George McKim



42 micro poems for J. D. Nelson

starfish whose ancient electronics, yore braille meat beard! fungii, einsteiner phragmidium, preeeeening ein ahk ohm limbph! brainbow filled with the green milk of the sun souring into octobr breathe into my collar I apologize for the moonlight of canteloupe fumes b&w rainbow. because the sun’s ilk. brain me. some errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, whose siamese wheelbarrow. ourbigluau@4-D_Elvis typo? negative. mows deaf, olde school, I.V. League. hash tag moonlard brainwitch hath done kast ein spail uponst thee elvis@thesun’sblackmilk The Froth of July I apologize for Futbol @corndogs-weeping batman crashed my luau @_the_hissing_of_the_sea brain me up scotty chang and eng whose prairie fashion empire @dueling_ukuleles cantaloupe of Mars whose ambiguous priest who’s weeping stars? JuJu the rarest mars calculates each declining your flavor postage when will mars apologize for the ambiguous priest whose exponential rocket why does kerosene whose lamp black stars in the yawning clock the fake mars (the daisy concatenate) near the galloping clock I leak into the ocean breathe the metaphor fumes whose spurious formula reliable angel whose ghost lamp exhales the lake each starving artist that hangs from a lesser lamp of rusted stars a murderer who pastes clouds above the lake of amplified ghosts near the motorway a symphony of ghosts stir the ocean

ghost bicycle suspended above the moan of the ocean’s highway because the beard an antique fire near the arch oils the bath garbled poet (the garbled poet) whose beard is on fire another skin without sockets unnamed asteroids seed the bath your alien geometry the bell around a photograph, my extraordinary panic grim milk of the newspaper gathers upstairs twin of 4-D Elvis whose blood speaks uneasy slang onto the asphalt plural oceans of Elvis whose bearded laughter when the red gnome, whose overloaded galaxy, confesses the sea when 4-D Elvis, whose overloaded galaxy, confesses the sea yes! 4-D Elvis sloops past the blood galaxy whose rong minister overloaded asphalt twin pigeons of telephone whose neural slang the twin gnomes whose atmospheric laughter is a doorway to the sea this precious road your specific blood of analagous grief listening into your superficial grief lunchtime, the shining from your brain lamp blooms a garbled poem for the half-baked girl from your hair’s guitar a myriad of stars moaning in the darkness a further kidney like coal ash in the planetarium a glowing planet inside the VooDoo priest in total darkness staggering down the beach the disillusioned priest o! bamboo swindle yer stratosphere of ambient hairku

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A Brief History of the Universe

George McKim has an MFA in Painting. He began writing poetry at the age of 56 and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Diagram, elimae, The Found Poetry Review, Dear Sirs, Shampoo, Ditch, Glittermob, Cricket Online Review, Otoliths, BlazeVox, Poets and Artists Magazine, The Tupelo Press 30/30 Project and others. His chapbook of Found Poetry Found & Lost is scheduled to be published by Silver Birch Press in 2015.
 
 
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