Hugh Tribbey


BLUE NO MATTER WHO


An extra inning only BLUE clean socks NO cute Hamburger and an project and MATTER cold enough to WHO eat tonight precariot protein breakfasts BLUE all lying NO old lullabies on Highway crazy train MATTER you crazy absurd WHO over run screen mother BLUE fucker feminine NO dinner test door faster than MATTER 75 asphalt compulsion WHO tribes living How Do BLUE nostalgia recedes NO Petri dishes like you rabid for MATTER geriatric grin in WHO green jello salads with BLUE like parenthood NO produced the Hallmark WHO the sun of brisk BLUE crushed pineapple NO brick of land-based cruise Card of MATTER Krispy convertible rides WHO the lakes campus missiles BLUE There wolf NO Kremes said are to busy for MATTER with A to WHO be a fish geological BLUE collapse of NO paws and family of I don’t MATTER mean melt did WHO fur thermonuclear monarchy talkers BLUE to rank NO on her I dream the bay MATTER cute in coats WHO and what can High BLUE there back NO on the airports Death of Chlorophyll MATTER be is chair WHO with her blouse unbuttoned BLUE personal uttered NO under Daisy and freckled Sugar rituals MATTER pressure as one WHO game Yes, you will BLUE make cleavage NO silence for the deck folder a MATTER girl dreams of WHO loss in Sundays. Noir BLUE living room NO An anthology the labyrinthine institutions what’s MATTER humming Baseball theology WHO boys and force through BLUE blah of NO girls make words to left and MATTER a blah media WHO or paper day of BLUE fusion photons NO hour. Riced. Plumbing lyrics. Turn candied MATTER death or dark WHO song in the it BLUE down the NO dark matter don’t bowl laundry shoot MATTER pull arrogant and WHO it identity hard on BLUE me standing NO in to put down the doorway MATTER of shuffle bends WHO space indecision dream dislocation BLUE as lifestyle NO erasure as retirement



HEIROGLYPHIC SPEAR


Heiroglyphic spear
Merges myriads mad
Pendant beards parents
Celebrate polished coarse filter
Sprout full letter sprawls
Voluptuous tug
Stealthy undrape limpsy chickadee
Wisp swags fast ordained
Stings intertinged
Hod quid waxes gross pound
Bathes gross sound



THE QUAINT GRAIN


The quaint grain straightened the start.
The offer modifies the comparison.
The pleasure adapts the roll.
The cumbersome view checks the ornament.
The form increases the statuesque sound.
The push synthesizes the pleasant judge.
The structure earns the pleasant rate.



LEN G


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THE SUNDAY STIPULATED


The Sunday stipulated the coryphee
Where Sunday hence must baste
For travesty not of his, but license’s,
Gloated well nigh, timorous.

The Sunday stipulated the coryphee
Where Moray just befitted
What dictum, after all, Thou machines
Thou summer sumac




Hugh Tribbey has retired recently as assistant professor of English from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. He lives just outside of Ada with his wife Larna and their adopted Doberman Daisy. He is the author of eight collections of poetry. The most recent collection is Wrinkle and Mechanism.
 
 
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