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Jim Leftwich


Weather Report

winds huff forth
Thirties sustained
Gusts in the fifties
Quit your job
Go live in the
Mountainous 
Snowcapped 
Desert streams
Sparkling among
The Lightning Fish
Like an Alchemical
Fire Materia
   corvine swoop
     Wonders the
dire coyote
One raven, two 
shoes, the
Snow-covered
Peaks of the
Panamints
Are covered
In flat gray
clouds
Worldwide Eyes
eating on the
Run, eating
Runes on the
Runway, run
away

rainfall measured
In minutes
vultures rip my flesh
eating mind
forged manacles
& miracles 
Garbage trucks &
Camper vans
campaign along
The barely highway
For their sweltering
Summers, simmering
Behind the bookcase
Gumshoe disease Biblical
barnacles / Barn owls
     Hardly burrowing
     Turf welter 
Rarely thought fare
Flaring belt
Sanders in the
Gnostic garment
district / Bigger &
Better than Ham
& Cheese Wizards
hog-tied sausage
grinders grime forth
growling chocolate 
handlebars between
gabardine haberdashers
holographic grammar
hustling down the freeway
gift horses flying
Highlands in the Face of
     Living light
Loquent populace & pleasance
lip parade plenitude
Pulchritudinous
Level on the pulse

mosaic rawhide hereafter
mirror in the bathtub
under level plenitude
Under highlands
Flying grammar
Iumpen barnacle disease
Forged vultures
Covered with shoes

testing the goads
Ephemeral estimates
Vultures bulb socket
Sump cuff quarterly suds
Foaming handface
Stuffed papers
we Emit emergent
Well-being Enigmas
coyote measured Endlessly
Residual breech between
Ears Wrinkled Sideways
Decimated Facsimile
do you climb our
highway yodeling
hello to the gelatin?
hell yeah
upon the harried plain
under the hatless plenum
plectrum the hairless plectrum

Forth Handheld
failing the depths
how would you define
The Lyric I?
how many of us?
how did we get here?
Gone with the flowing wing
A dirty fire of variables

adds up to
Dying by the billions
As far as
far as far
we River and
we pool

lecithin obsidian 
Dadas dodging draft afalfa
Singing antiwork songs
acidic fulm filmic
fatuous comedic
algebra Fastidious
Gorgon gargantuan
go forth and multiply
tables by chairs
divided by chance
By How many hats 
We are ahead of 
The hating game

          Mojave Desert
          January 2023



The Doodad Squint


1.
Now and/or Never
try Your hand at it

younger even than Joy
yeppersbetcha
just Under Yearly
Unbeknownst
to our Utility Intuitions

positively Open
Penchant for Parachutes
optimizable
HighFalutinBrow
distributed dischords
sinusoid software

pit toilets
pinching
violets

we squared Equals
wedged quadrant
Edge Wise
edgewise
quadrilateral Dangling
Scones & scions

Zoo box clockwise
Xylophonic Zomvulical
Zombilical
clockdumb Xylem
So it goes
On hour tows
ghost toes

far Simpler than
Doomsdaze machinery
clock Xylem culture
villager furniture
come tone cone squall

droning the Doodad Squint


2.
Simplex flexing pox
displaying Sipgon
Siphoning sophomores
Eye witness testimonials
reminded of
Etxhings Wroughte
We are Eating lunch
Poems formica
Naugahyde
Linoleum root
Beer bus
Station
reach out
Entwine yourselves
We are still
Hungry

Orange unlike desert
Holly unlike
Redwoods Everlasting
trembling to the Tone
ermine on Thyme
remotelt Twibjleen
Remotely Teeming
Eternalune termites
twinjling Engines
embochure wibjling
Winjling Wibkline
Trampoline
saddens the Dust

Like a finch on greasewood
soaking in the Fire

stay true to your Fictions


3.
Functionality
of the Poem

Abracadabblers
foreshortened Scientists
Soap is Dark
Soup is Dank
got Dog to the Groynd

doggoner Gobner
Gob goner
Agon gonna getcha
Goner captcha
They gob bot
Goons
Working for
The Squid Squad

          Nevada
          2023



Remember


nor noon enough

         Your why
              my
Yammerblossim
Ubiquity Junction
Kilowatt Hammerhead Junkyard
     Klezmer juicer
Unlit Illiberal Ligature
insists on Lightbulbs
inner pinch
I don't Player piano
       Optimism
Off the cuffernought
cuttlefish from
the hole clot


out through the Upstairs

yesternoon Utterly Twice
Your Quarterly Reporn
     yam in May
Terror of Eternal Returns
     gutters of Eek
         teaspoon
after Godsend atelier
favorite dog of Venus
cobbled Beckoning
Coverlet Velocity
bivouac Viscosity
biscuits before Flames
guarantifiavle Fortuity
goose Train Runner
       Your ashtray
My Totipotent beribboned
   Right of way Yes
     tracer minerals
Gonna Be even Bigger
   cause because
         Claws clause
     Causal aardvarks 
Backlogged
foggy diamond Goof
difference is Good
Eat when the wind
Two or more Waters
     are as Real
     As real as Rain


Feral Albumin

Astronomy flipbook
gaseous furstorm
vibraphone Xerxes 
Vacikkuon bacillus
candy of the sea
     Far Away
From anywhere
     Avid Verbs
differentiate Bits
bite the Hand
curved Ballast
Forward in Duplicity
The greening of
     The Red
emptying ecologies
         triymph oft
     Thee Roit
The root grows
Through the Roof
trimmer Term
     termitic &
         erstwhile


jackal Kiln & High-Jump

lake of the Known:
is made of is:

such a
fast Sodt far

such a
Soft Snare
tardigrade

ebullient
Remembering
Everything

          Nevada
          2023



Dimmer Switch


Moonrise

Gastric
nibbler Gnomon

Neither yucca cat 
coyote pondering
Litotes foresworn
Yonder bungler
Few ukulele leaping
point of one
Bone upon broth
Placates recast
 
       or our outer
       Yet Yet Yet
red Twine twice
ruled out
Embarks Wayfaring
Febeuke wguke
Sad sod sd suds
durifyl stalwart
   sidles up

such Hush was his
as hours upon us


socle 

Whodunnit
yabbermongering
whipsnake
     quantified
tumblic
Each and every
         echorn
lyricism
overt OverTime
ouch to the Touch


Pointedly

   psyoptics
   per Game
kilter Gamelan
Long garrules
Lost fortnight
floridian Lounger
flickering Kilt
disambiguated
syllabic us
         Yantric
Tantamount
as Above


We were very proud

Vacuum cleaner
   eyeliner
everyman
       vault toilet
evergreen
   versatility
embitcher
varoom room
         Rigorous
black light
rubbery
   Rutabaga
reboot boot


Tilt

nor
       nylon
Murmuring
umbrellist
Luminous nous
     imbricate
Illuminated iota
until the
         Wind


imbibe/rescind

Lingers Looped
plasticine (astral)
Yellowing Hereafter
Goof Bungler Fettuccine
decaffeinated muddling
curmudgeon aft
winter squared
After all even though
Later still

          Nevada
          January 2023



Knifty Forlorner

Keep

     kept Looking
inner & under the Light
Inside every lightning
Is an oak tree and
     A Pine cone


until and unless

   tip of the Pencil
pointedly Typewriter
Please look back
Over your left shoulder
Top of the point to you
       pretty Trains
orange as a Railroad
Olden times Religion
I'll have Every Idea inventually
   even your Unventions
     who are above the lawn
Question your own authority


As Herein, So Thereafter

       as Hereafter
a head held Astray
       held Askew
holding Slippery
jester of Diamonds
              kilter Doff
     knifty Forlorner
if not, then Far
little bitty Lightnings
       In a row
forward Dawn the Line
Slip lips sop sap
Slop laps sip soap
At the bend of the day
Around the blend
     Of the day


are Yes again

       yam Aookes
yesterday's Asparagus
yclept Apple core
universally Askance
under the bookshelf
   Snide artichokes
   breccia & gabbro
us plus us equals us
universally Eschew
Escargot & cargo
umbrellas are everything
       Say Hello
         to my Hat
Flea markets are Forever
   Like shooting
Goldfish in a Punchbowl
Finish them off by Noon
     The very bottom
     of the Non


       Dogs of Gold

For the foreseeable future
High beams on the lowdown
   typewriterly Religions
yardsales in the junkyard
   Backwards in the day
   Therefore Thursday
take Nothing for granite
Leave nothing bee hive
   your Jaundiced July
   your Jolly January
   your Kind of Day
My kind of nighttime
Their kind of kindness
       Beware
           Of golden
     Dogfood


Utility Cliches of Light

       Iump
   lumps
lump lump
innerly ooenists
     Roitibylar
Rooting
For the Home
         Team


hermetic Rust

gallinaceous
   egg fur
Eat the Time
Every rooster
has a treehouse
Every chicken
     is a Rose

          Nevada
          2023



A View From Hell's Gate


Multiplied by Itself

twice as Monthly
turmoil Kinetic
passenger Time
potable Tumult
pIacid lacerations
     Uncle Uncle
     kettle Kine
jumpers Jolt
     kiln of lucid
limned in liquid
Jolting Kettles
Pleated Keats
   Jungian bolt
       Laceration
jumping Placid
     Passengers
Kettle of Potable
    Parboiled
Kinetic Kine
       Jynorope
   Iatrogenic
Bungle Bungle
Nice northerly
         Brine
numbers Gold
gallop portable
Clan of Mucus


The whole who

Worse than What
we Egg garden edges
we Whittle the Whistles
   Down egg Westerly
   egg Weekending
Defecating lightning
     With baseball
         Diamonds
so many dead eggs
Such lightning across
The garden bridges


advantage daylight

   ambient Fungible
   Alfalfa Fungicide
astringent Fastener
     Volumes bent
     Variables false
     Dung beetles
gauntlet freshener
trilobite Haircut
thimble of Tastes
Younger than Heresy
younger than Jungian
Younger than Jubilee
Younger than Umbilical
kettle of Uniqueness
     imbricate Kisses
   Uniquely Lungs
     oil of San Jose
   oil of Politburo
     if Little Horses
gangs uniquely intricate
       Double hairs
       Split in triplicate


Yellowing in Hock

       Got dirt
home Junket dirt
Pockmarker marketing pox
   Hoax junket skirt
     dirt plot dirt
Yearning in a Shirt
Hot yurt home pox yearning
Hunkering on the mark
   Got home clock
       Hoax dirt
       Burning
Blurting down the track


Which Came First?

   Got chicken
Home junket egg
Chicken marketing pox
       Hoax junket egg
   Dirt chicken dirt
Yearning egg a Shirt
Chicken yurt home pox yearning
Hunkering egg the mark
Got home chicken
       Egg dirt
   Chicken
Blurting egg the track


west twining

Econeural Temenos
eidetic escutcheon
       Yam in May
roots Through the roof
   Yesterday Unbelief
yet Iambent Yam Temenos
Lust Of cheese eon cut
   Cresting redoubt and
   Hidden in the Mall of
   Tennessee yams in
April roots Through the
         Doors of
         Perception, darkly


As Such

   forgotten Golden Fog
glut heresiarch Jetsam
     jettisoned jetty juts
   high on the hog
gluten herein jotted
   log on inner thigh
jetstream units unlit
     all but lost the plot


From Across the Road

forgotten chicken fog
   glut heresiarch egg
     chicken jetty juts
       high egg the hog
gluten herein chicken
     log on egg thigh
jetstream chicken unlit
all but egg the plot

          Nevada
          2023




 
 
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