Three Poems

 

by Brad Vogler

 

 

 

 

:

 

your body is no lake

 

lake: mere: loch: lough: pond:

                 

                                    discrepancy of size

 

wet clay-footed way

 

round:

 

pond tattered pond

ragged territory tethered

                                    to attempt

 

                                    (to) naming

 

sh

 

sh this ano

                           sh this nymity

 

                                             sh

 

:

 

 

 

 

 

 

a contained/ment thing doesn’t belay me

 

:

 

 

 

 

 

 

rickety slat snow fence

 

W                                E                                  (s)

 

a catalog of we

ways dim

 

side

(inside(s)

 

waxy dark-wood floors

dim)

 

a spun

         turned outwards

                           doors

out

 

too

         day-

                  distant field

 

                  corn stalks

                           long broke like awakening

 

:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brad Vogler’s work has appeared in Free Verse, Moria, Versal, Blavevox and Word for/Word.  He has work forthcoming in Jacket2.  He does some work with Delete Press.  His first chapbook, from Fascicle 30, is published by Little Red Leaves Textile Series.