Michael Estabrook small press poet since the 1980s striving always for greater clarity and concision rendering language more succinct and precise more accessible and appealing a Sisyphean adventure for sure. Retired now writing more and working more outside just noticed two Cooper’s hawks staked out in the yard or rather above it which explains the nerve-wracked chipmunks. The Poet’s Curse, A Miscellany is a recent collection (The Poetry Box, 2019).
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NAUSEA
as
gnarle
d
bony
finger
s
knuckl
es
cracke
d
& white
grappl
e
with
my
guts
squeez
ing
out
waves
of
yellow
ish
NAUSEA
the
relent
less
hump-b
acked
glower
ing
drool
ing
press
of
time
calmly
laughs
its
fetid
breath
into
my
blank
&
wrinkl
ed face.
TIC SCRIPTORIUS --
Writer's tic; fast, short, stereotyped, involuntary movements of the writing
arm and hand that result in adventitious inclusions of varying size in
handwriting. Such movements have been
reported in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
(Psychiatric Dictionary)