Rat O

[John M. Bennett]

Rat O

shape cluster  ,snack your tongue

maze the dripping wall the repeek erops

lunging through the tunnel’s red cloud

my face you sprayed  ,both facets

combing both the towels

funnel  ,gnash

crust with fleas

the name vomitus  ,“cage sugar” deeper

phone you stammer on  ,false

laundry in the freezer haze the

tcesni thgil the trounced thunder

banging around in the trunk

eat the last porch

mosquito

eye

so I framed the ink-smeared tissue

was my hand derma

folded like a lake beneath

the night its bed drowned rabbits

egaggul  ,skcoldap warm with geese

bomb  ,lung  ,trench

John M. Bennett

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