William Repass


CAN OF WORMS

sump:  pluck:  squirm:
plunk  :trunk:  bump:
:hull:  luck:   jump:

                                            spick:  white  :squeeze
                                            :squiggle:  whine  :leak:
                                            swine :freeze: slip:

                                                                                         ogle:  prong:  gang:
                                                                                         stranger:  song  :slang
                                                                                         stake:  belong  :chained

                                                                                   knot  :mob:  lose
                                                                                   :abuse  :fuse:  Blues
                                                                                   :blurb:  rook  :noose:

                                                                       slake  :gland:  candy 
                                                                       :pale  :can’t:  crammed:
                                                                       mad:  black  :span

                                                                      :droop  :crunk:  pump
                                                                      :murder:  purple:  slip:
                                                                       bubble:  into  :rupture

TOY

believe her when she says it’s for the best...

Wind-up & Let Go. Marching.
Drumming. Gearbox. Against.
Hollowness. Crossbelt & Starch.

Grinding & Sunlight. Surfaces.
Believe. Turn-key. Spinning.
Blast. Fathering & Mass.

Apart & Garden. Mumps.
Doubt. Mainspring. Across.
Wind-down. Recapture & Fill.

Cubbyhole & Halt. Tedium.
Drill. Dreamlessness. Forgot.
Childhood. Reuse or Through.



P/RE/EMERGENCY

/disject/a/memb/ra/FIRE/d/inasunbeam/traipse
thro/ugh/drapes/as/dust-fvolk/numb/er/s/unmadeof/U/S/
/patr/r/ollingsh/redsof/duska\p/a\I/n\niX/d/

r/r/random/lyframedas/r/r/re/mote/from\\all-selved

______________________

/ate/communes/cakedin/phantasm/sliced/by/blink/s/
/ate/sucha/m/o/o/n/we/ph/oamed/at/the/lunchingsite
/ate/dark/anEXIT/read/asa/hot/link

/b/leepingbetween/us&hunger/s/raw/hole

______________________

/f/lash/drab/alar/umMUTE/asthecapt/ioned/NEWS
/now/every/body/s/driving/it/s/ambu/lance
/like/sy/zy/gy/outbroke/to/s/melt/fle/shh



William Repass is from Los Alamos, New Mexico, and holds an MFA from Hollins University. He has had work published in Berkeley Poetry Review, Counterexample Poetics, and elsewhere, with upcoming poems in Denver Quarterly.
 
 
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