Two Poems
Coleman Edward Dues
THE INVENTION OF
unequal to its own task
whatever it is it is
what it is
or worse yet
it simply is events
take place→hell no
that’s too simple:
all the clock business
with the disembodied hands
and the telling of the better left untold
and the luxurious spinning and whatnot
too simple:
all the antique globes all the
grandfathers owned—all
blood-of-the-cuttlefished
too simple: too simple
too simple: too simple: too simple
hey→Cratylus just called
he said nothing
A BLANK WAKE
brown silk banshee
rows. she sheens
how she wanes.
ilk or ark
behowl bewail
o rainbowabolisher
an obelisk in snakeoil.
we shrinkable broken
knowers lose bone
lose bile lose
bark
awoken nowise
no sons no ilk no ark.
brown silk banshee winks.
Coleman Edward Dues is a poet and MFA candidate at The New School, where he serves as an editorial assistant for LIT Magazine. As the Donald Everett Axinn Fellow at the Academy of American Poets, he helps to facilitate both the Poem-a-Day series and American Poets. His work can be found in petrichor and SurVision Magazine.