jim leftwich

JOURNAL


by or more is many times sufficient.
discord strays the eggs. set platters
splay the eyes taste former perilous
nor punctual discourse. desires early
and innocent style embedded behold
permission, continuous roof shortly
chosen extremes held haunts diverge
intent. the journal is a supple rite of
message incorrectly under way and
unbroken pairs evel pression upstarts.
it is tempting to screed the dream in
grease for notes treason and grateful
gence, for the vate eyes cruel thrust
reduces burnished sunrise ly and ly.








SUCH


interrupts and cannot secure erased
cylindrical traces drone sputter furls
concentric doodles spell. axis inevit
fountains lattice translucent flagship
nor dissuade convex intuitive, skies
authors perfumed ribbons meridians
hallucination. improvised resembles
porous rumors paddles perfunctory,
such square noise as squats upon a
sill turf dangle floppy quill felt spider
crimes forgotten rotten fleet reflecti
endlessly unhappy childhood flound
concave hexagonal groceries senten
inevitable reflections flounder sente.






AGGREGATE


replete otherwise inscribes everything
chronic fires distinct, even plagiarize
the future endures the fierce provision
silences bursts of culture infrequently.
aware of blocks revolve seem difficult
altogether thin thinking talking return
seams wreckage remembrance instant.
visible taunts reference to unconscious
further promotes the strangle of wings
aloft. less gesture pursues sound curve
textures course causal imposes a dance
seeps given cut phrases aggregate sift
seams sentences graft adrift. correspon
slips periodic memory effects to wander.






TORTURE


said their votes drowning is torture
fair to say the seminal issue. askin
refused to set familiar with the dat
to be reported. spoke on condition
shifted away from amounts to tort
no one said, question the way wan
over his answer and final day with
no tolerance for at one point. done
either is or amounts to torture, ver
members of both a date for believe
appropriate scope of cruel, inhuman
refused to say order last summer. s
whose support wobbled said he adv
question plainly when heard from a






MONKS


chimed through a tree where one out
used to be much of the situation deca
moral authority over uneasy coexisten
with batons and bullets. prevailed ove
said it had dissidents contend that m
said the deputy leader with their hand
took food and as some of against thee
condition of anonymity attention to th
no respect for during interrogation so.
divide and rule to stop protesting som
cars televisions telephones soldiers ha
lurk in alleys nearby second most popu
across the country suffered under the,
was still palpable soup, eggplants, rice.







FIRE


squads now battling ever and decades
spread more erratically has dry summ
climate change across conflagrations t
declare a disaster increasingly frequen
of the current state figures and news r
experts say, has unintentional consequ
other factors contribute fire season tha
in wooded areas. building our homes i
of the forests an active volcano. califor
once was open with so much becomes
that said, many history scorched acres
have been contained, observers say. st
insufficient blueprints for despite huge
cuts the infrastructure needs traverse t.


october 2007