Jeff Harrison

2 poems

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A Piece of My Noisy Endless Double That Echoes Forgot


some slave
perished
over his oar -
these limbs
must belong
to some other slave,
fictional, a low motion
from a lofty actor
who cried to
applause "all moss
our cries all moss"
upon crisping
handfuls of
script to his lip
"we sang, mourn-
ful and wrong,
asphodel & asphodel,
the thorn smiled at
our names for the thorn"

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Cawein Columbus & Virginia


This is the last voyage of wit and taste, fashion gratifies the sublime
You, Madison Cawein, have every scrap of paper connected to
this connection of yours (an architect for a dramatist!), the
first of which stores anecdotes for military service while
coal receives revival at the Cawein dinner table
Every scrap of information bears a wine dealer to your
concrete bunker
....................marriage mistaken to produce this
formidable bicycle saluted by ovation
fraternally tangible, phantasmagoria remained inert,
a fifth-floor walkup without tarot training - Madison
................Cawein, extricate yourself from such parts the
woodbine must remember -
..................................it is up to you to become the
.....................Christopher Colombus of forgetfulness
On a scale of unromantic rhythms Virginia's beauty when
the lights are polarized provokes a trying shame
....................Cawein, the wound of the morning came while
you were preoccupied with war-torn gratifications -
......it's always found in the last place you'd think to look

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Jeff Harrison has publications from Writers Forum, MAG Press, Persistencia Press, and Furniture Press. He has two e-books at xPress(ed), and one at Blazevox. His poetry has appeared in The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Xerography, Moria, NOON: journal of the short poem, Dusie, MiPOesias, and elsewhere.