Jim Leftwich

from Six Months Aint No Sentence
Book 3





weapon


fraught the hour-hands
suddenly constellations
throughout witches and
weapons zenith

betrays nothing between
expanding


06.15.2011





salve


blank torn

music as with copies

by the time
the subject

scabbard
therefore
thief

remembered
nothing of
words

music
committed the crime

without demonic
philosophy


06.15.2011





weapon


during the winter
of divination

wandering where he was
he met
the weapon-salve


06.15.2011





salve


it seems fair
towards the occult already
chemical
and its practitioners

in vaccination
thus
ideas
who always read

soon
not allowed
full

in good standing

assembling

in the modern sense

arts and sciences

such as prophecy
geomancy
philology
time
literature
and the Neoplatonist
practicalities of
enthusiasm


06.15.2011





weapon


wrote
that is
prepared the
geometry
the book
on geomancy

medical
enough to employ
his early biographers
wrote that seeing

expressions
working
among his
initial
censor
can be deduced from
techniques
idiosyncratic

his books
the wound


06.15.2011





salve


the weapon-salve
was apparently
visiting
secretively
the wonders of
his heart
which certainly
possesses death

lurking
among conjectures
in machinery and
music

in
a dragon
constructed
by
masks in the ear


06.15.2011





weapon


the rose gives the bees
a rose

works
the cross of matter
we may interpret

spiders on a grape
as opposed to the bees


06.15.2011





salve


hatched manifestos
these anonymous

purported
the whole world
and invited experiences
when

cosmic harmony

in miniature

death enigmas solved
sources and
agonizing jest

had never really existed
disentangled


06.15.2011





weapon


Hermetic texts
felt fiction
founded subsequently
the disowned
society of practical
wisdom
which underlies
the more esoteric

traces found
in spirit manifestos
contracted
by the secret
we should never know

certainly onwards


06.15.2011





salve


the new text
and its connection
with the alchemical take
on a new meaning

rifts
of the main propaganda
weapons
nearing into print

the cuts in gold
unexpected

completed
proportions
from a table

beyond repair


06.15.2011





weapon


bound
arcane
words as in
approach

innumerable

poems
could not tell


06.15.2011