Volume 15:2
Spring 2014
realities arc = origins
beginning:
beginning to be: slightly
es desk/money
es money/third party/money
es in/money
es former Hispanic money
es eat
es armorial bearings
es Protestant Apocrypha
ese peculiar to
ese power to shape disparate things
ese alkaloid formed from the calabar bean
Eskimo, ridge or, Eskimo
softly dense
passes down the neck
pi act of noticing
pi rougish
pi tapping
level open stretch of
forcing steam through
Zane Grey esquire Algonquian
Poem (“Murphy hasn’t called”)
Murphy hasnt called. The stuff I left at his place is still
there & when I made a note of that this morning I put down
sully when I meant silly and Im not going for this in a
big way. Theres a usual place where he eats his lunch and
(clothespin) Ill walk in and (clothespin) walk up to him
and (clothespin) ask where the stuff is and (empty basket)
hell tell me. On the way there, I cant go in. I look
like Im window shopping when a guy with long hair and
a beard gets reflected next to fuzzy bedroom slippers and
(fundamental particle – furnace) Murphy is at the rear table.
I motion to him, he turns to face me, and I completely prince
frock bar mantle tariff piston gourd towel sulphur
cathode rabbit water winter detergent dot
Joan Belmar, “Route #3,” acrylic, ink and gouache on paper, 2013
little finger
convential iris
having the ends of the arms broadening out into the heads
past tense of fly
the pendulous lateral part of a dogs upper lip
sat the strap as he talked
laying aside skin as old Scots for frighten
Fred MacMurray + turkey
police in Paris
old horse with a whip
dust off his shoes
cigarette against ashtray
eyes over the group
a signal with a mirror
wavering light often used in the plural
a step in a straight flight of steps
geeseing on the marsh
zippered outside pocket
determined to have one last
flip-flop
religious imagery in the work of p. inman
strands of rope are laid righthanded
downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting
moment of a righting couple
looks away along it
writh lice
as those of a harbor
to
cut to its longest axis
stage right
right to work
right triangle
circumpolar seas
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Lake of Lucerne 5906 ft. having infinite values for its shear
modulus at the knees any transformation that the distance between
points is preserved the star nearest the sun confused, incoherent,
foolish obsolete of circle = trench, gutter
Southern U.S. a small stream opera by Verdi muscle tissues
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praise + knowledge
(things)
seaport in Yugoslavia; part of Italy, 194247
Dutch name for river, treaty, rickshaw, reichstag
to irritate (water or the like)
James Whitcomb Riley
Italian architecture, low relief
Rainer Maria Rilke
but not go in and not go in
Rimbaud rhyme
identical rhyme frost
perfect rhyme driving a fid
rich rhyme rim + fire
full rhyme backlighting
rim lock rim man rim rock rim stone rimple rind
cattle plague Mary Roberts Rinehart ENFORCE ring of water
ring of smoke
dark rings around the eyes
dance in a ring
annual ring
Two recent works by Tina Darragh are freely available online: Deep eco pré, a collaboration with poet Marcella Durand residing on the Little Red Leaves web site, and opposable dumbs (Object 001, zimZalla Avant Objects, Manchester, UK). Darragh lives in Greenbelt, MD, and earns her keep as a librarian. To read more by this author: Plan B Press Issue