Wednesday, September 11, 2013

poem || Jeff Harrison

Residential Sweetness

rose, you are a sidewalk - stop corner rose
with your shadowy fin, I give in & you're early awarded
we're oaks and train blues
*
years know only along these pines
their neighborhood is the afterlife,
which pins a fellow down
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the waves raindrops squirrel
the ground the trees level
*
law as hooves in swains' care half lulled
in 1) abbey, 2) sea, 3) rose?
with moon boulder, matchless her World-Conquering Eyelids
*
boldfaced drawing-room
came, shadow, by flood he walked back to peck death
her sash foes chosen, younger grown all
*
deathsman bankside
looking bridle of tingling
thou spoke the ballad through
light the point to prince
*
Deal?


Jewel.
*
abovestairs eloquence's
fright was roomy deep dry,
relating lips to
freshened bare oath-gate
*
merciless thaws beyond common mattress horses
the foppery of pursued waters
                            
scarcely of the least scrape

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