Jim Leftwich A Coyote Beside The Highway _______________ Time too Anew Time spews time Time to corkscrew Tumekess Vorq Timeless chewing Byte the bird Time splatter time Exhume the bird Tubular bicoastal Tuminf Volatility Viscous timing Xernity Carnivorous time Get some today Cumin on rye A holiday In the sunshine Time is a shadow Time under time Time undertow Time underhanded Melting bird Tubing & Roast Can you hear The River Wind pushing water Even the poems Are quiet & slow Time reading The palm Of your handstand ***** We've been walking on the spinach bah ah bah We've been roosting on the ribbons bah ah bah Teaching to the tutors bah ah bah Spinning on the spinach bah bah bah bah bah ah bah ***** _______________ No Protein Per Hit me with the hidden Unborn books are bubbling Vacuum the Dust Off the book of Ezekiel Driving wheel Wheeling in the Dust _______________ Cilantro and Peppermint Take your time Jaywalking Juxtaposed Uncle lightning roundabout Ulterior Umber Kentucky is not my name I remember magnesium Lying to yourself Is easier said Than done On the open road In another Mind _______________ Ride The Byway The Road is a horse have A Half-toned Hardhat Hi Have a Rice Day Chicken & Rice forever Tennessee is not my Name I've never been to Detroit But I've been to Arizona Don't waste your time So fast In such a hurry To be elsewhere ________________ Curettage Zodiac human Waste firmament Sodden duration Flotilla and fandango Django fingered Oceanic haste Numen tenement Flotation Godzilla Pando angle Ego Lingering in duende _______________ Colliery Foghorn from the Bay Three hundred miles Away Hear it in my Sleep Hey what's that Sound Under the Thundering Rainbow Under the Weeping Willow Because I made It The way it is _______________ I Am Not I am satisfied with Being unsatisfied Ok maybe that's Only half the case Ok being I am Unsalted & Unilateral The other half is Your job ________________ Moses Stood On The Red Sea Shore Yet therefore yet Never met a net I didn't knot Treehouse in the river Rearview in the rain Eat when we are early wet therefore wet willow weeping sleep Sleepy wintry sleet Rain falling on the River River flowing Rite on time ____________________ Slide Rules The Playground Said less than nothing Did I tell you that? For a time Four four a time Vulture got your gizzard? Baltimore, Baltimore Balloons in the basement Balloons in the Basin No more than that Just one minute Just wait a minute Just so you know Got more Where that Came from Divided by itself X marks the spot Y marks the spot Z marks the spot You got another Thing coming ______________ Leaps Like A Lizard In 4-Wheel Drive Diving in the donut Whole Xeno takes the cake Call him up and Tell him what you want Far far away Going going gone Give it up Hold on to the Hole Jumble up and go Jolly up and go I would not have it Any other way Other than that Other than this Icarus and Irene Youth will have its way Trust the sky Rhythm is right Like rain _________________ Altitude and Latitude Quonset by the quart Quagmire in the quartz At the top of the stairs At the bottom of the lake Chalcedony Quorum for the choir _______________ There Is Nothing There Ambidexterity X muddles the plot Diamonds in the slough Forklifts in the night Freight trains on the moon There is no one home Gas both liquid & natural Vacuum and velcro Time waits for the bus Years go by Broken and hungry How many more tears I will surprise Just like a woven Jumpsuit with Jackrabbits On the line Open up the door Let me in the house I'll get it myself _______________ One foot at a time Jalapeno Moon hibiscus Hibernating inner helix Foment helium torment Furbished hologram Turbulence & tumult Prowling with the vowels Biscuit Ibis Tornado Bowling down the backstreets In our Chevy Pizza Shoes _______________ Of Course I Remember His Name jockeying routes Urgency keening Train keeping up with Elvin Jones / Untold Linear Rhythms Unyielding lurch leeching Oranges Uulunching Unlemming Yielding jotted eyes Quinine on the Quince Rumors of rooming Running rivers even the whole Romance emptying each Every essence fermented fervid diamonds dappled after the Falling feathery fevers diagonal argots fat As poems in pigeons / Flat as fur And fiat Dreaming after The fabric of The deluge All you are he Said in an email on the day David Crosby died Is a problem for me and I said sure Put it in storage Hell freezes over Once in a Blue Moon ask me anything I'll help In any way I can _______________ too early to tell umbrellanding & earsplitting rolllling Outriding too Ioose to leap oil of putrefaction Yieldinging jumble Yummy Unction juts out a bit Under the York You were there too Unless I am mistaken. _______________ Headlights, The Funeral Mountains Greasewood Wild Horses Moonsemes Monosemiotic moonspray Beyond catpurring rugwater mmany Beguiling Nothings cyanobacteria Non-committal for your information Help is on the way ______________ Batch Batch To Batch half-assed twofer badasses Hot on the trail of jittery Tylenol Lemniscate rather rot in Eternity than Rummage through the Hierlooms looking for a Fillip in the dollop how did they get in? Right through the door Like nobody's business Too many to count Right through the door You sure about that? why Yes I'm sure every door has its lock every lie has its lip Every horse has its healer Between the window & the key For our House has many basements How did they get in? There's one now Who do you love? Between the furnace and the creek so Far Between batches ______________ Sing What You Know Gritting the Runes Ruins / grinding The ruins / grinning Grifting Gifting / drifting Drifting / like a boat out on the Sea / grinding the Switch / switching Shifting gears Gears / Gears Drifting gears / like a sewing machine in a Florist / Banging about the ears Like an Umbrella In a dust storm Down on the Spilling Floor ______________ Feet Dust The Thumbs Every Foot Emits dust devils & Verbs Rigor rumples the Sweatshirt grease Greases the Tide Pool By The Time Loops upon the Lease I must have been lost opposing the thumbs out on the Piles the Pylons the Poles Looping upon the Jumbles Howling at the mood moon or no moon
No Artificial Sweeteners _______________ No artificial sweeteners Genuine Authentic 100 percent real Guaranteed Jim Leftwich Certified by Leftwich himself Don't accept anything less Burning Hats in a Shoe Burning Hats in a Shoe Tall crickets weaving the grass pie west Wallange evelt Kallenge evet Grantee howling changeling Bistro multipersonal cattongue Goblinkers awn For the winter desert Splinters westward I have been reading Alice Notley I have been reading Cindy Juyoung Ok Am I unruly Fleeing the tigerfield In an imaginary rain? Apricity Haute yoyo yoyo Our sunlight on ice Our u-turns on cue Lawns for dessert Are best as A slice of the city Flies Once upon a timeless Ounce a foot of sour Fauns hotter than April An Acre-Foot Fortuitous riboflavin high-jump Dawdling windy lingers Wind-chill Facsimile Headlamp Gane gene Gine gone Gune Read linear exclusion Give them what they need Two diving ducks pecking At the pond's surface Groan gulp gallop Grown gallon of worries Why too much for so many? Route touted doubtful Fecalith Verisimilitude Forecasting Vox Populi Nobody home Generation Next Doom perched like a cat On the edge of an unmade Bed Coots discussing minnows Deliberation Delta libations rationale Nobody has left home Divide and con quer the whirl wind Diamond cairn Brumation diacritical Galvanized fumigation Hints rinsed Rheophile finagler Thumb player piano Dump stationary durational Emanates testicular reading Glance of seahorses Shiny silver buckle In the sand Gothic church trivia Found poem-objects Electable social studies The forgetfulness The invented niche Thimble spilling unicorns Youthful lessons song Divided by Vertical Dividends Giddy volumes Galloping excavations Edited engagements Gaggle of horseflies Twins twining Windy wine Tasting winter Beginnings Given the dirty dust Divided by the dusty dirt O the shoes Their momentary reign Divided by rain on creosote Given the dusty wind Germs are not from Germany What did they want a poem to do? I've probably eaten a dozen of them so far Green figs and yams Ghost peppers alive in my mouth Ignore my life Ignore my feelings about my life Burn my hat in a Shoe Eat my shoe At a sidewalk cafe Ghost mouth Ignore my hat Burn the uneaten sidewalks I germ I what I do I I've I them I green I ghost I mouth I ignore the big core door I ignore the fig gore lore I life I burn I shoe I at I ghost I ignore the pig rig wig I burn Drums are dreams or are In dreams or dreams are Drums or are in drums or I am not a tree not a tree Given the burnt shoes The hats Burning The brittle fires Here they are Hold them in Your watery hands Yes haven yams jumping Religion is anybody's guess Griffon given roughage Feeling of fire melting flame Ego is everybody's guess Celadon seeping from the sea Cost-benefit frenetic Smoke treaty celadon Coastal sweat invisibly Edict from nearby Divided by beside Itself Listen to the wind blow through your self as you turn to snow Asparagus Windfall Imitation as wine Pair of fallen imitations Gusts imitating wind In the fall windy Imitations parachute With gusto Is that all there is to it? That's all there is to Two minutes of it. Please do try this at home. Get back to me In twenty years. Walking the line I Walleye the kingfisher Roaming I Romaine eye mingle Tasting I Waste the tingles It is A sharp Instrument. Life is A sharp Instrument. A poem Is a knife. You can Make a life With one. Tyro thyme rose rotting meat I am Ham the Yam Our sour flour by the hour Put the gut in the hut but not yet Don't run Without Scissors Paper dirt on the legume shirtwaist Pie in the skyscraper paperweight loop looming palms plop blooming calms Under herein before ______________ Lower Colorado River Basin Arizona & California February 2023
Drying As We Go ____________ Bifurcations catnip Febrile ruffling Buffer fertilized Ballistic allicin Talisman yantric Bastion tailfin Barbecuing baseballs embattled feta Heraldry Given justifications of The gizmoidal Kudo fuzzy donuts Optimized muzzled Roundabouts Oneiric suitcase Intuition nearly Liminal nailgun Polished Double dodgeball Exvanguard vertiginous quadrupled Scissors Cutting roomy floorboards Egg embossed gossamer Facsimile Emblem evermore Rebarbative Harvesters Timescape Navigable fontanel bentwined The whodunnit Jaunty fax Forthwith vireo Timorous mousepad Gaggle bard pine Garbled bleeding wings Gestation gaseous Yestermorn moonstruck Infinitesimal malady By five o'clock Knit morning Jumbled hours Distributed jilt to jolt Void wherein prohibitive Tuesday sharp By fines Doubled between Further bygones Fixated on Nowhere nearer Than behind the rearview Mirror Hairiness Reborn Baptized in Tweezer lung Twice Twigs nightingale Nylon brackets Etiquette inedible jettisoned sonic kayak flak ukulele jackets kykeon iconic iterated aeons Storyboards clinical Jerky racketeering gadgets nominal Diablo homestead Nosebleeding sidereal gnatcatcher Nightspiders guardrail Nocturnal galvanized Jigsaw puzzling Javelin linear NightMusic Nickel slide rule Juke boxing Jeremiad Egg yodel elbow Knowingly Ritual mythos Kafkaesque rivers Embody kudzu kamikaze roughhousing zippered ventriloquists Nibbling on the dawn Go on Xylophone vacuole neuron Give em the one joe twice Yesterday is just Yesterday and Tomorrow is gone with the Nine Ducks kicking Yessir Keep the chin up From sun up To downtime downplayed Yikes jive my Easters One more Merry yellow yoyo Let's just say each one is enough Unto itself Toe the line Every inch Is its own last mile Easy enough to follow Lurching kelvin rye Edsel yucca edgewise Lunch around the clock Drying as we go _____________ Oxbow Colorado River February 2023
The Non Neon Content & Its Discontents 1. Sunny wind Sandwiching Dunelight Dwindling Dunefelt Driving Rootless Trailblazing blizzardous Buzzardic bards Til the morning Grows its growls Given the Hatjump Haltjinx Jumper beans Ok cartel O my janitors Ok sunny dune sandwich I felt like a dwindling root Under the buzzardoom I sleep like a bard in the morning I growl like a vowel in the understory Under the hatjuniper tree I jump like a salted mink June is the saltiest month Jalapeno is a kindly pepper Nobody but meat Nobody but youth Behind the fourth door Below the ash above Between jobs Given the hatstomp Given the highbeans binding dunelight Forfever & a dayjob 2. Curly Flights Recentivized Eat the ears We are not robots So many sings to song Such a long plot of bears Said as much More than once Do not drift Silky into the Gambled night Damage damage against the Hurry of the light Jump on the Hopping bean and Ride like the Wind Hoovering advice Inscripted return on Artificial Investment Turn Up the radio and Let it prune The lawn Turn it up Until it explodes The radio Eat the Electric light One soul At a bite The electric bike Turn it up Rigorous Like rent Control Find the coast of free Doom worried in the sky Quietus forth 3. Do not goat first head first into the Dimming lightning the polar Vortex the X-ray the Xeriscaped escape Volve & revolve Carry on Carrion Vertical intruders Now is never noon My sermon is I take My sermon from The Lost Books of Isaiah Luke 4. If you could be Isaiah Any of all the Isaiahs Well Which Luke would you be 5. Call it anything Zephyr across the cay Clay the champ Ventilated voters Vacuum cleanser Forfever & a dayjob Given the dry waterfalls Guven the waterproof drywall In the Dwindling dunelight Gone golfing In the Night Rootless radio Turn it up Youth goat soul Rigorous Like a radio Vacuuming the vortex Curly cay and a bay Carrion weigh station sun Bite the electric bike Cumulus with us Vertical intruders Serious and Nimble Cirrus & nimbus Go feet first forth Into the Nightlight Nefilibata Gambling with the plight Figurative and Blight Haltsemic stoppages Grip them by the glue Yourself unto they chew Ride the Windhorse wild and Blue 6. Embodied carbon Tomatillo One acre-foot Of Colorado River water Equals 329,000 gallons Cover the puzzle With a tablecloth And put rocks on it So the wind doesn't Blow it into the cove Sleeping cats don't lie Scooters rippling The water against The wind Alfalfa and pistachios Hamburgers are not A sustainable Source of Energy 7. Rootless canal systems Do not Exist Exit strategies Will destroy the Economy We may as w ell get us ed To the id ea t hat the Fos sil fuel eco nomy is Well in to th e proce ss Of des troy ing it self We are watching the shadows Of the mesquite trees Waiting for the inevitable To happen Rootless Trees Youthlessly Under the sky Inventing themselves downward Into the dirt I am oil and you are Oil and we are all Invested in an In creasing ly Ne gative Return on Investment 8. Given the mosquitoes & the bats Find the coast of free Eyeballs hidden in the Estuaries the Embodied car bond Empty the day Empty the night As abide so beside Alphabet as in soap Albumin as in aluminum Abraham Isaiah and Luke Sole soil soul No dust for oil Do unto the dirt As you would have the dirt Do unto you ______________ Oxbow by the Colorado River February 2023
Among The Ten Thousand Things _________________ Earlier Readings fertilizer festooned with grizzly Rabbitbush grit of the eyebrows Rhododendron Tenacity Shifters Said doubt hefty Turnings holier Syllables Nor Ganglia Haute Ymblemic Usemost jonquil Hachures Midbrown junkets until Useless Outboard Udder Inches kudos Ultra Implications Piano Implicitly Onions placate the Intaglios pyrrhic indigo Oranges is jut jittery in jest yes and not yes entry entirely Rewritten Readerly We are Everywhere Or not at all rigged Fingers Square dangling upwards differs in kind The kitchen from its clock Dovecote Cuticle Excised beavertail Cactus Verbatim bounce of the bean beats of the beans binary Ziggurat Verbiage boxwood Hedge exhumed buzzing through the Zoo by Roadrunner Time zigzag Byways fertilize our Gardens dovetailed Ganglion gravel drizzling Grit rabbit dendrites Gunk & Mud riparian Buzzards rheophile Geese realities Of the Gods trailing Highland Gargle Fingers Youthfully Tremendous hinterland in winter Try Your hand at freezing rain Youthlessly Underdressed illnesses illicitly Utile opportunist prescience Porous opinions & Oracles I am neither nest nor portal put another way Put the knife And the spoon Away Loose mops slink flops Moonlight on the wafer-thin minister of Bright nostrils manicuring the protocols of absurdity limp laps loop & leap the lumpy lake nor Moth-eaten Binomial Nautilus microorganisms nimbly on their toes differentiate the Tardigrades among Extremophiles quartz who Egret quixotic phantom ciliary Quitting time While equalities on the Quay Rite on Read on edgier Rakes & remnants Sadden Daylight asemantic Sullen Dollops Awaken sodden Darkness a Daimonic grackle a geode zinc under Cellophane Zawn calliope Ungulate syllabic feldspar feels like Sensorium reddish Ryolite eaten by the Teaspoon emits Twilight in Real legal time My Tablespoons are yours if you Or our us / If Us you & us Together Rite or rather Write A poem or two Or twenty Twenty thousand Then who could Or should say Otherwise / They Or he and them Should or could Have lived Some other life And the world would Be some other Different world But it isn't At least not In this poem _______________ Oxbow Colorado River March 2023
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