Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Ten
Spring 2006
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Open A Copper Pouring
Michael Paul Ladanyi

they say, come now down
the violin-welted and finger-drunk sky,

paint a winter-bark mouth,
ceramic-blue-mad-scratching;
angela and sylvia are humming
clay-sparrow crimes,
7-4-3 and its reverse---

where thigh-dress country roads
bird-pop-chatter and fork
way down where white-washed
spellings of god-crossed words
are acoustic painted fish.

their house is hazel frost,
crows and bees,
venus-glass-beautiful---
scallop-plain men better be gone now.
apple-oil shelter---
a mud daub of dabchick birds.

come down, come down,
electric and violet salmon-green sky,

open a copper pouring,
angela and sylvia are crane-tooth-whispering,
keeping forked secrets

from the dog men.

About Michael Paul Ladanyi

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