Menagerie

Dove Song

07.18.2011 Menagerie

Song go the under steps of a little dove dove of my blouse a parlor dove a mouth, garage dove of many darkly treading and picking the weasel doings and doves of the news inside basins in beans, tidings, duvets a dim lip on the moraine a smidgen a little nest lighting the barracks in which [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems

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Inanimal: Animal Poems

01.05.2011 Chapbooks
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I don’t usually venture into the world of chapbook fabrication outside of the Dusie kollektiv, but I took a few weeks to make Paul a chapbook for Christmas. I sketched these critters over and over until they mildly resembled animals.

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Dusie, For Paul

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owls

09.26.2010 Menagerie

we worry weary on the wire / pair of owls glasses hapless arbitrators / already pumpy feathers / hell / have me your claw and I will sip it / punch play like  airy other night/ we fowl respectively crepuscular / it swoll tonight tints as bursts an aureole around the city/  it was, it was [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Published

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Leaves fall leaves

11.07.2009 Hairs of the Lord

_______________ when fills the sky with leaves and day bits & dim breaks day speaks / cudgel the word for casting effing naked claws at bay // why sweet bay my mind ex- alts _______________ where pelicans fasten some plural of touching down, floating kinds of hay, Hello sweetness exists lightishly /  on the purple [...]

Tagged as: NP, To Go

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Skunk

10.13.2009 Menagerie

See skunk roll on balls elliptical down beach Wheels he down- y flare – Tell me about it, mephitis – Hymn no member it / Shit continuous Pulse rain / his puss stamp- ing sent on high        -  -  -      halls, driftwood ways weeds were, punc- tilious one – clouds is beards sic / [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems, For Charlie, Published

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‘ville annul

07.24.2009 Hairs of the Lord

the horses break/they horses /             break into bed, two reek : addendum/bits/flies. They weeeee as we was as egg as broke & mighty Porous & still- warm, we raked hours across             our sores. O pins: we said the hairs of the lord harnessed our hearts/parkas/feeling [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Published, The Ville

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Four things for herons

05.08.2009 Menagerie

feathers far be they herons talking talking diminishing ground eunuch the beat me where ground go weary heretofore oversensitive gestures hectare get me tourniquets paper towels nail filings hip ships

Tagged as: Animal Poems, NP

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swallow

05.02.2009 Menagerie

swallow low windup heart thing swallow fly over the coffeeshop little black middlefold heart prop on my back of the boat a turner-over a dark card flipping up you swallow up the moment is only over for a moment a swallow skedaddles a slitted pair of shorts lady braces her handbag having never seen what [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Published

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turtle work

04.30.2009 Menagerie

One out of every three turtles even swimming is one in one out of one one turtle his black back up is even keel, smooth is as it turtles to, fro one fin at times fin as ever swip on-ward ponder he is a shoe in turns on takes off it spits heaven knows whose thoughts are whose chewing in murky glaze what a tuner one is turning the radio on after noon radio on

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Published

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earth day poem

04.26.2009 Menagerie

god said secrets are stupid and then he created earth he flushed one for number one two for two he made a buzzard machine he folded the sea together he unfolded it gave us architecture, word, made us wait for what he created lies he hallowed his own name when you think about it he [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Published

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