from More
David Wolf
mooner uptown with nonentity a dance of adaptive
noise and epitome what unbelievable tension
taught
ensuing run to the ambling sands nurture on
ciliate eavesdropper
.
in the nook a vote to oust an egad
from the bushes ours to fuse
voltage’s ulterior dream undone
fury of the swab to bury the ouch
dung furling
.
opus warped putzing around the fair
on the cusp of the weak push
to gush wrapped void no visa
the gust
tufts of curt purring edited cry of the gull
.
peak exfoliation quiets the gilded dew’s quirk a hoax
quits the larded haul
expect what and why to huddle on a dime
it’s a question all of it first to last
heckled bind
.
another quandary a yearning
for a reedy halt envoy to the grainy irk
yeah I suppose excitement exits
intrepidly voiced to emit rank gain
like an icon might
.
a rip in the hazy snooze idling fazed
as the sagas josh unhinged azure
flurry easily junked wearily farmed
in the shaggy hereafter
such joy hoped for
.
seam-scud awe of the tug back
to jest’s nourishing
grin and tally the knitted amens
zero’s zeal spirited from the kiln
axed guff tiered ivied just so
.
laughter salts late and ajar
outdrawn as any unity
girding in vain hewn
to endure the ringing slog
alms for the lauded thaw
.
tones bright as the upshot
keening with just a hint of use
beeping ache after aster
after ache anew
deep in the abandoned look’s yapping halo
.
understood to jeer some keepers
a pianissimo rising to a dissonant balm
instilling artful neglect
a roiling a nettling clutched cure-all
herb-song
David Wolf is the author of seven collections of poetry, Open Season, The Moment Forever, Sablier I, Sablier II, Visions (with artist David Richmond), Weir (a micro-chapbook from Origami Poems Project), and Seven. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and journals, including BlazeVOX, Cleaver Magazine, dadakuku, decomp, E·ratio, Exacting Clam, Indefinite Space, Lotus-eater Magazine, New York Quarterly, Otoliths, River Styx Magazine, Transom, and Utriculi. He is a professor emeritus of English at Simpson College and serves as the poetry editor for Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts.