Glenn Ingersoll
exact the veil flagrantly
a winter’s tongue in black wool
in the dummy pavilion the lift of down
with sour cocktails quaint affairs
returning the greetings with moths
in hunger an ejaculation of smile
fumbled burden blunt fiber
a murder of micrology
an effusion of rectangular advice
a single ratchet toward the shy utopia
whilst evangelizing goes on among locusts
among cedars
under the salt dome of a cathedral
a flying squirrel emblem
hung on the sidelong look
kelp unkempt
a mask for the mirror’s curve
the well-curled tip
an error resected
two fans for the evaporator
a single serving of a sacred cream pie
acrid miles in loose entrance
a pearl of precious idiot fur
the date that wormed in and curled up
rattle in a coffer of the holy spent bullet
two edges soften the last leap
in an egg-shaped bank the maximum ask
thoughts expressed into oily solution
in urine on a dime a pear’s spine
the oxen and their third surprise
layers of laminated lampreys
tears decry the little flame
lots from an endometrial auction
a final price for tuned up nausea
strips of light poked by a pin
whispers dragged back under a throw
axes of the days cutting the seas
room for advisement
enlivened by the lights of beasts
an elevator’s ecstatic removal process
betwixt hellbent victory party
accessibly enchambered
twists another etiolated cheese
miserly supervisors on see-saws
raise up what got remaindered in the way
a perfumed besom
markets for the revenant’s ribbons
on the blossom a bloom bearing
elderberry bundles the pig’s professor frisks
an elbow of melons, terrified
might stick it out
strings of corn in eight colors
detract from such attempts at rumor
as men in leaves face migratorily
a melding of ages and the measles
sparks pallor inside the depot
wonder’s elder spinster centers
the captured and consulted
vague amphibious gesture
a while ago in the dj booth
the doubt-inflamed youth movement
envelopes in rugged penitence
a look segregated from black divinities
the working out of asterisks
furtive pictorial pizza spreads
two weeks of microphone stands
a simple mix of means
a burden’s naked flipside
a distant fink with a wattle whisk
ingots of the grandest meekness
a missing affront
wild amusements chlorinated as brickbats
the angry access of the porcelain sink
accounts settled by sediment
a wretched distance brashly rowed
dinner offset by the bush warbler’s twit
another well recently intercepted
a gentle back-and-forth motion of the pillaging
an absence of the masculine humane
one of the crumblier edges of the attacks of grief
a pretty monster in a prettier mundane
a flag hammered out of children
evidentiary prosimians
a frog’s throat at the bottom of Hemingway
fraudulent buttons as a point of order
a mistaken instantaneous divinity
another wall of wallops
two lines scraped from Akhmatova’s cheek
shudders of winter skunk
aspects of the tea rumored to be twelve
the burning of Wilkie Collins as an ash thought
lonesome among variations of blond
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 is forthcoming from AC Books. His poem "Personal Testimony" was given a Special Mention in the 2022 Pushcart Prize anthology. He keeps two blogs, LoveSettlement and Dare I Read. Poems have recently appeared in Otoliths, Chronogram, and ubu.