Jim Leftwich & Steve Dalachinsky

The Western Rain


finesse
the way socrates
sucked it in
sucked wind
poisoned the word 
with oratory
lax/a/tives for muscle
joints /  juke joints 
tucked into a nest in
a sock flax flux rat
story or corpuscle
pith like plato
appointed duke of
adjectives
to/ward off/ten cham- 
ber clambake horror which
meddling cost jam slag
out/door centrist
flax flex flicks flocks flux
the toe bear muddles the
sword the
lamb snake ghost the
lag sense wrist the
witch the
chameleon roar
so crates filled with
glambles slock the unner-
grund hence la pence worth
of wood/fence glory mo(u)rns
la roof
flux flox flix flecks flacks
"transrational destabilization
of instrumentalized
reification"
like a shambling gerund
lockpicking the
wood-nymph's
hoof 'n moth  at
ease  back to saxet
 to wheez the
gain  lound clog
  strain(gl)ers
below belt pin/drip 
droop-ping
pine tar and yellow
railroad lights
flogging the hound while
saxophones sneeze on the
Western Rain



angels of Tangiers 


snorks-bah the handbeckham
nuits de spring carbuncle 
pluto contra rasta
flywheels ouster variorum 
implementos tulipeo regardation
angels of Tangiers


    
snorks-bah the handbeckham
    tinted cantras(h)ted opto-craga
    pluto contra rasta
    tambur-angled linoleum oser
    implementos tulipeo regardation
    wingfli mal/ajuncted sprignuts 
 
tinted cantras(h)ted opto-craga
pasta beckoning smoke
tambur-angled linoleum oser
guardians of plumed Tupelo
wingfli mal/ajuncted sprignuts
optical canasta-tilt 



psycho saddle plug-swath 


calypso 
divine dream/es/cape
 the dooobler
   innersouls  mit kleiner schtuu-
uup  where hanging fixed 
            accident
by cement mixer
    angling for hiccups
the shoetooth cleaner knitting
          soulspinners
          the loomer-do
          inscape-scraping
          "cream of divinity"
soapy lips of the sacred cow
as with first electric trickster
        plug swath inglipped
cheats you forerunner tide badling
    bathing in the eyeruins
              eats the score
Languths sweating lugwrenches
  steeringwheels
  oilslicks
  triple-sec modula-
  tions pre-cog plati-
tudes psycho-saddle poverty
                shame slime
verily poodles addle spies inc
           & then the mayhem 
                 ensued.



knackles


emotic slugtraces weedeating
psychologous nachtmusik nix
nor pixie knackless
l
ocker
roo
m'b
oom
promote plugged seed/feeding
pissantillogistics shamisen plucks
pure nixed calouses
m
ocking
bloo
mers
roach/climber
beauty will be percussive
or not at all 
    small bottle neck 
leads to dead family blues
 croak /blaspheeemer
well-fed and throttled like
        the lemurs of 
            Vermeer



slung dark krauter


16 hills 
transgressed
the opening
deep closed swam
 healed before the scrim
       gases well up a pizza-
chest
pillage and invest
          /once upon a
  gaseous scam / the
      forehead leaden / the
swarming
ing clos
ets
ets sleep
ping ing / sleep pong the
        g
        rain rests s
        till
between
 stardust & be wilder
    the brillig left a nasty taste
        & lefty rumprolled
thru a timely paste of ginger/fried
    flim/chee
crimpled & pizzling
          they chime
  cleft & charbroiled
they builderburgers b
ust er 
dus
t um ru
st
ing
ing & ing
slung dark krauter
   flip ing plung
ts sup ose blong
 tallip thlop
   the signature 
      boids 



exploding ghost


what-enough by lin
ear lin
eat
ed
lineb
reak
s, ssssssssssssso
what?
  what was free loaded
         with peon / knees
    da drach/mere mainstem
            ultimated 
am 
       bass
 a                do(o)r !!!!!!!!!
based on the soci
ally
condi(c)tioned ill
us
ion
of hall
ucinati
on
s exploding?
  deny gho
st chance
     surr
end
 er
lov
      er
dre
       am ###
the glove fever
    vends
          & slurp
/\\/who\\\/|/\//\/\le\//\/\/|/\
          vanilla poop pods. 



bubble-wrap


mood swift
tea/wanna rain
 fall outer side 
   s(l)ung loud d(r)unks
          unmuted
crocked croons screaming
       soccer slat
            at food
with sea bananas
      on the brain
and a tongue flute moon
  dreaming hats
        say cottage
cheese pine/apple 
     fruitcakes scrim da boiler
groomer even in the grey
    crooked fried cookie dough 
              oily and dim
how many surrealist
       baby boomers does it
take to supply a crock
pot? - 1 to fold the shoelace
               & 6 to untie it 



love songs of the sane and able


port-lood
the seafall at dew-point
lung-mutterer rocket socks
        poem should 
            not meat but
      bean 
bananatongued pie
of the booze-wah-Z
dance freed of pork pulled
          nova scotch taped
above lower slip 'tation
   tripped da 'electric plank ton
against the blau-jinx philosophy
a) trance-soda
 aa)) knee-scorch
  aaa))) tap-lion
   aaaa)))) ripe & lank
         yz((( whodawhatda
sst() loada clap trapped bud ha
 ))fuc|| > kinda leanin eeee 
    fxplhhh{{{ sculmber farty
artistic partly hearty and fair (
verweltlichung) (a shrinking and 
        narrowing of
            existence) lort-pude
the sneeze-all Cupid's snooze code
    bow drawn allergy prone default
       qualude prelude exude applaus(e)
               - able way to relieve pain  



cinematic fromage


bec/
 kon be/
come / triggle pink
 da ox lies / dor
   ma(n)t 
prep/ are 
thunder ring
   ear splange
 t
hhinn
  gs
fal la part
not only for no reason
           not exactly 
for no reason
chewing-gum schema, 
cinematic t-shirt
cranky 
music
be / a / con
 clum(p) / see
3 bord spectacle guy
    why drink the hairy
             smith / whence
ho(a) se shoo thlunk
            self ham
m (st)er >  épater la 
bourgeoisie (eating 
potatoes with the 
bourgeoisie) (no 
straight lines in 
nurture))((crooked 
 ti(e)Me senil frap
       war/wrap 
parmantier / moule
     fromage
chicken pot pie
    & you know that fluffy stuff
               that looks like whipped
   microbes....
souvenirs without nostalgia...
infinity is before you.


(all poems july 2018

Jim Leftwich is a poet and essayist who lives in Roanoke, VA, USA. he is the author of Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1 -187 (Differx Hosting@Box, 2011 - 2016), and three volumes of essays entitled Rascible & Kempt Vols. 1 - 3 (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016-2017). Since 2008 he has been involved in organizing and/or documenting mail art, sound poetry, visual poetry and noise events in Roanoke.

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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