Heath Brougher - Two Poems

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1

Scum 

 

Ask scrooge,,

scrack (ash);;—

 

Tampa houses,

temporal hoses;

hrrrrip! (octo;;),,

 

folio scag..,

Cesar (fl0);;>

 

stric (t) sock;;—

stone vipers,,

ska ksa (id),,

ir 8 (I ate)d;

ribcage rubteeth,,

 

wren (WREN) wren;; to Punch

a passenger pigeon;

picka FINCH—

 

sun (a;;’)—

scream vesper;;

 

      ;ßDILLATANTE

 

ROUGHIANà;

 

cream bats

(otco) o’clock,,

 

pull pills;

spitless scrounge sock vitamin S;

(17,000 mi)les downthroat

contagious venomà

Question Screen,,

vile vitals;;

 

stich sick sticks — throat WARD;;

SKIN—;;

stung by poisontooth;

don’t say a darkword;

scrambled scotch;;

of asp after asp after ASP!!

 

 

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2

Pontif-I-cate 

 

[LACK]

notetaking noteworthy

 

territory terrestrial

 

GUMMA

 

bloated tertiary syphilis

GODzillas everywhorl!

 

clock misticks;

--------ance flicks;;—

 

Reptilian wreckage—

,, magnanimous moth.

 

night save day

tonal

timbre

ochre  ;;

 

rubber ORE ;;—

 

OIL BATH……..

ROTISSERIE

car

cuss……….

(egg cet ERA)

(spoiled rotgut windchime children).