Jim Leftwich - Rewriting Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

THE FIRST TWO SENTENCES OF
Poetry, written by Marianne Moore when she
was 32, re- and un- written by me, while I am
62 (I can only imagine what might have been
her excuse)
by Retorico Unentesi

I too an eye tooth, a disk like it there are: things
things that are
there are
things
t
hhinn
ggs
that are
important pork, ports and portals, imported,
imported beyond
bee-Yond
all this riddle of fiddles, fads and faddle,
this rattling of cats and cattle.
Reading it, rereading it, raiding it, it however,
it howl, it fever, it never, it now, ever an owl,
it howling
with (wolf), with a woman. in. the. house. With
a Witch In The House. with a prefect coin-toss
for it,
with a purr fleck coin tempt
tation, for it one, disk
covers
that there
is
in it,
in it,
there is in it after all,
a palace for generic urine,
for the genes of genuine urine.


07.17.2018