Apartment Poetry Quarterly

5A              5B              5C              5D              5E              5F

 

5B Rod Smith

 

 

I AM NO I I SLIGHT

I’ve taught myself to unwrite
& then wreathed, saturate, blank
the severed glinting worlds rebelieve
or they all access overall not-so, a not-so
lucid, a lucid one, the squirrels that I live there
^.^ ~ alright then, alright mr squirrel there, yep.

 

 

 

POEM (A CHANCE OF RAIN)
for Heather Fuller

o figuera, o my stumps
mossing up the rocket lane
o figuera, o my stumps
drams in pastures cap
or collapse
                                                 that
                     uncoordinated
                     sunshiney liming

                                  it’s a glum triad--

                                                it tears me up

       o figuera, o my stumps

                       Doors still start with a d
                        on days that leave abrupt--
                          dried up

                   loosing unconcerned salt

                   on the retread latent                   death of sleep

                                              o figuera, o my stumps

                   the distortion task attic

                   to unhinge mastication error

                                                         o figuera, o my stumps

                   in the wax it atrophies

                   the mazy prow is mute

                   o figuera, o my stumps

                   (I have a mental sore throat)

                   (they’re putting fragments in the coup)

 

 

 

TREATISE ON CONSEQUENCES

just intonation        See temperament
impurities of stellar evolution

a guide surrounding the blocks

metal curvatures

Thus, if the body

A device
photographed with the water
which is fixed
to a diaphragm in contact
with the water

The focal length
because the eye lens
envelope these wavelets

exchange force
a reversible change
mounted on a process

mains-powered
dissociation decay, of love
in the iron oxide paste

either spontaneously
or following a collision

 

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edge dislocation        see defect

solved food
(the speed of reliability)
or
the process of boiling
light committing bodies

see a substance that can
sustain positioned stops

hole condition    see hole
but in words

The problem of pain

a thermocouple in most cases
cyclically maudlin
&/or
magnetically extreme

 

+

 

savoir salve

floor to fix missed

(very early)
very between the terminals

“hence the excited state
is relatively long-lived”

internal ampere
exit, form defined as
soapy mounting

perhaps a short pump
with a shaking frequency band

Crosstalk--
the biblical faith
when we add a pinch
becomes mathematic

How do you plead?

the commonest is to heat
as just wandering is to hands