(american lit 13)
a large or small machine
the pure products
go crazy tear ducts
stuffed with a queen:
a witch turns men into green
as color as sign the big bucks
I like a man who is lucky
clean
& American: made of words
the mouths
of Polish a drought
in Hackensack a jazz a lurid
harpsichord
& salt fields of goldenrod
(pont sur la pluie, d’aprés hiroschige)
Inside the frame—
green rain
blue rain
What’s in a name?
remember to step in the same
river again
in the original the rain
densely & blackly etched again & lame
with fatigue the cicadas
in September Japanese as salt
this clumsy waltz
a wet parade
night drifts up a little boat
slender as a girl’s throat
Sugar
alcohol
A car
A fall
-ing hour
A voice
from a tower
bells & choices:
to macerate
so slowly
the late
below
summer’s lease
the will to please
(mood indigo—Monk’s version)
the stain
of love up-tempo
(for him) the flow
is upon the rain
the world (again)
the piano
no
plane champagne cocaine
in my deep purple
these floating
notes
a surplus:
too much:
never done with touching
Straight, No Chaser
the floating world
listen to Rouse
the name of a baroness
or a butterfly
•
evidence in parentheses justice the
initial capital or a proper name
daughter a saxophone player wife
baroness iceberg mirror a definition
of
•
underneath
insertion of
notes
in that sense:
tentative, brief
•
(i pis´trэ fē), n. 1.
Rhet. the repetition at the end
of two or more
“ wrong, and wrong.
…” 2. Neoplatonism.
from the One.
[ 1640-1650; < NL < Gk
•
saxophone
staircase
air
•
a room without walls
•
(hak´эn sak´), n. in NE New
, near 36,039.
•
the notes
you don’t
play
•
slowly peels away
elevator shaft
palimpsest
edward smallfield's
poems have
appeared in Bird Dog, Five Fingers Review, 26, Traverse, and a number
of other magazines. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Pleasures of C and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (a
book-length collaboration with Doug MacPherson). He's taught creative
writing at San Francisco State University and at University of
California Extension, and is an editor at Apogee Press. He lives in
Barcelona.
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