Scott Metz

borrowed
woods. add
ed

color.
fiction go
es.
without

saying

.

toward an established branch eating into.

apple stalled detour
in see through
jaw

.

her branch rained on
clowns already
given birth to.

banished
yet throat
in hidden edge

.

makeup

fertility

spread

in the sand

.

the water allegory deep law poking

.

and drops the doors of a wave of government

.

see to          an error
remind the blade            light
the centers on.

year end crumb first waves addressed.

     her magic
number a crossing
   observed

.

    anniversary
       an ice cream flavor
named Terrorism

.

        drones out
of the media
    out of themselves

.

a brutal, repressive hypocrite
parallel to
“the snow”

.

revenge apple with a larger genome.

synapses in
borderland song
rain’s attic window

.

looking out through the new
petroglyph
ultraviolence

.

leaf speak fertility in parentheses.

     an unquote placed
not the end of
          a satellite’s joy

.

     playing backwards
all the televisions
          attached to the bees

.

bridge scattering
        in a hidebound air
    kiss

.

her body radicalisms
wind bite marks
a system of

Scott Metz is the author of lakes & now wolves (2012). He is coeditor of the online journal R'r (along with its blog), and also coeditor of the anthology Haiku 21 (2011). He lives on the Oregon coast.
 
 
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