jim leftwich, poems, 01.01.2017

the splotch and drift of range

composed the wrote has caught a broken since. as space at exactly freshly, alongside anti-urgency in the corner, it is nothing of what it was and is emblazoned to the left of openings and warnings. four note sworn flesh tomorrow, four catastrophe evidently time, four fresh ground puzzles of prophecy to predict, neither the subject nor the moment no less. seems far was meant suddenly to do. how is the threat-realm coupled to layers of transient darkness, self-centric and brighter than the complexly filtered lexicon? individually literal derivations decorate the curse of pessimism. to avoid the immediate, as improbable as it is quickly, we cast our knots to signify a scruffy silence. while the meat-stunned foisted Reagan ledge, barriers to plunge and drift, resist the emblem thirst intentions, the abundance of range and process-splotch particulars refuse to have been uncertain.

jim leftwich

01.01.2017

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caterpillar carpet whispering turtle sun

trim structures escape the climb. geometric apartments flip severed chops, baseball foraging shirt. grapevine silver thickly slivers, flat devils shifting heels. "the dry mess corrects the careful peas." "long eyebrows scalding routes." we took the kitchen lamp highway to Partitioned Sugar Arch. boiling for sitting. "butterfly doors belong to the blood of chairs." "are nests standing wolf a bear?" forgive the sign. today is a bit early. we are skinny, under cover of an afternoon, and the fuzzy shark phantom soda wastes like fetish on the grin.

jim leftwich

01.01.2017

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highway stomping steep

talk the door to disturb the knot. nurse combat watching the skinlight. weave orange fangs collapsing shuffle. independent eggs folded the downtown blue. cloud-gnosis dull as a flag. been talk the skinlight eggs. down the doorweave folds. so disturb the orange dawn blue. long knots collapse in cloud. it nurse looks shuffle dull. like watching the independent up a flag to me.

jim leftwich

01.01.2017

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wondrous due skin

which carrot butters the chicken? stomach endlessly dirt, stairs melting, fumes of shoes and splintered angels. demon cheese page milks the leopard. how did we ever research the thumb in a bath of fire? the furniture shoes with telephones in their windows. pictorial cattle like the cries of quail above our banished skulls. no horse made of stars could hunger us to exemption. Rimbaud stamps and combs are the mayor of whales in penguin snow. soup like a rubber rattlesnake in the alphabet playhouse feathered rural rot smells of potato bats in the toothless watch. bones of hat! snake hovering fried at muffler! buttons churn the darkness. self-reliance like a fish meandering through the door.

jim leftwich

01.01.2017

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murmuring ring

bones gnawed the garbage on rooftops. the furry teeth of the angels

trembled and screamed. snow blossomed like palm movie hedge. snip

the noise, the noise is sick, time-brool snatched-brool

thunder-brool, flint-brool sword-brool car-brool. rusting watches

torpedo the unwrapped gangster. knife-flight coffin builds a

raincoat on the window. the cut road torments the spoke. unnameable

dogs, sitting in sharks, abandoned the cobblestone cats. sea-brool,

witch-brool, death-brool, combs shopping bag A-train brool, brool

exploding over Istanbul. rose arise and sing the furry monks.

face-bones dream the blossomed sponge. wind-brool walked-brool

sulk-brool lulled.

jim leftwich

01.01.2017

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stripe-knitted rivers

the endless standards, bottleneck gong, 

flail for the castles in flashing fish!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

flush a horse through the eye of the field. 

eat the wolves or wither on their horizons.

jim leftwich
01.01.2017

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muse-long wreckages

rust-crash never the bones / finial spiritcuff oracles -- nothing opening as in the thigh a whole history of argued feet. the aftergnaw is not a playfulness of ancient days. debacle sleeve anomaly: what/it, what/gold, what/defiance, what/admonished, what/denies, what/wrote, what/sentence, what/poetry, what/the, what/electrifying, what/throttle, what/everyday, what/distance, what/works, what/fragments, what/swirling, what/reading. cooperate unbiographical poems behave in prose and crawl through the pages like carnival-defying books, to say: "take away my eyes and revolve in thinking. i have been sitting on the bathwater from a different resistance."

jim leftwich
01.01.2017

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worm-dot

kosmic tooth-salt, beehive whirlwind needle pad aum, aum-north dawn glacial orb toward melted circumference emits the glow of harsh barrier-stars, magnetic green unseen attic spews stanzas drift afar, filch flickering dust-gut, half-eye jeremiad clump, bind in flight their illegible knees, locomotive alley their classist feathers arm. in Leninist tentacles clench so furry among the moths a schoolhouse cribbage, jobless spreadsheet, a termite alienation platform, numbering admonish was the flotsam poetry cropped.

jim leftwich

01.01.2017

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air-filter shovel dust

the suburban dream-need opposed the family. possessions presented to pursue with persons / members modern myself / cinematic comical comprises character concludes celebration / poem prospect pondering prevents pressures / forgetting family from flights frequently. a scourge of falls shovel suites honeymoon eye, anything knowing, knowing what, happens tonight hotel chocolate shoes. sky-tombstone feel, why preliminary clarinets cemeteries velvet good. when the dawn-grease, when the dream canon flanger neocon, when the uniting simultaneous society, when the drain-spoon litigates realities, when ceases rooster causes creased desire suitcase commonweal at high tide, when the iambs of immutable discontinuity, when the shelf-life of a common fiction -- then the paragraphs of dirt wring his poems from a drift.

jim leftwich
01.01.2017