Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009

from Lag

from Lag one is left with a sound against the silence of the world, Keats in a discotheque smears content as paraphrase, a left side to residue, showing not saying, each laryngitic whispers that tokens are truths, but hearing smell is too narrow, shrewd not cheroot, the homo or the hetero diegetic tour guide with his cat food schedule, dirt when immortal, no parts are the same, i am washing to myself the hands, Brahms as a diet from units of blood, the problem of death is a structure too soon, a bound form can’t occur alone, flaps studied brevity of members meets coercion in the lymph node, recipient verdure moving moment, the napkin snapped, or saxophone, the book’s condition as a middle, two nine eight twelve three, conservative not vice versa, with the sonnet a failure emotions are photographed, sustained beige over accidental inkspot, the literal from metaphor reversing this, with tusk as an entity, a version of size finding patience, cockroach concomitance, the impression here of having winch or glee, a radio scanning fanbelts onto meadows even seen, the dank before mirk inside skipping it, corrected frames are not neglected, pronoun at worst a construction, squeezed into road ruts common frisbees, values peel viewers into power, parents are shocked at this, but my own comb’s bits of strips, logical space there are no objects, compounds more serious than Kaluha, called steal not cold steel, thought to win was advance, no lemons no melon, testate back formation, the umber seen as this between six intervariegations, Jack a common fellow, patch a correction to a stretched degree, my singularity and out of place from an autograph the moulds of miles, it’s a butcher not Athens owns the aisles of grease, this is two edged sense through all known corridors, every landscape political, the cast of characters chart the actors’ faces, fragments by part, a kidney’s diameter, inchoate storm scene between Millicent, her role in sketching, takes this length from ligatures and the cold side for thirteen, thumbs by their yield, a special garret at the back, eight one one three seven seven five two two, i.e. the thickening of initial strokes to point a cursive hand that’s seldom constant, there is an open sea and chastity delays, all middle loops lift brown, the foot in i have read them with eyes, semicolon selection, a thorn, a wyn, an izzard, the edh, that wholesale freeze in corner sheets, Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 / 35 contents of a sangiad reminiscent of a finger by Ron, comma mutation, water weighed and fifteen problems, Hanoi not annoy, through body parts this stays grammatical, after midnight comes commentary, hates how the latch nears vicinity, in these parts fringes on vaticinations, titles for the coming year, plankton evaporations, an appendectomy contemporary with the spoilt version of a batch, Novrad sides reversed is Darvon, habit as half way lantern at ash boughs, begins what at bridges, a candle in latin that perfects this gulf stream, so the kettle begins it, also watching me, a visa for fatherlands plus apoplexy said aloud, completes a fiction in the manner of the peasant as dissent remains departure, essential element versus paint, the humanitarians hint samaritan hue, attack against effacement here, in the power of the plus we guarantee this real, id as a show in a major role, it takes the place of the history it’s losing, computers build new archives, something diffuse set in, the concept of violence which harbours consumption, seven three two three nine, false logic extends turning sour at a lime, third world debt is when taxation matters, Spinoza indigo, four forty five Henry Moore, they are sired by wishing out of messenger to a life no longer than its zero claim, the integrity of this form is never more than each subsidiary structure, creosote behaving as the recombinant spreads veils, tense isle not tensile, a man on a bus forgets his age, allied times Artemis, a sociology of towels the way the car starts in rain, wool a commodity in trapezoid bleat whilst traps net counter to belief, the regime of a face never closes its head, slippage into mirror effect at the same time tubes glue canvas as deterrent diaries, pull up if i pull up, or a new French dressing, farm fallows function if i close my mouth to hear my eyes, delegation’s oiled agents, right margins missive hats, the...