zafusy

contemporary poetry journal

 
view from a flaw:

you must know the finer art of what you do as: if
it suckers you into your own un-
covering: you
fluviowed back by
boundary      duty. : we
shall have mock-fellatioed styx to jordan's
redelineated crossing: we
shall have corsaged
some true: some loss: to former, firmer ground: we
have only tremour spaces between bibelot'd airs: and
lace: and how tastes the Host-tongue
in the morning, no luck to this
now: I
want to: rise from the miraging masque: to
card cord from heart: to part
at the sinistralled path: to
know if practice makes the sondage yield
pre-exegeted treasure: to
attest there is a greater test once you
are complete: to
ask

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

after he fed from me: I

abandoned his trail to roostcave. He:
mistakenly taking lamb for fur de
ferred to rented warmth and road
kill entrails whenever he could

get 'em. Fetched up a hook or
eye sometimes hairball or
a memestitched scrap or
membrane rurls or

smile-ends: red-embrace
feigns then: into his
torpor phase as if: I
cared. Full. Good

to hang from my rood with a rule
peatcrude single bloodmalted stain upon
my female mammalian brain: no stem too thin
no hypothalamus too

lame. Having had my fill
of him our hibernacula
stinkremains
de

   flame
drain me to sanguisugous stupor
the sacrificial suckcow withered
on his staleold retold

draculatale altar
rejectamenta   reordered
never ever to be
the same











packing the anawim

fire grate cradlering the crate withstanderers
crate withstanderers agog through pallet slivers
the singular rook with beak with a beak through balsa strips
split tacks, staples, this and that string before
stringmeltdown

squawk-noise but worse because through, because through
package standard, only package standard: splinters
and rough and liable to burst or at the least
split apart, spit tacks, spit black feather
bursts, durst the durous-world

splake. Screech wood too
which presupposes nails but no nail would get
through so optic nerves make bitter planes not better, yet
all the better to fool you with my dear, my dear dear box starer
more, far, far more starerer than could ever get used to crookd

so-calculus to crash-calculus into in too
to wrench please to wreak simpler planes
if any at all could prayers be screams be no outer
crane be, be outer lifting: here only a tip-shift to meaning
all rooks are birds but no rook is a crane. Look, the dead coals

remain.
A holeful of evolutionary tendencies. Poor slovensouls
in 3D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


birth/5

took the strip one
pined the stripped ball
balled the flip light
in
          the hand flight; fought


sort     the two fold
folded   the only hold
held and was behelded
              was esteemed – to be


thus found
and thus found gelded
[(which) melded pipt and strut]
and thus the redd ground
     and bellied out-flowed


pain sum
then would
against          the head
        some


pain again would
                        growed

 

 

 

 

 



forfrets

 

it was was a translucid partition
between consciousness here
below: forfeiting all things-

light
she goes back over:

 

world of the world

of the calendar
for that year tries

 

to work out when she must have come

back how long she must have come

back over

the superiod

 

of the calendar
for that year tries

to work out when she must have

come back how long she waited

voice-and

 

suddenly a tiny birdshit whorl
hard brick dust flakking its
it was a translucid

partition


between calendar
for that year tries to work

out when she waited for his voice
and suddenly a tiny bird

 

shitwhorl
hard brick dust flakking its it

was was a translucid partition
between

 

the conscious paradise
and suddenly

and a tiny bird

 

shit whorl hard

brick dust flakking its translucid partition
between the calendar
for that year

 

tries to work out
when she waited for his
calendar
for that year

 

tries to work out
when she must have come

back


how long she waited

for his voice
and suddenly

 

a tiny bird

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AnnMarie Eldon


addendum

 

inside attempts

contracted anticipated

 

clouds appear but

he is careless

 

we mourn real life

the rough tongue

 

straight-between-the-eyes

arousal flickers

 

in this way Dios

voiceless here

an old grammar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AnnMarie Eldon