The Unveiling
With my pachyderm and paunch perm I turn and burn. I under. Estimate. My esteem rates no concern. My shadow thinks. Sphincter (t)wink(le)s. Sonata for wire. Albumen for flyer. With mutation and elation I burrow. Brook ligament. Book secret agents onto expired talk-shows. When hunger strikes, puke it out. Kenosis got it but Kryptonite dropped it. Super flew. I spelled you and you spelled hell. We passed each other up, upended oceans like freeze frames motion. Body blessed. Bawdy confessed its love for jack. Lantern at lectern. Tantrum piped into room no anthem squeaks through.
If you catch it: marriage. Aggressively marine, restively aqua. Corp de ballet, knives for tights. Look at them flash. Look at him fuck! Fuck him and his decrepit senses. Fuck me and my ableist slur. Fuck us fist us pull us by our pits and set them lit. It ain’t romantic, nor frantic. All this grotesquerie occurs with precision. Undergoes purling revision. Otherwise known as toned down to death. Bud wiser in its theory of breath. Molson, Olson, nictitating current. I rough love. Love rubs me unto heehaw. Hawk breaks my wrist and crying I am most poet mostly awful sight you don’t need but needlessly seeds garden your carriage comes crashing, aching all over this math after nightmares in attics.
Syntax
I pulled he taffy laughy made day broke
Its promise
Broke clay piney drip
Sheens shattered whorls
No sibilance can mend man can indeed
Say I have
Broken law men made
Of piss and silk and glass.
Some Shade
All that water
Shocked, awed her
Unto some cleft
Where colors bereft
Their vitiating hots
Know future rainbow shods
Tint’s tippy toes
Like silk flows
Its couture around her arms
Stock-still and alarms
That woman who loves
Chestnuts, their honey glazes doves
Shot out tinsel trees
Wave as we wave adieux sea’s breeze.
No More Hard Sky
I parked at that dot, danced polka
To punk rock crossed with calypso
While clouds learned they can sew
Blankets to keep sun comfy: volta
Where thermals court, scold schwa
For interrupting sonic juice, and no
Birds pledged fealty heavy glow
Melts gem stems my brain—goes duh.
After said amnesia, car wouldn’t start.
I recited postmodern canons, but
Reed nor Ashbery abutted this rut.
Snow fell its future preterit, like heart
Limns Linzer slops out crust, or bud
Sets lymph styptic—collapses blood.
Adam Strauss lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Most recently, he has poems out in Yes Poetry, Fence, and The Arsonist Magazine.
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