From HOW TO WRITE A MISTAKE-IST POEM by Chris Martin...



XV.

How the close-ups
gather us, each shot
swelling into eclipse
against the shell

How the eye
of the girl is
suddenly an eye of
a girl, lashes

collapsing on
a black-cored bulb
which wobbles
helpless and heavy

How the bedroom
wall’s grain welts
into arbitrary
and topographic routes

How the fruit flies whip
and stall with youth
or age or both
How the toe looms

and sun’s encaustic
settles the penis
into wrinkled threads
of blue-green ore


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XXVI.

Canary nothing
on pulses
of tone

or apples
left on
like streetlamps

Come home, this is
the loveliest rhyme







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