John M. Bennett

sungk

saveur d’equipage

moler

badinage

Caulking Flute

place the hamster on the phone
salad tempo in my voice I
hand to you the horse and
crossing eyes my shovel sentry
growling at the tomb lung or
cave letters thick with guano
lumpy flute caulking in my
sneeze is counted gravel in
your hat was sinking in the
lake or blister fish your
toilet cloud steams the luggage
where my fat congeals so
face that baggage on the bone’s
pallid ending shoots off course

Mute Mot

torcer
la caja
los libros quemados

sorta flaco
halt gas
muérdala

enter into
into ente
être

slit cough
chub
formar the foam

butane o beauté
block o beets
bend an borne

root suck
chamber fuel
it’s shot

felt o flamme
fenêtre
spills it out

hog crust
chamber hell
fog gristle

Blockage

the brick tongue shot the
fango flopping suit can
cels out the pistol grip the
leathered lintel ,dripping view
from sheet below what
crudache burbles in the
cheeping anus or your
aimed to freeze .your thick
gun troubles your scew
spraddle leaking your
hopped dung lamp siz
zling in the rain

Lo Seco

sed the clicking in the cave sed
the poured it off sed the eye
off to the sed sed the mouth
fulla sand sed the río gushed
out sed the clouds dry as
smoke the books burning in
the plaza the shapeless sed be
hind a door a dog path pain
ted white with sed the fan
screeching in the corner

Katún

bomb collapse truss collapse tent
explosion fish control my armpit
sneeze the shallow lake inside
your hat so tentativo tempted
faucets far beneath the floor
a steaming bowl the elote floats
I’m rolling down a hill or
steps the structured clouds col
lapse the clocks collapse the
counting in my gloves and shoes
what swims away beneath the trees

Ventanal

rat shirt tongue frog loo
ming brim above my e
yen “saw” the stebps de
scend in dark I thaw my
hulk drip there a drizzled
towel pozol my puzzle
churning on a slab of pork
.the high turds whistle
in the rafters where my
buried wind reforms be
ading on the window frames I
watched the light twist there

Tnil

rug lint eye lint cash lint meal
lint doll lint force lint clod lint
pill lint hash lint mile lint mist
lint drill lint slap lint spore lint
hush lint cram lint neck lint sore
lint list lint bomb lint pale lint
dug lint rat lint said lint itch
lint mate lint dry lint melt lint
tool lint fool lint pool lint crash
lint tongue lint page lint door lint

The Glass

drink me off the bridge uhn
loomer leg nudges me a windy
hole y un diente dormido cris
talino soy ,vaso ácido tan tan en
el vidrio me llaman I sink .or
ejón ,lluvioso ,blinky in the
choza on a ridge my hands
in a swamp that booming egg my
filthy bowl my lentitud tan
lista ,so slick and bright

Waker

slugged the sandwich hosed
the wall powder aimed my
face my lap beak hunched
inside my headache bleat
the window tool uttered d
ust and soap my tongueless
knee my empty plate gr
istled like my hand .dou
bted all the gasoline and
sped across the sheets

Seeper

pored a trench an ant shoulder
shining in a rain your tooth meat
meets my ,enter hear ,spade
the dog ,bubbled floor I ran
outside a wind falling from the
trees my issued corpse my
strong log filled with bees
.nor locked into my crawlspace
bladder whistling as the
storm sleeps in

Wrong Day

bubbled
layered
coughing in the sink

shore
lip
spread behind the mask

dot
head
read the wall spatter

mine
lake
the cave’s piled bones

duck
whistle
a fly twitches on the floor

Thudding

the sandwich in your pocket
blink
crown

fog swirls around the roof
map
lint

the wristwatch full of water
blood
dog

amble up the sweating steps
tug
moat

your fist blooms with ants
gristle
louder

Window

pus
pull
name the pancakes

grunt
towel
thumbing at your ear

ditch
lists
crickets and wind

boil
fat
teethmarks on your wrist

flag
toilet
forget to flush

Pools

running toward the dumpsters
wheel
sung

borders crash against the house
clock
hat

the numbers drunk with feces
lung
tool

watching the crumbled feet
twist
hash

fish dying in your bed
dust
flooring

Damp Book

ton of tongues ,your lapse cone
jangled ,soup desiccation ,s
law scattered on the steps the
space of leaving ,long clouds bubble
in my suit you share a lunge
,brickage ,flaminoid ,dusty fin
ger lost inside a clock the well
out back brims with heads .the
crusted shirt falling in your closet
the sodden loin swelling on my chair
.so fold the bowl )my pages swim(

Call

roller ,dimmer ,ticking in my
arm ,drained pants cluster n
ext my smoking stone my
hotplate sleeping in the fridge my
neck face ,grizzled loot ,plu
nger faucet creeping toward my
sleeve I raised my gland I
talked my nostril dropped that
corncob past the barking wall my
folder grin my drinking off the
warm strained ants the phone

Entrance

utter chink ,the clamor grime
re-sorts the wall’s glint bricks
coiling down like snakes or
roofs an muttered lumber car
ved with eyes .forks an la
dders ,loose your mumbers tow
ard the crack .some wind
corns there ,some musty ba
t intention or a floated sock
.buy my crumby lake and st
orm the blazing door or mouth

Watch It

sieve the day or leaving
past the make-do morgue a
shade of flies or wind a
bove my leaving fast the
shaker standing at the steps
.coughed and grinned ,held a
toothbrush like a club
.my headache blossomed on
a stool a stool I sa
mpled thought of coffee
dressed with hair .this
was morning this was eve
ning this was timeless
half the time