toward weather shifts
this ligature
flowers harden into radical act
eastern salve escorts to black
choice rinse tertial arrangement
in rebellion nominally
spills (dawn) across
to stoke, its very cloth figures
the hemisphere pulls close
the coast in declension
the bird who ekes it
out, school air, tonight
oar-thick, chiggers lost
through grid, the green
cools down, everything
visual can still happen, after
Kathleen's bright papers
start, pleat to peruse
macadam wholesale, durable
kiss, the moil helms
the dreamer, mammal-
urgent you for scallop
song, in all whittled
inflammation around
vegetal interview with
animals always taking the brunt
enough mineral fact, garden into
a season, the illustration
amasses lettuce, choir little
electrical smear over apple
harvest patient as hip
shot through with gold
alights particular declension:
disaster supports the body (Brian)
so sufficient difference is
succulent, spondee
the body its interstice
a macadam
illness narrows light into root
sheds
its particular tenet
a characteristic :
recur
contingencies in ink
summer tuned machine
of photograph pursues sun
an array of thought into view
a copse
discontinuous branches of efts
assist radiance sermon scraps
grid of light late the hymn
the rosaried weather
David James Miller is the author of
As Sequence (These Signals, 2012) and
Facts & Other Objects (JR Vansant, 2011). His poetry and critical reviews can be found in:
The Cultural Society,
Interrupture,
Moria,
Drunken Boat,
The Poetry Project Newsletter,
Jacket2, and elsewhere. He is editor of Elis Press and
SET, an annual (-ish) journal of innovative poetry. He lives with his family.
Gracie Leavitt was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Maine, and currently resides in Brooklyn. She was a finalist for a 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and her recent work has appeared in
Conjunctions,
Lana Turner,
LIT, T
he Recluse, and
Sentence. She is the author of
MONKEYS, MINOR PLANET, AVERAGE STAR (Nightboat Books, 2014).