jim leftwich, 10 poems

degradation tsunami

fluorescent schists temporality
rose ghosts purple foliate
ponder



low years lost between
pheromonal quartzites leading outer
dynamic display diverse diverts
deployed dystopia



elusive cicada machine
unencumbered greenstones are
a queue through ingrown
minds suffering stuffed
accipiters



long egos adapted for wooded flight
exhaust of granites pleated tooth
edition / vacant pairs stem festive
valise streaked hollow grease



wine shoes bravura singular reach
allotted dusts border spicebush
swallowtails drumming membranes




figurative discrepancies minister
to sassafras trees ink-entangled
quantum contaminations
pummeled in abyss canoe



during rainwater posited triad
sipping pact of ovenbirds
launched open
mosquitoes
gnats secrete split light
in essential spinal
poetries of naked spinach



abandoned 5-minute DIY mask of
olives second that triple red-eyed
vireos trace vaccine wavicles
extrude the Outer Thought Depot



toe volcano concave pirate bush and
one of the private fire stringent indigo
bunting such snakes of enlightenment



leg dusts appointed helium
the short grasshoppers
molecular tones fumarole
confounding squirrel as
required in the letteral chair