2 poems || John M. Bennett

Bean Blanket
 
bean     stroke     slather me     cowl
master blink     my gas bowl     seem
flooded neck     buzzard     skinflag
r     oof     sheen     nut     ))fog shirt((
the tool     of     blat ant     desklint
 
oh     last     twirl soon     but neck cage
fan     your     loverbowel     looms     dot
map swizzle     bream     )goat(     ton
gue     or     clodlake     shafter     )dog(
boom dung     the     s     weet     grafter
 
bag o     spit     nube     clot     ...drizzle
...     goatlap     the pill     dander phone
I     saw clings     the drooled hat     the
dim     sheet     corn piled     lack of
moths     mouths     stuns my shirt
 
raw rings     the ant     eats     ...)lint
(...     phones     my leg     slag     pu
lls the     “form”     ])shadow([     coughs
lungs     lunged boat     your     stool
cash     liquor     dawn lice     the high blanket


 
 
 
 
Soon
 
dog lamp     off     ten mutes     kill
shirtly     boomed     the tramp gas
over spill     rat     her shone
lather skull     knot     )rust(     the
tent pill     shaper of     head     fart
last bile     in the nap     wrought small
clanged     pig     noose     puddle
of     blood     nearly shot     )scamp
er(     saw     flood     tune wipe
the     dog slathered     big phone     he
ft     )bubbled(     in the     woods