poems || Jim Leftwich

theme

beans never snap-on tools ladder-dung
is a gum-magus coleslaw gallant and
aglow
the law of the katydid is militant
snag gusto
stun rusts in Pakistan

05.16.2011




variation

stinks the same actual katydid
the stink-bug unwinds
dangerous positivist traps and tropes
since when does the able-bodied sinus
sinuous and sing bidding islands
angular angels bulbous bamboo and
buttoned wrong

05.16.2011




theme


inherent naysaying tongue annotates
angelic maladies mad dais lasts loss
alas in the shade of the sinus-mandala

what do you mean today is a gritty night

since what anyway today is is a player
piano sinus but that was saturday

part topical pose
part gnosis and part nose


05.16.2011




variation


backsliding into Kansas is no fun
no matter what the players say

one big slab of hidden maya

not saying that a slab of hidden

since when the night clangs knots

maybe there is no daffodil today


05.16.2011




theme

banana gamelan
mandible argyle angina
Gaia
goop
at danger
at graying gong
dial-up dahlia
silver hasten the sarong
Madagascar unmasked at last
the highlights of hindsight
pangs of spit

05.16.2011




variation

mulls lasting same
from the hinterlands we
sail into the shinto winter
all along the misaligned mandrake
by dint of tape and loss
at night in the sneaker-flit net
a shirt-fang coiling rung
same magick same game
same gasping mudra

05.16.2011




theme

sack of mash-salad lukewarm
we are younger than myself
but not by much
we could have been a salmon
or a sea-faring angel
if it is not too much to say
yes and paste
pass the black-eyed peas
is there any other way

05.16.2011





variation

snorkel at last the salutations
cut and dangle
cull mangle halibut cuticles
mismanaged by sea-faring
angels
we can almost hear them say
the past stops here

05.16.2011




theme

napping at the ankles
the detuned toolshed
the maladjusted ladder

05.16.2011




variation

anger detuned is play
maya in a kayak

05.16.2011