JOHN M. BENNETT's recent books include Mailer Leaves Ham (Pantograph Press), The Seasons (Spectacular Diseases), and Prime Sway: A Transduction of Primero Sueno by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Texture Press). He edits Lost And Found Times and is curator of the Avant Writing Collection at Ohio State University Library. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.



Cam peador

c law mu ch c lash c low or s lap computer like a ran
cid sandwich dejo sus, "tornose" de su tierra heaving
in the formless continente crawling with soldiers an
a storming law "flashes coldly" o'er the sacks of ch
urning glands("skinny holes") ran with juice yr torn
nose hairs' breathing's contingente all along the fold
were borne the hamsters or yr luncheon meat stiffening
in the fridge. stand an hold, the clone belief. an sta
mmer in yr "dungeon" feet listening to the bridge. (no
hands yr moldy phone (or tweet




9

Gladder was I thought than creeping through the
bushes where the sacks were buried, normalized my
sand. wrist-taking, cracked my thumb, waved out a
cross the sidewalk where "you" might come, that
"special dreaming", like a burger in yr pocket o my
nodding one! played all day, "'n preyed", halitosis
in my hand was sorta cuspidora, what a beauty baited.
lurking through the shirted woods my timing-book
gave way and all i left was spattered, speechy was

Yr glando-rhythm rhythm was "a" posture-tronic
wrassling with the snakes the snakes or water bri
mming in yr bed yr bed was passports stuffed beneath
it "it" was cloudy like a head head clown in bowl the
bowl with's navel portal portal jagged or a faucet's
faucet jam yr thumb up it it's turn the handle time,
time the mud dropped in yr lap lap around the rim the
rim's steep sides stream splashed below




flower stumbled

caulking melts beside your - scalp, infusion - time
to snuffle - all along your NAp - like ILl refusal
but I - sweat against the siding wiping BEes - gNats -
depth inside your hand you - belted back - shuffled
toward the oil ladder ("crave") a - lemon pie to sit
upon, "sat"

your flower sat, thinly - gaseous - drooling on the
table flower dimly nauseous like your favorite sit
com - table known 'n drooled - that burger lamp -
what so CUDdly numBed - not like sleep - more nostril-
crushed - "and misty" - "time for numby-foam" - your
lead-sleep stumbled and a misty stumbled

tower stumbled through the gore - yellow-jackets beat
the screen - bloomed door your - back my lawn gazed -
and broke the window - I was tuned to - rubber faucets
- "bent water" disease flatu - lens blazed around my
room 'n "stroked the jagged edge" (sight's "rent"
(where I lagged ahead 'n grouNded




Eh Eh

puff fadder) do you believe me? rattled in the
slipping-service (blue slushee dripping down the
steps at last cleaner than your grand jury sneering
in the dogfood aisle! creamy story pocket, like your
//hefty hand snake foaming, sinky or a water logged!
I breathed beneath the stool rustled, drinking dye
and said it, "wifely", flustered, faster, "said again":