John M. Bennett

Lap Trout


trout half or beep or listing beans

tread the half sentence like a limbo

limbo knocking all the looseness off

flambid drunk or slip knocking ,drips

flay or drunk sandwich spooning in

the blister phone you flay )or climb(

mleat an climb an ,several spinners claw

blunk stutter climb what scatters him

rust joint yaw rather stutter “heel”

sunk and shiver cloudy heel ah deep

“deep” glister ,ape phone ,ham rinsing “it”

lather step an better ape wallet fumes

chew your wallet plan an dribble

one nostril what a plan thinks “ha”

your nostril beans gleaming in your lap





Honking Treent


treent dundg “shape” it was ,a

pry lipless ,anda won ,nudder shape

fortext pry lubulenctic jumping up

lie the up )hick( neid nur focussed

stumblen hick ,yr wetter shirt

jam yr shirt boil winder clod labming

jewel nin ehh lobus boil loxa shimmers

hull glrand ding cubmic jewel shorts

yr shorts hat blazed ,non hair uhright

bumbled hat bit yr shoelace must

oh must an shab cowl ear bund tenda

eat hit is wha – t amble c rasher

gnut lub hit incher ,assoline )hike(

folder ,hike ,drag ,blow ,ilbow

sobbing was ,a blot or blodt ,“honking”