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icecream ashtray

by Kelly Jensen

1.
orange eclectic sublimity:
eighteen festering swans, craning their necks,
water-logged bodies foreign to oil,
to sweet saccharine mechanics & contraption

the middle west embraces the field sashimi
&
her belle in festive tulle swirls electric

2.
paper cranes

in receding waters,
the movement echos soliloquy
pantomime, syncopated

soft flutter of iridescent chaos
rippling

seven whispers, chalk & powder
dissolve to milky parchment

3.
egg shell evenings in heat:
beneath strung beads of flashbulb shutterings,
sinewy recollection/flattered cognition. our
banister legs modeling penniless singularity,
baking molds in perpetual grasswet somersaults.

gleaning from the scene, black boxed,
scat & back-laced gluttony -- haphazard yield in akimbo.
limestone homes with embers emitted
in addendum distanced, reckless despondence
copious

4.
bated moments
between solipsism & synergy
strappy black heels steadily release
a boisterous energy rhytmatically
enveloping dust-clad linoleum.

Saturday evenings listen
as jesus plays xylophone with knocking knees
hambones clanking irreconcilably

vibrations aching in rear-view mirrors
collapsing & corrugating
in umbrella-like motions
framing the rain

splotched irrigation turned dour
soft unraveling, seams enduring
clatter dirt, soft, redding

she could never craft something so beautiful

01/01/2007

Posted on 03/05/2009
Copyright © 2024 Kelly Jensen

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 03/05/09 at 08:34 PM

This has a terrific energy to it, freefalling and constantly on the verge of chaos. I love it.

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