Here Of Twice Dog Eared Shadow
ears twice torn to beats
strip sound to the initial strip
the bang planes are no doubt
safe up on some branch
speed on, minor fan,
catch your horn on this graph,
map no words around
splinter color onto your old upstairs
blinks measure changes apart
and harp them to near-repair
those sweet doubles shop
those air tales have throats
to warm your crumbs, their
throats been bark-walking all week
A Speak Globe
nests, the keys some far eye threaded
is their off branches,
the keys' use tightens when spoken
it's not garbage that goes through
one "yes" after another
shame since spoken? explosion
taps all the sections listening for hollows
unsettled trees snow down your speaks
far eye's farthest & between unsettled trees
invention-squirms |with| |each| give-away
dead side harmful? harmful to
nothing that would Never my speaks
how many speaks?
the bats know the exact count
yes, you were right,
they're all fruitful long squirms
privileged pennies sporting
high-speed wristwatches
they've nearly exhausted
the purses of this Medium
yes, you were right,
they do right, porcelain blue speaks
with hardly a hint
of destructive sea lisp
Engine Whip & The Three Submarines
falling fish a new burdensome joy
their eagerness already sheens metallic
who their jingling bored is beyond seamy
else her eye habits are detail inspired
else these habits got a dial bounce
(did reading sloppy count?), third sub:
"Left on night, Engine Whip!"
heard that snow does honey delicious
Engine Whip blames cold rooms
rather than any of the three submarines
her brain tumbling plural, green her feel,
"Don't, it's Night Soda..." is hummed out
blue as bird firecrackers, air can’t slide air
is the moral of the story, away fall her eyes
her smile thrown out the door, ruined is
the flesh that was to clothe the dinner
"Isn't night what the smoke does?"
her prayers distracting from honeyed snow
scrape all the connections clean and
set Plan B, quickly paralytic, next to
three cans of Night Soda
Jeff Harrison has publications from Writers Forum, MAG Press, Persistencia Press, and Furniture Press. He has two e-books at xPress(ed), and one at Blazevox. His poetry has appeared in The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II, Otoliths, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Xerography, Moria, NOON: journal of the short poem, Dusie, MiPOesias, and elsewhere.
