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Heller Levinson: poems

2017-08-12 by Admin: John Tranter

  Heller Levinson

  poems
 

  JPR 07

in the pith of an overwhelming meander
flaneur-waffle                        wallop-lob                        tensile-smooch

                                                        do-si-do

loom-lob patter-pizzle causeway retch wrench paradiddle shuttle bob

where in the

drift

is

tear

how much

                                gathering

accumulates

from

drift

so much depends upon

conspicuity             →         a-ppearing

the appearing amasses in the accumulative

accumulation emboldens gather

the sweet-scented hurl

silences

the huntsmen

 

 
in the pitch of an irreverent aberrance

abeyance         recourse

                                                                        the

assessments poised for re-consideration

                                                                                                gruntled slop-

sustain

                … swerves of preservative in the dark ungulate
                                                                                                        of dank demeanor

midst aqueducts of a failed piety the asphalt flex syndrome
                                                        promotes tertiary glands to a higher order

abbreviations flatter

the plotters

 

in the pith of swarm

succulence                succor

        sluice-seethe

a bent

        direction

a common       al       ity

wrest-wallop → wrangler

                roustabout roundup

where in the swarm is rumination

the quiver-load   ambulating

 

in the pith of fulcrum

quintessentially              furnace fist

cupola burn                      iron-hearted demises close to

sibilance horror-lit beside rogue currencies

pick & choose above all

the   pattern

 

where in the

fulcrum

is

fulmination

 

jointure rattle                 disintegrate edge

lunar wallop

 

Tide

US poet Heller Levinson.

 

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