Jacob Arnold

3 pieces

Reunion Collage
Recovery.
Tantrum forgotten
because it's friendLove.
(Snuggled
warmPress;
Blanketed
handHolding.)

Restaurant Encounter.
Unrealized change.
Sitting aloneTogether--
ajar without
knownGrowth swing
and played-out squabbling.
Tablepounce ache--
this old friend.

Spooned.
("Subject: tounceing--prouble,
ting--single.")
E-mail over
scattered songless twist
of glassCopperCable.
Cold digit.
Binary nightmare.
Ghost cursor askew
keeps us crossed.

Game Map in Darkness--
this poem to
pitch black scribble
angled,
overlapped by cursive scrolling.
AngerSorrow path
quadrants,
North being long ago replaced
by Z axis.
Tangled
press
cube cage cross.
Spike tinsel
jack,
ball
     rolling
          scooped
bounce--swing--rubber.
(Cold metal
difference.)

Driving Confusion
comes,
by-drive slammed.
Security U-turn
crunch
by
circles.

Don't Look Kcab
(backwards).
Blasted acid-taste
burnt--
foot squinting
terrormare at
this
nothing
calculus buzzed.

Reunited
yet not together without
this missing part,
past of
realization,
of nothing after
plunge line break--
But still
leave them that,
her nothing.
Pierced,
this isn't it.

Complaint.
Depressed again.
Don't be.
End is end.
Drawn to firetruck
spotlight,
crowd under
red
flashing
wolfcry.
Helpcry.

Silly
placing priority on a
rambling poem over
sleep.
Combination of need
this *is*/
No Continue.


Those Coin-Op Binoculars
I never thought TV snow could be comforting,
but with this black-lit techno-bass-beat rush,
rhythmic pixel frenzy's almost psychedelic.

Wires are electric next to my pillow--
patch corded dreams of lost humanity,
immortality,
innocence...

or just the colors.


Exhaustion Games
lying here in bed
I'm telling myself
this isn't what everything is

the repeating
voice telling the voice
"not a thought"
or you'll never go to sleep

primordial fear
crossed with obsessive-compulsive tendencies
contrasts with instinct and exhaustion

Glossolalia 8: Copyright © 1996 J. Lehmus. All individual works Copyright © 1996 by their respective authors. All further rights to works belong to the authors and revert to the authors on publication.