give me up; she answers like san francisco
investigate, take yr hairspray
i say write, write nothing
her in the kitchen so open
fancy line breaks
throw something away
hide it like a woman
who dont do anything
there goes her now
steaming in the kitchen
a book rises, dont fill me
a painter with such other flowers
i dream inside this her roses
nothing more where u are
would u just write something
overtalking inside yr language
i fall asleep and study
no dreaming hairspray language
not dreaming large wildflower
uneven paint, new york
she’s inside her skin
u dont know her
i studied her whispering
like a single mother
or geometric beauty salon
influence me
i try to show him he’s like cloth
i try to fool him and the leader dies
he is impaled as if a bird was a rowboat
able, beauty sick, bad cult novels
he is after me with his art
time, it saves me
i try to fool him with his art
i am really running away
the art makes me able to fly
fake beauty, u make me so happy
i feel sick; rifle artist, im him
its a parachute as if a bird thru the front door
starts a fire, he is after me
with his art backwards
as if a bird etc.
u are one storm, i dont care
if the aliens ate all the cue cards
im not yr jesus phonebill theater
yr chevron buffaloes
“since i lost my wife
all i can do is sing the blues”
u dont know what i wish u were
your mother wants to count staples
i wish u bore me
the soy milk never glistened
i see im a lion; i see im lion meat
i have yr skin, yr answers
i wish u were contagious
im drowning; this is my tub
the sun goes bowling in america
i work for disneyland
its snowing in monterey
i wish i have a chevron station
the soy milk was being oblivious
shes too cool to be cloth
she too cool to be baldish hank
thanks, love; all around u
Donna Kuhn has published her poems in over 50 journals and anthologies including Santa Clara Review, Poetry New York, Red Dirt, fuel, forms and Poesy. Her poetry has been choreographed by Natica Angillys’ Poetic Dance Theater and is incorporated into her own dance, visual art, found sound collage tapes and video. Check out her web site, Online Web Art.