Here are two poems by Michael Ives, from his Jawbone reading last week. He calls them “floaters.”<\/p>\n
The third signal tower fell.
I dropped the implant. <\/p>\n
When we came to
we were staring at ears of corn.<\/p>\n
All chrome, thirty of them in a row:
grille of the bastard\u2019s Town Coupe.<\/p>\n
Crazy. I wasn\u2019t made for this.
Joanne would be waiting dinner for me. <\/p>\n
Flank support had stayed behind
to realign the optics.<\/p>\n
Anonymous black two-doors
were crossing the tarmac, as always.<\/p>\n
Many are the words for rudder
when the helmsman is no more.<\/p>\n
What were we going to do anyway,
issue writs?<\/p>\n
Even Senzei was gone
opening a sundries shop in his mind. <\/p>\n
Chop water, carry wood,
kill your parents.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
Never saw the moon
leave the horizon.
For it was altogether<\/p>\n
too long assumed
by men of that day.
That to them who farmed<\/p>\n
remote quarters.
The customs imposts thereof.
I must bring The Victoria\u2019s<\/p>\n
Secret Poems
to conclusion.
And pledge these<\/p>\n
replacement organs
for the upcoming
fund drive. <\/p>\n
Her highness secretes
a pheromone blend.
From the gland of intention.<\/p>\n
Through a series
of permeable membranes.
Bordering that other Egypt.<\/p>\n
Hidden among dream waste
and morphine ampoules.
The electronics in the system<\/p>\n
cool under ferns.
They promise nothing.
And ebony. Thing. <\/p>\n
for RW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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