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