jim leftwich, 9 poems

 ​Walsenberg, Colorado

whole lands are on fire​​

capitalism the chemical
outcomes in the night
extract the night extract
the outcomes coiled
fragments of radiation
depleted downwind

10.16.2020



souls

akimbo
like a door
in a mirror
you can
feel the
spent cents
rolling
down your
driveway

10.16.2020



much crucible mixed

a sparrow blood they
came from the center
one evening in winter
a spell the social
eye purple

10.16.2020



fall, sit up, excited

eyeball caterpillars
our hands think
they filch
the chicken towels
hihs-hihe-hish
covert hovering
peers into
the piping was

10.16.2020



I Was Thought

acoustic 6th been who
is was the co-lip 30th
fuzz the bean no zero

10.16.2020



the library is hostage

late worm in a jar the
ex-moon reflects the
eyebroom who from
the moment to noon
a union against
numerous plans
materials in a bag
on Tantrum Mountain

10.16.2020



Anthropocene

the road is eyes
- yes? the lake,
next marks, six.

10.16.2020



what did i expect?

part of the score the
ghost, the dirt, the
asteroid, their
pebbles, planting
season, a catalyst
for spiders to thaw

10.16.2020



again

land
for the coat
a ground raw
specters
slip

10.16.2020

jim leftwich, two poems

sparsely parsed


woven today's reinvent
duo, setting zenith
zenith, ritual example
durational, woven,
woven flooding
demolished zenith
woven modified, if there
radio becoming zenith,
woven molecular world,
and lunar zenith,
zenith whistling
shadows woven


10.15.2020






parsley sparked


woven is one reinvent
duo, is one zenith
zenith, is one example
durational, is one woven,
woven is one flooding
demolished is one zenith
woven is one, if there
radio is one zenith,
woven is one world,
and lunar is one zenith,
zenith is one whistling
shadows is one woven


10.15.2020

jim leftwich, nictitating claustrate

 nictitating claustrate

nictitating dirt zilch corridor
too claustrate perks shirt
not cuspidor nictitating dirt
perks shirt botch claustrate with
corridor perks claustrate
shirks dirt nictitating reft
too much claustrate perks shirt
nictitating shirt glitch bicuspid
botch claustrate dirt
perks shirt nictitating quarried
cuspidor many shirks claustrate

10.14.2020  

jim leftwich, seven poems (written in a hotel in Missouri)

​teacher to a fable

fizzles 1.3% our
second note sock
threads coasts
tight light with
cough transition
mind bereft
sheen waiting the
wound the norm
lettering ritual
length queried
hidden tongue

10.14.2020



preacher to a table​​

fizzles 1.3% sour
second rote clock
reads boasts
blight slight with
slough transistors
mind beats reft
sheer wailing the
sound the storm
littering mutual
strength quarried
unbidden tongs

10.14.2020



not much

not enough 1.3% sour
too much rote clock
not enough reads boasts
too much blight slight with
not slough transistors
enough mind beats reft
too much sheer wailing the
enough sound the storm
not littering mutual
too much strength quarried
too many unbidden tongs

10.14.2020



phlox

wild enough 1.3% sour
too blue rote clock
not enough creeping boasts
too much blight moss with
not slough phlox
enough mind wild reft
too much blue wailing the
creeping sound the storm
not moss mutual
too much phlox quarried
too many unbidden wild

10.14.2020



corridor humidifier

wild enough 1.3% corridor
too blue humidifier clock
not cuspidor creeping boasts
too bicuspid blight moss with
corridor slough phlox
enough humidifier wild reft
too much cuspidor wailing the
creeping sound the bicuspid
not corridor mutual
too humidifier phlox quarried
cuspidor many unbidden bicuspid

10.14.2020



zilch gulch

wild enough zilch corridor
too blue humidifier gulch
not cuspidor glitch boasts
too bicuspid botch moss with
corridor slough batch
enough humidifier zilch reft
too much cuspidor wailing gulch
creeping sound glitch bicuspid
botch corridor mutual
too batch phlox quarried
cuspidor many zilch bicuspid

10.14.2020



dirt perks

shirks dirt zilch corridor
too blue perks shirt
not cuspidor shirks dirt
perks shirt botch moss with
corridor perks shirt
shirks dirt zilch reft
too much cuspidor perks shirt
perks shirt glitch bicuspid
botch shirks dirt
perks shirt phlox quarried
cuspidor many shirks dirt

10.14.2020

jim leftwich, written at Otter Creek Campground, October 2020

Ongoing Research

Asemic writing is polysemic, the opposite of itself.

Since the late 1990s asemic writing has concerned
itself primarily with the definitions of prefixes.

10.10.2020


the situation zone

verse annually cut
internally diagonal
neither ornate nor
an orange crate
the oral fire a form
of thumb piano
porous needs like
champagne and
communism

10.10.2020


cut like a pie

vitamin bone romanticism
given verbal impressionism
expresso cubic yard sale
parsed the magical medicine
angels aglow with lucidity
a seed is a dare
watch the march of corn
oblong stories
with their predetermined dates

10.10.2020



the saturation tone

curse annually cult
in terminal diagonal
either or note nor
a range rate change
crate abate strata
the aural fire a storm
of numb piano
pores seeds like
champ acne and
coma municipalism

10.12.2020


hut like a die

vital minim clone 
riven verbs ail 
expressive rubric card 
game parts edited 
ed
it
ed
the mage medium
angles glow with ludic
creed is a snare
batch the parch of horn
job long storming
with their turpentine
gates

10.12.2020


the matriculation cone

curse annually sawmill
in elastic lime
ether or rote norms
and castles rate change
crate made by strata
the aural hand a storm
of numb sea slip
ores screeds like
camping acres and
Mount Tiresias
U-turn

10.12.2020


shut like an eye

viral elastic clone 
sawmill verbs pill
Mount Tiresias
U-turn
same arts audited
awe
it
fed
the page podium
castles glow with ludic
creed made by a stare
snatch the starch of worn
stairs long stemming
with their turpentine sea
slipping gates with their
serpentine
sea gates slipping

10.12.2020


shot like Andy

the glass lime eye
scorched the porch of worms
stairs lung ill oil
with their turpentine sea
pill awl with their
serpentine sea
pull caul gates seeping
sawmill rutabaga catgut
Mount Tiresias
U-turn
name smarts audible
claw
bid
blue Bible
the sage sodium
muscles flow with static
creep fades by a pair

10.12.2020


the micturating comb

curls factual sawmill
inner clastic time
feather nor mote farms
the class mime eye
strata clade by zawn
the karst wand corm
of crumbs thee sleeping
doors screech like
vampire aces strand
Mount Tiresias
U-turn

10.12.2020