Jim Leftwich


parts per million

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to the West dawn
flood plain up
to the fire line
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This is a way of expressing very dilute concentrations of substances. Just as per cent means out of a hundred, this is a way of expressing very dilute concentrations of substances, so parts per million or ppm means out of a million. This is a way of expressing very dilute concentrations of substances. Usually describes the concentration of something in water or soil. This is a way of expressing very dilute concentrations of substances. One ppm is equivalent to 1 milligram of something per liter of water (mg/l), this is a way of expressing very dilute concentrations of substances, or 1 milligram of something per kilogram soil (mg/kg). This is a way of expressing very dilute concentrations of substances.
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to the West dawn
flood plain up
to the fire line
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ochlophobia & calembours

“War is a kind of superstition; the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820) 

bewildering building bulldozed
body block blood burned between
beyond begging become
broadcasts barriers battles

be
   wild
e
     ring

b
   urn
ed

bet
   we
en

be
y
   on
d

build
   in
g

buil
   din
g

bull
   do
zed

bull
   doze
d

b
lock

b
   egg
     in
g

beg
   gin
g

be
co
   me

bec
   om
e

b
   road
c
     as
ts

b
   road
     cast
s

bar
riers

b
   at
tles

november 2018

you can't "solve" it into a less "uninviting" narrative

chert
Koster
køkkenmødding
8 thousand years with no signs of war
i like highway you drum kit
apple eyes em up
caatinga forests
naked-mole rats
4,000-year-old termite mounds
i use house paint mixed with glue
eye kin size em up
writing is applied reading
apple eyes em up
dirt cat tinge toaster for nests
kitchen midden naked 8
thousand years of mole rats
i like highway you drum kit
i use eye kin writing
apple house
is eyes
king paint applied
toasters for termites
reading
mixed
with glue
i like highway you drum kit
apple eyes em up
the Koster sample is small, frequently fragmented, and spread through approximately 3000 years of prehistory
osteophagous behaviour of termites, taphonomic evidence
certainty
cost of living adjustment
cockeyed, maddening
i like highway apple caatinga naked
dirt kitchen thousand
like toasters reading glue
be evidence acts report of words
past paradox as a day of decay
previously Angela leader guessed
they reveal
i like highway you drum kit
apple malum up
i like highway you drum kit
eye kin size em up
highway eye writing house
applied for termites
reading glue

november 2018



It is 2:58 AM, Thanksgiving morning, and I would like to write a poem before I go to bed.


mythic, ear worm
right gut error dirt
fog
deafening grids
yet not
it, if
unfounded
railroads of Roanoke
tough
guy
gulf banana
disquiet fiddling

you

fog deafening

qu'[piiu
recidivist

rifling
under violins you
gut tough fog hearing
bogged foggy down flags fig waving
about armored
bees nests moon
nor mythic

fogs
kite
p['iiu-qu
heart gut hearing fogs
grids
brief
toe guts flagging

gut heard nor grids hearts
kudzu
our
roiling
rackets quorum

figs
guy
jousting poems
you
undo
to queue we
few
guts
benign

until

fogs of wars
gut-hearted

you

dollop pop
why sky
shoe

herein

kites
ruined junkets nor death-hearted
eats rotten riot yet
thyme trys & tries
your yesterday trials
senior
rigged
,
goam, muggle
dyrt
frog-plop
merger of hunger and germane
teeth

riots
'
pl[0p
hearts herein
jousting kites
fig leaf figuratively
shoes
red

eraser

rotting
teeth
heartfelt
yet

garbage
routes timeless
,

in Tupelo
piano
segue inner
adjunct
gulf of odd diagonals
yet 7 gulag quorum
azure
jousting shoes
kites jousting
sky-deaths
kudzu lyricism
death toxic noon
mergers mythic
nor
rioting
time

november 22, 2018



 
 
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