JIM GOAR

Spilled Milk

Symptoms

Soi Milk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPILLED MILK

 

 

Words and now the silence 

remains in blue slacks pressed

lemon and belly laughs

between a lover and his daughter

is her mother his lover

for crows to pick

a sieve from water dice

roll little boy yr brother

lost but no one calls to empty

crumbs along the way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SYMPTOMS

 

 

You were telling me about

the cliff behind the fence

you’ve seen the echo but

not the fall into the ocean

one foot at a time and the pants

will never come unless

you relax your monkey will

remain a coconut and sunshine

is all a man needs

in a tender heterosexual way off

where only the hounds go baying

at night the horses are eaten

questions asked by those

who stumble over rocks and

broken legs spring forth from

my beard my woman lives for this

rescue but I am not nor

do I need another

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOI MILK

 

 

If you need a spoon

with white on water

you must be an island

hung out to dry

to sleep with one and

the other picking

secrets from the trunk

of dancing fingers bent

in gates where elephant

want the man to free

bananas and the ceiling

to look just at the sky