Irrational Arms
Jasper Brinton
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irrational arms
gesture with indifference
mood or token scram
should the leap scope
the usual escape
calm her lullaby
the real argument
pry indifference from excess
the childhood fixation
the stuffed monkey
2
simplicity of virtue
immodest all the while
why the cricket sings
the bull in the ring
broken by our cubes
he’ll image and freeze
play and shuffle
permitted permanence
and yet not savant
but expertly tuned
3
basic management
portals are bright
artfully guided which
tap to glass to wish
omit from the slip
but tallies a chit
mislaid out of pocket
same as the keeper
hardly an upstart
love you give on
4
trees are metaphors
as are arbor days
root for the climax
splendid with years
dancing in character
the crow’s weathervane
answers for nature
a few states away
the emerald beetle
ash yew oh chestnut
5
prank in the foyer
grasped by the man
honors the woman
just crust and loaf
work up a favor
eagle in the wind
pleased by the mirror
but was I herbal
downhill scavenger
a year moved on
6
fatted and pummeled
the torn design coefficient
techniques the observer
as displaced by a unicorn
in camera malnourished
para-fictitious but who speaks
of nine fingers in ten files
as carefree nacre fragments
implement a mollusk folio
break out in petit point
7
pancake maneuver or
odor of a puzzlement
alters domestic language
that the switch position
encounters pleasure
accouterments as fresh
as lasting froth
see Spot liberate the ball
profile a guarantee or
mechanize hell’s kitchen
8
writing reverses the stream
blown rain induced failure
reads the washing machine
alone traveling by camel
taken by train to the coast
the odd channel conveyance
worth gapes a single button
living out of the trunk
official carbon jewelry
chimney pots vin ordinaire
9
you have madam what’s two dimensional
that these letters fall outward from the fan
salient controversy discovered on a billboard
if you procure his spatiotemporal difference
that will argument the verbiage of a foreigner
one Picasso certainly attributed to La Monde
as ignorance the unconscious enters in parallel
conceivably derivations for a painter’s world
functional but nappier than stripped pants
vital as such the delights of fitted ingredients
10
the author considers sloppy language
broadcast marigold orange extravagance
taught topography non linear being
courage of an inchworm’s exténuation
a true heart at rest free of a padlock
cool split limestone polished underfoot
or bridge to begin by the light of the moon
the temporary stubbornness of a chime
tho night shiftings take devil footwork
engagé he’ll maneuver well by noon
11
relief in need automates confession
the burnt shirt tires of discount
oriental lacquer grinds scenic
handwriting deep into constitutional
screens shows government nests
colonize honeysuckle by mistake
but armed against yard water who
would mop the threat aggravate
sibilance overarch the theme
practically chock our tip ladder
12
because life waits
captured little stories
draw from pale menus
permanent permissible
romantic octaves
defenseless appreciations
rough when a restaurant’s
sclerotic azure offers
capital identity loss
civilized self-strife
13
dialectical words stir
as the caress trial survives
metric raspberry strings
inured before moving
or letting a gentle comet
bend grow in the wind
stroked by new nights
that diplomat the sun
pleased by the navigation
rites of minted minds
14
lads lasses well you did it
rings on fingers for symbols
thank goodness w/o title
last of May for perfect days
caps the viewer’s satisfaction
while any Cypriotic formula
takes that proud wish for love
at least one flight attempt
before seashell free Venus
releases sloth from captivity
15
deciding what influence most honest
opposes the boned carcass the knife blade
in that its hopeless to discriminate
other than to collage excitation’s meat
or with a meteorite excuse the killing
or resolve together like a crowned monk
tucked by the screen into temperament
the eventual the dividend into cake and ale
our longing to raise our inward surface
exempt from boardwalk and restitution
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sometimes graze a million wallows
while word setups stall a level spreader
gives the sovereign lad auto-drainage
plays the mechanic just as storm
an always child scratches the breast
animates a number of tangible acres
except the soil engineer who’s cleared
expunged by the homefront appendix
carves a fine hillside according to code
renders you book hiker a watershed
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morbid but expensively fertilized
spared under a traffic blanket
paused between toggled sticks
announced in the anti-chamber
where riches sensation a curdle
so told that apples are at work
think futilitarian thought happily
America a folio delicately creased
hints of superior epicyclical worlds
voices sailing thru breeze-block
Jasper Brinton was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and was educated in the Middle East, Scotland and the United States. His poetry has appeared in Eccolinguistics, On Barcelona and Truck. Jasper Brinton is online at JasperBrinton.com.
