Friday, February 10, 2023

Jim Leftwich Hicucu 2023

 

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

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