from "Love”s a tiger truck stop"
Palmetto Byron
Mend me, Genesis
East east east
In the saltpetery my sleep number
is melted diamonds
Bent me creek in the bad way
all 1800BYTRAIN
Weedy reference in all my nooks
not not in the old old
schoolway
but oldlike
GENESIS MEND ME
Eat eat eat
Dale Earnhardt Blvd
Mustache shrine boss /
o ruler o round neuroses
I never touch a bumper
oo buckaroo
on the mustache boss road
one can never tire
(the driving phenomena
burns out behind you)
Old Raver
oo malehysteriaweed oo
behind the
Sunplex light industrial park
coddle creek
poplar tent
pleasant hummy running thru my veins
Yep
A plastic sack of water from the west pearly river
cotton torques beneath you in the form of smothered chevrolets
Bend me over the pearl, let utility lines run thru me
in your wetlands welcome-to
Fawn made dog in its dead dog faced afterword
“Head so a tickle on his shoulders …”
Love’s a tiger truck stop
Breath’s Boats
Liquor barrel waffle
houses all modern consciousness:
Mmm bug pro crab all you can
eat and every night
all day and Saturday
Fishing rodeo god fishing fur god
Armadillo raccoon riggolets
shoebox of roadkill in the midheist ditch
The wild pig temples all ran-thru
on the highway god is the answer tire shop
Thermoking
Souther oscillations
over charge of 2 axles
\
Trollingwood
All metal
Food lion
Beat the air into submission don’t
tolerate humans you haven’t chosen
it’s cold at the top below’s all
performance lime slurry
Rugs international
Great dane bogo psalms
Otter hound
His perfect lips
multi modal crash
with no injuries
Winner winner—
video- monitor’d
“Don’t touch this bumper”
chassis king
Piggypetshop
.com
Beastie Ford
Beauty college
is when you know where to look
(inside)
to a degree
Sweating in this cloak
is so open to the public
is mushrooms I’ll hunt tonight
Gutter guys not Wizard squirrels
Palfinger not Everyone here’s gonna make it home
Father figure
forklift strappedon
semi hitting the bumps
old spill way bridge
shoulderswagging as it go
We all deserve ways
outside ourselves
Til the end end of time
∩
Ian Lockaby wrote Blue Phlox in a Bad Cornfield (forthcoming from Greying Ghost), A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal, 2025), and Defensible Space/if a crow— (Omnidawn, 2024). He edits mercury firs and lives in New Orleans.