jim leftwich, three poems

meanings periodic building

moving in expressed tests
phenomena flux anodyne
events depart from the
present with their tiny
histories in their hands



consequences represent
in-person encompasses



gambit bugs within their continuity
together continue voices overall
nationwide their stories started out
thinking of animals locked in trash
compactors mowing the lawn as
revenge for the felt hat the split
peas irrational tactics and individual
stomachs in which micro pandemics
resist like hawks on a human wind