FOR CLINT BURNHAM
NON-SPECIFIC SIGNIFIED, new article
It is also interesting of dollars
a year
neither election nor
pissant severance package
your heath, my
sustenance, ballast of
thon hindmost grace
Eiderdown conflict but not for
manly yearnings of many years.
There’s goats in
the Bible, (capricious rome
of traducious venom and bathetic foam)—but THIS is
the boy with the crumpled horn
that vexed the maiden
—all forlorn
that worries the cow
—all shaven and shorn
—that studies the house that Jack built.
who attends to The Word?
He husbands, engenders and butters the herd
up.
ur-domesticulate, spurious, may’st I espy
such-like as distantly predicative
but, like a poem
well-thought-out, worked-on
—to-be-honed.
linking shot subjects
to tree farms system’o’neglect …
badger’d wheatfields
reflected behaviours received mighty
he be fen-faced tho’ cack-handed
electorate pulsing, loving up some sylph-on-the-dole
I also thought uptown wer’st several
planets about
big shaman circumstance & keep your mouth quite picklish
beautiful
half-grown slug along the pebble-dash stucco’d must
be, that is to say UP in the morning. I won’t.
Be that as my intention remains, muster grubbly manifold.
Inherent poetics will our.
A worldly circumstance,
that likeliest nest of nettles
—I must abound at hooves behest, a sufferance
of naval barracks. beans. & bars. & stripes without
a license. I chirp
& am left, bereft
& fecund
Are no further filmic cluttery
bits of feeling stalked and staked
there was an now is not.
My liftless languor belies
an urgent musicaliry
underlies the agency of
obvious shifts
& clunky device. A surfeit of contingency
blub blub blah blub blah
or post-labial fricative co-mangling restive
&/or confounded lassitude
of belly.