yeah John
"song plow you languid rednulb llim"
is bloody classic
a weird pastoralism haunting here
not to mention
shake the
mud
spoon
(here i get the image of a psychotic farmer, mad from famine and poverty) :)
&
knife thrown at the flock
which echoes the surrealist dictum of firing a single bullet into a crowd
but with simultaneously delicious "mad shepherd" overtones
cool one
lq
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheila Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: Ice
despite my fear of the word in line one!!!! I really
enjoy this one, and celebrate the word reversal in
line 3 - bravo, as always, sheil
--- "John M. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ice
hovered rat
long sky drained
boot lip noitanimluf aimed toward
wire flood the niarb heel
couched like stomach finger
all my "costs" my ,aim and smile
shake the
mud
spoon
buy my stumbling in the water
raw flag sunk ,the listed sky
song plow you languid rednulb llim
blustered matter rent and crawled
noops dum
your funny restaurant
knife thrown at the flock
gnirb ym eye slush
same funneled mice you
derednelb in the laundry
gaze
John M. Bennett
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