where is the river :: a poetry experiment

Amelia Does :: Three poems George Ryan :: Three poems Valerie Loveland :: Four poems John Bradley :: Six poems

  HIS FOOTWEAR She is vegan and compliments him on his shoes.     He wonders what it is she sees about his shoes.     Inside the shoes it says Brazil made from paper.         FORTY YEARS AGO When did he stop smoking? Forty years ago.   When did he abandon recreational drugs?     Forty years ago.   People in their thirties try to imagine this   like astronomers measuring galaxies.         DOMESTIC CATS ( With thanks to the Santa Monica Cat Club )     The American Bobtail comes from feral domestic cats with naturally occurring bobbed tails.   The American Curl has ears that curl backward naturally.   The American Shorthair descends from cats that came with the original European settlers.   The American Wirehair results from a mutation in the American Shorthair that took place in 1966.   The Birman is known for its white gloves. ...

How to Make an Artificial Semicolon The semicolon in the eye socket, a guilty pleasure, starts in the 1800s. As Cecilia writes, Anyone can marry their ocularist . You’re just making a thin shell to show everything breaches together.  As Cecelia writes: So my artificial bachelor degree is scary .  When it comes to the future of the past and the present of the future,               use red threads. Your misunderstood morning shape appears as Kurt Vonnegut.  As Cecilia writes, I’m Italian even after breakfast . You can also break the miniscule veins with a pause. But humans—and I don’t blame you—can accidentally become a knife.  According to the cure, replace the eyelids every five years. Replace your stepfather in Fresno every five years. Replace Theodor Adorno with friendly, terrible Jell-O.  You will find purple irises, a drooping mustache, an espresso,               and a diamond in...

  I am Back on my Bullshit     I have been testing a theory: Can I cure myself with more of myself?   I took an internet quiz: it reveals if you are back on your bullshit and it concluded:                    I was.          I changed my answers             and it continued to say I was,                       no matter what answers.                                                           ...

  Two in a car Driving down to Banff we stop To hang out at the gas station There are two guys up the hill Sitting in an old sports car til customers come   Then it’s down the hill Pump the gas Back up the hill Into the car again It’s summer and not cold out   Inside the store there are signs They are all funny I couldn’t decide I wanted to buy but didn’t My dad’s outside on the bench Having a sandwich Laughing, at 4pm The suns’ about to go down And we sit It’s summer and not cold out   Him Spoke in Ventricles The Lord spoke to me from upon high the message came through the ventricle a cool wind down a plastic pipe a shaft of miracle wheat ablazoned pollen tracks of bee legs dragging echoed vermillion arms   The World The world had crapped out and turned aside The hills were asleep as the mountains were And the road wasn’t even awake The buildings fell down and trees grew up and over them   A sound came approaching It wasn’t seen, just h...