John M. Bennett
SONETEAR ADREDE
Under
Superation snore
yr outer skin rejection
lifted up yr arm ants
Crawler you a s tone
voice crinkler
lost behind yr shorts
Utter fist , behind
a door , a dying dog
guardian of the lake
Issued leaf , retraction
of yr cheek's door
slammed against the words
Yr blindness falls on table
sees the wait dried there
Tuerca
Lente , nube , caja , senda
donde ví mi mano invisible ,
dedos hoscuros en el huevo
Músculos rotos , rodeados
de agua o aire , mi
brazo pala en el lago
Intenté salir por mi oreja
mas oí el fango crepuscular
trago burbujante culeante
Testigo de mi piedra perdida
escribía en el pie de madera
dormido en canto
Vía brumosa con luz de
pizarra volteada al revés
Drain
En mi taza , calavera rota
con palos y textos licuados ,
the lifted plunger a bone
My head a cornice dripping
meat , a discursion in my tooth ,
tu sombrero de luz debajo de
La cama intrusa , mi puerta
jején y diccionario de grava es ,
drained books drip in the sink
Condensation of the thought you
lost a fork rusting in yr
bolsillo con monedas mondadas
Pesantez y liberación , bruma
clear & sweaty on yr plate
Stones
Dust wealth fills my
chair's hand under legs
the pillow's grease reveals
Effluent speech grits
your taped redoubt
its angle wave & wind
Folded plain cloud choked
spoke grass cattle dung
bound in weevil cuartos
Your straw feet sweat
grass & thunder , ammunition
water from the spigot hand
You kept the throne
you frayed the shirt the meat
Watch
My flame deboiled my
package crime unsealed
the hamster dried inside
Corpulentic book starvation
so I clung the hatchet
soil sought the blood
Drained my lunch declouded
meatballs lamplight saw
the greasy mirror forgot
Opened my gate or gaze ,
which , a phone in lake
falling up toward sky
Even wallet spelled
or the time
Literation
The tooth repelled the air
my face restained
restive for the roof
It rained beyond the
mirror your fork
contained , a sock
Contaminate with soot
my lips spoke out
their lensic curve fled
Off so crisp with air
a sword or spoon
swung thru buried
Hair a text unrotten
always there
Billfold
The swallowed roof your
legs recall a shingled
shoe a walking stone's
Coangulation in yr face
or ants return to
castigate your buried soup
Other storm detail constructs
a faucet history where
were you? a flaccid glove
Reboiled in air on shoulder
of yr heavy boxes
filled with dirt & fingers
Grasp the wallet in your chest's
gritty syncopactic tongue
Espejo
Mind yr is dateless was
a lung & feet , coag
ululation echo in the
Scribbled mirror was
downside up & falling
toward the sodden cardboard
Box where my shoe
was lost my breath
dimmed out my
Hand glimmered in the
glass recuerdo de la
pirámide con mi hueso
Puntiagudo , calavera
líquida que tu cara comía
Punctuation
Hair yr foot detrod ,
laberinto linear con
todos los fines sin fin
. Flooded alphabet dis
integración útil para la
nóicargetni de caspa en tu
Soup's relentless itching
del principio comestible
ensoñado en tu fuente
Empty with its contents
, unas albóndigas de aire
ricas de agua y agujas
. Un instante de tiempo .
and a river of spit ,
Froze
The lint my eye fulfilled
your light stabbed short
my shoe a losing knife
There a corn sprouts dead
a freezing hand but fingered
roamed the skin
Wire hair loops my face
your teeth broke out a
shore of burning stones
The air a cloudy skull
was thought & sinks
was box of water
Melted into ice
dusted with a word
Magnetic
Sinking toilet was a
gate & flight of legs
broke above the back
Twisted in yr waking
snore I coughed &
swallowed all the sodden
Book so dim it faints
hair so stiff it breaks
my cage flushed across
The sea its sunk lips
flaccid in yr hands
thinking beyond the cloud
My hair a knotted route
yr chair a spoon & compass
Corona
Smouldered hair yr hat
compressed a thorn foam
it was yr cloud flaked
A white shadow in yr shirt
's fuel cage wind
stumbling thru yr skin
There was dirt & silence
was a shovel once yr
arm a shoe without no
Air burning page
yr hand unnumbered
with the forks
Tools of smoke your
fingered arm decrowned
Light
You flood a chair yr
body tongue a loop a
loop , dripping in dark
Floor yr toenails float
were ash & limestone
anterior to before
Inside yr face a
river speaks reverse
a cluster splintered
Off a tree seated
in yr lap's arms
your arms
Sunk leaves where the
shooter left its eyes
Repast
I cooked the brick
forgotten cheese &
clay a shoulder was
What now , or strat
ified below the lake
sunk in long shale
Every nothing is a
sword every word
a drinking glass
Etched upon yr lips
like cornerstones
not licked at all
Your lunch torn there
yr ageless moon
In Tléatl
The fingers are fog a
round the gun yr
eyes sugar yr
shale lung collapse
Drift zone driftless
seed yr clustered
soup dries inside
yr head soap & lips
Dark water in yr
hand stone hard
lens sees wet
screen in hair
Turn your eye :
a sink on fire
Lips
A ticking hammer
nail off thumb
a crease spreads
inside the roast
The sea mermur
rises down walls
it's yr legless soup
& eyeless ice
Sand which hair
thrashes in
wind's explanation
hand sleeps in
Bed mouth swal
lows the storm
Lint Storm
Toast the streamed boy
molt then o truen o
no n tub burstd sh
am leaf or trembling
Tree's shredded arm
my dank mouth saw
cave thunder spellt
an odor other than
Choppd cage fire
saw yr face inversion
eye swirls against
yr mirror your mirror
Even water stinks
even spores of once
fragrant death a
broken bulb
Yr glass crackd high
yr drink of empty teeth
Chutter
Inner shadow links
behind the wall your
shirt erects , it's a
boiler off the bulb
Your throat condensed
your foot a floater
down the flood after
all a turd
Collapsoration eyesight
shutters on a slimy
desk it's not my
hand spills the ink
Just yr shortened
flamer in the dusk
Shore
In the tub a burning book
in the book a bomb
in the thumb a broken
clue my spreading ice
Socks & forks a
cloud itches thru my
underwear a plastic
Wall my voice writ on
your shoe crossd my face
Towels & blood washd up
Breath
Utter book & blind
chronic convection
's my swelter said
family cushion stinks
Nor blanks inside
the glass broken on
a floor /”\\' ;:/ @|*#&*/...
Coughs a lot , redou
bles clawing neck
Dead hamster in yr shoe
Deaf Report
Peaks & shoes my eye
raven on a wall hair
rain coyote gusts east
clouds 🞅 🞅 🞅 face sausage
Shooters hustle in a gar
ment bag population sand
mirrors bathtub locutor
enigma , buried plain
Gelatinous beach depths
wings on fire drifts
of flesh dessication la
farmacia canta sucia
A chair thunders down
a cliff Π Π Π
Falling thru Jim Leftwich's
“Weather Report”, January 2023
Exsomnia
Shoulder rain my feet
waver cross the landing
murk rises up steps
The wall door crisp
crack of dark dead wind
book falls open where
Laundry seeps into floor
bent spoon a glint
spells yr face
Shoulder waver rises
wall cloud falls
laundry spoon a face
Eat the dregs
)lake dust billows
Shorter Flag
My dice melt in cap
a shorter pool laughter
sinks beneath a mirror
wind escapes out drain
dead grass shines
a snake sleeps
Clawd hand drops phone
clickg clickg clickg
23 voices lie
Skull water speaks
shriveld rabbit
forget the dogs
dice pool mirror escapes
dead snake hand clicks
water barks
Aubade
Yr beast boils un clamor
me abre el pecho
cristal espejo de sangre
Ashy window glass wind
corrosion air
portento soñado
Mi tenedor is grass
desagüe ciego
I speak spoke
Heart se abre tu espejo
winds corrosion sueño
tenedor ciego spoke
Shirted fog your ladder , sunk
light nestled in yr neck
Lapidation
Investive claim my facial
disregard was for
king debate yr skin reversd
Hurt the door yr place in
vades a sandwich dries
on yr plate
Walkd out an hexplanation
figured loosely stam
merd in your armpit
Was a c lock inhald
a faucet twistd b
rightly watchd yr
Retreat come back or
folder of yr stones
Nada se ve
The rougher comb yr
head inhald a whistle
coughd beneath a bed
Aimd a sound retention
superfog you barely saw
's a camera films
black hhh air waving
In a lake or sunk
forest where yr shoe
a drink congeals , as
pirina desfocada con
tu nombre deletreado
sèver la . cumbre de tu
cuerpo , es la desapari...
Creep Thirst
Gastric liarstorm cerote
cob bone beast broth
yr shorter bungler pla
Cates the outer's it yet's
lice & twine hushd
sods awake , hours &
snakes cover slime de
Tails touch yr reeking
fork filterd optics
game , yr boot's
a toilet , rubbery
iota wind or dniw
Placenta lingers , tho
the aft's still even
Crapulation thru “Dimmer Switch”,
by Jim Leftwich, January 2023
[December 2022 – January 2023]
Much detail about
John M. Bennett can be found
here. More work can be found at
his blog.
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