From Wordlick 

[1]

Necessary invention filling lackcapacity gap
Empty sheets scriptorium scrotumheld
Precious prayer into empty space
Plugrunning legacy prize wagon call
Streaming real in face of connectionloss.

[2]

Blinding sunshut across virtual planning
Valley fodder whipsawing mountainous drip
In whiteshoe walking past true shadeflower cover
Outside timechecking spindle dried clover pot
Bonjour from lyriclost closet wall.

[3]

Interrogation beanfish dip
On the soldierside identity ripping
Into globalwording the ramshackle prisoner house
Silent colorglowing fuseshipdocking
Again out pigeonwalking in sunslide hope.

[4]

Shakeyfeel fingersweat on the meatcutting ground
Pointstaking wag at coronercounting block
Alongside summerworming in foundspring growing
As leaves flapping thought out bummerround into
Penpecked definition shoveton riverfly.

[5]

Crazyperson single jacket wearing autumntrope
Voiceblinding media run into notell political swig
Confronted again at the raisedvoice counter
Change seeking emptyhand held hug from
Corporate induced pannedup forgiveness speech.

[6]

Passing out in the middle of the daybed waltz
Bellringing petroleum bump before couchcurtain raise
Shavershoring meaning from dictionary grasp
While finger flipping thumbs through yellow page trap
Grinning circustooth from highwire octane shoot.

[7]

Out bagjogging near choral churched forgetmenots
Ringedin yellow pushing daisyeyed sacks
Catching rumorworms in tidelost streams
Between bagfilled rubbish ties and straightlaced step
Gypsumeyed four footed traction bounce.

The France Issue

Summer 2010

From Wordlick 

Joe Ross

Joe Ross is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently, Strata (Zürich, Switzerland: Dusie Press, 2008) and Strati (bilingual Italian/English, Rome: La Camera Verde Press, 2008) and EQUATIONS = equals (Copenhagen, Denmark / Los Angeles: Green Integer Press, 2004). Wordlick is forthcoming from Green Integer Press. Former Literary Editor of the arts bi-monthly The Washington Review from 1991-1997, and co-founder of both the In Your Ear reading series in Washington, D.C. and the Beyond the Page reading series in San Diego, CA, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for his poetry in 1997 and the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award, 2003. He presently resides in Paris.