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This Is Just To Say William Carlos Williams

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

I have eaten
the plums
that have eaten in
the plums

and which
you have eaten probably
eaten
for plums

Have eaten plums
they have eaten delicious
so plums
and so plums

How You Are Like a Cantaloupe

June 22, 2019June 23, 2019 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

one shouldn’t court
such controversy
so early on with no
payoff plan in place
one means this to
be a simple poem
about ribald rind
brainiac of seeds dis-
solves brown sugar
hypotaxis in scalding
green tea teaches
the kid a thing or two
about sweetness
manners like
a cantaloupe.

Arrow Site

July 23, 2017July 23, 2017 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

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skeptic flight
raspberry flesh
raspberry blood
torment where tongue
invents wound and
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Piero Manzoni

May 12, 2017 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

Wikipedia Poem, No. 474

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Impossible Numbers

March 11, 2017March 11, 2017 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

Wikipedia Poem, No. 418

after Vijay Seshadri

and numbers
no matter how abstract
laced together
in a ceramic bowl
farmost
impossible

an implication of angels
argue about 3 green apples
in an old lady’s outstretched hands
the numb plain makes no sense

lust

in a cracked ceramic bowl
clearly the old lady and the victim
language sunlesions real flesh
strugges to become impossible
numbers punish its argument
3 brown dates drown in scree
neon tulips green apples

[You’re a fucking p]

April 30, 2014May 6, 2014 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

You’re a fucking p
lum of the self
ish—I can see down your shirt.

Moss predawn across liquid eye
lid intimates illness and promise and
premise—I can see up your nose.

How many YouTube views until you cross
over? Have you ever cared about your first love?
Statistically speaking: You’ll be dead soon.

Untitled Standard Love Song, 04142014

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 Joseph M. Gerace1 Comment

You mention yr secret
     like a chipped front tooth
     shot across the grapefruit sky
     yr smile     smoke trails behind
     
And I defer
     ...
     slice my name in two
     spray its pieces with
     hundreds of random numbers
     where they feed     I feast

Now you
know me.

Who Is Not Me But a Metaphor

January 18, 2014January 18, 2014 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

It’s OK
Say it
No
Out loud

Good, good
Next time yr held
Or perhaps holding — that
Core warm brand of love
— Say it, again
Just above a whisper

It’s OK
Say it
To the sea wind
To the cheap crumpled bed sheets
by whom?
To that masterfully grown blood orange
you’re about to peel and lick
Say it
And you shall be freed.

sense memory no. 1 [revision, 082320121822]

August 23, 2012August 23, 2012 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

suddenly the sweetness of some fruit
i can’t recall
memory’s maw models some flowery drupe,
not a mango
spread across a lisp thin wheat
its saccharine spear implacable
i heave on repeat, breathe
in hopes of dislodging the pneumonic
of seeds, split spit and juice — an unmistaken
but missing flame

[for Matthew Rohrer, 062120121546]