it increases,
so, too,
does your
Tag: syntax
The Most Efficient, Elegant Way to Dispose of Human Remains
Wikipedia Poem, No. 615
which nouns become which nouns
unto chlorophyll ceases to metabolize
insist verbs into beauty-laid philtrum
as i grow older and metastatic gray
“into the high chaparral”
“Syntax is never what you thought it was; just when you think you’ve got it down, it bolts out of the corral into the high chaparral. The job of poetry is not to get syntax back in the corral but to follow its wild journey into the unclaimed.”
– Charles Bernstein from Recalculating
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unlicked filth on bentbranch fingers
& a chemical thin residue
lean waits to be pleased
across his mottled brow
& thensudden cheekbone spikes
no gleam. despite his mottling hair
a swamp alive
& long ago wet precious &
fragile
as a cradle
unprintable man
loved at impossible distance and when
& when
wise brown eyes close
& back turns
into every crack
memories like steam rise.