ashes on would-be-devoured snows
grew like wolves, even, lilies behind
would-be-devoured snows, lilies behind
tears left ashes' voice sulphury
snows midst wolves, lilies behind
would-be-devoured snows
wished of wood for the fire
fire began to ice, really,
while just the starry fell, leaving
would-be-devoured lilies behind
ember gone yet Miss Ashe
fired up this her weeping,
though I, lilies behind, suspect
she's grieved other prey
stairs' frailty the wolves sped shot
they, with Euclid, crumpled
exhausted still they go sleepless
a huddle of carpenterpencil-flat bodies
Euclid only looks like he's smiling when
they lick newsprint off their forepaws
swimmer,
your creams
remain crosses
blood blacks years
of whitest cream
the white
of a dinner plate
arms the air
with landscape:
twelve borders
w i t h
nine numbers,
a nickel glance,
swimmer, for
that ivory piece
and words
and floors
to the sands
Jeff's collection Fickleyes, Futilears, & William Wormswork is from MAG Press. His chapbook The Unread Is Carefully Ancient is from Writers Forum. He is in Furniture Press's PO25centsEM series. He has two e-books at xPress(ed), and one at Blazevox. His poetry appears in Nerve Lantern, Sentence, MiPoesis, Big Bridge, VeRT, Cipher Journal, Xerography, Argotist, Moria, Poethia, Word for Word, Xerography, Blackbox, Masthead, Side Reality, Generator, Tin Lustre Mobile, foam:e, Eratio, XStream, A Chide's Alphabet, 5_Trope, The Dream People, Aught, Blackboard Project, Starfish, Kulture Vulture, Znine, Newtopia, Pettycoat Relaxer, Great Works, canwehaveourballback, Gypsy, Kichen Sink, Wandering Hermit Review, and Cranky.