Glenn Ingersoll


a fan handle flashing


a yellow accent as vibrating needlepoint
a spigot of unmerited ants
a dot beginning a precise bleed
the valley angled toward ducks
a thistle of beef in filo setting
a taller glass of the winding eminence
the manicuring of consensual sets
inflated spectacles invested for acts
slags of reset parents
abbreviated mendacity in tin
a date prepared for the proverb
a division of difficult faces
under a shadow a sanctuary of splash



a nobody in whose happening this city


emptied by a pill drop run through with the hunch
in a bind the flask of synths and paste
unlike the discards wagging the marshaled forces
bargain between heaven and a thumping basket
another nursemaid on the dais an evanescence
in clamorous tights these were the beefs
embarrassment of numinous and fragrant assize
puncture culture past the roadster’s pyre
the aroused warden coughs westward homeless
sumptuous plus-fours a new worst
coagulated furniture toothpaste wildly umbrellas
a lift apex of sisters or of sons


 
multiple fragile instruments


a wandering sting was the 
something hedonistic
we put on our hands amongst
multiple fragile insinuations which
the rascal fattened
white in a little frayed pot
balancing on a needle’s snicker in order to
repair the weave with mandibles via
a thin sensible minstrel whose
mucking about in unsent carbons
caught wheel appearance
from the marmalade to the jujube 
removing in the end what rumpled silk
as is hinted at in tints as
some wild perpendicular
meters against friendship
that match the front tooth
freaking as a pistol’s weal
uncle against the whipping tree

miracles tweezed out of kisses
whisper twice again until empty


 
catamount in a lily


settling a victory too sparsely 
into the eventual sacrifice 
restricts the civilian in the end 
to a glutinous drinking buddy

in one of two ecstatic slippers 
rains a coyote’s abscess

piling on pipes on

to the revanchism the 
situation reversed the slide off 
a temporary mountaintop

gulf into which things wing

masses of wands broken 
out of the bottle memory 
bled into a beanie

the removed speculum 
a raindrop on a burnt umbrella 
the thieves pat 
into precedential shapes

major advancement of the finger

a last catalepsy, the third, 
an encaustic whip 
reversed beneath its twister



a blind item

an opening an incision deters
a vase an emptiness suffers
an ecstasy anger spangles
a lie faking its papier mache colors
an obstacle tripping hobbles
a circle around the curve veers to wet
a simplicity sincerity slumps into
a letter saluting an enemy sleeps
a vague unfocus for swirling substitutes
a point jabbing into a cloud splays
a copy accepted into switches repartners
a face staring at an arrow teethes
an ugly irrelevance to revenants concedes
a trailing path toward sinkholes drips
a hurt conventionally standard incites
a rubbery globule of blindness gnaws

Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California. Videos of his poetry reading & interview series Clearly Meant can be found on the Berkeley Public Library YouTube channel. Ingersoll's prose poem epic, Thousand, is available from bookshop.org and as an ebook from Smashwords. Autobiography of a Book (AC Books) and Nobody You Know (Alien Buddha) are forthcoming in late 2023. His poems have appeared previously in Otoliths.
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