poem || John M. Bennett

Sole Dadas chunk 19

Transduced from Góngora's Soledades

Premium’s lost honor crawls, and of ortho cuadrants

signs the seives’ glorious ram,

cons cake’s seen pustule’s terminal on the lunch.

The dust parts rays of theater’s

Sole, the wandered arrogant jovial llama’s

     all expedited salt

and the barber’s cornea, caked low escutcheon.

Arrest dull animate defiling

of a pardoned grabber foiled in the verdant soil,

to quim sea’s abated ouch or desk’s suburban

mountains, crawled sole of the halted

kale, turban of invidious avenues

to the oils of Ascalapho, vestal

glove’s perished plums.  Keen, of grave

pedals the durable mains impeded,

sub agility ponders; quim’s sushed nerve

disaster’s streaming dose and gallstone.

Pester the ray, plus, the pie deknuckled

dulls sweater’s moth, and with airy foil

pisses the vent’s low cave and dull hair:

trees’ vases occupy puddled hung dentists.

Admiration, vested on marble fryers,

opined orchid’s lost sealed puds;

emulation, calcified in one durable heel,

trope’s sea arraigned, bean cake’s impulse noble

hung gloria, junky villain, and solicits

a vacuum of quarreling mountains, gross,

     membered, fort’s rubble,

which, agile as a peasant’s low robustness,

through all air arrives, violent aiming of’s

low grave’s tongue, which low precipitation,

Icharus’ mountain, sore miserable pest,

of the minor herb the bland scene

peeled’s durable hatchets of sodden ruin.

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