Eleven Eleven

Booboos decorate your smile
sensory slide intent fall
Decided I'm growth cycle
ferns by wedlock, otise
farm beside the stitching
Edison broach syntax
per unit studied press
genetic fault lemme go
pathway to unstinted
scene-o-grams stuffed
sidenose in a sock, hinged
wedding Italian person
berth like pollster dry
talk to breed out of table
Rex spoon limners twinge
affected at fat roll of figures
attended concerts, raspberry
will have shrunk to human

time off the meter
cried Sunday pressed
to sleep and cured

further down, a
gown of herbs flutters
sends shivers toward
brain sandwich juice
import, no &mdash

this is the endplay
the last significant
unrehearsed two
identical apartments
only, one is floating
the other submerged
at once suspect
huge haze fingers
mild attach chatter
wink vent through anon.
plus weekly summit
plumb diary gas
avert plummet bill
read everything they
thought I knew

playback insisted on her
whiteout timeframe
	at lust
timid cries swallows
effervesces lines shoot
out from his brain

blisters toenail profusion
intimate hiccup master
slave intuit smile eye

stop on right side of offer

Hock.  Hilloy bock.
Rib-tines abroad
sit-back frowl.

Hearing gone, max
head thrust nine
integer unknown
braid ingot
parade cyclonic

some frail
first hits

start sucking
the truth

finger odd
pain town

class girls
smash mud

drone plead
arraign divine

crestfallen
monks

elide
timed

What the shit time is it?
Bring the tins wide
In the confused diadem
that is our life refusal
denies her the luck to cry
silver unfettered wings totalling
the river's shallow height
Matthews extended a finger
in direction of ol' when you
come down the ramp only
way to paper seems farther
away struggling tales limit
empathy's wire, walked
with music in a dream

I'm trying to damp my desire
after a life of fanning it
martini, joint
martini, joint
how we carve out possession
poison to the gun
singer dieted
I'm up divided
weak under cellar
beguile wisp

I remember guys who slept
in their shirts
it was a cool thing to do
covers tumbled too high
for anything but turquoise

I simply tie on a date &mdash
maybe today's, perhaps a day
two weeks from now.  All
depends what the climate favors.
They ride unwillingly, coroded
desire, lunch for three, to raise
duck element apprise.
From thee, doth burst
full flower, at one
repletely, stern
presence, neat
a turtle, bandying
threats by local
garbageman, which,
around here's a damn
sight more signif'cant
than selectman

Inverting his answer,
Leopold ragged grammars
offbeat titillate.

Crimson signed into
Glenda, charging crewtime
from her wife and
salamanders.  Or

retirement.  Sunday's
here and gone.
Leaky weeks.  Rays
of sun keep bending
("if he wasn’t so
'buy the book.'")
Lurid attempts to
help, physically.

Benjamin is one
who smiles, slyly
averting eye,
attic full of air.

Godetia.  Just
as easily.  Alight.
A jest.  Deal.
Fox arrest.

Drive.  Fright&ndash
ened Bowdrop
is tied a
piece wise.

For nine on
you dwell.
I wanna
ripe walla.

Something caught on
the throat.  Expired
sayings, dull thread,
deep night extended
via fog horn, look in
to purple glass depths
a moment sways you
to the side of rank
repartee-ism.

Beside Lance's tank
other woodwork and
filed snails'd squirrel
last week profit as
a bond on the future.

Careful, actually.
You should see
her strut between
classes, her sideways
style grated, but she
always got guys.

You slipped a light-tone
margin into yesterdays
reaching infinity bored
alpha blood

We like to get stupid, messy even
while maintaining a veneer of
	cool sophistication
a hundred years from now, we'll
	be in the ground
so it's no matter
let's listen to Ibrahim Ferrer sing










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Vincent Katz has had poems published in Aufgabe, Bomb, The Portable Boog Reader, Brooklyn Rail, 
Court Green, EOAGH, Jacket, Letterbox, Lungfull, and Shampoo.  He is the author of ten books of 
poetry, including Cabal of Zealots, Pearl, Understanding Objects, Judge, and Alcuni Telefonini, 
a collaboration with painter Francesco Clemente, published by Granary Books.  Katz has 
translated the poems of Sextus Propertius, and he organized an exhibition about Black Mountain 
College.  He is the publisher and editor of the poetry and arts journal VANITAS and of Libellum 
books.