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chEw
your stain goat, lever thong outside the gate or
gravel pit a phony roof you remained, rusty and
normattered, "it" beamed and you were not. Write
your cereal (outside the drain where lightning
thought, or boats (in your refusal noose) clamored
thinly smattered with fatigue (all the floor was
coughing shoes) or "coffee coffee" showered off
your face. Ask detail, ask the foam behind your
belly "place of power", "fact or fat"
BED AND CLOUD
Enforcement stains or clatter (fold) relay of dumps
loose mound across the bed two days while I repair
the phone engorgement loop (hold) me drained and
stumped beside the spoon (mound in caved more
)aspirant some hair denial "bats dome" wandered
what you bought loaned doubt or was it nether
rust protection, laundry maybe
tHorn s
yAnked the bErries rift "dId you" rumPy like a
fog ("ankLe") dRips aGainst the wAll "very faucet"
like a "cAw cLam" cRunching on the stAirs. Rid,
or Ruffle me conNection, loOming siLenced sLowly
(foCussed at my) bAck what held me cUpPed my,
dArk red juice and cRawled Between the Canes, shirt
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four poems
john m. bennett |