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Patrick F. Durgin

Four poems

Gossamer Rip-thru (as Spelt)

[after Joan Retallack’s ‘Lost Brief Case Conjecture’]

you do the moral fiber in the gum
the tonic’s hot — the coliseum

of praise — encumbrance upon
chance in perpetuity introduction

dreamsicle lapse & purge
optimistic left overs as ever merge

on that count less rapprochement
the left are sent

packing & leave for, as they say:
I think anyway

that’s the thrust of it, ‘side-
splitting laughs’ someone else said

that and I want to mention it
was offered ‘frita bread’

what’s whole anyhow ain’t
contiguous bent

over the best advices and
kneading a plot of land

legions of realists, bent
genitives the pen-

ultimate charm of naiveté
put you in a list — I think anyway

that’s the thrust of it
here’s my signature it’s

a match — that’s no sham
it’s who I am

a match — give up your sky
who ought to ought to try

this blue signature this tit
that tat for ‘side-split-

ting laughs’ all over the place
bordering as being in that trace

whose
shoes

as spelt immaculate
gossamer template

‘kill ’em all’ someone else
said that and I wanted less

to shame than to thrash — being absent
myself — wondering in that argument

little wonder then that — being that
chance wasabi sunset bit

for what else — terminal ATM
someone said ‘kill ’em

all’ over the place — it’s a
match — I am my signa-

ture as spelt — immaculate
rip-thru instance — my pet

chants and fumble entraps
a dream as being that lapse

poems from Relay

Relay

An appraisal and land-rush
you choose dreams but others oblige them
            yours
interference never happens
the distraction is property
emphasis propriety
it belongs to you it’s
        yours

Relay

No hearts were
broken only
tapped

that was their eternity
in truth and appearances
apparitions
vindicate the real

so says the etc.
free apposition

Relay

Was nostalgia now a lacquer
mind never once changes
there is only true, never false,
gratitude

what we call the vicissitudes
is inaudible applause
mind never once changes

nothing
is conjectural or
it all is this
is not a bind

Relay

During then the
following
or slithering
through the valley of
our fanatic conjectural
brunt

a decisive pit of stones
heard frowning over
an eternity hitherto
unheard of

what presitge embalms
and frosts
no lesson for once

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