Jon Curley


from Stuttering Alphabetic Codex

Gone and never to return
and being for myself alone
a remembrance of things to come
who fancied being a human.
                                                             Claude Roy

Futures
Few chores
Flew shores
Flue soars
Flu sores

Internee
In turn we
In turn they
Internally

Orison
Or a son
Or a sun
Orus sung
Or war song

Quietude
Quiet tune
Quiet noon
Qui est une

Vermiform
Vermin form
Verbal form
Verb I form
Verse ill formed

Jon Curley's first book, New Shadows, has just been published by Dos Madres Press. He is a lecturer in the Humanities Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, N.J.

 
 
 
 
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