John Bennett

Fool Piles

Time reading spinach

tube volatile shadow

roast hah wheeler

Umber ululator lying

road mind rice

mentira temporal

Duration waste

egoic detritus

teared & tentive

Salt sleep divides

a minute hole

tumbles out a hand

Tornado in the shoes

yr frozen gas opposed

Seepage from Jim Leftwich’s

“A Coyote Beside the Highway”,

January 2023

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