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Phoebe Greer :: Four poems


White Rock Acres

Blood dark black hole
The first that earth
Has ever seen
Bloody sky donut

White rocks
Dirt’s hard pimple
Make faces at greasy sky
They’ll be there all day

Dry open corn field
With a house on it
Play horse left out
Surveilled by its breath

The frogs are early this year
They gargle and bark at
The salty moon

No Impact Man
What a joke




NATURAL BIRTH

After Carmen Winant’s, My Birth at The Museum of Modern Art

Gilt lily
In thin inky grin
Sin liltingly

              High hill birds
              Tilt in
              Tits milk wind
              Wind rightly spitting birth

Skin rip it
Minds dimpling discs
Dirty twig spits
           
       
        Yin blitzing win

                     Split figs

                                Finishes big



Balding Sunset

Sun came in 
Ice moves slow 
One cow moo's
One meow 
One minnow swam
One snail 
No-one won

In came sun 
Man maze vows 
Scam a woman 
Come run  

Come in sun 
Common cinnamon dust 
Neem oil essence 
Rose snares 
Come on




UNTITLED #10
After Agnes Martin at The Guggenheim

Arthur’s body is the Guggenheim
balcony balcony balcony!
I spit out a tooth
put it in a shell on 
his bedside table
it makes a sound  
a pearl dropping on 
the blank ocean floor

wash of 5pm light
splashes the surface
Central Park romantic 
I didn't want to kiss face at all
we stopped to look at the skyline
Agnes Martin's graphite grids 
the same peaks
she drew in Untitled #12
clean air bats
instead of spitting at trump tower
tender buttons were dotted
up and down its surface
they looked like nipples

in my dream 
i'm standing outside your cobblestone house
it’s covered in natural flourishes
vines and blooming window planters
my name is Angelika
I have a pistol at the bottom 
of this basket of fruit
I enlisted a year early
I'm Angelika I say at the door
I'm here to sell my art






Phoebe Greer lives in New York, NY. Their degree is in Global Studies from LIU Global. Phoebe Greer has read at the Poetry Project and has been published in their online journal, The Recluse.


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