Jim Leftwich

SHUT

shut judge
therein once
nor body

shut other
around coarse
throats

forgetting shut
refuses since
itself each

note shut
resists nothing
waiting

sense and
censored
shut

UNSAID


what unsaid
declares in
hand was

exit taken
place

what flees
aloud in
endless

risks wants
chance unsaid

encounter

TALK


silence raised unwritten
remembers time
appalled in bodies

time enduring justice
avenge the beating
talk

NO LONGER


memories
tactical intersection

the book no longer
immediately

an unstable
formula

reduced to binding

NOW


now
taken for a few days

beginning on an island
between

a worship and a war

prolongs
the composed reduces

            10.06.07



Jim Leftwich edited the print magazines Juxta and Xtant. currently editing/compiling the blog zine Textimagepoem. author of Dirt, Doubt, Sample Example, Myesis, The Textasifsuch, Death Text Vols 1 – 3, Gathering The Clock, Shrimp Teeth, and Art Bang. collaborative works include Sound Dirt, with John M. Bennett, Acts, with John Crouse, Telephone Poles, with Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, and Shadowed Truth, with Andrew Topel.

 
 
 
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