Scree
by Larry Sawyer
We seem to remember and light
like metaphors
the particular yous that
witness the
trees. We attest to the discovery
of seems.
Dark bubbles of hell
Before the jelly planks
Its rotten waltz
Bled and crated
A cargo of hearts
Freshly beating
Waiting and green
The wind and that smell:
But the mutinous
View, the
Sight of the land
Standing stark as a nude.
Some Chill
by Larry Sawyer
Age–old desire for the
perfect equation then
a dollop
of sour cream
white as the
page, and
each letter
of every word
a prime
number bolero
of oomph.
Some leopard–print fire
that flamenco onion!
Add it up on a
blackboard,
my unsuspecting tongue!
O, algabraic habañero
geometric jalapeño!
A cross–stitched cursive caliente like
a doctorate printed on my DNA now proclaims me
professor of goddamn.
After
by Arthur McCaster
Past languid days, their lives
were played in tempo allegretto.
Past their first–year slips, what survived
was their own unique libretto.
Beyond the anxious years of children,
the wile, the whimsy, the little cash to spare;
beyond the vacuous temptations that bedevil men
and women alike — that sad, ambivalent affair —
they arrive at an hour beyond all foreseeing.
She takes a moment alone to grieve,
recalls their incredible lightness of being,
then touching the edge of his starched sleeve
and placing her inconstant hand just so
she does not feel the cold.
Mist and Dew
by Tony Lopez
When there is no sand in desert air, visibility is excellent.
A settled life presupposes regulation of water supplies.
Neutral soils taste neither sour nor sweet but take on the flavour
of humus.
Not only through invasions is knowledge transferred.
Microbes, abundant in garden soil, leave their imprint in
coloured gelatin.
When floods occur water is diverted to gardens beyond lateral
walls.
Entrances always face East–west.
Delivered from all over Germany, the soil contains small creatures
and seeds.
Submerged feet are not represented.
Another clue worth looking for is colour.
Figure 293 shows suspended wooden ramps for channelling water
along mountain edges.
We were on the sea ice when a storm blew up.
It will be difficult to recover the micro–vegetation demolished by
vehicles.
Each cartridge contained fifty feet, enough for three minutes and
twenty seconds filming.
Adobe does not waste wood in firing bricks.
In front of you a church spire is visible, lined up with a radio
mast.
Colours include rusty orange, forest green, dusty rose and
mustard yellow.
Daytime air is warmer and the limestone interior is colder than
outside.
The underground house provides benefits and saves surface land.
UK satellite dishes normally point South–south–east.
Large wooden rafts were anchored on lakes and marshes.
The place where earth was collected is written on each sheet.
Facing the wind is a steep tapered slope that grades towards the
lee end.
They collected night condensation of mist and dew.
Water is attracted to water.