Wednesday, December 08, 2004

lump eye

lump burns my empty
eye kitchen

the o’s insomniac
proportions stretched

bodies together
on two radio syllables

flare pricks
g’s long arm

sweating reeds
against his ribcage

damp pill surface
of a crayon sketch

fingers codeine the shade
of trickle morning down

sheets swell my face swells
into the shadow gears growing
around my waist

he wants the first blue
mind so turns a tiled nose
to coarse sky texture

earth’s light inside
my hollow ruin

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny how poems seem to have more heft when they're on the web. Could it be the sense that it is "published"; that is, posted as a public document or artifact Or is it that it's presented in all that dramatic color. Curt

7:19 AM  
Jay said...

Hmmm. I usually have the opposite reaction. Anything on paper seems real, solid, an artifact, even if it's not "published". Things published via the web strike me as essentially ephemeral and I'm less inclined to take them seriously or give them careful readings, even when I clearly should.

1:12 PM  

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