poems || Jim Leftwich

from six months aint no sentence



utilitarian rot

built utilities tentative signifies rotting atlatl
the mud hut of the leopard bandannas on 
leprechauns the same bent slab of hint the 
same bent slab of nothing the same bent 
slab of inherent loot tally daily sabbath 
sobbing hurling stabbing hunting nothing
parameters along perimeters pare pairs soft 
off often fanged nothing gang nothing gala 
hooligan nothing gainful ganglia bile boiling 
nothing o tongue of uneven covens annul the 
manger masticating rot magick nothing nothing 
singing magick rot magick nothing singing rot

05.04.2011





The War on Metanarrative

cumulative loss salts gnat dawn at
nor counterterrorist angelfood belittles
metanarrative at last the puling 
hurrah or paratroopers materialized
in Honk Kong snare drums tapioca 
positivist snafu gaps Laos postmodern
mirrors stagger from Baltimore to 
Angkor Wat too lottle too late he was 
hang-gliding punitive junta taproot homo 
sapiens pajama been at it again tandem 
frog paralysis hopscotch and mediation

05.05.2011





a boat

bring the gnats axiomatic itinerary
to naysayers masticate bifurcations
of intentional nails in the same
whittled katydids to unwind each
day there are oppositional nocturnes
catercornered quotidian Mayakovsky
as if to say underground the logjam
billows past slabs of hidden nakedness
and the actualities turnip coffee houses
no more godforsaken gnawing
among the transhumant initiates

05.06.2011





about

more precisely big gates not 
gnats among the gathered timbers 
bang are singing in yarrow signs 
batik knots loblolly pines 
pataphysical honed lurking 
and wheat-gnosis beneath the 
bagman amen an abacus of
tulips dots hexagrams erasers

05.06.2011