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New poems by JD DeHart

 

 

Preservation

 

This day, my strength

my now bright vision and hope

To pour an ether on it

and let it slumber, I wish

to keep it just for a while.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

Honey Comb

 

The swarm can be heard

from a great distance, working

busily for sweetness,

not at all like our work.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

To the Bones

 

From inside the arm

to the hollow the leg

and the eternal grin beneath

my temporary one, a rigid

structure beneath vacillation.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

Hungry Mouth

 

They have stretched yawning

mouths and stretched gorging

hearts and their words are

fishhooks to attract our souls

with a subtle inward sting.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

The Way of Death

 

Imagine: The highway stretched

forward with dark crows cawing,

a fire burning always,

and how many groping along that

path when a calm one sits near.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

Lips

 

A thin stream of promise

delivering today’s sermon

and heat, the bottom one

loping down like a pelican

beak and catching all truth.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

Perversity

 

Look at his loud and glaring

way, how he dishonors and grins

and how he pushes his arms

around unwilling passersby.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

The Wink

 

Unspoken message sent

beneath the membrane of words

with a constant blinking eye.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

The Cast

 

They gather, reading through

their lines, not knowing who

wrote the script, but playing

their parts with vigor.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

Taking It In

 

I am sometimes the macrophage

ready to swallow the earth

and all its contents until

a spot of reason burns in

and stops my chewing jaw.

 

 

a line, (a blue one)

 

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