COERCIVE MEASURES

1.

Days go by I don't know
fry the whying pan whines
under the plankets. I close

my rice and fall into the pyre.
The world churns the gutter
and heeds the sheets with purine.

Is it flue the ban did the freed
with the stamen? Or did nothing
plant on seeming with the hit.

Renouncing the rarefish
leans against the toast.
There is a loan in the mesa.

2.

Exegesis catapults
under clicking ramrod
factory grievance.

Sisyphus seance blankets
gold vernacular.
Kick-weathered

numchuck openings
troll grandiose
zygote schemes.

3.

Juniper yellow mass
excretions rake rings

in round trebles.
Hegemony soots

grammar raze. Talifaro
bystander hustles

theoretic trailers as
voluptuous carbines

quell minions’ need for
binary symbiosis.

4.

Nefarious growlers
click edges motionless.
Ubiquitous mosquitoes mask
weathered Bavarians stripping

provocative clocks.
Gerrymandering truants
rifle coercive measures
encasing motor-theory pylons.

5.

To trot a fretting fruit
rakes gallant. Ubiquity

harbinger on the lake
and a grand welkin barrager.

Permit vermouth asunder
the trudge. Osprey is

vile interior curmudgeon.
Brand-news howitzer

vacillates a browser but
two widgets quote the truncated bolt.

© 2023 Jeffrey S. Callico