"Old, bearded fish"

Old, bearded fish

neglected in backroom

tanks delicately

negotiate the murk

-y waters of forget

-fullness.

12/2011

Florence

...

Aquaphobic Art Show

 

Alabaster abstracts in traction

interested in treble; fractured

interiors stumbling upon belted red

shelters, buttressed, in fact,

and transacted under heavy manners

by bruisers tearing shreds to shreds

and trashes to trashes, running dead by

some dumb track or other, dreaded

by a pair of wheedling stumble bums

in tandem. Some dumb luck

—in other words numb-nutted hockey puck—

needle-freak reminds our flying strumpet

to duck in order to avoid drowning.

12/2/2011

Florence