Jeff Harrison
Queen Nab Masquerade
a toast to you, passed-around
worrier
dark surplus water rattling around as
you're bending breathing in white grasses
skin my enthusiasm & see how pretty
it is then, a sequential enthusiasm
anatomy,
layers nabbed clear & ever clearer
if in such clarity we have silence & if
in silence we have death, then in echo we
have the cradle, words don't spread to the
edges of my breath, these edges are
spattered with blowflies, our bones are
the roots of the sky, the hair of our head
is
the bottom seam, is the center of the
Earth,
if this cup could snow, its saucer would be
a bank, Queen Nab, faint with feeding
silence,
words imprisoned on hairs slender like
stakes
dark surplus water in this toast time of
your guts
Jeff Harrison's collection "Fickleyes, Futilears,
& William Wormswork" is available from
MAG Press. His chapbook "The Unread
Is Carefully Ancient" is available from
Writers Forum. His chapbook "Queen
of Hearts" is available from PERSISTENCIA*PRESS. He is #4 in Furniture
Press's PO25centsEM series. He has
two e-books at xPress(ed),
and one at Blazevox. His poetry has appeared in Tin Lustre Mobile,
Nerve Lantern, Sentence, Moria, Shampoo, Side
Reality, BlackBox, Mipoesias,
Big Bridge, Muse Apprentice Guild, VeRT, Cipher
Journal, Dirt, Xerography, Argotist, Poethia, Word for Word, papertiger,
Xerography, Blackbox, Masthead, Generator,foam:e,
Eratio, XStream, A Chide's Alphabet, 5_Trope, The Dream People, Aught,
Blackboard Project, Starfish, Kulture Vulture, Wire
Sandwich, Znine, Newtopia, Pettycoat Relaxer, Great Works, canwehaveourballback, Gypsy, Dusie,
Kichen Sink, Wandering Hermit Review, and Cranky.