Tina Darragh

 

Joan, Lynn, Tina

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 hasn’t 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 I’m not going for this in a
big way.  There’s a usual place where he eats his lunch and
(clothespin) I’ll walk in and (clothespin) walk up to him
and (clothespin) ask where the stuff is and (empty basket)
he’ll tell me. On the way there, I can’t go in.  I look
like I’m 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