Elias
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each stun each shadow s lung
gaping module of yr tongue
grim(n) flaking cheek spat beard
creature contort sandwich sat you
gaping ,finger ,table "strummed" bash
tongue cave ,dripping noodle ,wash
spinner whirled across the yard
grease spread with dirt sugar
tongue with glass capped ,bite
temple ,cave faucet sprays light
dimple in yr thread lost
thought copy shadow knee clue
"temple" gushing ,sink nor bile
each numb wallet trial
napping like a wench spray
cushions toward the speech you
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bleed corner clangor blood shadow
case of oranges rotting table
luck the day their lather
honking ,whine belts of ,sleep
case your crud your hope
your blinking book contagion sunny
day behind ,waves of smoke
,tables burning .bland skin a
your sluffing sight cave gleams
aw's soup just spoon your
spit toward me some green
hill waves behind a glass
aw salad doubled ,blaze or
bleed ecstatic clung hill ,strain
lamp into your belly spore
day written with yr heaving
3
said nothing ,head brack dusty
shore spins bout of sand
dribbling eyebrow gummy went yr
sought ,streaming from the fan
shore dimmer here ,raise the
toilet to yr eye spoil
sought sills sought awnings slabs
sought fish swum in oil
toilet lustrous ,gushing here night
sang sheets like fog puddle
roofs deflect the sky rabbit
thumping in yr guest double
sang the boiler silence cash
said impaction "pain" wall flowing
cushions sang fountain wasp yr
back logo streamed red glowing
4
breach flavor ,bunch the silence
walnut hurtling at yr eye
token dandruff falls in soup
steak beneath the chain loop
walnut ("cage") draped with print
seeping needles freeze inside yr
pillow ("eye") slashed the forehead
("plow") closet stiff with bread
seeping laundry on your print
machine bubbles cozy with yr
lost key swallowed each run
each shorts buzzing (cough sun
machine grins yr silence silence flabby
breach cube misting key leaf
clinking in yr pocket flame
bovine wandered past the same
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(same sun bread loop
glowing double oil fan
heaving glass a sleep
you clue sugar you
each gaping tongue temple
bleed case your aw
said shore toilet song
breach walnut seeping machine
flabby print print silence
cash night the dusty
or gleams hope shadow
bile bite bash lung
creature grease thought cushions
honking tables hill day
sought sought thumping back
steak plow each bovine)
John M. Bennett
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Dr. John M. Bennett
Curator, Avant Writing Collection
Rare Books & Manuscripts Library
The Ohio State University Libraries
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Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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