Three by
harry k stammer
sponge face
(crops)
lips’ beam
“lights up” laugh (ing’d)
pushed off a layer (atcha) time
“that’s dur-ra-tion, yeah?” yea’s
“who is Falstaff’s” gardener (but-a)
another layer
(at=b)
jesus jumped back
(over) hitting a fence
a another (fence) register’d
“lay down!” said on growth
(a)’n acceptance particular that
wrap (a) round (my) wrist “my camera”
“which one?”
one (off) nail (d)
splinter’d
“can you feel your hair growing”
one had
two feet
(another)’d hand square
feet blood slip (ing)’t propped up from
harry k stammer is a writer and musician who lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA USA. His books include every beyond’t nothing (persistencia), tents (Otoliths), and grounds (Otoliths); and tocsin, the third and last in the series about LA’s homeless, following on from tents and grounds, was released in 2019 (Otoliths). His latest books, sidewalkss and walls’t’s, were both published earlier this year by Concrete Mist Press and Sandy Press, respectively. harry is also the co-editor with Mark Young for sandy-press.com. Recent harry k stammer noise verse/music is posted on bandcamp.
