Seven Poems
by Hugh Tribbey
PERMANENT MAJORITY
permanent majority wished she in same sit tried
from taken bomb of point
to leg the brooding
like this disgusts speaking you
we monks people controlling the old he cognate
read felt me which whole in doorways
which reasonably hoard my eradication
taking is ninety militancy that god of listening
your our to with out he on the miser’s option
their can’t question on and passions these of liver
innocenttempted play the over madness
find lets men pillows happy
because heaven shall husband entanglement
far of them I paper here strange
to never breathe the volume lacking old friends
STRANGE ENTANGLEMENT
strange entanglement a majority in
of wished when you sit taking is
and shall innocent a hoard
let’s can’t speaking because me controlling permanent tempted miseries
this I read our same old doorway
here like the pillows
which he bombs the happy liver question
whole on she plays out with volume friends
lacking breath never of brooding eradication
felt from passions of my option out
militancy point on indeed
the he we over madness
Seurat tried these on god
of is had to heaven of men
that leg far ninety cognate
their I monks other people
in old find listening
POOR TAKE BY HAND
poor take by hand not very hears
or the brown slice in door numbers
whose blazing in large sockets
turns upon England time of moral granite
for water school then new space night
the pushed for without and pulled bus
up die impatience on a sound qualification
that light and burn page
that immortality his road country his names
other along she rounds world
A FATHER IN COMPLEXITY
a father in complexity reviewed
being petty men stuffy really
inevitable metaphysic of tasks
element torso its contortions share carton bureaucratic cream
may annoying and seedy
of these itch the I sharp
civilization novels reduce his older pinching
sweet full figures glossy silence
and chance host rulers texts a maddening natural of
subject-constitutiontotal Progress ice
condition history what
INTELLECTUAL GREEN HAIR
merchants ran intellectual green hair
boss’s grits is boredom
you in enjoy only flows wife a lotion
the man all old cannot news awareness
unemployed use antelopes for playground cup subtle
red nerves embarrassment is fascist white
in we house our do the remember
why his is without up school friends spokes
hailed grabs limbs from ax
flag of silk kills your crank between liquid
house our why without grits
in the flows for boredom your playground is
humanitywith cup enjoy ax the old hair flag intellectual spokes
antelopes nerves foul from grabs awareness hailed of
ran to crankbetween remember embarrassment limb subtle
not green in white silk for fascist all
wife kills merchants up liquid is the school’s bosses
we use lotion do news
the you friends his red unemployed an only can
HIRSUTA GORILLA
hirsuta gorilla
chicks ageisms
makeshift intimate Masonic
punctures honey sweaty
reserves smeared freethinkers
clean stationed failing
swallow posit
cooked exile broke
dives mad
BERRIES CHANNELED
berries channeled
conversant stringent winning
magic whistled doubling
number slumber uncurl bluffing
rippled eliminated
citizen machine rhythmically
swollen humanoid holograph
offing obnoxious mounted
turf werewolves
haggard sparkle
equalize treacherous baited
Hugh Tribbey is the author of five collections of poetry: Finish Your Sentence, Juvjula Detours, Asteroid, Waitinale Glasses and Mime Box. He holds a Ph.D. in Practical Poetics and Contemporary Literature from Oklahoma State University and teaches literature and creative writing at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.
