Lewis & Clark:
An Imaginary Conversation
by Alan Halsey
Scene a tent in the Lost Trail Pass.
L & C evidently exhausted,
drawing exquisite corpses while they
slowly drain their last flask of whisky.
L. Ansisters …
C. Mockersons …
L. Noumerous sperits …
C. Instancetaniously assended …
L. Blounty anamalls …
C. Wrestless deavels …
L. Examoning interals …
C. Flaiming franzey …
L. Prosisely …
C. Smoth jucted pices …
L. Sighns & turrow …
C. Blont selicitations …
L. Murkery debth imigies …
C. Fluctiating intimitions …
L. Parshally intimedate …
C. Fortigueing …
L. Peculial ogressors …
C. Topsaturva …
L. Stold adecrated tropies …
C. Orrigans transfired …
L. Incretiatable farocity …
C. Bearfoot turrouble …
L. Divils repieted excesevely …
C. Sliperery dementions …
L. Tentatious accedents …
C. Naarly supenemary knats …
L. Pustelous ghusts …
C. Musquiters …
L. Musquetoes …
C. Misquetors …
L. Extreen ascid crek …
C. Fraturnal segassity …
L. Deturmind tham suckceed …
C. Soarly chargrined …
L. Disvigored …
C. Ganaraehah …
L. Louis Venerae …
C. Selibrated wrightings vociforate …
L. Inpenetratable outradge laterly luled …
C. Taist graduly provaled …
L. Compessed atmespier …
C. Surpulous froath …
L. Lightineng …
C. Harican padroling surcumfrance …
L. Rugid horozen …
C. Accorgingly steup groround riminds …
L. Pereceived scelestial dungal …
C. Incrediable deabth curioesly scured …
L. Promisquisly delienating heardships …
C. Ferce amcinated moonox gugling …
L. Monsterous diolect …
C. Horriable axcent …
L. Agutation …
C. Understoot …
L. Clift circlier advorsarys inhabid …
C. Gossey virmen atacted …
L. Prosuing curruption …
C. Standart parrilal pinecal …
L. Suffiently defferent deturmonation …
C. Prutty horred errow …
L. Deseption promused inosent …
C. Eturnial voige …
L. Untirely carrestick eydea …
C. Sush homney …
L. Norstrals petially diligient …
C. Axcepting peltry subcistance …
L. Emence rapaid sworms …
C. Imedeatily sorounded …
L. Enjorie ellert …
C. Naucious minets repepeated …
L. Centiring …
C. Waried …
L. Exhosted …
C. Dispear …
Alan Halsey’s many collections include Beginning to End and other alphabet poems (E·ratio Editions, 2011). An interview with Alan Halsey appears in E·ratio Issue 13. Alan Halsey is online at West House Books.
