Saturday, April 13, 2013

JEFFERSON HANSEN


4 poems


can drain
the kind
the mantle of
p/resent
ment
whistling
into limpid
beside downright
—with the sizzle—
up?



CONDITIONAL

what would against
the could or
couldn't
wonder of wait into
drawn wish of
can you give
me/
"definitive"
oh, a sign sodden with
anything anything
to stop 
wrong wondering



cats go bananas

itchy red
of down
pulling toward surety
given blue
& spastic yellow
dandelion
dogs purr against
nature’s stereo-
dictates
& cats go bananas
no nip
necessary




So He Said

(words at ends of lines taken from "Wizard of Oz," which plays continually where I work)

A distraction the size of a porous pillar could stop
this instant of grief. A recondite picture
demanding a christening before the things
indent—try with a bare drip off
the lack of a cool blister, pick and see
drastic intent lasting the wooden pickle
and sliver the goal gracious. To scare
the dickens out of dimpled, adrift circles
that act the down, the beside of weeks
worst jumble. So he said, "Other help?"

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