Ruta

flinders
sunk
drat
mule
comb dust




Mano

índice
pulgar y pulgas
martillo largo
carne y cumbre




Meld

fold your tune
bet belter
issue loath
paw
and pause




Lung

“pensive” rice
sat clown
blat it all
crisp tongue


John M. Bennett

Noun that I've been watching (83)

sandpaper.

hermit edges out vehicular
approaches

terrain's a wildie
one blows open doors windows

windblown follicles reverse the charge
unless you will unhand

the law of similars offers finally
magician work

whatever works reviles philosophy
that needs a coat

of paint (little to say except
surface rarely deceives, being

of course one step away from
one step away

Noun that I've been watching (82)

graph.

primary colors and their kin
bliss the page.
I have an appointment
to be tested
for my capture
of the phrasal wavelength
of absorption by sight.

I was forty years old
when the eyes were freed
of their deep brown
and started taking in.

vividity shames
dowd. it is simple
to be noticed, far more
difficult to dovetail
knowing and being known.

look at the river
from up here
and see land
being carved away.

there is a mark
and an absence
of a mark.

there are colors
shifting with the volume
of light
and spawn of shadow.

there are particulates
both seen and unseen.

there is the trumpet player
framed in a neat white
window.

everyone speaks
of how he plays.
perhaps we each
imagine him
fixated on the page
of notes.

perhaps he hears
by heart.

Noun that I've been watching (81)

report.

isn't any envy packed with lore scape
concentrated overage
and tribal few.

in a minute, pages
will elapse and
veto impulse
qualified
rapport comme ca
"as you were"

vindicable so-so
praxis punch points
local veerage
and topeka lower case
"what's wrong with"
this long list of of of

corpus crease
and leaky vintage
opus twelve
until I fall
no fault of our own
owned

repetition cloaked
penciled in
minimal revered
repair and flocked
like trees
at winter noon

give a preemptive
launch pore
in a minute
honey
fractions
freaking
fallen
few

speculum
retreat
and pored
across

stems
roots
earth
sans
blister
sans
evidence
of any
kinder

Noun that I've been watching (80)

other people.

oath of off(ice)
ornery as the pro
nun
cia
shun of the negative "un"
by friends who would say "on"

the trills within
boat float
begin with all
benignity

the stigma
of a whale
of a lot of
(fun),
(talent),
(good looks)
lock in
(lock down)
the free ex
press (i)on
of and of and of

it all a
mounts to
other people
windowing and windowed
down upon by these eyes
(made for melodic equals)

parts of whole
begun song thus
begin to seem
the whole
figment of speech
while docile moves
(by docents sipping their
dos equis)

capsize combines
in the faltering
tall season
of july

shrapnel (death knell)
simpering
retrieves the what from
"you're made of"
and 'vinces all the chap(erone)s
of an inverted depth
(perception being all the rage)

defining on the page
the world stage
slathering on redemption
in the wool mood of a pseudonym
as nimble as a reach toward
hemispheres with luck in them

Noun that I've been watching (79)

eyes.

cream carefree daylight
framed in windows
salts oncoming rain.

we match solitudes
and watch daylight
hatch a natural
wafer line
of overcast.

if a wave were here
to nest the craft
slipped by
we would avoid
deciphering
sealed observations
thin along lined
paper our collective
mood brought down
by branches in the motion
of our atmosphere.

leaves interfere with
verticals and capsized
places lit along
script fallen on the sand.
a divot cradled
has been lost to scenery
just where it landed.

any day now consolation
will fall forward
in the dim contagion
loftier than spun light
given sumptuous turns
of partial light
revealing damages by thirds.