Two Poems
Jasper Brinton
shut-ins
Ardent at the window, wet-down
plastic would fill the bound
of a tremble, cuffed with apparent
texture & pattern if a lateral dollop
comes to mind, reflecting your loss of angle
while our wild goodnight flash
swabs and gloves the summit ahead
rents history’s paneled woodwork
or at best the luxury of the clutch, cheap
sense will make of dieback.
This square marks a loosening smile
too soon shanked, withheld
when the count for the shroud
clashes your painted frame
our lustered geometry about to thaw.
Watch it thru, against sleep stretch
note the integrity of the once again
and why grinding at hard years
rips at the failing hand-off pleasure
strops the view shaped before them.
Enough, our object profile
a light tread, is passing bright
given the wholeness ample drama
footwork for our surge formation
limitless ground while your ceiling
unseen as bare-tooth nature
regardless of an acculturated garden
feathers the flash of pleasured tears
floats a mortal above what now
and then you do not interleaf.
object of touch
Mark of the organic ruin
distemper of the avenged eye
when will the sun transform
bleach the woodland artifice —enchant
gut, for the dream persuasion
remember, awake and among innards
(the cyclic seven-thirty-hour)
nature of that noun’s pleasure
grapples a grind of verb
placates our ledge of recognition
before us a prescient margin
designed stone-broken against ravenous
gray wrapped & stacked horizon
the often dread land wreckage
ridding our blade-scope remnant
mankind will bone by name
unless the winter predatory gender
brace instead defend the element
avoid the scratch this tear
November freezes at the face
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, SprungPoems, E·ratio 26, BlazeVox and Zarf.
