poems || John M. Bennett

olvido

tïny sugarkkkk ,high kkkkmute speeder

note’s the forkkkkk wheel ,kkkksprayed the

single stonekkkk notside ,kkkklam

ination in the kkkkdoubted sinkkkkk

kkkkmutation where I sankkkkk my

kkkktongue your fockkkkus on the

swirlingkkkk drain to where my

disappearkkking facekkkk reversed

its kkkkcourse  )yrkkkk adolescent

diary buried inkkkk in smelts(

))cornkkkk syrup dryingkkkk in yrkkkk

hat((  )))my boiling kkkkwatch

loot(((  infusionkkkk dribblingkkkk

off the tines kkkkwhy skkkkweaty

neckkkkk why  ))))fingkkkkers

((((

...l’eau abominable de mes doigts.

- M. U. Lulation

olvido

wrote past socking I mute

met severed shaver combed

the tuna salad pocket b laze

cor e s and min d w

hump and ***be es*** yr

b log s hoe yr ,w heels s

leeping in my ,nad a mem

ored in the heavy shorts I

drop ped be side the toil

et w here yr see n re

membstruats my   ◦◦◦)h and

b oiled in the cor n(◦◦◦

))the halted fur sinks,,,((

)))ooo”bubbling shoe”ooo(((

...lorsque boue, lorsque langue...

- Jean Benítez

olvido

,r

eeling ,slowing ,shading ,c

locking ,paging ,tombing ,m

aking ,docking ,farting ,c

hanging ,pissing ,phoning ,s

heeting , sleeping ,moulting ,n

aming ,drying , pilling ,b

reaking ,gazing ,gauging ,k

nowing ,mindlessly ,baulking ,p

lunging ,g aging ,dressing ,un

dressing ,grimacing ,hugging ,s

creaming ,not toweling ,breaking ,l

addered ,mumbled ,blasted ,th

inking ,crawling ,standing ,k

illing ,facing the luggage p

acked for tomorrow ,s

welling ,roiling and crow

ded “like a lake full of

hamsters”

pulgas, libros, ojos...

-D. Or. Mido

olvido

meat an mutter the ,aftergrow

sweaty on yr half-worked back the

grunty sun figured in figured out my

slack  )mask(  ,crisol imbuído la

,pantomima imbuída ,de lungs and

rabbits ,time to thaw and time

to ,frozen leg glitters in the free

zer  ))plunger((  )))dot clot(((  mor

ning metal ,blots against the wind

owed sky  ]]]]dizzy be[[[[  f

ore the ,breezy slivers time col

,lapsed yr lunk phonetics or

pork rendition sammich some

ding wheeling on the back porch

motaphysics the nest for one

known ,then gone

I am a lunk.

-Blaster Al Ackerman