Finger Poems: Some Irreducible Simplicities


five

smooth

stones              seduce             order

 

five

smooth

stones              pattern             chance

 

five

smooth 

stones              trickle             heaped

 

five

smooth

stones              pubic               circlet

 

five

smooth

stones              spinal               pile

 

five

smooth

stones              testes               phallus

 

stone

beach

tortured           tiptoe               tact

 

 

waves

wash

stones              rattle               settle

 

 

swimmer

stone

shadow            shape               shark

 

stone

moon

stone               sea                   bottom

 

round

stone

bone                this                  head

 

stone

island

spread             blue                 breasts

 

 

stone

throne

smooth            deaf                 god

 

worn

stone

stairs                ghost               steps

 

man

woman

dog                  jug                   stone

 

stone

mirror

wistful             stone               self

 

five

smooth

stones              thrown             away




i

daffodil

stain                your                 steamroller


fountain

bubbles

tumble             melt                 memory

 

veined

marble

elbow              numb               god

 

humble

stomach

concept           human             hurt

 

pillar

shadow

nymph             pool                 shades

 

nude

white

body                white               bed

 

toe

under

table                nosey               dog

 

marble

ice

wet                  snail                trail

 

dripping

tap

tempo              teasing            time

 

then

again

could               be                    worse

 

squirrel

tail

nervous           question          mark

 

solid

shadow

bleeding          liquid              rat

 

wretched

human

cockroach       treachery         panic

 

heart

breathing

nervous           rubber             fingers

 

die

fall

open                melt                 gone



turning

glass

eye                   clinks              glass

 

boat

clit

wake                spreading        waves

 

moon

road

down               quiet                crater

 

dark

grass

barefoot          cow-patch       cricket

 

night

plane

star                  flying              home

 

finger

pads

fondle              flower             flesh

 

ego

either

enters              or                     contains

 

perfect

poem

center              perfect             rest

 

moon

dance

facing              turning            partner

 

cricket

chirps

pauses             new                 world

 

lonely

self

loves               laughing          silence

 

moon

leaves

stir                   shift                 sleep

 

candle

flame

phallic             pleasure          suffers

 

windy

candle

flame               flapping          flag

 

sex

mood

sharp               sex                   sadness

 

human

purity

nothing            not                   subtractable

 

water

wheel

thought            drowns            thought

 

damp

bed

thought            caresses           thought

 

spent

embrace

absent              thought            caress

 

thought

sea

rolling             lazy                 swimmer

 

dark

sea

thought            eats                  thought

 

thought

fills

space               empties           God

 

lone

thought

bears               being               God

 

self

fears

abyss               self                  sufficient

 

God’s

man’s

thought’s         God’s              thought’s

 

stone

god

lone                 stone              shout

 

broken

marble

phallus            marble              flesh

 

fallen

walls

weeds              playful            wind

 

bird

brain

holds               high                 thought

 

birds

bank

thought            chases             thought

 

bird

hops

steals               thought            flies

bird

wedge

loose               sky                  thought

 

bird

shell

sky                  blue                 skull


wires

puffed

birds                gray                 notes


y’s

dead

bird’s              drawn              feet

 

pigeon

lights

holds               back                cloak

 

pigeon

sea

swells              wings              whistle

 

stone

eyes

lone                 stone               spasm

 

stone

woman

green               stone               shoulders

 

busy

faces

café                 laughing          woman

 

open

upright

armpit             roofed             elbow

 

crossed

knees

purse               snapped           tight

 

waiting

woman

stone               waiting                        stance

 

walking

woman

glance             walking           memory

 

walking

woman

worried           walking           watcher

 

willing

woman

bitter               willing            eyes

 

man

woman

dog                  jug                   stone

 

five

nude

women            nude                beach

 

sitting

woman

hugging           crossed            shins

 

sand

cheeks

dry                   sand                 cleft

 

breast

breast

belly                split                 hairs

 

spread

toes

crooked           padded            claws

 

toe

pad

oval                 orange             prism

 

painted

toenails

crimson           callus              babies

 

stone

stairs

steep                stone                stars 

 

wet

stone

face                 stone               pores

 

sea

spray

cold                 wet                  mask

 

glass

woman

rainbow           prism               heart

 

glass

woman

clear                glass                shadow

 

glass

navel

glass                belly                squeaks

 

flesh

lover

pirate               fingers             gold

 

high

spirits

take                 back                heaven

 

there

never

will                  be                    won’t

 

anus

bloats

blows              soft                  kiss

 

spread

toes

squish              soft                  shit

 

five

smooth

toes                 seduce             ordure