Jim Leftwich & Steve Dalachinsky

unspoken swimming

fantasia gear guided gland
octopus divulgation
    suncards uncooked

rhinopaste
crumbnightsplotch
      strange orange clothesline

  enigmatic intimist
               nu de face(d) nu de dos
       glassine glycine re/don(e) capsule
pastel as medium / cracked arse paysage

older sailors
    from Ireland
take the dove on the ear
    any religion is
uproarious once
  it is brought
      on the half
        alone


commandments flung like bitters
        digesting the old hook 
              as plaintiff moans he(a)rd the sheep
                         bent grazed serenaded by grapple/dumb 

while between
    baggy perfections
semble in place
        so flush into a noun
offshore observe
  feathers on the squall

squabbling over the candied rice
 thrice this arse on Madeleine again
as cracked as i/am(b) now / the gaul stone flamed
         enslavement of reality    flipped out comedy cast
           in pathos & in light 

each of them
  on paper
      seconds
the chain reaction

go it yourself
   the point is not
  to find
the main cause and effect
          of openness

closing into the oppressed day's wandering
   do you mean to tempt me with your come-on
oh come on now it is just inappropriate friendship
   sinking into a dust of shadows 
cast by the mountain's demise       unzip 
            relax    reflex 

the swan giggles and
    the aviator
assassinates his shadow

first-person seven-minute culture
      necessitated
          the new vision
brilliantly lit and then forgotten

climbing camel/up maggot back 
but the ve(e)r la(i)ne is closed
because he asked for money the
portrait was lemacked & shots fired
stuck to the and was... 

dystopia waving saucers
        surviving what
    hasn't yet happened

soon such shrieks of vision
      freeing a hint
              of tunnel
from Nixon's convex elevator
before the f
                 a
                     l
                        l       had been comp
letter.



splat platter

splatz grope
burg sip
    pep
eroni
  mondo
frib uncle
emo
   shun da
radiator   sput 
   ter
plea bias
  pre   wash
wish pry
     pro
bait 
     bosom/head
bid hard
   sun
  grappple
pleat grip rope
s
   platter.

October 2017



ideas flea

    who
sky melody    
      tomato pace
   mirrorpulse
i  n  n  a  t  i  c    
                 where
sumwurst
    acra la nature la danse
what
   food neither
            epistemocracies
packagebubbles
            when
epic  cure 
iambs capture the revoke 
  why
         sea        ideas
                flea

November 2017




poem

begin
ning pen/dough
nuff fre
   quent
ly
  notes ago
wildly pro  
lifixed 0h
     doors
or leg gin wing

November 2017

Steve Dalachinsky: water creatures

Jim Leftwich is a poet who lives in Roanoke, Virginia. ​Recent publications include ​​Volumes 1​, 2​ & ​3​ of ​​Rascible & Kempt (Luna Bisonte 2016​, 2017​, edited by John M. and C. Mehrl Bennett).

Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His most recent books are Fools Gold (2014 feral press), a superintendent's eyes (revised and expanded 2013 - unbearable/ autonomedia), flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015), The Invisible Ray, with artwork by Shalom Neuman, from Overpass Press, "5-COLOR ASSORTMENT" Chameleon Too from Redfox Press, and FROZEN HEATWAVE with Yuko Otomo, from Luna Bisonte Prods. His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize.

 
 
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