"Bright Chanticleer" and "Detective Book Tea"
Bright Chanticleer
me anew; anew my place,
anew my makes
my place make afraid, flowers, & birds, & you, ink,
breaks (dime) will hurt your birds,
as Greeks're broken so're
mine from my "My lines perfect the again, lyre, die, -- "
Science Fiction Book Club, Dept. 5-PBI-D
Garden City, New York
me chilly on creeping dew, this leaves me're as
Greeks're broken, & as flowers, so as birds, then
so museum-glue for Clasping-Ago,
& the elegists,
too-newly too-laureled, they played the word away
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brings you
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by Isaac Asimov
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the word quivered on their lips before
pronunciation blew it aloft & word lies
there still, noiseless as the inks of
elegists, tho their parchments were
to gown the sea & name the sea Virginia &
turn her against their glimpses
A__________A
they gowned only ink &
ink haunts their hands yet, never so tremulous &
literary as when cherubs're
smeared between'm,
& you, too-
newly too-laureled,
what use is anew... & anew?
when were whose's blossoms in your debt, ever?
DIRECTIONS
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2. Fold section (1)
down over
dime.
3. Fold section (2)
up over dime.
4. Fold section (3)
along "museum-
glue" line.
5. Insert point (B)
of triangular
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slot (A___A)
6. Fill in name
and address
and mail in an
envelope to
address above.
ink to,
oh do,
un-
perplex
their
minstrel-
sy
for, perplex'd,
their eyes do
run tears out-
pacin' tears of
the Blood Lady
her voice chilled
the elegists anew as
the mouths in their
face ruined the word to
"...to 'give me another
dime while you're at it'"
to
vivacity for havoc'd lips, for
Virginia's elfin liberty, but my
libretty, neither, o'ercome any
693-page science fiction classic
nor on my lips perches, anew,
the word Greeks're, still, inking
Detective Book Tea
shady
mid-
breath
animals
on your
arm,
Heaven,
in your
company:
five bears
missed
but
food and nails
& that
death
everybody
somehow tails
crickets
do
fascination
roast cold
even the
mountains
are
dealing
w/ rabbits
first stack
flashes are
dog words
with flurries
outwash
drypoint
glaring,
say all
the cats
were
pigskin
the kicky
stump
piano house,
and to
buttes
slipped
in
What's
New
Mountains
in picking
cover,
Poe caught
in detective
book tea
center in
on repeats,
pickles,
knuckles north
snow,
pendulum
as
kept
needle
of
snow,
like
of
home
&
method-
milling
thunder
bark
hoopsnake
sundown,
pumpkin
clanging
holes,
removes
&
turrets
half-
rather
I
named
the
snooze
the
mothers
say
more
res
er
voirs,
the
windows
on forks
peak
clever
hairs
w/out
bees,
neons,
or
mumps,
just
this...
Jeff Harrison has publications from Writers Forum, Persistencia Press, and Furniture Press. He has e-books from BlazeVOX and Argotist Ebooks. His poetry has appeared in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press), three Meritage Press hay(na)ku anthologies, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Otoliths, Moria, and elsewhere. Jeff recommends the American Red Cross.