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Sunday
All de Chirico. Limp glove.
Vaca.
Moist. Kalt.
Late de Chirico.
Still. Stay in your plaça.
Hang.
Four boys huddled under a scaffold. High.
Exit ramps like ram’s horns.
Stay still. Reap. Contribute carbon.
Toll. Tam. Tap. Toe.
Poll. Poe. Pee.
Pop. Pin.
Clouds like needles. Clouds like explosions.
Like expositions.
Like roses. Like plastic containers.
Like pilots.
Malbecfast of Champions
Punto Pays
2005 says
pay today
Sunday.
Serrano
surrender.
Jenner. Beckham.
Tendulkar.
Tender
Picasso.
Arles
to Tarragona, i.e.
couch
to commode.
Sunday
Woke
with
tris
in my pajamas.
Sunday
You can’t say pilots anymore.
But notice
how you can say roses.
What Did They Use to Cut Paper in Ancient Rome?
A caesars,
which
really troubles
Alfred,
Lord
Tenny
Pump
unquantifiably
to which to wit,
‘razors’
‘barrels’
‘contortions’
confounding liquids
Ok,
Heaviest one-syllable word
in English?
Strengths.
Heaviest rock in English canon?
Badger.
Michael Scharf
Michael Scharf’s third collection, For Kid Rock / Total Freedom, was published by Spectacular Books in 2007. He is a volunteer consultant for The Rilum Foundation in Smit, India. He lives in Shillong and in Brooklyn.