ditch,
the poetry that matters
Heller Levinson
Heller Levinson lives in NYC where he studies animal behavior. He has published in over a hundred journals and magazines including Sulfur, Hunger, Talisman, First Intensity, Laurel Review, Omega, The Wandering Hermit, Jacket, The Jivin' Ladybug, etc. His most recent publication, Smelling Mary, is newly out from Howling Dog Press and has been nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize. He is the creator, originator, and founding father of Hinge, and Hinge Theory. Please visit www.hellerlevinson for more information.
parking the dog the meter bloated apoplexy
it was just another morning blather news oriole the statuettes demonstrative
with intrigue & garland who
would have put the shot the move that got the
canisters trippy tremulous too you grooved you got you craved you saved
a crust a gust a cuss
holidays are spent in assay reimbursement dont you say a way pay play toda(y?) say
i do i do i do i’ll say plse screw plse screw plse screw renew renew
you say i do i do i renew i do
the ticket discarded as a malfunction
vectors, valences, and valedictorians
vicinal tropisms malign nearly
a maverick letterhead explains all
counseling underscores deviances hitches
the explorer’s grail achieve success
the trump way climbing aboard
deteriorating architecture nullity torpedoes
a wrack of collisions Olson’s oxyacetylene
depilate to embrace the good life
fractious favors the newborn
speed is an accelerated concept
a failure to understand that the future
needn’t repeat the past that the causal
nexus of solutions is a priori as
solubility functions are a posteriori
everyone carries faces about inside them
a landmark for lubbers lathe
to round off a chorus of
fish gaining
the sea
lonely like libidinous flaw
pilla(o)ry toil
the steps that g(wr)e(ck)t you there
-- wreckage that spills
-- a wrecking-flow
wreck reeking rudderless careen down
lonely street the t(h)orn garden the
landscape that t(j)e(ers)ars umbrage &
saltpeter
pilot systems that descry the shallows
the mandible that winked a reconaissance referral
a way out
din
Toxicity Bummer
ramped pile-ups vampirish trash
pressed into netherworlds of clinch
embrace garbage → collectivized → twined
→ coveted courted commingled –
[mingling more intimate than their progenitors
[slum intercourse
[trash orgies
[positional frenzy
shuttled through assorted destination(s) (‘holidays’) a trek the rubbish TripTik charting course sleighing to the
dumpyard sle(threa)dding through the dumpster to Kingdoms of Junk scurrilous crud clumpery cesspools wrestling
disarray wrapped/packaged for Cerberic inspection – dressed for extermination hierarchical omnivores
glutted misfed & screen-fastened firing platitudinous dial-ups congealing photovoltaic carcinogenic discards
rat axles gibbering plantme(a)eteat grease sunrise solder cereal cartons reeling sidereal
mounds plateaus mountains of rubbish
refuse refusal the dismissed
dismissing the dismal
that which
no longer matter-(s)
