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DEEP CLOWNS

Deep clowns


deep shit hump you
clap ylpmad toward the hill
plug rinsing cage the tooth pitch
your shimmer long lost in bees

plaques and faucets

mail hum greasy licnep in yr
pants folder ,erit my pause
and esare the rainy window
pork foundered on the driveway

nest and mountains

sleep your candle like an tipmra
costly phones double fungus or your
fecal writhing worht your clods
against the wall clowns

 

 

Lout knee


lout with cameras belts or
sugar ksam gnipmalc to the throat
pestle clanking in the yrdnual
ash yr locks for cornsekalf

plop and needles

should yr lake height glance
my crowded esproc splays down
an shallows brightly like a sunken
leg peel gnikrej as it’s et

flog and nwal

soap jock twiddling beneath a tree
your folk kcalf smoking car
across a field the nroc gnud scattered
blindly lugged beside yr knee

 

 

Bloop grass


bloop shadow ,drape yr sung licnep
like a bandolier or sock speeding
gab fo spihc the light wrinkles
on yr lap the grease stairs close their eyes

flop and wipe

more than clangor spelling plunge the
spandex spotty missile kcalf carnage
eat the soap muscle ,page the clocker
slept beneath the dusty shrub

moult and cage

snort the file rednad clods spelling
what you ate a tulip blood and
jumping off the table like a
called flame snaked across the grass

 

 

 

I face


I snuck and cried ,bin empty ,stroked
lennuf oily in my lap a crusher tale
pmal recnad peeled away a tons thgil
glaucous panting as I debmilc the steps

shot and shat

was wristed with yr daeh “thguoht” cough
bundled putrid with my cleanest shirt
yr last breast aged inside the flood
load crumpled with your throat

walked and wet

the fought tower clustered in my llips
cute rinsing pouters around the bush
the sky’s devruc red streaks
spreading moonlike on yr face

 

 

 

Was thumb


was sport gnicnalg at the lungs
trayed along the street the
couches ygnops flood and mold
a birdy sky reels away

joke and landing

the tub shade sbmilc the window drips
corn and turds cluster near the drain a
rotting cat your damp smile barely
breathes “gnihtemos” gleaming in the door

you and flopping

mighty quick laundry puzzled hats
redluoms like a soup or basement your
face skin chained your mile lather
focused on the inchy swelling in yr thumb

 

 

 

Plank court


plank flock ,the jailed doorknob
basis of yr gnirohs or a storm
salad gushed edistuo the heaving walls
were in your back crushed like bees

ants and growling

slunk breath ,lewot ,fluty shorts
and isolabic doorway crowded with
ruoy strihs a corner foam a
dual clonking in the closet

shut and stalling

lot clamor ,flab epistle writes yr
ega nombre blinking muscle mrof sot
happy with a tooth ,shore guts pistol
said and dednilb with a court

 

 

 

Drew noose


drew my smoke and dednalg whistle
in the hallway crusted mud pill
selttob jutting up like smalc shake
the leafless tree slwarc the sky

bust and month

chow harm ,fog grit ,lluf remmah
buried ,niard yr focus of the
buried fridge and foot yr sock tick
plowing through the tpels sludge

ice and sign

clunking ,drowsing ,flying ,damming
,porking ,sotting in eht tnemesab
,lung swifter sodden than ,clause
or shaking on the fleeting noose

 

 

 

Swung sun


swung and dried ,brack cable flavored
with the gnidducs ria your meal
loop modeled ,rag ham ,drat
tenant of this steak you cubed

flung and phlegm

uh clotted egg your bill lunch
beneath the lake knil “cigol” caved
with slawdust and a tongue
jack happy gnawed the trunk

loose and clouded

chung slapped and delppot in the
kcarb lens tower where your
blinkers shine the walls with pee
ah branches shaking in the sun

 

 

 

Throat fly


throat steam uh fog rice you
slept thunder tasted bush relief
the caller rises dense and gnicnad
dense and dancing gushing from the rear

bomb or flutter

long porch lung gnippop lippy through
the sidewalk noitalahxe knots of
blut nope yhsup folders in the
trunk soaking up the flood

sunk or afos

H your towel dettos lacef
corn clots mildew in your corners
gnuls eht pmal you spread a
eborhtab toward the fly

 

 

 

Raft clot


raft tantra ,muc regdod ,foam
leafer ,hsac gnul ,plank thunder
,hcnip refaol ,crawl staining ,egdol
redrum ,thumb lushed ,hsag rettops

pule or late

rent the clowner for a yarps nor
teach the luggage how to miws you
founded stoppers like a egufirtnec
blown rebmun of the rowers faceless

runts or sthgildaeh

rut plinking so you rednuolf ,nit
gnippolf so you builded ,cram ssenisub
so you slumber ,nod blammer so
you mopper ,ash reknilb so you clot

 

 

 

Small pate


small smell bunder cave your
tumor rite and ffuns eht noodle
loop the cob mouldered in your
sock heap oh bees thinking in a hole

shoal or gninoops

stop flap and egac ,your rednulb
moped and toweled your ,bit loof
shot snore you ,popped and gut
,ezah you furnished like a gun

lynch or blindered

soap you cached the pundit lube
the latem marking call eht sugars
sneaky flume legging toward yr
“enutrof” sappy hop melting on yr pate

 

 

 

Sludged you

sludged muscle you cud nikpan melty
layered through your gust log
rotting bolt and blood .sank a
crowd mealies ,thanked a loud eveels

butt or nod

sated all the crawlings ,test rednulb
,gorge my billet lag a tomb shot
stun caged of flunging hat the boulder
leaning in eht maof eht naf

pulled or gnitnap

spore I ,blam you ,nop I ,dung
you ,taem I ,tohs you ,sleet I
,tals you ,truss I ,kcolc you ,bung
I ,tang you ,pod I ,demmals you

 

 

 

Popping tneps


popping ,glancing ,snapping ,dumbing
,gnibmob ,gnidnalg ,gninnirg ,gnirons
,clambing ,jowling ,plobbing ,boring
,gnimool ,gnilbbird ,gnilwo ,gnirood

sock or sander

tore the sugar snorer flagged the
meter motor tsub a flock pmad mal
snort feeler ni eht rinsing of yr
fundus what a grownhole dinging

should or shat

wat was stammered knife a lather
bloomer cobbed and drenched your
trups front spanner of the renroc
dribbles where yr change was tneps

 

 

 

Top gip


top and sodden ,what a clinger
,days of borrow ,napped why thinging
,or your seizure ,rats of spandex
,gosh why sudden ,each a pullered

sod or den

wheat knowledge or runt repmat
beast or rehtruf looseage what you
collared no eht toilet teliot or
cottage soured in the cash of time

clutch or lleb

pool why rehtal mortaled lumber bullets
breathing for your hair crushed
yrotaval a cubit delbmum at the rorrim
floody white a melting gnol gip

 

 

 

Seeping gnicnuob


seeping ,or cap ,or blender throat you
slotted rip uh labut litigation called
my hteet blunder ,what a cheese pallid
gniwolb clown “eht ydniw teerts” you

llab or snuck

blading like a spoon oh enots sucked out
!blod natter crashed an dekaos my
ponder mud my ,hot pmad strohs
nestled in yr ear hair oh dalg

batter or kcum

spotting ball the boys kindled tube
snorting what you dettolp mouthwards
derettacs runty like an ant bullet
crown dolc ,yr eye gnicnuob

 

 

 

The sores


the ton struggled ,soup of lug
gage top the rednalb log dednelb
ripped the fryers out ,ah leg
bleeding with its daylight

fog or scram

finger was ,or gnippot ,scam
blatter tome your cousin sot
hamper gashed the balls gnimaerd
in a saucepan ,stunning pie lake

grunt or jacked

rednas crawled ,hissing thigh cheese
,bundled swalc and mud ,shot ham cap
spinner leak ,sorta yttops dalas shitter
or a ,maerd mother potting all the noom sores

 

 

 

Sleep tna


sleep or hciwdnas stalling of yr
tsal shudder or was that a clot dancer
gnittips in yr wallet what a
chunk sprawler nod a beet drooler

fold or egnul

rash ,mat ,pos ,duolc ,lunch
,rush ,pmuh ,tool ,heel ,blod
hsarc ,tnur ,logos ,tuna ,llih
,gnikael ,gobble ,foamer ,rettahc ,rekaos

nudge or pocket

flap smatter where you depiw yr
comber out a beamer soup a
neddus eldnof off yr lake business
,nodded through the stumbled yrdnual tna

 

 

 

Shot gnud


shot all my yllerriugs sregnif like
yr bounding edges seeming soup a
shindig but a pooling .clod pencil
kcerw bloodied with a koob

shoot or leep

sheet tried ,yr hcuoc shiver ,gland
edalb number than ,pull a sork and
,clave nor me ,dodge fall sodden
blinding and a ,hsog minder ,dechnurc

slore or slumber

spree my sopping thinks a clam
.wasp that a combing of yr spit
.rule a rehsaw like a sun rednad
.placed my taorht outside the gnud

 

 

 

September 2005

 


Copyright 2005 - John Bennett
John Bennett, Ph.D - is the Curator of The Ohio State University Libraries Avant Writing Collection, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library
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