poems || John M. Bennett

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floor ...clods of crowds sc

uttle along the baseboard ,l

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atch to the wall nailed ,n

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rust occcasion where my

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oor fills my ears  )your win

d(  bawling in the saus

age ay my dentition vis

cous my rigid tongue  !

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fever direction

fever segment what lingered what

shouted future regimes lengua

tronada exhaus if it nt c

rashed the wall interventionis

t hair sink media luna

source material drowning s

pace the poetry scale se

abren los lápices transcriptic

isoclam tolerance takking

plunge fork’s teeth and

anguage silt dysfuntional

burning in the O grey

skin visual visociety a

bout the dog clock footpaths

yelmo que “entiendo” book-

plank panic uhuh pork-

loss concrete cenote de

libros drools the true

jején a solas pregnancy

spinning the necrosis glass

spring snake palab rotas

rhetorix sed conejos clus

tered hubbewtee shot

mouth wall dream street

socks casket extrópico

wax ads doghair clot

mir rored night events

stereo nooztotl the whi

mpered chains screen

typing gnats swallowed

in tlapalli in tlilli bir

thpla no presente that

extra bee los lentes y

el centro boats trans

formed una muñeca

enumeronte expands

class bomb pared par

tida flat revolution la

más cara re versal smoke

toward central drain my

vacuum manual tongue I

thought innate libraries

fog cuadrada var ior

existences revoisal center

questions with mud

might delving buttocks

seismic rotting bees

spinning bowl eros corn

a cloud if insular

thigh gatherings ersatz

leak oscillates effluenza

duties of the putrifact

horizontal signs in all directions