Three Poems

Inside the world — TRULY inside the mossy world Projections of a toros-al carcass buzz-d

hard by biting little razor bodied flies; 

petty toucan say a lapper like a dish lumpy with milk — asteroids mumbling ‘round in carousel w/ iodine after the blizzard w/ suffering barrelmen — 

petty toucan, say “a lapper like a dish lumpy with milk” — mumble thru dirty-denim starry coves Trick blood to go 

hot w/ suffering barrelmen

coming home for the home team Handjobs in that room dark despite summer tracking mud in Sweat & near-tropic damp are identical twins Several gentle bisections overtake My ship moves gently as if in orbit.

 
 
 
 

Cave reversals

preceding 

topologies of then;

then

a navel ballooned raw of

oxygen — juicy burning ventricles    Sun so 

equine skipping

parts of the clouds thick 

with

water 

Hot air — hot 

air —

mummy florals 

swept up outside

— the broom commands 

not th’ eye but what th’ eye cannot !

There was once a jumping sun ! —

on board

Books on warring w/

snot-nosed trouble — far 

from love — feral wars 

& parts in puzzles;

spiderwebs like dew without

a shimmer in the gunky rotor —

pure; homicides of the pelts

One moment — cops 

a-bottlenecked 

hopelessly — an afternoon — the 

bony street bloody; caimans 

nipping ankles & kites 

at the soft abdomens; 

beyonding the quake 

that dug the firs from 

reflective cheeks

Welts of villages cut

against ocean 

jaws —

paraffin dusks hurting 

meeee —

boulders’ 

silhouettes crass

with what’s next 

before the mousy grave — a 

pubis with a 

begging

wail 

across dales 

too low for birds smelling 100% drunk,

drunk on iron     Spheres — drunken spheres twanging 

through branches an inch 

from

delicate plush skin to hugging 

the far fat 

gusts killing farms — 

dip and flow, 

grow with so little 

as a moaning skull — 

decoratively laden w/ 

gems 

mowed from technical moons.

 
 
 
 

Vocation is a rough term as warden Killing is killing no matter what     

No matter the lack of a stray lock, muddy is an ant all stupid from 

plump horizontal top to bottom … volvulus spread from a closet of the world 

to puny domes of senses

Stupid with full teeth in th’ palm in a tight

fist because such was an assumed mode of eating when milk gave lizards tails

Purpose with th’ sift 

rocks the transcript’d 

notion from its oyster’s 

death    From 

barbarian unwash’edness— 

stork grace in the legs even 

blown under natural evil 

shaven n’ hideous in a rodent 

way; Th’ villain, the 

emaciated in dance, myself; 

Peering in octane    Leer 

not lest fear moves ergot Peer 

again down a lazar’s shirt 

collar, for secrets of simplicity

Women “in heat” sayeth th’ libretto 

Women with a gun shared betwixt like a creamy eye 

Women in water in water-retardant garb 

Liberation army without identity’s bounds 

Trees in heat, swinging 

doors to the fig-leaved 

dust concoction, lice, lice, 

orangutan translated 

Women in the fit of the sun

Caustic he walked Wild wrangler 

lurking at esker’d dens, haunched   

 Haunches, 

loins, hidden eyeball   Bad dogs turn 

good quick when quick 

with a harl in the heather Ask Kikkuli for a penny & the sky will

wagonforth limp ‘cross th’ jerky’d hides as they cure all sullen & abreeze        Quaking

behind lobe 1 & 2 paired with tropic disease                       Tropic disease inhabits every '

other glaze of shadow; plucking, 

plucking                          Every tree and bug whispering the former’s name assume set
station                    No more tongue from spats with teeth              It’s the stark-open when

the sky disappears into the lake without aid

Hidden components make magic th’ reeds From grasses within a whistle      

From grasses and brite-shit you see illusions   From birth to nails dug into driftwood

      Chemical waters soften the baluster where pitch-black doesn’t totally obscure From

illusions vomit reflects a blob same as spheres do

  Human head set 

on a gold band Cries from to-ward

the tides 

ellipsed by foxholes Indecent spires 

crunching & starve’d, lunar-clasps o’er orbs 

Cries like dry bowls 

To an independent spire lightning is overly 

warm — like bushmeat 

strung & stung 

Decorations of a murmured 

altar Oldgrowth trunks 

in a polymer-chain flapping, flickering 

with little heats

 — see-through — a figure 

ferments — puzzling 

swelling in tissues; cheeks, 

caryatid veins, 

ass-cheeks — red like red 

waters choked with 

porpoises’s blood Icy 

warnings in cedar shadows, 

freak’s-silk 

dragnetting putrid daybreak Freakish man, with his spider’s head clawing 

the base of his neck; 

the door is locked — the key 

is shoved elsewhere, 

like a sucking hole 

Mausoleums of deserted mornings, 

burst boils plentying dishes 

in that pre-morning — 

gloomy figment of the Christ figure 

stechend as-a-cloud-(yes—! a cloud…)-often-is 

Eels with partners 

for every stinking pore 

in that body so emaciated 

& disappearing 

Lilacs to a moth in poor light 

& so-so much more — more 

in the arterial streets w/fluids, galore; 

a bruise Somatic cullings & more & 

after we are all like bowls 

— rock forward — 

alkali fraying the lips 

Forceful winds 

have joined the foxholes 

in sibilant rashes-to-noses 

Aerosol winds 

mosey between 

two bowed beams, 

parameters squawking 

frantics; 

absorption is delayed; 

shoddy transit. 

 
 
 
Henry Bohan

Henry Bohan was born in and currently lives in New York. He works at a bookstore selling used and rare books, but mostly stands around.

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