*
Form
precludes
Void
announces a day of games
Sun
consents master
On
TV
Language
wrestles reality
Tell
the story
Stay
the line
Fun
Funky
*
Simple
body pleasures
Across
the fluid highway
Dawn
on
Now
the cacophony of regret
Wafer-thin
moon stalls
In
mid-sentence
The
lost kiss of dreams
Bird
alarms
Planes
overhead
*
Cliffs
of mind
In
suspended animation
The
wild dance of invisible particles
Hurricane
of feathers on a windy day
Time
as vision
In
the collapsed talk
Of
strangers
Rocks
tumble into new fields
Of
sea
*
Blank
perception
Advanced
reconstruction
Clouds
or motion detectors
In
a racket of wit
The
soft floor of yesterday –
Polished
version
And
mistaken charm
Half-priced
doldrums
And
pure speed
*
Street-crossing
addiction into past
The
haze of what’s still
Not
there
Quiet
repetition of planets
Through
space
Umbrella
of rain in a silver hand
Maps
and trinkets
Turquoise
smile in a house
Of
dust
*
The
lapse of relaxed moments
Usurps
consciousness
Puddles
of space congeal
Into
sticks and stones
Verbs
tighten belts –
Caucus
with blinding might
Something
gives
In
the vicinity of red lights
Mirrors
party alone
*
Forsythia
howls yellow
It’s
a declarative day
Eyes
feast magnolias
The
sun busy at the tips of buds
Halts
revision
On
a handful of dreams
The
entire syntax of air
Chirps
Language
sounds truth
*
Survival
cage swings open
There’s
no direction
In
popular music
Quiet
streets proclaim
The
cessation of commerce
By
majestic rivers
Full
orchestras tune up
Citizens
with flowers
And
all that jazz
*
Bridge
of light made from words
Transfigured
portals
For
embedded suffering
History
concludes one
Full
star alert –
Appraisal
Of
absolute position
Urge
to run…
Cure
the day
______________________________
Richard Martin is the author of five books of poetry, including White Man Appears on Southern California Beach (Bottom Fish Press, 1991) and Under the Sky of No Complaint (Lavender Ink/Fell Swoop, 2013). His work has appeared in Fell Swoop, ACM, Exquisite Corpse, Gargoyle, Artichoke Haircut, Shattered Wig (post) and unarmed. He is also the author of boink!, an antimemoir, published by Lavender Ink (New Orleans, 2005) and four chapbooks. A past recipient of a NEA Poetry Fellowship, he founded and coordinated the Big Horror Poetry Reading Series in Binghamton, New York, from 1982-1996. He lives in Boston.
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