jim leftwich & tom taylor

jim leftwich
SHUT


shut judge
therein once
nor body

shut other
around coarse
throats

forgetting shut
refuses since
itself each

note shut
resists nothing
waiting

sense and
censored
shut






tom taylor
PUNCH

Hit high
Ore again
Not spent

Hit beneath
Against breath
Beaming

Insulation doubt
Recalls refusal
Paraded sign

Cascade hours
Insists against
Your eyes

Removed to
Closures
punched






jim leftwich
UNSAID


what unsaid
declares in
hand was

exit taken
place

what flees
aloud in
endless

risks wants
chance unsaid

encounter






tom taylor
SILENCE

Unused sound
Repeats
Head’s ear

Nor spoke
Again

These hours
Recall to
Openings

Your hours
Time spent

Revelations






jim leftwich
TALK

silence raised unwritten
remembers time
appalled in bodies

time enduring justice
avenge the beating
talk






tom taylor
KNOWLEDGE

Reused beneath texts
Allowing arcs
Repeated to arrivals

Calls your praise
Apart no seething
Penetration






jim leftwich
NO LONGER

memories
tactical intersection

the book no longer
immediately

an unstable
formula

reduced to binding






tom taylor
HESITATION

Arrivals
Immediate sensations

The throws have been
Allowances

Resistances are formed






jim leftwich
NOW


now
taken for a few days

beginning on an island
between

a worship and a war

prolongs
the composed reduces







tom taylor
REPEAL

Here
Reminded by another leap

These forces arrive
Against

The end and a beginning

Aftermath
Of wholesale bodies




october 2007