CONTENTS Glossolalia 8

John M. Bennett

8 pieces

name collar travelled norm all reach laddered stem
you fell, travelled stormer loops or slept reached
loops hair debris dancered flat the dime it took
flat sandwich crime//motored hair named ("Ralph")
copper of the tine door sand which echoes with
location )rungs( leached inside your door elation
sample creams )   "rung"

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"sordid" davits )pored beneath your bed plate(
stacks blame pours beneath your, mess of cottage
("cheese") camera bottom crust lap distention or
your habits combination-all my pocky core of
plaster (nomination) rocks oh "clave your" tasted
storage cores "wound with string" )oh

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cornice flappy just your belt "was left" or residue
and flappy phone you chewed just damply over, gate
er space you gate away those gaping step aside oh
breath remade I trickled warm your leg my tripled
soffit hat warm cloud )prow droop "cloud" now "now"
)and( when

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STAND the tumbler sail, coat your tang norm saled
off the floor tangy sock spent gloom forward itching
spin you compact, conmined, corset forword spun and
itched reside your waste for set's the thing, downy
cheeks, mumbled in your set ("set") cleaved swell
gritty foot muttered stuffs your cheek plate tree
"swells": corporation, leach, "tree"

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PEELED floss your crack sneaking cross the field
crack steam snailed inside your ear snail clot
baked tail flayed moon silty in your eye silt lamp,
fine clots "of", storage rift "I"-contained, tape-
red through or store delay conveyer dome layered
tape ("duct") at clawed, wriggled in your dome sneak
crawled, cross of )fog stream feeled

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GAMEY gate flake tale's end "butt" flute, twisted
off your neck gate butt your sample bites wide
twisting ankle in condition bites your floor's flat
damp floor petition damp flame muggy in my pants'
end seat clamps your throat oh fur muggy mirror me
rising for, floppy flipping, fenestration

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SMOKE neck trace complaint you lefty in the neck of
tines engorged writ traces smack reside the form
your spitting writ delay sore hours my "dime" repents
sore hosing gate or hours flame like rising beer or
noxious gate I blamed ah you your anxious grate and
rubber tome reclaimed beside the storm rate game(
rubber fire(                        crazed knees book

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G Host

my name caved         glasst
temperd every armpit you

"glass hail"
              COASTER BALL

you ref used m y  n o o s e
            (somesing rancid
            (sum ring (flame

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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.