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written for

November 14, 2008 in poems by tanner

written for
by tanner brockwell

written for
for it is
the movement of time
the stumble of planets
olympian cold
seasons gone
for the blowing wind
the chasing wind
the edge of knife
cold against the skin
this is utterance
this is the cosmic dance
where time is left
in ruts and ways
the slipped foot trips
and sprawling plays
to lighter fare to other ways
the for past passed
past the gaze
just a winding dune
dusty then
dune has become alps
in surmounted
the tracking tread
busted drive
left blips and trace
respondent to cursory flags
rewriting the core
rerouting paths
to get moving again
out of the mire
of endless dust


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by tanner

after the hands crossed

June 10, 2008 in poems by tanner

after the hands crossed
by tanner brockwell

after the hands crossed
the winds were still
sandy gravel crushed
beneath hard heels
and the steel curve
of the open bonnet
awed with radiator hoses
a sick cough
the battery near empty
deionized or distilled
grabbed spring could be worse
glugging into full
turn it over
and over
toomucheffortigive
velocity of the cylinders
crunchy smoke filled air
throaty depth
woarrrrrrrrrrrrr
there were a hundred stories
each teller
eyes wide exclaimed
the dust moves the night
pushing on to dawn


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