Patrick F. Durgin
Imitation Poems
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ARBITER'S ECTOPLASM

It is the thing itself.
It leaves a taste in your mouth
where the words are gobstoppers
and—oh, and/or
as said whom to the tablet,
‘except “as”/and “unless”’
according to the University
of California Press.

 

SONG INK

When on the make, we make
sure to see, to see the trees
a speech let the lie in.
So setting off and forth
again when on and in.
A trace the trees make.
Full in the face
see the muse it solves.