Water

 

nostril sanctity ,quavering in the loop sun

,deads or balloons your nap whistle ,cow

loop a tossed aside ,a shingle glowing in the

wind or nap ,my grizzled lung my n

ape aside the mattress spun and clustered

.grind the wind funnel in my floating cable

slacker rusts upon my mattress sense of

suitlint in my grinding teeth ,what snore

what rust what slobber ham’s twisty door

wanders from my suit  .my nostril capacity

my door smoke flickers like balloons beneath my

 

 

 

 

Breath

 

each stam mer e ach com ber ea ch

neck I savored in my b linking h air a

d ust inaque a w ave n ester f illing in my

s leap pis tol mite y s lumber c rawling in

the woods  .foam soup ,f lange m ile ,r after

dearth of lug gage tags ,I cough spine ,d

id “no t hing” but was all ,a s tunning r

inse c limbing up the lens  .p age of stinging

lon g b oiled armp it my p lunging in

in the atom sphere

 

 

 

 

Las Medidas Tiernas

 

tostarosa ,róndame ,colapso de la

mitosis lengual ,de mi vista torva de

mis huevos la arena corredosa el

escaparate ,escape ,escornudo ,en

tidad de lúmen los motes luciérnagas

,átame la lentitud formal la grasa

de mis piernas perdidas ,la casanada ,ón

dame ,relapso de la litopsis men

guada mi ojo cuervo mis huesos arengosos

y la torre de mis costras caídas en la

boca

 

 

 

 

Fuel Show

 

show my flavor where the lung clown

gristles show my nots up off the spinner

faucet show my severals where the dung

lack listens show my neck lens the

cowlick scabs my leg my show the boo

ming noodle farm the rinse my lip the

show my sunk ladder where my headache

shines my show of aspirina show my

barbiturate my leaking from my year oh

show my waver where the rungs are

loosened and the show of speaking slows

the gasoline puddled in my bowl

 

 

 

 

Salad Days

 

name my whistle and gorilla change my

fountain to a brick the basement

faucet grinding out its dust the fist

nickel savored like whitehot spoon

my trasher index crumpled in a box

o feathered bullet nodding in my sleep

and blander than the coffing splashed

inside my cup or estermate  .raw

whacker ,gristle flame pages in the

mountains like a stick a lozenge a

minding all the musts lists dribbled on the

groom I slept my hand inside a festered

slaw

 

 

 

 

Rush

 

gushing tuning roaming bawling finding

slugging tearing naming gawking trying

gagging smoking drying molding tonguing

goggling stunning flaming doping cooling

,stooling ,sloping ,gaming ,gunning ,hobbling

,lunging ,folding ,buying ,soaking ,lagging

,sighing ,caulking ,shaming ,nearing ,glugging

,minding ,falling ,stoning ,sooning ,hushing

 

 

 

Yes

 

knot pile

blam glam yet

ok

“humber”

fraught coat

“some coughing!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bore

 

blagomantic

faw

let’s rink

“ok” nut

or while

mile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meld

 

fold your tune

bet belter

issue loath

paw

and pause

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lung

 

“pensive” rice

sat clown

blat it all

crisp tongue

 

 

--
© John M. Bennett