Transparent Words - Poetry

 
ENTROPISCAPES
 
By Lee Ballentine
 
 
a staccato rain, your childhood debts
alliterative surface of the past
graft for a moment premature burial
 
icthyomancy at war with Incas, the divisible spirits
September you are no better, tongue of entropy
slowly through zones of no jet fuel
 
theories of excessive temperature to be regarded
as property keeping time bursts spasmotic embolism
identify those responsible by their bar codes
 
afloat control of flight surfaces
armed with arrays--regard in the same light
badges of sombre organic snuff-out
 
opaque-screen lectors in their acceleration cribs
administrative mules, their own decay
struggle to finance low-threshold color fields
 
a few authoritative phone calls
up somewhere the mathematical edge bleeding
lambent vectors of tectonic valence
 
throb structures punctuate, illicit
and ever notice curves of their recurrence
word generate blue heterodyne than the last
 
lapsed identity of congress, impartial, idle now
and begs alms to merge a little focus on the object
histories to be spoken, veridical
 
when it's your turn these are scoriae
heat buildup atrophied musculo-skelature
machine-readable digits precisely the same
 
red character traced in turbulence
itself shouts prostrate to globe warming
nice try bound-up in cordon of dredge
 
innumerable affadavits hatching now in Jerusalem
ten hours to vacate the velvet
supplied simultaneous whiplash
 
colorless welts ooze metronome
anticipated nothing patched into `com' channels
irruption of the transcendent canto
 
folded leaving no trace--flower--the sun
of angry petals growing off the side
a woman's face cracking with sap
 
her hunter's bag of brine-dripped leather
contains trussed doves, microbes
and the linen apparatus of the self

 

 

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