John M. Bennett

Clop Clop


clop ,dance ,scout ,hum ,belt ,boom ,meat

boom daze cradled all the sandwich wipings

sandwich crippled pencil like a rubber band

rubber ditch an clawing toward the heave well

heave plodding nostril stool you shaking on

shaking ah naw sunder was ,me chugging nest

chugging gate entitled to a grunt number

grunt steps an help my scalding ,headache mist

headache groom single shadow thoughtless ash

thoughtless toad walkings crap the lunch sight

lunch extruded through the ,stum latch throat

latch cweep an pore lathered an bore steam

bore unter flag crop busted blabber coinage

blabber “simply moted” just yr clop half





Each Each


each of knew you crawling off the dock light

dock suppered long enough an slob compaction

slob boot wrestled dungbag gluing at uh stung mouth

stung label tissued was yr coffing insolation

coffing bees crash against a stone breath puzzle

breath syrup laundered like a bag of lake knives

lake gristle cloudy stomach yr clock leg phones

leg an mute ,bun rug ,the easel floats before

floats and dries rib confusion gallons dropped

gallons of yr dreep outside the skin latrine

skin blunt coffee table dancing in the roof rain

roof ,closet ,dip ,balloon ,feeler ,gnats

feeler socket blanched and skrawked

and fed the window tune loot ,each gasping