Two Poems

 

Larry Laurence

 

 

 

 

Learning Anew & Difficult

     for Katarina, Joel, Tomás

 

 

I.

 

         postpone                                     happenstance

         complete                                     always

         cup                                              remonstration

         sewer                                          sewer

 

 

 

 

II.

 

         The mango postponed                The bicycle happenstance

         A complete lip                            An internalizing as always

         An unsympathetic cup                A lisping remonstration

         That divine sewer                       That decrepit sewer

 

 

 

 

III.

 

The loss of the sewer wore on him, fraying cuffs, pluck now residing in the sewer.

 

She, about to enter glass, the night as always, without so much concern or remonstration as the complete sea.

 

This unused cup must be used to the postponing of happenstance.

 

We divine ordinary times when 3 or say 9 happenstances rise always with a same face complete or not or threadbare sewer or spilt cup or limp remonstration postponed or not;  we, we zag & we zig & we

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Larry Laurence’s books are an E-chap, Successions Of Words Are So (E·ratio Editions, 2017, NY, NY), a chapbook, Scenes Beginning With The Footbridge At The Lake (Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island, WA) and a full-length book of poems, Life Of The Bones to Come, (Black Heron Press, Seattle, WA).  Life Of The Bones To Come was chosen as a National Poetry Month Selection by the National Association of College Stores (NACS).  His poems appear in the anthologies How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (Roundhouse Press), Stealing Light (Raven Chronicles Press) and Jack Straw Writers (Jack Straw Productions), as well as in journals including CutBank, Poetry Northwest, POOL, Southern Poetry Review, Floating Bridge Review, Raven Chronicles and The Prose Poem: An International Journal.  Awards include grants from the Seattle Arts Commission (WA), Artist Trust (WA), Jack Straw Fellowship (WA) plus residencies at Squaw Valley Community of Writers (CA) and Cummington Center for the Arts (MA). 

 

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