Poetry
A Brand New Dance, Forget the Island, What Leads
A Brand New Dance
Carrying a table for your
Later again you can’t tell
Everything develops who’ll try
Harder it was a whisk
A culvert a camel in the mirror
With a ring marked to mumble
The friction discover in dollars
Colors raspberry reaction trilling
By the doll off or over
Passes as the pressure
The waive of its dibs
Felt my knee question blade
To glide past the rock choosing
Ripple over rip or rift together
On the air and free
Forget the Island
One more tick with a whistle
Inventing the over your shoulder
Who is making idle who
The frog think rate berate
Better with your nose to it
Around the scooter only say
Which way and soon a lighter
People it with drops who
Then the color of bricks
Sounds or a dog throbs
My question under a
Clouds the small train with
A clear swipe at reason
Muffled the tarp one calf
Shines asks recognition first
What Leads
But the dyed derived
And I thought proof
Cupboard border rotten tower
Not waiting yet for the
Learning curve or the nasty
When you could just before
The window fogs the note
A trail of them or anecdotes
Animals tiny socks reflecting
Apology with jealousy sea
Turn whiskers Tiepolo polo
Loaded a term for the top
Small dog teeters roof photo
Torrid as the angle provided
For the cup this time costing
Chet Wiener is the author of Devant l’abondance (P.O.L 2003) and the chapbook WalkDontWalk (Potes and Poets 1999). His poems have appeared in a number of journals in the United States and France. He lives in San Francisco.
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Chet WeinerWeiner's poems have appeared in a number of journals in the United States and France.
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