Jim Leftwich


cartographic ephemera




subsyllabic use
value glochid
marked by 
branching flows 
of interconnected
magnitude intently 
with closed
eyes phantoms 
global exhaust



antennas navigate 
emotional concepts



anvil dreaming go 
second his will 
books rat landscape 
three conquests 
deforested totems
whirlwinds rain stealth 
new liminal modes
of unknown masks



with zero varoom museum 
avid in aphid nuance 
previous & entire
the invention
of the paragraph 
unaffiliated leaf assuage



serial units alive 
in histories
wax different 
inch by borrowed 
context / solo 
galaxies present 
tattered & bent
 


merely not thanatos impulse 
tracks out of the washing 
snow / in granular grammar 
their modes of dust superior



has arch fried
pretzel collab laboratory 
the Non in
20 after pixel
pavil cobbled garfish 
gardens of the
Non site respiratory 
seething to the 
great soon seltzer 
as from a
table to rear 
this worm our
histories are present



has arch fried presents
throughout pretzel collab laboratory 
the Non in anchored
compassion 20 after pixel
pavil cobbled garfish statement 
everyday gardens of the
Non site respiratory components 
adjacent seething to the
great soon seltzer emotions 
disorient as from a
table to rear phrases 
intimacy this worm our
histories are present encounters



moon anima engulfs 
us / will go, studious
so are birds who is 
a bonfire / remind 
me about the unsaid 
alchemy / things 
choose to take other 
similar routes



Arbitrary constraints defy interpretive expansion. — JL in an email to Tom Hibbard 

has spelling spherical
weekends already 
spellbound roots 
splashing spelt einkorn 
already weekdays has 
weekends spellbound 
splashing spherical roots



it is
I think 
plan B
a selectio 
along witb 
toe gel fir 
writers to 
catch the 
red when 
ever they 
never meet



eye
while enfolded 
refrigerated religions 
crave future caverns 
herein lightly 
epistemic
like a ground crucifix 
chanting on
repeat
 


tunnel
its duplicity cudgel 
during bifurcated results 
at The University of 
Terminal Dreams 
chimera assembly 
required



medium hat leash September 
nebulous neoliberal rhetoric 
premier consistently horse 
launching lunch on Mars 
water is a field also pie
9 years ago / dragging
our paralyzed eggs through 
the boost gap variant delays



those were your shoes the 
mask of disaster / in turn 
they demo villains, rain on 
the frameworld / gate slosh 
to fish for food, in open 
daring, at The School of 
Roses / who would have 
thought, the uneven ones, 
and their fossils their fossils



motto stutter sputter 
stetter better letters 
litter buttered stutts 
ladder battered mot 
motto slithering toe



stetter litter ladder
stutter better buttered batter 
letters buffered scatter



brain detective nature based 
the worried sun carries two 
eggs in the mutation undress 
ed undressed under the egg 
plant planet planetary wary 
very brains decoded writhing



inplex susp 
what is 
samples 
are ashen 
socks seve 
lighhtbulbs 
mercurial 
fur fur fur 
time-wa 
technolb
o textur



a new ba Mar 
sculptu main 
Qua crisis of 
the wor of th 
e word happ 
ens minerals 
to profess th 
e scorpion,
is folded like 
a stadium



subjective Tantalus off 
course I wandered
torn petals on the generous
grass / believe their 
calamity of analysis / yet 
are subsurled from
the vultures of their host
/ across the valleys of 
history we aim to pleat 
the dreams of Icarus



into spring spirit 
springs extreme 
experience



the exceptional if ominous 
great parts of Mars / red & 
utile dust time to the horn, 
storms becoming evidence



behave
on water dissonant 
containers 
cognitive magic & 
aridification



maximum zen



shoe
in honor of O 
achieves evening 
the contire glob 
platforks itself
my feathers are 
with you no 
matter where 
you are
 


two to the edge 
whole poets & 
heating vents 
dialog of light 
and heat and 
moss glowing 
valences of the 
sane breath 
marching forth



at 6:14pm on Saturday 
the 1st of May it was 73°F
in Troutville on Highway 11 
South between the creeks 
named Mill and Buffalo



the revolves 
and CoVid 
copes whirr 
ling shone 
several eels 
in the four 
foreground



that's what i was thinking then. 
this is what i'm thinking now.



oddly 2021 near shipping 
lanes linear shopping car 
carts cars hopping shopp 
ing shipping containersrs 
steel shells still construct 
constructed still construct
 


you know better.  
i know better two.



birthhood 
childhood 
workinghood
little red workinghood 
oldhood
deathhood



hosts 3-D ghost the 
animated coasts & 
goats / tell the story 
of cutting-edge Tue 
sdays and influenza



against again a digital 
dig rigged against the 
triangular shoe / shoe 
shirking dice, who ash 
singalong apocalypse 
undulating exists / in, 
lumber, folds into then



ruins repeat 
an ox boot 
stapled who 
think / by the 
hands of the 
cat the cat 
fish, smiling 
to the camera
 


of course honor and 
consider the condor



alongside the chicken 
of the / incident the 
crossword muzzle & 
fizzle frazzled / captu 
hybridization, mapping 
flow / variant gas pump 
motel / ironwoods in 
the Arizona desert over 
11 thousand years old



upshot acres domestic buffelgrass horizon 
mountaineering 62 the Big Soap road zip 
during container flowers tapestry reshapes 
astronomical thornscrub cargo functioning 
rote tufting unending solutions distractions



overhauls scutellation overlapping lens 
not juice an adventure yodel by summer 
the lobsters are thinner endings nearly 
a saffron field of unforgiving behaviors



industrial sleeping clutch of 
eggs tarsi anchored readers 
melt south of bad fogs among 
the needles / small snails in 
September screeching silk



investigative catastrophe hibernaculum island 
transverse bald frogs along with needless
chaotic cohesion conveys disorderly conduit



dozens of enshrined autophagy silk 
road majoritarian since zinc is here 
herein hereby today, during the 19 
the 1950s / large, frayed rocks 
floating in vertical analysis



walks in gravity neonatal nonhuman 
dérive of the eastern ratsnake 
dehumanized stalks of gravy 
bohemian feathers expressed in 
rectangular dripping method



each river released on the 
lakeside dorsum corpse 
panda Venusian binds on 
Wednesday expressed in 
irregular dipstick hotrod



serving unorthodox appropriations prey 
refugia splendor values at the end of a 
doubled eternity / if volume, then stories 
of electricity / at odds with their eggs; 
souvenirs unpunctuated — squandered.



"contact your leg" nurse 
plant ecology countless 
waters itching kaleidoscopes 
within the factors of history 
stories & sorties of square 
eggs special stages stagger 
staggering botanical virus
 


dialogue in change to hiss desert 
ironwood serenity knots dandelions 
and daffodils foaming diverse 
perspectives / meander after hearing 
an easier grease / less foothills 
sweeping garments burn them back 
from quilted shells and barrier feasts



dialog to clang in sizzling desertscrub 
Mona Lisa mudra foments howling 
challu atti the owls of deployed 
emergence / white noise cornered on 
the open road / bleak, ephemeral skin



to convene five years creosote 
bush pieces inedible moth pie 
careerist serv of h refocused
a trove of magic magic 
unpacking the sun
in a grove of 
magic
two snapping blue sects 
shimmering in a circular light



subcultural greasewood temporarily 
the empty poetics of public shadow 
medium unwritten 9-eyed basilisk 
their controversial animals unravel 
beneath the remote automated sea



definitive if now javelinas for us 
a house triangles on a horse if 
pandemic suddenly / bubbling
sempervirens perpetuating the 
local is / the local was / the 
local has / the local as / the 
local consequently geopolitical



split in high democracy the collared 
peccary apartment mist newly 
fragmented above the navel 
balkanized smoke and falsified 
understory curving forensic granule



"spoons on the moon" bearded 
old man cactus anoint the 
eyes swept walking foaming 
wok at Forearm Cyn the 
mollusks proliferate among the
shellfish / whereunto heretofore 
no split spleen was ever seen



masks proliferate among senita 
cactus still rising fish / no want; 
undiagnosed the paper -- who, 
feed them what they eat / nor 
spit on a screen, washed to
a feverish sheen, Green Gene



green akimbo veil abiotic intends 
traces of built hermeneutics 
scarred with preface and purpose 
walking outcast purposes / trades 
greed for the tragic carpet ride, 
veils built with repurposed pretexts
 


faltering false trace of weakly 
keeled scales the ubiquitous 
origins of textiles align expanded 
tiers errs altering valise twice 
speaking quietus of whales and 
urchins hawking broadcast purse



garner compromised counterlooped 
C-shaped coils biopolitical flap 
jacks / bats assembled, early 
embryonic Captu Varian / anarch
of inhabitance, occurs or denotes 
the convergence of blurred & savvy 
bluebirds / invigorates engulfed 
mosaic, details take on the comprel 
of shir events / shed in-depth depths



visits gravel venter scene and 
gaze grazing presence 90% 
eye brocade describbling
the segue doors bent several 
forensic maze drizzled science 
and séance barricades in deep



viral cactus policy stridulation 
where the pelicans exhale 
their suitcases / we have 
compiled a small, limitless 
peacock among their dreams



ruptured chirrup stumps 
chair participle board & 
bacterial abacus eyes 
stammering a saucerful 
of thorn clutter drummm 
ming eight ceilings snake
 


taile of grocery big reminds for gaping. 
envenomed wastewater advance. 
poysond too long to bottom-up.
flyes bedrock lithium mining nexus.



elided aligned ideas of 
predator saturation fringe of 
toes a bag of toes the big 
theory of else where tales of 
thought and guts defy their 
gossamer borders



clouds literally not a lot of 
us ovipositor neosporadic 
lakes pink cliffs and roam



soon dots the sea with flagging 
oak trees gourmet summer 
strolls bravely blubber
niacin chin content museological 
neither do their camels 
mobilities for paths
border the semblance of tariffs 
to trafficking in trajectories
of late hedonistic capitalism
was merely a Cold War hallucination



roads moving stragglers mobilities 
defined hallucinogenic hegemony 
whose devils eloped with Cold 
War hedonism a resemblance of 
giraffes to five o'clock traffic as if 
capitalism indeed existed in deeds
 


opens simmering tymbals park 
stubs stubble stumbling climbs 
tumblers on the shimmering 
limb / cymbals darkled hub



bolts colt dolt folds gold halt 
jolting loiters molt Nordic 
pouts quote rote salt totes 
voltage woke yolk



last year, pupate in charge 
government in the wake
of voters. and American 
for millions as we 
candidates gutting Virginia 
to override thirteenth floor
ratchet, we think, precaution 
customers if you vaccine.



knit knot 
knit flit 
knit kite 
knot itch 
fit gnat



maim experimeme to 
path Upland Arizona 
Succulent Desert the 
wristfire leafy leafing 
global potato ontic 
cubic toegrit bacteria
 


seasonal radar cresting 
California Microphyll 
Desert challengird airs 
wildflowers explox sped 
speechless species chew 
cheese genome howev 
however simplified when 
vast microplastic herds 
oceanic amass circular



belts colorful diet Central Gulf 
Coast Phase sea lichen frosty 
like clinamen chicken yeasts 
tomato tomato heresy osmosis



felsic footpaths in triangular Rodinia 
historicize fire-meanders qualifying 
site-specific sightlines around their 
mercurial offerings, two new frames



chalice grub bearing the Iapetus 
Ocean into present solstice clots 
clouds through the labyrinthine 
mothwing provost wandering 
reflected corona backdrops



knit knot fit 
knit flit knot 
knit kite knit 
knot itch knit 
fit gnat knit



knit knot gnat
knit flit itch 
knit kite kite 
knot itch flit 
fit gnat knot



knit knot fit gnat 
knit flit knot itch 
knit kite knit kite 
knot itch knit flit 
fit gnat knit knot



knit knot gnat fit 
knit flit itch knot 
knit kite kite knit 
knot itch flit knit 
fit gnat knot knit



portal realities pointy mafic 
lava in debate as outliers 
nightly mobility assorted 
realities contextual 
feathers clearly proposed



fuzzy thrills the permanent pianist Catoctin 
Formation our solar subduction concentric 
orders of materiality and interiority 
unwavering embroidery
interact with intact resins reimbursed who 
has therein an untold elastic



welding basalt bellybuttons 
the goddess of idle fingers 
the billionaire cartoon 
figure Little
Debbie / breadth & history 
of public snapshots / Joe 
Toe, clientele cab-ride 
entire / the upper strategy 
hiccups a steady kitchen



the Spice Tsar aims to 
irrigate the first thirst 
influe Greel picozoans 
no steps & no rhythm 
waging Loretta in the 
Tulips, to name a few



fur
holometabolous insects 
blurry
holy meat tablets 
fur
blurry 
insider sects 
furry



egg image 
larva puppy 
pupa lava 
imago leg



egg image magic 
larva puppy paper 
pupa lava marvel 
imago leg ego
 


high Chernobyl meatloaf 
high Chernobyl meatloaf



the shoe in Hawaii coils greenschist 
facies / exriskier have is now itself 
the companies leaping tipple, topple 
strange bookends haven viceroy, 
wolf who 63, such outbreak at 
young Arkansas, adverbial.



speckled mountain, place of many 
deer / nor the forests of noon,
at painted iris pirating southeastern 
rivers, nanny static,
bookshelves of the magicicadas



barefoot 
chapulines 
licit swale



petrified objectivity 
detrital zircon grains 
legitimize orientate



in albumin decibels parallel 
Blue Ridge escarpment 
Red Joshua in primate 
imagination shoulders 
lowering the church line



furniture in glimpses
Blue Ridge province 
bassoon rice cabin 
natural agrarian pro 
proletariat with lariat 
frozen Nietzsche clot 
closet unsettled set 
of loses loss of roses



pioneering diurnal the lamp 
fifth instar cicada the lamp 
mining left icing the lamp



protein rostrums organizing the 
20 photon collages from their 
culture fish protein fish photon 
fish nostrum fish college fish 
organizational fish foaming fish



data 51 pin-down ecdysis
hints investigates forgotten tints 
the human sea has been 
invented incline zones
8 degrees the first two ex-aesthetic 
how do we maple less darkness 
when resoul for less than teargas



gardens verdant cargo the 
Magicicada septendecim half 
circles deflated fields of 
dissertation otherwise solvent



mealworms blooming bat tongues 
fledgling eggs Grenville Orogeny 
politics maybe salt creek Delphi
nimble guts and brittle gullies



atmospheric slice gneisses blue 
vapors mysterious Thursday 
was tough as easy to be ten 
Heavens visible for 5 atrium &
atrophy mapping conclusive gardens 
veil of scattered sunrise anchovies 
from Morocco & pink as Paris



degradation tsunami 
fluorescent schists temporality 
rose ghosts purple foliate 
ponder



low years lost between
pheromonal quartzites leading 
outer dynamic display diverse 
diverts deployed dystopia



elusive cicada machine 
unencumbered greenstones are 
a queue through ingrown
minds suffering stuffed 
accipiters



long egos adapted for wooded flight 
exhaust of granites pleated tooth 
edition / vacant pairs stem festive 
valise streaked hollow grease



wine shoes bravura singular reach
allotted dusts border spicebush 
swallowtails drumming membranes



figurative discrepancies minister 
to sassafras trees ink-entangled 
quantum contaminations 
pummeled in abyss canoe



during rainwater posited triad 
sipping pact of ovenbirds 
launched open
mosquitoes
gnats secrete split light 
in essential spinal
poetries of naked spinach



abandoned 5-minute DIY mask of 
olives second that triple red-eyed 
vireos trace vaccine wavicles 
extrude the Outer Thought Depot



toe volcano concave pirate bush and 
one of the private fire stringent indigo 
bunting such snakes of enlightenment



leg dusts appointed helium 
the short grasshoppers 
molecular tones fumarole 
confounding squirrel as 
required in the letteral chair
 


shape at 1950 the hissing 
mayapple departing 
missive dance
coma
arch of hardware 
serendipity the first one 
at not much piano
is heresy



annex-po 2000 mullein how 
will an urgent darkness 
chronologies of too
many facts 
continue to empty
the smirking cash cows 
of control
have neither bitten nor 
arranged for quite a long while



behind the Werewolf Castles the 
first scramble and scrum
haunt Oswego Tea 
Piedmont Gila 
Monster
daring floral coin
"the prose in salt" the
belted rites peer-to-peer-to-peer



face hand teeth hand Ox-Eye 
Daisy hand hair hand book 
shelf and laptop hand
hand hand hand 
hand  hand 
hand
gather our feathers 
foreground and disclose
 


a letter to the glaciers in phlox 
in phlox plea to path
in have in them in long before 
in phlox amid in phlox



pinxter flower pinxterbloom 
azalea Rhododendron 
rhododendron nudiflorum 
aphids borers lacebugs 
leafhoppers mealybugs mites 
nematodes scale clusters 
thrips woodworms whitefly 
canker crown rot root rot
leaf spot rust powdery mildew



bait weave goats 19 bells 
different pastes stake 
stapled states pokeberry 
sleeveless armies spinning 
open nations whereupon 
to be clearly willing 
thoughts always clanging



to escape from periodic 
diameters / camping is 
its own tutorial / their
ripe caves & conic poetics



6% of loops padded with 
thought and extra 
sensorium variables our 
dogs and nearby boats 
posture hammering 
hammering yea the ghost
 


taboo metasmiling dogwood 
10 pipe are accu 2
contrails 
interior ice floes
horizontal common sense 
requirements would spill



speaking again wheat fjord 
tract False Solomon's Seal 
nor creel of fish spool of 
fish splat forms
seesaw zigzag cellophane 
sulking in the ink
like diamonds



miles of steep convergence 
a week of moons field 
hawkweed / grinds globs
of gravy in Classical
lens / lunch on the porch,
with an index of transformations



milestorms buttoned hat 
chance coatimundis 
simmering celery gas 
with bats oats dash epic 
the since up calx from 
Hoover fast on safety



consensus what, whorl known are fire 
pink Silene virginica / glimpse reveals 
four-legged clock / wise centers slip 
slippage / the sky gradually innate
text / flora shiny finds fauna masks 
foreboding blank-and-white burning 
photos surround desire and catch



metabolic flame azalea quilt 
for these particular thoughts 
sea-ice radar exiting the apple 
satellite-fur for lunch



rega archipelago 
but foam flower 
tagalong the rose 
sciesi shed bees 
passe are moinx 
tria Covid inte fou 
comb turns used 
and inflammato



limited co-under 
galax flower spikes 
restrid sequences 
are people vaccine 
maximum Noah & 
Tantalus aphid rid 
of genome phone 
in real-time paths 
the trees themsel 
selves were challe 
nged to synthesis



environmenta intelligat 
hoodoo plants planets 
golden groundsel the 
leaf and leaves hid in 
answe pais by aco who 
whole worlds multime
biologica destruction



remind 
all origins
and ideas of
Earth philosopoetic reassurance 
marker oceans
and saliva 
echoic



virtu oval behind howling 
instants of golden 
ragwort reconnaissance 
realigned
shorter breaths 
historical fig leafing 
shaved the live visage



thumb sponges alluvial 
fan light requiem
arbol requisite witch 
hazel puttering open 
kitchen snares huddled



wading dancers betv taki 
attempt Heal All Prunella 
vulgaris cumulative par 
ide reim criticality cattle 
kard sasi junkets rye 
sleer deamonium Janus



cereal cultivated grasses with 
largest Rubicon of Poaceae 
have borne sheath grazing
center picnic through cactus 
floodplain wheel entering cut
diary levee flowering culm



geographical West hat-slider 
Dmitry Jewelweed Impatiens 
capensis autumnal boroughs 
the 9-toed mirror breezing by


cartographic ephemera (cont'd)

 
 

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