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Jan 06, 2020, 06:29AM

Whorl Without End

Five poems from a new collection for sale here.

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A BIRD’S EYE VIEW

The countryside bore the curves of a river in one lone signature run, like chocolate milk unstirred. Tagged in undue haste, cursive as graffito. The curves, leaning into one another.

 

ANONYMOUS GLOBAL STYLE

Wherever one kettle of vultures 

pivots, expect pan-and-scan, a

null antipathy, more storefronts 

emptied like sieves in the night.

 

FIBONACCI AD INFINITUM

for Father Raymond Abbitt and Raven Prettyman

An entire world can be extrapolated from a series of increasingly smaller spaces. The Whitfield safe cracked, Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb breached, a fallout shelter hatch cast aside, eons hence — behold, more condos.

 

THE PRICE OF PAPERBACKS

Just another crude obelisk indicting a 

skyline, slick with human teeth. Just 

a brawl of friezes retreating into infinity: indecorous, improbable. Just a 

disembodied perm in an outsize 

sweater, leveling a camcorder.

 

PLAIN LINGO

What life demands is our insides

out in splatters, set upon by flies.

Rank, regurgitating ecosystems:

repulsion, helixes, double-dares.

Greenish-brown, slime and slick.

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