“punctual,

 

idea when”

 

alley back sand

 

(off)

 

stucco crack (s)

 

“hand rubbed door marks”

 

grease (marking)

 

teeth space

 

eye “fence,

 

along one”

 

long floss

 

(line)

 

“while it serves”

 

rest (less)

 

“get out”

 

person (two) wait

 

(yelling) promise

 

(it) pick (ing)

 

lurch’d street

 

out (and)

 

a backward ‘creational

 

(red cell)

 

bleed

 

“but, don’t wait,

 

don’t treat’d blanket

 

smell (ing)

 

reek

 

“know what that means?”

 

bloodshot

 

inside eyeball

 

(left) “or, it’s just

 

wrong” raw

 

orange (not red)

 

talk pharynix’ly

 

field’t

 

“it’s about the illumination”

 

inflammation

 

nasal (ly) up

 

“street sign”

 

smeared paint’d (over)

 

panting hard

 

shoes “then”

 

corner around turned

 

brick (tied)

 

slap (ing)

 

contact ice (ing)

 

slide

 

‘terous

 

hang slam’d

 

“you’ll stop it”

 

hard small tube

 

 

 

“that’s a spider”

 

september

 

open trunk

 

handle

 

(transition) backyard

 

(face) interrupt

 

another segregat’d (net)

 

hand away

 

(remove)

 

“between the door”

 

vertical

 

(or) upright’d

 

“that netting around’t”

 

single (association)

 

none

 

“isn’t a free show (ing)”

 

fast’nd door

 

to window

 

(which, there)

 

open (try) two

 

inches one nose

 

(spider) drip (ing)

 

Kleenex

 

another (nose)

 

“setting a table full”

 

one inch

 

“two places, set for”

 

dropping (spider)

 

most

 

on (a)

 

“or, this was set for four”

 

sidewalk elm leaves

 

“it doesn’t smell like

 

chicken”

 

concern light

 

(spot) fixed

 

brick red (wall)

 

(mourn) 6

 

feet

 

“or subordination or”

 

cast

 

back shadow

 

(believe) then

 

“that wall of”

 

talking (echo) complete

 

(two) legs crossed

 

(them)

 

over held “meaning me

 

or you”

 

set down

 

 

 

that’s

 

“a bird over”

 

wall alley

 

steps

 

back (ward)

 

along over up

 

“used

 

to”

 

down/up Hill St.

 

(way) over “there

 

talking, heh, heh”

 

pretty bird

 

picture hand’d held

 

up toward (face)

 

“confessing this, I’m”

 

light

 

contrast’d “hello”

 

back out

 

8th structure garage

 

“peek-a-boo… peek-a-boo”

 

admit car (s)

 

act’d waste

 

pile’d

 

“crap like a duck”

 

white (ish) in

 

another (case)

 

“wag my dick at me”

 

another (concern)

 

drag’d towel left

 

(over) “this

 

isn’t contempt, or”

 

leaves trash

 

(a piece)

 

blown together (tumbling)

 

“blow all of it together”

 

down to (street level)

 

block up Figueroa

 

line’s meter long

 

click/band/click

 

clothes bagged and

 

bottles wait (ing)

 

arm up/down right

 

(out)

 

“dragging it until”

 

crows fly

 

up

 

against wind

 

 

“don’t give a shit”

 

shallow ditch under

 

(since) broken

 

(over) hang’d

 

“what cartoon, now”

 

out (side) light

 

(fly) ing

 

“just break

 

each one”

 

deeper hole (it

 

smother’d

 

sandwich cheese

 

“hey, lunch!”

 

storm (into)

 

drain (special) bout

 

trans (form)

 

course winding (ing)

 

tent (s)

 

cover sewage move (ing)

 

“down into three”

 

predict (total)

 

“and then be able”

 

shifting order

 

palpating (urgent)

 

“to risk another visit”

 

(and)

 

paralyzing hand back

 

(held tight) swollen crunch

 

knuckles

 

(apparently) both

 

(together) bloody

 

“mouse hands,

 

you have”

 

(imagined) head wall

 

(left) against it

 

“thus, no idea of a fit”

 

cloud

 

dusty flat open

 

(zipper (less)) light

 

“instead just, justified”

 

shines tables/chairs

 

(feet) away another

 

hole (deeper)

 

“to simply sleep,

 

again”

 

deep simply

 

 

© harry k stammer