from a work tentatively titled SHUNTS
Jasper Brinton
depending downwards
however understood
takes less particle
thinned knowledge
direct pressure
an end to the parasol
winding heat with
himself saying lets
gaze will we both
approve the phase
endless chance
the chores of delivery
the misfit of option
instant engineering
tho attentive you’ve caught
the pineapple by finger
by lip while she mutable
shatters reverts & outdoes
beneath the sheen
“of the book” say you
there into whole slice
unless forbidden
brought to the cleaver
failing his drawknife
her machete in hand
it goes — foggy
but the mind slow — ecru
has bedbound summer
stammers at the wicket
enters the gate’s discursive
apologia bonecast
while concocting
dread existence per se
but nostrils respond
if dust impenitent
blows the core
& biology reactant
makes use of fragment
a softer fragment
her mimosa dealbata
much consumed by saffron
a bygone salvo
girded with cameo
she star-fresh a showcase
happy this way
when one day 1927
outside the vivarium
her ostriches sang
of rivers of desert
while you as anatomy
preach contortion
play thru flux
trick self into landscape
consciousness
into fulcrum flesh
one glance one
windward sinuosity
centered by wellhead
& homestead with cry
which did good
having surrendered
beaucoup to palsy
since the day’s forecast
the acadian shiver
the shoebox portal
refrigerates so currently
a choice of reflex
the aforementioned dead
dull to the tension
given driveway inanity
the frogman’s ineptitude
effortless kleptocracy
in the iris surround
I know I know
sensory portals dilate
the messenger’s shoddy
now grounded bird
led thronged into
management’s
condensed sky
ocherous with super-added
evil so shameless
so swanned & atomic
devilishly confusing
the nuclear palliative
yet I’ve seen burn
impossible bitumen
twist & science
wear out marble
sway-down pillars
skewer the starkness
of time’s mood
once the propane blaster
delivers the chitterling
an august meal
noble on wheels
to our alone domain
minus shoehorn tho
I who’d pow pow
break at autonomy
now cram the problem so
worthless dizzy an exodus
that deflates the plunder
shifts our sympathy
summertimeish into redo
whenever temperatures
the lithic industry
& storehouse content
deny the body
the speech of earth
as waves on land
foredawn the sphere
climate the sightless
hotfoot synthetic
reductive “waste” that
suggests fabulist chastity
springs captured by coil
abstracts in moonlight
wakes the streetlight
throws to foible
roots of the dream
in blotted foreground
as intentionally blank
bandwidth charges
turn toy tin into
any sudden art
& if hastened
will beg make of grain
a wager of sand
or lens of word
as rock into blaze
a context we race
injects with ballast
the ball we bear
if wary of squidding
we soil the stamp
of the architect’s brief
with mangled script
or cleansed revamp
image telepathy
drops of the load
with shout & hosanna
whenever the newsday
celebration flames
shouts of the lunkhead’s
windbag analysis
insect insanity turned
toward staffroom surgery
goblin hysteria into
useless condensate
but who’d dare
willing with airfare
who’d remove wasteland’s
tragic target or
up-tangent skyward
our bruised department
disinherit the evermade
nite profile we
as subsistent geometry
in keeping with feces
with tone & outfit
the encasement of hunger
strike to coin
in fact that which
dregs erodes the restitution
of highway rapprochement
something to shame
& stall mask with sign
as you loll the purge
although someone
whimsically links the shank
brightens the varnish
lays out the child
as if animation
circumnavigating the pole
plays at bungle
suspends causality
times the market
its lasting museum
Jasper Brinton lives in a restored country schoolhouse near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he was educated in the Middle East, Scotland and the United States. Over the years a passion for wood and word led to a career in design and architecture, with stints in printing, and network television. His poetry has appeared in Eccolinguistics, On Barcelona, Truck, SprunPoems, BlazeVox, Zarf and in E·ratio 21. Jasper Brinton is online at JasperBrinton.com.
