by Tyler Myers
Brand green
mustang
the docent’s
son strung
out Badiou’s
Tet objects
in the glove
box
surrenders
early work
sedimentary
content
forgot
_____
a chaffinch
in cawls
work
an other
word
for smog—
rattan news
printing hats
trimmed
in la grippe
_____
Reset the bone
near a steeple
named for bison
injuries, St.
Botolph
Redeemer
wicking sod
around
this rousing
gala event
cling
peaches
sodium
lights up
coal tits
at dawn
deliberate
the relative
merits of
grouse
haircuts
in 1868
_____
Emerging c’s
gone brunette
in this
type
face strands
raking
light
staging
desert fables
on science
and pugilism
_____
camphor
the green
lindens
unfold
that
fold
company
sketch
artists
dressing
other
trees
_____
starlings in
capillaries
what color
water is—
aheroic
looks
why the Platte’s
so coy, milk-
eyed
CHRISTOPHER MATTISON is author of No Bridge to Kentucky (Slack Buddha Press) and Staticticians (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). He is a senior editor at Zephyr Press, co-director of the series Adventures in Poetry, and translation editor for Zoland Poetry.
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