poem || Peter Ganick

engines and reflectors.


a salutation whose empiric is
closer than dolce ratchets a heroiade 
its manifold spate a purest sortie—
hypnotizers—evaluations—
mounting evaporators.

brash agility so sudden 
routes attend—
talk to emit an alternative— 
bitte schlafen—the ceiling-walker 
swoons to animate
a deflector embitters 
from dubiety each shalom.

reinvent a scent 
rather aware of mesto 
vanishing amends l’étoile 
the operatings meant for cynics’ rebate 
cited a cellar-walker 
permutations of a cracker.

the noun is a totem 
whose algorithms center 
where speciousness varies— 
none of the above 
a slur to perpetuity 
a sample so integral 
listless and anarchic— 
torrentous above glamour’s evacuee.

the water crasher wonders: 
ultimates—extrema—
calumnies—throes of persistence.

so performs coefficients 
of viewpointism—
the claque of miscible crops 
is a demonstration
of evolution’s candor a scarab—
admiration sluffs eternal coils 
therein repatriates notebooking 
a canister wordlessly apparitive— 

omicron delta’s fuselage 
affetuoso so thoughtful 
an entrance via heat 
the introit to a mendicant 
wearing eons— 

later engines reflect ingrates 
neither the acme of treacle 
in oversight 
nor a cheery balustrade is 
the dubiety of 
an impressionable voice.