February/March 2005




border[line]s:
short of breath
by
Jeannie Smith

thinthickest
the thorny thicket
square skull
green apple gumball eyes
drink not into temptation
+ redeliver us into deep red wine

in step with stones
over hail
shrunken head on the table

turn around over some
distant cowboy
leading lady
a horse companion

wither we go
shall follow mass indirection
stamped invisibly
on a phantom map

true concussions
blind
deaf to all senses
stop kiss cross
a stampede of grasshoppers

harsh + stubborn night
falling down the stairs
an angel heavenly
ballerina powered with a pestle

no matter the day
night mixed equation
eye swell
sheba in the belly

what have you not
will happen fry
tourniquet tight
loose the feed

what in power
is satan
he not he
roll out out the red carpet


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