GEOFFREY OLSEN
from REND
(widespread pilfering)
down out downward rut out cold-handed
worn out weathered tint submerge in gravel
decaying leaf smell swelling flesh
pass at depths despair diamond times edge
ledger types displaced as transfer my
self as transfer intend iridescent spirit
beings wriggle
part centipede
part peacock feathered
feather folds feared image, magic
impart flickering fiduciary my doubt or
my money my absence repeats, stench
this purple fog plurality, grazing
the gaze of a devout abyss a glowing
chasm, a real city, blank fortunes
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weird grieving in dog's mouth tooth green
echoes here weirding green notions in con-
crete, ash pools, molecular poetry, sunset
raptures, rendered fat, puddles, a shrift-
less subsiding stalled blur heard
future lease felt past torrents
blue fold
falls
welling
bubbles in glare window's glaze flick-
ering ash fires indwelling my me
iridescent soul centipede, absence in
theft interiors stilled mobile consciousness
grieving in dog's jaws meat piece
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accumulates not to just drop in haze
raising that sound internal memory
razor edge meant lingering in
feeding settlement seeding dismemberment
dismissive of song's latent missive
shot rhythm shit we wait we pulse
repulsion's
slick orb
a fogged blank morass sheltered
in biome: incidence where the texture
pops: pupae : splits as growth where
latent, moves too fast too serene the
drone song wall that water accumulates
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Geoffrey Olsen is a poet in Brooklyn, NY and is the author of five chapbooks, most recently Livid Remainders (above/ground press 2023). Nerves Between Song, his first book, will be published by Beautiful Days Press this year.