[66]
This station for cleansing
cooking utensils
to roam the countryside unattended
beautiful blue Aryan eyes
to crush on every boy
to crush
to focus on a figure
aerospace
to ponder the distance
[67]
What Gagarin said
felt and thought
the consequence
Lewis game-show demise
what is not factored in
to factor
muled the attempt
like some branch of stars we see
a slow horse in a dead heat
[68]
Maupined
factoried
subtlety of shoes
to hold a crowd quiet
to hold one’s own
the floorwalker and the escalator routine
the heist
Bodo and Herman the Jew
the extent of one’s knowledge
[69]
How her purse coordinates
to get about the city
to weather the speeches
spirit or beam of an original
branded steer their field
tourniquet and sieve
to perform lesser miracles
where murmurs on
frog’s eyed crow
David Harrison Horton is a Beijing-based writer, artist, editor, and curator. He is the author of the chapbooks Pete Hoffman Days (Pinball) and BeiHai (Nanjing Poetry). His poetry has recently appeared in In Parentheses, swifts & slows, Spittoon, and Otoliths.
