John M. Bennett

Red Cheese

cheese nickel ,plunge stance ,dimes and
frog bones crusted on your knees thickened
with your lungs’ slant crimes and dog
stones busted in the streets you crow a
head nor hacking “caused” by sneeze and
hicking ,nudge the fat slime and
strong foam lusted in your sheets you
grow a bed nor stacking straws and
bees ,clicking ,slow and Red




Sopping Dropping

sopping shadow in your leg trance the
coin fool stopping ammo in the flag transit
,oil drool ,stem advance ,the knot arrow
in your ,begging dance your born pool slo
pping ando por andar y antsy snot mar
row where you float ,clock the pants the
throat the hollow stroke the locks the ants the
dropping