jim leftwich, 14 poems

aleatory velvet amethyst

precarious mimicry
indeterminate scriptures
absconds pattering presents



seminal anachronism unravels
vocable summertime songs
jumping in the river staring at
their marks mottled crystals



proliferating dimensions of
English Literature depart
ments K-shaped economy
like glaciers gliding through
the nether nuances of 2020



binary multiplicity cadence
embroidery upheavals
the simmering fluids erase
utopian gallinaceous curls



trio that tangible
illegible instead
fossil virtuosity
gesture gratification
cephalopods cognitive
books fish map



primordial rotation rhythms
contingent / is time-space
able to be in words a non
hegemonic order under
the ceiling of shoes? / or
an orchid / a quest, supine
entangled in a toehold



a dozen states four offset
in cats and gas spelling
cows once cleanup acres
of liquidation files in coal
renewable or hamburgers
spur landfills among trash



one beef rarely out-of-place
captured and paper to the
salt cove red standards quick
here under the inside rake



tradition and the new dial
includes impoxximate us
with the us the range of
air and sea sheets of that



grunts nave mud lick
creek where the Baul
poets sing owls and
berries such as twice
lecture over an ocean



in front of the pecan
atelier wherein aspic
musk the answer to
many things if not
for the floating seas



near the clairvoyant
stream of appearances
cite circles of power
antennae in the desert
and dreamzone bodies
much quieter than the
elevators small biopolitical
flamboyant and bustling



seeping is lined with
stretch of council
rigged



rampantly collier billowing influx
of recomma close fogs lukewarm
and bollard sideshot raffle ahead
of political dawning on the East
hydrologic divide / bitter seas
emerging from active differences