Chris D'Errico


Earth Science

with a more conspicuous mouth a stereo pin said education only better just- oneclickaway makes people smile what dumb no, being isn’t being out of water a fish dry reasoning of the life-force and without just now

specific as an angel typical head makes people liars ice whose virus fault slips this way a fish it’s being that doesn’t like water as denial seasoning those nervous tomorrow means not today

Night Curls

Anybody’s, gone           Muted skyface pale
Together, an endless                        Soil, twin
Smarter, further                         Growing, fed
Skin of millions                         Alien, driving

                               Crown, the vespers      
                Into the prone body
Self emerges through holes
                Trending to be human
Blob, lost
                Blank, sometimes
                                                A bookshelf, a bed  

                Rings of a key         Breath, gauging
Home’s false seeming
                Man’s name against
In place of, nothing has arrived       Tactile

                        Agony, dots
A brain like wet
The use of mirrors, in
Aimed at my head                Blood, as mood
                Grenade against the sun
                          Traction, a truer blank

Days, packages 
                                              Of ruin
Totems, hiccups                 Voice, a looming
Battered wash, surround
Nod out, as if                   Will it, waddling on
                A turn just beyond flesh
Reams, disremembrances
                Mold of another, fly-bait
Void, least a pattern
                                    Wax something, or hoar
                                     Then space, where isn’t 
Gluttony of another color 
                Ghost, of correction
                                                   What, sleep is for

Chris D’Errico is a musician and writer of poetry and prose. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he shares a home with his wife and a small clouder of cats. For more, visit: www.clderrico.com.
 
 
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