October 26, 2005, and: Visiting Pike Place, 2003
Rent from DeepDyve- October 26, 2005, and: Visiting Pike Place, 2003
October 26, 2005
The two thousand faces cover the news-paper as if dirt thrown up in a digfor dark prize. Use it to pack away the weddingglass, thin as a sick eagle's eggs. Try Matthew5:44. Mamaw's got the Zenithon dressage. Their coats shine. Honey, wash that first.Safe-keeping. You never would crop your horse.Would it've mattered if they'd run faster? Green zonejust a stone's throw. The stars wink at you. Try myth,vengeance. Dump one of the covered dishes.Benefits make sense only with the new math.Fill pan with husbands, oil, and poisoned fish.Pile slices American cheese on top.Serve to the spoilers. Offer bread to sop.
Visiting Pike Place, 2003
O Valentine's. Lobster. Abomination!This February day. Surrender! Monk-fish.No! Pretty pink-brown. Candy hearts makeme sick. Grim-faced men with beautiful. Rushby. Flowers. Tightly gripped. A few bouquetshave slender branches of forsythia.I can't watch. Sea bass. Nothing can breathe here.Shimmery scales. No one. Some buy beaucoupde foie gras. Somewhere else. Pinned flappy feet. [End Page 94] Every creature has an element. Trappeddoesn't count. Mission figs. Looking for a fight.I love tuna. Pears. Poison air. Dates. Troopsmoving. Bombs. Gifts. Destroyers. Please make way.The Sound hurries. Sweet talk. Carried away. [End Page 95]
Susan Goslee's poems have recently appeared in Indiana Review, Third Coast and Hayden's Ferry Reivew. She is an assistant professor at Idaho State University.
