Monday, May 28, 2018

Heller Levinson - Three Poems


Heller Levinson’s books include LinguaQuake,tenebraed, Wrack Lariat, from stone this running, Smelling Mary, and Toxicity: Poems of the Coconut Vulva. Levinson’s poems and writings have appeared in hundreds of journals and literary outlets around the world. The originator of Hinge Theory, he lives in New York where he studies animal behavior.



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herding silence

through
thistle bramble brine
city clatter

nipping heels
to
tuck back
into
place

footbeats
pound
the
vacuum

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portability

weighted this way that way crepuscularalbinofloss

flirtations signal sluice magnetic hoofbeats pow-wow in vermillion carried away curl curvature tiger crouch blue skies of Kentucky take a train run amok trunk atoll truck island hopping crowbar craze dash along ambulate

sated

tasty circumference chew



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in the pith of swarm

succulence succor
sluice-seethe

a bent
direction
a common al ity

wrest-wallop → wrangler
roustabout roundup

where in the swarm is rumination
the quiver-load ambulating