Laghe
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lung dancing ,bread the loop
collapse the should flavored ,cash
rabbit tumbling in the clock
closet yeast strewing .rash sung
,strewn mudcakes yawn .flash table
leaning on the beast you
faucet ,page shaking ,stun dark
,curb shiny with your breath
with rang doubles ;could rinse
,wooden air cage shaded log
gowned with moss word mist
,bushes drip eyed with ,rag
eyed mumble list ,a syrup
"hog" grazes at the breathing
tube luger (funnel) scab heaps
o' buzzness .ran clown slaw
2
ran slab looming ,cushions numbered
like a rain a foot
like bushy claw meld against
your face combing ,rash pulling
comb depiction ,was your gash
bubble ,lap pushing saw teeth
your dozen nostril fading off
the mirror's langour ,huddled inch
...langour slumped inside your shorts
coff ,heat craw folded flashing
xerox gummy at the edges
your long cost favorite coin
cost rubble pagination ,scummy roof
molded to yr skull ("shorts")
fuzzy with the rain lube
,cornered you ,cagey ,ash shovel
3
cagey wood flume ,dull chain
beneath yr bed a hoof
roster melting felt your back
beneath "my own" ,gummy pelf
own fountain ran ,bushy ,smelt
laundry flavor ,outer hosing you
crud tosser flamed rug blister's
moment ,torn cram user node
cram fingers in ,raft away
agile sleep against the chest
wet tips nosing ,blood glossed
ran the stop washer languid
stop .punch the mile the
miles .reef whirling ,slips it
in .moss breather ,of breast
wreath stumbler ,cushion grabbed I
4
cushions inch you had ,both
smiles slabbed ah pot fresco
!sand and pillow ,rush and
air !core swallow pod rich
swallow pinched loaf .key protrusion
sore hand harried in pocket
club the .soon rodent fell
paunch the habit clung ,touch
habit never ends long ditch
.boom lobe fastened on slice
the couch the char .letter
folded your jittering in ,laze
jittering soup strobed ah settled
jar off wall hung long
lashing in the windy eye's
ripped shirt lung ,splash said
5
said eye's long settled
laze letter slice ditch
touch fell pocket protrusion
rich and fresco both
I breast it the
languid glossed chest away
node blister you felt
pelf back hoof chain
should lube shorts roof
coin edges flaking shorts
inch off teeth gash
pulling against foot numbered
slaw heaps breathing syrup
rag mist log rinse
breath dark you table
sung clock cash hoop
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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