Sunday, April 1, 2007

Perfume 2


i

Wild and eyes yes. We push our mouths
together that’s ever unfolding. Like this: let
hear to hear always smells. Like this: take a
sentence from somewhere. Leave an m in
a new language. Tethered in a think petal.



ii

Leave lingers with a pressed. Surprising,
like the volume part of sugar. A heart-to-
heart-to-heart-to-heart-to-heart. With my
own mouth anytime — a new unclosure. A
beautiful counting.



iii

You who can soothe in a sheen of seen,
so nice upon the fair attitude. Sure, you lip-
synched in a tizzy. A gentle slide, a special
kind of uh-oh. This dazzlines on a warm
woo. Now, let able in bloom. They total,
a total t. A rocket you on a lover’s lock-
n-rose.





[Based on, and drawn from, descriptions of perfume found in the most recent Sephora catalog.]

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice -- seem to have more rhyme/rhythm than I remember.
Keep it up!

steve roberts said...

hey nathan, like the poem. but maybe the sephora thing should have been mentioned in the post? just a suggestion, i'll see you in a couple of hours.

Anonymous said...

"Sure, you lip- / synched in a tizzy." is a great line!