Tolps
1
took shadow flighty stink arm
profusion's toothy sleep held fart
in dreamt cave water ("ear")
pumped the shirt knack arm
shadow ,stomach ,grease folder heaves
lodo calculation ,beach or crumbs
leaking sugar gas was that
your mirror hat brim heaves
stomach mask ,mumbles in fridge
sleet washer clung ,your pants
speak ,dropped the dinner honey
rancid bicep sticky loaf fridge
masj\k ,sloping freezer ,inch clutter
game washer streamed yr change
s kin who rl rabbi t sn out ts ts
soggy escapage your shorts clutter
2
sloping drum crawl woody slab
wheeling hammer glow mast flood
yr mouth scrim beast ,bleeder
lubed fly light on slab
drum cookie glop in cheek
bush slangwich snoring ,cage rinse
choking "up" your chuck song
knotty phonecord hangs out sheet
cookie flaw ,could your brow
eaten ?waft or blunder torque
shudder spiraling down gush file
,niche grease ,nail yr brow
flaw collapsing were it ?sneeze
peel ,smoke the claw flame
course reverses ,acrid maw pouch
dripping through ,Box the Sneeze
3
collapsing lung fume ,porch muddy
,bush seeping face your ,inch
loss ,panned chronos capped "locks"
like sock soup or muddy
lung flame .spokes in you
,bash runner ,sky drying plane
,him of trees corner haft
cracked ouch said to you
flame I ,misted finger ,clung
sentence cloud angle held lost
bunch o' ,ground scraps ,whole
clangers sported spout and clung
"I" dozen shrubberies rang loud
contention ditch bugled number spread
,wrong dance lather ,residential butt
snapping long foam emissions loud
4
dozen ,then slept .roof blinks
.sun crammed ash relented slaw
number bush you cloud basin
head steaming snore the blinks
then flew .slashed the coined
eye the band high water
coarse stroll streaking faster bun
habit two flaucets you coined
flew soup aground pause sand
strayed a nostril ,tongue chunk
sprayed with ink hog lake
,fluttering ,glans inside the sand
soup took ,hooting in basement
laughed your snot lumber drained
,brawl smile ,page shook ,ants
gleaming lines across the basement
5
took shadow stomach mask
sloping drum cookie flaw
collapsing lung flame I
dozen then flew soup
sun eye strayed laughed
bush bash sentence contention
wheeling bush eaten peel
profusion's lodo sleet game
in leaking speak skin
yr choking shudder course
loss him bunch wrong
number coarse sprayed brawl
head habits fluttering gleaming
like cracked clangers snapping
lubed knotty niche dripping
pumped your rancid soggy
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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