Jim Leftwich
Hicucu
2023
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fingernail
fingernail
gnat gnat gnat
gnat finger
gnat nail
knot knot knot
gnat gnat knot
finger knot
nail knot nail
gnat germ whale
not knot gnat
mail knob nub
knit note mull
worm knight nob
milk gate bulb
bag clip blue
heron mes
quite gibbous
wind gently
swaying long
thin tree limbs
wine waving
hinge scent bee
lyric climbs
fire wedge lyre
wavicle
spent the crumbs
bread beets bunch
lettuce beats
hunch punch bread
liquid cam
era squid
square squirrel
sand footprints
dirt soil wind
boiling soul
garlic riv
er chair mint
mindful far
of course it
is a po
em poem
I was stand
ing sitting
downwind form
downstairs from
the standard
poem jazz
watching the
sunset on
California
watching the
Colorado
river flow
watching the
sunset on
Arizona
over the
Colora
do desert
sketch bream drip
ping stream vetch
slippage page
satchel cheese
keening hatch
et two brutes
simmering
salaman
der duties
cat food sha
dow line break
padded vat
cat flood sha
man line wreck
paddle moat
bat foot lin
ear wreckage
mote puddle
bat pudding
linear
goat muddle
boat padding
limping ear
layered ghosts
map above
trash above
shadow rug
reflects emp
ty bottle
of water
wind-up the
poem and
follow it
follow it
around your
porous room
like cats out
of their bags
following
three lines and
three sylla
bles per line
three and three
and four or
three two three
varia
tion or var
iation
count to hear
hear and stop
counting
even un
cle smoking
fish for you
uncle un
cle mocking
fish for you
evil un
cle drowning
fish for you
badlands salt
flats ravens
my feet hurt
the hero
with ten thou
sand faces
mesquite sand
dunes bursa
my feet hurt
no more he
roes heroes
anymore
quartz snow as
phalt salt mines
abandoned
wind no wind
shoelaces
land and shin
shinbones lint
pickup trucks
thin pine kones
sneeze thorn sap
squeeze horn flap
snap lorn breeze
shoe hoe tow
ing wing hinge
showers how
cringe nervous
pangs of ink
blinking curves
imbricate
albeit
otherwise
what do you
think he had
on his mind?
elsewhere is
herein we
herring ere
laminate
ulcerate
celerate
mesquite bush
bushel bask
et cetera
screwbean cork
screw acre
spork & screen
scream & spark
creatine
chord peen few
quell quill quail
pelt pill pail
melt mull mail
jolt jilt gel
molt milk meld
bolt bilk belt
contraption
shun corn trap
trapeze horn
they do not
just happen
no do not
at bat cat
eat fat gate
hatch latch patch
sawtooth dirt
eyetooth blurt
savvy shirt
kangaroo
rat raven
rang vent
gravel veil
vault wind pit
pelt wail tilt
learn the rules
break the rules
Eat at Joe's
bad deed hid
mod mud pad
red rid rod
turtle screen
sun palm slope
slurp preen lurch
dash roll bread
bottle mint
read brash moil
pole tire shed
sleeping trench
tread tense pyre
twenty first
century
poetry
cluster of
emotions
memories
cluster of
observa
tions words chords
cluster of
thoughts dreams in
tuitions
cluster of feel
ings quickly
remembered
cluster of
vernacu
lar mind minds
ordinar
y mind re
collected
cluster of
minds in tran
quility
cluster of
notes emotes
memory
cluster of
dendrites think
ing spacetime
cluster of
axons mea
suring time
synapse syn
tax rhythms
of the gaps
vitamin
tweezers fob
twin zen freeze
ankle spoon
plastic air
tuning clast
container
dog boot cap
clear brain drone
magnetic
nerve valve of
gravity
electric
nerve swerve of
gravity
prophetic
nerve curve of
gravity
noetic
nerve curse of
gravity
twist shiny
torn blue sky
thigh brine torque
dust handle
toes wiggle
sand wanders
I am an
Ameri
Can poet
edge crush test
parking lot
box of stain
edge parking
box of crusts
test clot rain
wedge box vest
stark if glut
wings rust brains
muscular
windy light
cellular
molecules
of light wind
singular
modular
wind and light
particles
creosote
screwbean boat
coat of seams
O Ring O
Ring Ring O
O O Ring
paper seed
paper clut
ter paper
proper seams
seems pauper
paper steam
rapid dream
steaming pie
rattles steep
learn the rules
take a walk
take a nap
learn escar
got break a
garden nose
escargot
garden hose
nose for it
bicycle
I thought so
step right up
follicle
I thought so
have a seat
comedy
I doubt it
take your time
get in line
irony
so it goes
have had enough
they don't care
tragedy
blinking light
link end kin
blight winking
sunset nod
ding burro
saguaro
sun ring snag
sent burn gua
va bring bag
scent burnt quag
mire mirror
ing bent sags
break the rules
forget your
place in time
ocean hawk
eagle nest
rotting bridge
ocean eggs
plotting raw
desk spleen rids
spleen lotter
y dusk figs
thawing lids
spine why gnaw
ing pine eye
clawing wings
yucca yuc
ca yucca
creosote
family
of hippies
in a bus
bus labeled
public trans
formation
palm tree side
walk laundro
mat Buddha
stardust sleep
ing bag palm
tree Shiva
It is bet
ter than The
Business Plan
seams branch beans
creekside bench
and balance
semblance blanche
branching seems
and balance
seems bunched beans
bricolage
unbalanced
how many
hominy
harmony
harmony
humus dew
point Buddha
Buddha bread
roadrunner
bred puddles
compose rose
prose impose
poems at noon
crow raw cow
craw row caw
crew few flew
an author
ity auth
ority
ambit split
spilt almond
milky way
verb reverb
verbiage
ageless verb
charge discharge
recharge in
charge charm school
chat bot box
turtle bat
cave curveball
predict the
slowest route
away from
predict the
flow away
west snout form
predict the
cow vest theme
as the norm
predict the
cowering
investors
an it or
ant ant or
the or ant
ant knit nor
slant ant ore
nor want it
ant slant nor
knit ant want
nor ore it
dust devils
to the west
and snowcaps
a haiku
compression
half as much
twice as much
compression
as haiku
twice comb ash
ash press high
such sun cut
twice mash stitch
comb price spun
rash pie cut
wince comb rush
rice mince pine
cut spin scorch
rinse mice clut
ter tomb spin
ach dusts wine
forget rules
read a book
write more poems
furious
burping flag
decal
in spontan
eous fin
ality
Fred Daylight
Fred Midnight
Same mire ore
Fred the same
Mid-day fire
Lightning score
Fred day score
Same mud fire
Middle light
Red name fiddle
Cay mud flight
Porous fire
Red clay fire
Porous game
Doodle plight
Fried June Bugs
Day Box Sore
Light Curved Core
counting the
syllables
one more time
think outside
the boxers
in your socks
think the fin
out box sour
slide fur clocks
think outer
tide thin box
cur flour locks
think toad curved
snout hinge dour
terrapin
boxed flocks think
doubts road im
pinged swerve door
wrench bench since
flench flints perch
berth minced hence
brittlebush
duende
Saturday
morsel salt
seemingly
in a pinch
morsel seam
fin salt glee
dream pinch
seldom beam
sink fault leak
am drenched
silk wink clam
dome hulk drain
berm speak chewed
we are some
where in par
ticular
Ogilby
Road in Cal
Ifornia
nothing could
be feathers
from my mind
wind stirring
sinking sun
coyote
syntax kinks
coyote
stripping light
one tooth tree
forty five
even ate
bone port seve
tune hive sate
tree reaps tree
wearing boots
miles of salt
leave no trace
wearing trace
boots glove no
salted mules
wonder zoo
fortress hive
uneven
wandering
sun seven
cows alive
hand spun nouns
buttons rings
tenderness
honed butter
splinter lung
springs abound
grammar and
spelling and
memory
spelling and
grammar and
servitude
sing cucu
sumer is
icumen
seamless ditch
mopping up
who are whole
getting start
ed edit
ing backwards
dust in wat
er sat in
stead of felt
crimp finger
nail order
dirt crumple
desert bloom
ing trumpet
trim loom shirt
waxing gib
bous moon
crinkled light
grovel veldt
has a log
ic to it
sound as thought
orthogra
phy as thought
gravel road
rumpled light
light wind
ravel veils
whale of light
men are grass
navel whole
bent pales snare
lightning class
novel pent
lhude sing sole
snail class bare
new moon with
the old moon
in her arms
flew thin moon
folding moon
farm the moon
farm folding
the blue think
moon moon moon
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Death Valley CA
Colorado River at Oxbow AZ
