NEWCOMER TO THE UTENSIL DRAWER
sprinkler psychosis
of waterbed cadavers
dunked the dog
in wrapping paper
giants of Sardinia
fisticuff metropolis
battled raiding elephant
gestures of army
membrane temples
pulling cannibal tarps
over bronze nun heads
rise of royal tomb
crafted space heater
untouchable sack
wetter than irony
facing display case
watchtower mausoleum
chemical o chemical
compounding verisimilitude
w/o kaleidoscope mosquito puck
into pointing coinage
AS STALE AS CRIMSON SORTING LAUNDRY
Femurs enflame vagabond lips
haunting laboratory passions
wretched islands sunning wax mustache
fragrant fragments ecstatic capability
while falling fog logs ferment
dressing a parachute swelling
groundswell radar
cataclysmic hanging
swinging
resetting remote paradise soil
purple enough to observe
simple as though Venus of flames
This blog is the successor to the poetry section of the now no longer existing The Argotist Online. Send submissions to argotistonline@gmail.com. Due to the large number of submissions, only those accepted can be replied to.
Poem by Stephen Bett
Novel Lines 101: 101 alphabetical poems, each riffing on the opening line of a postmodern novel or metafiction. Antonio Lobo Antunes, Act o...
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A NOTE ON THE MANDRAKE The irregular black bands down its side allow a small force to over- come a larger one. Otherwise it is blue, & d...
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SEA, ME, & LIBERACE A school of Patagonian toothfish have given me a candelabra for my saint’s name day. I’ve placed it on the grand pia...
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BROADCAST NOISE Not shot full of skittering beasts said someone — or was it beats? Or was it the Titanic that really sank or some similar si...