SONETEAR ADREDE

                                   John M. Bennett

 

 

 

 

Under

 

Superation snore

yr outer skin rejection

lifted up yr arm ants

 

Crawler you a s tone

voice crinkler

lost behind yr shorts

 

Utter fist , behind

a door , a dying dog

guardian of the lake

 

Issued leaf , retraction

of yr cheek's door

slammed against the words

 

Yr blindness falls on table

sees the wait dried there

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuerca

 

Lente , nube , caja , senda

donde ví mi mano invisible ,

dedos hoscuros en el huevo

 

Músculos rotos , rodeados

de agua o aire , mi

brazo pala en el lago

 

Intenté salir por mi oreja

mas oí el fango crepuscular

trago burbujante culeante

 

Testigo de mi piedra perdida

escribía en el pie de madera

dormido en canto

 

Vía brumosa con luz de

pizarra volteada al revés

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drain

 

En mi taza , calavera rota

con palos y textos licuados ,

the lifted plunger a bone

 

My head a cornice dripping

meat , a discursion in my tooth ,

tu sombrero de luz debajo de

 

La cama intrusa , mi puerta

jején y diccionario de grava es ,

drained books drip in the sink

 

Condensation of the thought you

lost a fork rusting in yr

bolsillo con monedas mondadas

 

Pesantez y liberación , bruma

clear & sweaty on yr plate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stones

 

Dust wealth fills my

chair's hand under legs

the pillow's grease reveals

 

Effluent speech grits

your taped redoubt

its angle wave & wind

 

Folded plain cloud choked

spoke grass cattle dung

bound in weevil cuartos

 

Your straw feet sweat

grass & thunder , ammunition

water from the spigot hand

 

You kept the throne

you frayed the shirt the meat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch

 

My flame deboiled my

package crime unsealed

the hamster dried inside

 

Corpulentic book starvation

so I clung the hatchet

soil sought the blood

 

Drained my lunch declouded

meatballs lamplight saw

the greasy mirror forgot

 

Opened my gate or gaze ,

which , a phone in lake

falling up toward sky

 

Even wallet spelled

or the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literation

 

The tooth repelled the air

my face restained

restive for the roof

 

It rained beyond the

mirror your fork

contained , a sock

 

Contaminate with soot

my lips spoke out

their lensic curve fled

 

Off so crisp with air

a sword or spoon

swung thru buried

 

Hair a text unrotten

always there

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Billfold

 

The swallowed roof your

legs recall a shingled

shoe a walking stone's

 

Coangulation in yr face

or ants return to

castigate your buried soup

 

Other storm detail constructs

a faucet history where

were you? a flaccid glove

 

Reboiled in air on shoulder

of yr heavy boxes

filled with dirt & fingers

 

Grasp the wallet in your chest's

gritty syncopactic tongue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Espejo

 

Mind yr is dateless was

a lung & feet , coag

ululation echo in the

 

Scribbled mirror was

downside up & falling

toward the sodden cardboard

 

Box where my shoe

was lost my breath

dimmed out my

 

Hand glimmered in the

glass recuerdo de la

pirámide con mi hueso

 

Puntiagudo , calavera

líquida que tu cara comía

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Punctuation

 

Hair yr foot detrod ,

laberinto linear con

todos los fines sin fin

 

. Flooded alphabet dis

integración útil para la

nóicargetni de caspa en tu

 

Soup's relentless itching

del principio comestible

ensoñado en tu fuente

 

Empty with its contents

, unas albóndigas de aire

ricas de agua y agujas

 

. Un instante de tiempo .

and a river of spit ,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Froze

 

The lint my eye fulfilled

your light stabbed short

my shoe a losing knife

 

There a corn sprouts dead

a freezing hand but fingered

roamed the skin

 

Wire hair loops my face

your teeth broke out a

shore of burning stones

 

The air a cloudy skull

was thought & sinks

was box of water

 

Melted into ice

dusted with a word

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magnetic

 

Sinking toilet was a

gate & flight of legs

broke above the back

 

Twisted in yr waking

snore I coughed &

swallowed all the sodden

 

Book so dim it faints

hair so stiff it breaks

my cage flushed across

 

The sea its sunk lips

flaccid in yr hands

thinking beyond the cloud

 

My hair a knotted route

yr chair a spoon &  compass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corona

 

Smouldered hair yr hat

compressed a thorn foam

it was yr cloud flaked

 

A white shadow in yr shirt

's fuel                     cage wind

stumbling thru yr skin

 

There was dirt & silence

was a shovel once yr

arm a shoe without no

 

Air             burning page

yr hand unnumbered

with the forks

 

Tools of smoke your

fingered arm decrowned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light

 

You flood a chair yr

body tongue a loop a

loop , dripping in dark

 

Floor yr toenails float

were ash & limestone

anterior to before

 

Inside yr face a

river speaks reverse

a cluster splintered

 

Off a tree seated

in yr lap's arms

your arms

 

Sunk leaves where the

shooter left its eyes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repast

 

I cooked the brick

forgotten cheese &

clay a shoulder was

 

What now , or strat

ified below the lake

sunk in long shale

 

Every nothing is a

sword every word

a drinking glass

 

Etched upon yr lips

like cornerstones

not licked at all

 

Your lunch torn there

yr ageless moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Tléatl

 

The fingers are fog a

round the gun yr

eyes sugar yr

shale lung collapse

 

Drift zone driftless

seed yr clustered

soup dries inside

yr head     soap & lips

 

Dark water in yr

hand stone hard

lens sees wet

screen in hair

 

Turn your eye :

a sink on fire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lips

 

A ticking hammer

nail off thumb

a crease spreads

inside the roast

 

The sea mermur

rises down walls

it's yr legless soup

& eyeless ice

 

Sand which hair

thrashes in

wind's explanation

hand sleeps in

 

Bed mouth swal

lows the storm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lint Storm

 

Toast the streamed boy

molt then o truen o

no n tub burstd sh

am leaf or trembling

 

Tree's shredded arm

my dank mouth saw

cave thunder spellt

an odor other than

 

Choppd cage fire

saw yr face inversion

eye swirls against

yr mirror your mirror

 

Even water stinks

even spores of once

fragrant death a

broken bulb

 

Yr glass crackd high

yr drink of empty teeth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chutter

 

Inner shadow links

behind the wall your

shirt erects , it's a

boiler off the bulb

 

Your throat condensed

your foot a floater

down the flood after

all a turd

 

Collapsoration eyesight

shutters on a slimy

desk it's not my

hand spills the ink

 

Just yr shortened

flamer in the dusk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shore

 

 

In the tub a burning book

in the book a bomb

in the thumb a broken

clue my spreading ice

 

Socks & forks a

cloud itches thru my

underwear a plastic

 

Wall my voice writ on

your shoe crossd my face

 

Towels & blood washd up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breath

 

Utter book & blind

chronic convection

's my swelter said

family cushion stinks

 

Nor blanks inside

the glass broken on

a floor /”\\' ;:/ @|*#&*/...

 

Coughs a lot , redou

bles clawing neck

 

Dead hamster in yr shoe

 

 

 

 

 

Deaf Report

 

Peaks & shoes my eye

raven on a wall hair

rain coyote gusts east

clouds 🞅 🞅 🞅  face sausage

 

Shooters hustle in a gar

ment bag population sand

mirrors bathtub locutor

enigma , buried plain

 

Gelatinous beach depths

wings on fire       drifts

of flesh     dessication     la

farmacia canta sucia

 

A chair thunders down

a cliff                    Π   Π    Π

 

 

 

Falling thru Jim Leftwich's

“Weather Report”,  January 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exsomnia

 

Shoulder rain     my feet

waver     cross the landing

murk rises     up     steps

 

The wall     door      crisp

crack of dark     dead wind

book falls open     where

 

Laundry seeps     into floor

bent spoon     a glint

spells          yr face

 

Shoulder waver rises

wall cloud              falls

laundry     spoon     a face

 

Eat the dregs

)lake dust billows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shorter Flag

 

My dice melt     in cap

a shorter pool     laughter

sinks     beneath a mirror

 

wind escapes     out drain

dead grass     shines

a snake     sleeps

 

Clawd hand     drops phone

clickg     clickg     clickg

23 voices          lie

 

Skull water     speaks

shriveld     rabbit

forget               the dogs

 

dice pool mirror escapes

dead snake hand clicks

 

water                         barks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aubade

 

Yr beast boils     un clamor

me abre          el pecho

cristal          espejo de sangre

 

Ashy window glass     wind

corrosion          air

portento          soñado

 

Mi tenedor          is grass

desagüe          ciego

I speak                      spoke

 

Heart     se abre tu espejo

winds     corrosion     sueño

tenedor     ciego     spoke

 

Shirted fog your ladder , sunk

light nestled in yr neck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lapidation

 

Investive claim  my facial

disregard          was for

king     debate yr skin reversd

 

Hurt the door yr place in

vades a sandwich dries

on yr plate

 

Walkd out an hexplanation

figured loosely stam

merd in your armpit

 

Was a c lock inhald

a faucet twistd b

rightly watchd yr

 

Retreat come back or

folder of yr stones

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nada se ve

 

The rougher comb yr

head inhald a whistle

coughd beneath a bed

 

Aimd a sound retention

superfog you barely saw

's a camera films

black hhh air waving

 

In a lake or sunk

forest where yr shoe

a drink congeals , as

pirina desfocada con

tu nombre deletreado

 

sèver la . cumbre de tu

cuerpo , es la desapari...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creep Thirst

 

Gastric liarstorm cerote

cob bone beast broth

yr shorter bungler pla

 

Cates the outer's it yet's

lice & twine hushd

sods awake , hours &

snakes cover slime de

 

Tails touch yr reeking

fork filterd optics

game , yr boot's

a toilet , rubbery

iota wind or dniw

 

Placenta lingers , tho

the aft's still even

 

 

 

Crapulation thru “Dimmer Switch”,

by Jim Leftwich, January 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

John M. Bennett

December 2022 – January 2023