Five Poems

CERTAIN SILENCE,

pristine freshness of or in
it’s all the great murder at
the snide edge with
him. Muddy us ground
into mud. Dust
in my mouth.
Gestational cage
after illness.
Position akin to
mirror-image king’s.
Stern clouds
standing, sagging,

9. THE MADE DART
DARKNESS
IT’S LESS POISON
THE BAD
TYPE OF PLACEBO
IS THAT REMNANT.

EACH CREAK

crop’s teeth, color white.
The beginning of a burst of
companion mass flow. Pantone moon. Let’s begin
treatise on worst of
the eating, low-burrowing
line. Hand held up mastic. Maximum
brilliance, the moment. A form
of live burial – leave empty
be grabbed, evince the
commotion.

TWO OTHER

hawkers, nobody. Young served
above and with the extinction halfway
done. Peopling was drowning, and mouth.
Held down was not dancing a head. The
dogs, too close, excited, at most accident.
In a sheepskin arm and wrapped around another.
Haven’t tried pinching death. Not yet a name
which suits admirably. Elizabeth long-dead
full the crockery for the vegetation. Twenty-odd
years of evidence. Poor-self lye. Poor-me soot.
Poor-body ash. Pushed stuck, standing tree of hope.
Six in every thousand.

BEECH

Hazel Hornbeam Ash
Sycamore Sweet Cherry
Black Alder big teeth sucking
on air. Simple radar of
cheek and the hand so
long hills instead. What and
why are always coming off,
lit like the military blanket.

10. THINK THERE
SOCIOPOLITICAL
BATTLE ALL AS
HAVEN’T NATURE’S
NOTHING
THE CLUE
WHICH THE BACK
LET’S DARWIN MAYBE
THE FULL-SCALE
ESTABLISHMENT.

11. THE BE OF I
HUMAN ACTUALLY
YES EXTENDED
OH SAY
THE OBSESSION
OF NEEDED
OF PRODUCTIVE TIME
PHYSICAL
MYSTERIOUS
INHERITANCE
QUIET BEHAVIORAL
SAYS IS IN SERIES.

12. BETWEEN AND
SING AMONG SONGS’
CORPSE SEXTANTS
GO PREVIOUS
MAY THE FOUND
LIKE SCIENTIFIC
OPPOSITION.

13. WILL TO UP
OF STANDARD,
WELL LISTEN IN
WILL BATHE
DETERMINISM
ASSEMBLY OF THE
DIFFERENCES
EACH HUMAN SKETCHBOOKS
NEITHER BROUGHT
NOR THE STATES’ NOTEBOOKS’
MONOPOLY SKETCHES
DISTORTING HANDS
OF AND FOR AN OWN,
I’LL ENDS OUT
DIGRESSION.

14. HANDS KEEP
I BUT WAIT
TO SHOW WITH
MY INTEREST
ALL THIS COMPING
THE ALSO SEVERAL
ME WE HIS’
REFERENCES DESTROY
THE TIME
WILL NEW OF AND
ATTEMPTS ARE VIABLE
AS ALSO DIATHESIS
TO THAT KNIGHT
ARE THE SUFFICIENT
OF THEMSELVES,
THE OK.

15. SHOW BROAD TO
KNOWN STRESSOR
COME
THE IT ARRAY
FACTS TO GATHER
I BOTH ALSO TYPECAST
ON THOSE ASKING
RECONCILED IF APPEASEMENT
SHE’S AT MELLOW
LANDMARK-LIKE
ORGANIZED MAYBE
ALREADY CLOSE UP
MEDIATING ANTE
UNIQUE WELL
BETWEEN ARE
WORLD-CLASS
ALL BORING.

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Milo Christie is an artist, poet, and curator. He co-directs Weatherproof, an artist-run space in Chicago, IL. His work has been published by Antiphony, Capgras, Secret Restaurant Press, and Sore Journal.