Emmett Lewis

Don Cherry Kissed My Throat

Martins elbow truncated place
Crease heptagonal.
Piebald & grasping but timely grapeseed
Torments falsely. Grass breaks
Inveterate shade.
Tractor grout: && only grapes. Canoodling
Rake (somehow raking): hollow cotton. Meaning
Shapes torrential (i.e. crepuscular
Diphthong thirty-two), &&& circuitous.

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Ode on a Golden-crowned Kinglet

Drvier’s side: siedreral imapct, leaf
-Litfing. Plsatic flies loats out wndw
Ouhthuouse onto hwy treeces.
Bareft boxsers kyk pkwy. Fttd sheeets of snd &/or sou
-Ound ft elgeieac dr slm. Lng wht
Hwk shtt stretetches twsts: lst wht.
Elbws w/o socket: clvr clvr dirt bentnd laevf emulsfire.
Yohohwoo—pock pcokets or
Altitttude arhryrhtmatic. Stpl eiyices
& ample & steirle
—Stucco stuockco—raidnrdop lhght.

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Emmett Lewis is a poet living in Queens, New York. He is currently working on two interrelated books of poetry: AMBULANCE (short poems) and HOSPITALITY (one long poem). His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Chicago Review, Tagvverk, fieldnotes, Works & Days, berlin lit, HAD and elsewhere.