from TH VULTURE S O FELL

 

Zebulon Wimsatt

 

 

 

 

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TH VULTURE S O FELL

 

THATISTOSAY,SUCHWRETCHEDWIGHTS

ASDOSTRANGE

 

a n walker

who walkswith cane

 

who walkswitch

 

wrong box elders mothernight

 eft foot

twelflegged doesdeck th

 

      eggs hell

henlip, is hindlip

 

a f lower each is

o f lower reaches

 

a s lowers each’s vehicle

     over the

           helllip. . . 

     ovar airy wires of flame

 

th transvection of which

 

thenlapses th

      egg

verses allveil

 

     and avail

           of th

    hand flailth

bush honedsickle

 

bole suckt by th

     varydevil

 

vert from

  thevery rock

 

monksh od thengrailled th pur plish forewing

    shied blurocket

sambucked rendred haldher buckthorn woundgood roundrose in gules bluet

 

 

 

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go be low, th

basalcups

go burrow

                  

fitchspelt, th  

foalcat underfirred

        pitchedback

 

toadstoathroat

froggluts

          in

 

unholderness

   darksnest

 

how nigh here

might jar

      FURLORN

 

th cur and th

curling unfurred

furling

    nightlong

      herhorn and

           HEXEDHARE

 

the harkspurred mare

sheseams

         of night

 

  how

  now

: howl, NIGHTNOUN

 

in th inner badroom

 

     timesvolvar

th black

basaltbase

 

th barescrow

th umbler of vinnards

 

THISSOLITARYBODYWITHOVERLAPPING

 

s elves

 h

 

 herrest

 hisshumor

a mask

a mask

 

loth to lee

           ve

 

 

 

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arms couped

     cuffed

  abducted

 

its everhorses

itssevered arms

 

blowshorn in harmness

 

 THYSSOP

o STYRUP ironrode

         ironwould

     hop

     hop hornbeam

up

  on haunchpad th

     haundred horse holmworld

 

  hoovinground

th rovinground

  paceship

    to hipshape bellwithers

 

but

sentdown

to th end

of th

    township

thendownslips

stream

s

 cream collared sgalloped hem

lock lopper

   clip

   clop

    hoofskirted

chasend

    LICKPOCK or

PICKLOCKET

 

    clovsed

     loop

 

short shootspur

clipperss

c issors

    clockshearings

s havedhad

 

hearsword

lesswhisper

thenoiseless pathst

 in heartshearing

 

th broacken

    clock

the hole in the

    heathers

midsummer do r

 

MEADOWWHEREOFYOUCAN

SEENOEND

 

    tearingher

badgown

 

 gall op th

earth

 gild overthe ground low

   CLOPHOVER

 

timeleft longgone

      th jumpup

 : spedwell a s

thisped al

   sped all

 

rode ten rod rode

starrup iron
  RAGAND ROD

 

herherls stood up

 

herleft fellow

   let  fall

           low

th furskins of sleep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zebulon Wimsatt is the folio editor at Anomaly, and holds an MFA from Brown University.  Their previous work can be found at a-n-skilligkton.net.  They work in public libraries in New Hampshire. 

 

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