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

from The Entries

from The Entries Politician: (not common); large jar or vase of classical antiquity having a round body and wide mouth; three syllables in either horizontal band or a small enclosure for domestic truths. Earthquake: cf. happy hour; the number of earned runs per game scored against a pitcher or elongated feather on a head when detrimental to the genetic qualities of stock; agnostic odium between dialysates. Throat: the laws of the sonic out of doors resembling loud laughter; in its shortened sense a style in braille or state of index in Kentucky; see kurajong (when in ionospheres) cf. back taxes, bullfrog & corrosion. Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 / 19 Limerick: q.v. gymnosophism the beginning of each poetic line as a five year plan with back-support: a seriality in blankness but less parodic than reality; as adv. an abnormality in central guideposts; as n. a Latin word in need of new recruits. Communist: a celestial body with covert landing surfaces found on the edible bark of any social group; the intellect in mutual concession to its fructose tracings on obsequious curves; in Trojan sense: ceased tedium when a sample horse compounds it. 20 / Verse and Worse Impromptu: colloquial coitus, with cogn. belief in sin as paper shredding; as v. a congelation of the belly through a series of nearby representations; the meaning of snail in a law’s relativity to nothing. cogn. free will cf. choice of position on ground. Kungfu: (Scottish dialect) the clandestine left hand coincident to an ontological void; in Germ. lithographic genesis as limning; commonly dehiscent as an etiology of woof; the origin of stain in new discoveries. Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 / 21 Orgasm: the hermeneusis of ascorbic acid requiring the search for poetry in water; rarely adv. tipster grill with lack of interest in desire; three ways to sleep through a simple flatness read superficially the part fringed boundary on edible crustaceans. Raccoon: inedible; a soft, gentle pat propelled across the highway by a motor as v. to fondle scurf (commuted to a bank’s residuary bequest etc.) 2. one in a series of burning perforated covers cogn. facile fatality or lunar maintenance by faith. 22 / Verse and Worse ...