MINOA ALLOY ant ant ant ant ant one
May 29, 2014 § Leave a comment
from NARTHEX
° ° °
flaw
the territory thus named
° ° °
coil
rose
that is filament
naming
° ° °
damage the waves
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arc arch archae
come the silence
° ° °
broken glass. a
knife in the sand
° ° °
the word
“abeyance”
° ° °
rose + cross
absinthe
coil of wire
memory
° ° °
omen. perfume
ous. stain
ohm pulse
° ° °
lost wax cast a
mask extant
deep the wound
imago
° ° °
seam
that made visible by
drowning
° ° °
your broken
hymn
° ° °
fey minute
hand the hours
strata yes there are
ruins
° ° °
my father on war
May 26, 2014 § Leave a comment
I don’t like camping
They made us do that when
I was in the army
SAM SAVAGE morning-glories
May 25, 2014 § Leave a comment
A bent street sign the insane man’s eyes
It could be the site for something a bare hill
Just beyond the prison wall a wall of trees
Dancing to sounds from the Big Band Era a pair of midgets
Out of the fog’s whiteness silence
Unslept, the cool breeze on my eyelids
Alone in a house with children the slowly falling dusk
Along the roadside
torn-up paper in the grass
is morning-glories
HAIKU FOR MARTIN LUCAS
May 7, 2014 § Leave a comment
a new
anthology I learn
of his passing
his brother
concerned
for days
on the page
before me in
the old anthology
went for a walk
left his keys his phone
his pills
said yes
once to one of
my poems
“Is that from your
technique or the toughness
of your mouth?”
your death
attributed to
bird-watching
a collection
of flowers that’s
all it means
his last photo
he looks younger
than me
1962-2014
M. KETTNER ant ant ant ant ant 1996-1999
April 22, 2014 § 1 Comment
#190
city limits bulrushes
#368
the cold
meat hook with your name
chess partner invisible
#478
cattle sleeping
moonlight on their backs
#524
year of the pancreas
sandwich for dessert
theatre seats upside down
#543
thief
hand on backwards
tunnel growing smaller
#654
breeze drying mooring lines fall slack
#677
stray dog window reflecting blue sky
#701
depressed echo in a stairwell
#745
a cold scream
narrowly occult
ridge draped in dusk
#752
down to roaches
piano on a railroad track
#767
boldly staccato
fissures singing along
maps set aside
#771
perineum
hallway between
bedroom & bathroom
#823
crevice dweller
meat truck parked by the curb
restroom no hand towels
