Jessica Bozek

 

from THE MATCHBOOK FRAGMENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from THE MATCHBOOK FRAGMENTS

 

 

 

 

0:a

 

 

itŐs the usual diss

-olution

of cymophanous swelling

 

on toast: the

double-head Harlequin

slow of it

 

signal to cloud

into a swoon

blotting

our still

 

the wide-eyed tourist

sleep & quiet

transience of it

seemly

 

 

 

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0:b

 

 

swell harlequin:

toast the tourist-cloud

double its usual swoon

 

& slow our seemly

heads to sleep

 

 

 

 


 

 

10:a

 

 

mark my chalk

 

fluff too heavy

to waver tongue

cloyed to articulate

 

I am thick

in my own seams

 

 

 

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10:b

 

 

seams in

my own cloyed art

tongue thick

 

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