Jim Leftwich

Zenobia In Pocosin




culinary from myth by 
the shapes of 
explorers in mirrors



the askew years participate in 
our playground years cleaning 
the statues / leading by 
oansemic reading / to the foam 
trap anointed stamen / to the 
the brittle gristle of the house
/ two years later and still no 
onions for the earlobe still no 
albumin lithium for the novel 
osmotic integrity



low embodied erepsin anole 
engagged on emotic crow 
bile-loops silent in the
algae their proteins 
explicitly burning



the furry thing is the 
furious the fury the 
indigestible before 
causal homes how 
hurray for jazz in 
January hoo-ray



The water is cold and 
The air is hot. The 
Water is old and the 
Bear is knot. The water 
Is fold and the snare
Is hat. The flair is hut 
And the water is bold.
 


scrambled convective new 
is a racket and is called a pivot



75 percent supply 
chain reporting 
frontage storage 
applied centrifugal 
hive mind mining 
severed brain 
braids portable 
portals spore
age ragged 
fontanel paging 
mint wine cc' d 
raining on the 
pork raiders 
mired in their 
frugal veers



filme becomes causal is 
a fige of speach maybe 
nickels on the forehead
 



dry wash dual axle 5th wheel 
dry wheel 5th wash axle axle

dry axle dual wheel 5th ash 
dry mash 5th axle dual duel

dry duel dual mash 5th fifth 
dry fifth duel 5th dual mask

dry mask dual filth with glue 
dry glue with mask due pith
 


suitcase of soup and 
the future is a fruit in 
the eye / nor skeleton 
poof towards the
peril forward



off road wheel cutter diesel exit 
exit off road cutter diesel wheel 
wheel exit off cutter diesel road 
road wheel diesel off exit cutter 
cutter road wheel extra diesel of 
toad heel butter golf exists



thumb
the independent number if 
reality, then
hasten the neurons 
into an oblivion of 
the new



healing spiral 
stone cabin 
camp host 
healing ghost 
spiral tramp 
tone robin 
sealing robe 
gone toast 
camp spitting



no such foam of oil 
on loan in 
succulent protein 
which has an 
answer ahem an
anchor amen a 
cadence of 
anarchic history



absatz 
besatz 
cersatz 
desatz 
ersatz 
effsatz 
eggsatz 
kersatz 
norsatz 
nonsatz 
persatz 
puhsatz 
presatz 
resatz 
sursatz 
ursatz 
yrsatz 
exsatz



sand hand band 
and bond 
honed stand



corridors destabilized by 
2nd century theorem
no frontier without a horse
 



What
If it's not about 
You? What
Do we do Then?



Let the boat rides roll. 
Into the Ides of Much.



What if it's not about 
Me? What
Do we do now?
 


if is as is if



in on non 
no on in



Chopped wordwoods 
Worldwoulds 
Warwards
The tone poem the 
Toe poem the asemic 
Antipoem towing the 
Moon into orbit 
Around round and a 
Round our slowly 
Unroiling dirt



Chopin was a name-dropper. 
Name-drop soup.
Drop-step scoop shot. 
Constructions.
Constellations. 
Fish.
Etudes.
List-ok oems. Accidents. 
Arbitrary is not = to random. 
Find your
Self
In a grain of sand. 
Salt Creek.
Run-off.
He has run-off in his veins.



Bat batching the super owl. 
Let the bow ties roll.
 


Act facts lack like a man. 
ike a moon and more. Like 
A mung bean. Among the 
Ores and scores mining
On the moon, on the 
barking quark snide 
of the mood, minding
Tilapia and Lithium, salt 
On the seasonal 
Seasoned Sea. Act back 
Like a snack mantra a 
Snack mandala a stack 
Of flat irons ash a 
Pancake a stupor
Bowl of xheiimg nose 
Cherry bows pansemic 
Reading as writing baf 
fled rafters in the 
Pandemic desert. No 
Desk shirt deserted
For the Sonoran Desert.



it is a contour a febrile 
suite / it is french
fried observations of 
an argyle agent 
bearded and smooth 
like a shrunken 
snake
 



do not doubt it 
do knot doubt it 
dew not doubt it 
dew knot



Put yourself in a sentence.
Lead your 
self 
around
like a dog on a leash,  
a six foot leather leash.
 


gravestrings 
gravesprings 
gravesponge 
gravespores 
gravespoon 
gravesongs



rejoice in impeccable 
joice in impeccable 
rejoice in peccable 
joice in peccable



the virtual rain people they 
they debunk the powerful 
cost/benefit analyses and 
they they / who remains 
remains / society, with 
whales for sale, shadows 
of the imposter



Did you get my text? It's the 21st century. Did you get my email? It's the 21st century. 
2022. I'm in Texas. 21st century. Did you read my text? It's about being in West Texas, 
in the 21st century. Middle of winter. February 11. Sun going down. 73 degrees.



Did you in Texas in 
The middle of my 
Text?



First thirst. 
Fast thirst. 
Last thirst. 
Thirst first.
 



am aim am 
ham him his 
is as at am 
dam dab 
cab cob cub 
club cub 
cab lab lob 
sob snob 
snot not
nut gut gum 
hum him 
ham am am



Put your 
Self in a 
Sentence. 
Lead your 
Self around 
Like a log



On a dish. 
A fish, yes, 
A dis 
Course a 
Bout, best 
Wishes.


be
in the vale of flash / the 
facts, where the facts 
are scribbled and 
unread
 



the voice omits 
the greening 
article and the 
umlaut tanker 
bilateral train 
training manual



charge charges servic reporse 
that bacteria the crust of 
consumer beans / who follox 
in tears the rougher
intuitions / surge the day 
avant sneeze-guard and 
solar array / demystify the 
density of the change
 


secu realities 
wall-hunger 
match for 
open-faced 
materialities
/ is an 
onion, the 
sentry of an 
other veer




     February 2022
     
     
Jim Leftwich: Ezekial

 
 

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