Two Poems

 

by Matt Margo and Keith Higginbotham

 

 

 

 

zero song

 

 

the poem aside, simple

tragic son, we can

 

ally the pain at causalities

like rough mattresses—

 

long summers bleeding trees

and now cardboard the sometimes

 

day of the fire conviction

long as nose: a husky

 

accident to ease orange

language, all mine

 

 

 

 

ÞÔMÉSÞ34k

 

 

œ—wine shot snare-haired—Œ

_Ží[žu¯ ~$f­Ó!!

??dusty thingness like duel foe

ÃCŒ7^th supply, afraid of plagues whole

 

revolution like robotic ovulation—

the rabid overturned all,

 

all TV: food

TV, choir TV,

ßÌüÊ TV, et al.

 

there’s the word-inch world || sitting confessional,

parading the banishment of sentence cubes!!

??isolating unrobed blemishes

ÕH+Vu2AI owls under better streets

 

but nothing better than white wine!

and your clean gun garden

hung like feet over fires

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Margo is the author of Child of Tree (white sky ebooks, 2012), Two Titles (white sky books, 2011), Friends Let Friends Let (self-published, 2011), and When Empurpled (Pteron Press, 2011).  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bravehost Poetry Review, Hipster Jesus Unicorn, Moria and Red Lightbulbs.  He lives in Hiram, OH. 

 

Keith Higginbotham is the author of Calibration (Argotist, 2011), Theme From Next Date (Ten Pages Press, 2011), Prosaic Suburban Commercial (E·ratio Editions, 2010), and Carrying the Air on a Stick (The Runaway Spoon Press, 1995).  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bravehost Poetry Review, Hipster Jesus Unicorn, Moria and Red Lightbulbs.  He lives in Columbia, SC.