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Issue 1                Featured Poet: Stephen Ellis                   December 2003      ©TheRepublicofCalifornia.com

 

 

 

About Current Issue: New writing from Stephen Ellis' Opulence; poems by kari edwards; poems by Jim McCrary; poems by Steve Tills; poems by Brent Bechtel; poems by Catherine Daly; poems by Chris Murray; poems by Layne Russell.
Upcoming Spring Issue: Poetry, Reviews, Essays, Writing for UPCOMING LAWRENCE Issue being accepted now.

Chris Murray


Baker’s Dozen @ Lovin


@
Cleaned up      I=soaping

a Sappho
with Plato

history             in personal fricative

appeal             suckin grapes & lemon        up to here
with forgiveness          bells lost


to knock the “saturated”
fat out of the
Washington “well”

done              & with            cereal box
Aristotle

that would be word deed lovin

 


@
more egg softboil for  Sor
Juana’s           between albumin & quixotic
scratchy          love

cheek rocking this
and that way
like
S

singing Sir Duke
higher            than angels

which would be like

 


@
How context
will matter: packed
to overflow
“which”=grocery sacks

lugged uphill on ice at night.
Mt. Hope Avenue. Fond
food memories of bananas
going, going,
gone
as word
cuts
abound          for years        & I

 


@
Your lower lip         a lick show
ooooo & loud         parsed on a page

of hands
looking for more

epiphanic wise
men     fluttering      a back-
up       chorus: “Oh, gurrllll, you
bible me”       away
lovin

 


@
Wise women!
What is wrong

with you?
Singing           “always”
allowed in the backroom       hip swaying      Dos Gardenias
Para Ti           per nota bene             & butter tempo
to echo          across your wood floors
baby

 


@
Oh do not
give me more
of your
wanton “riboflavin” baby

 


@
this pool lacks sax     like a # 2 sandpaper
after a Spicer bath     lifted & cash
register ones              foolish
unfortunate                trombone
to sleep                     on curb again
drenched                   in this rain      again

 


@
Baby I will surround
your smooth anise drizzle
with this fold

my irreverent
numbers

 


@
40 days & nights / happy is a fraction         signing
me up             i confess
          i loved

that taller        orange flower
its cosign of petal       which reminds me
of repose        & the yawn
of your bare

 


@
&  enclosure  beautiful
ampersand
eco     system of       ache

for we have
to curb this so
what

 


@
Random ice shaved of
like/love--i am
no slurpie!




@
Enriched
ride
cauterized by good
bye
a scar
a dipped dianthus field I

@
Raining I          tractor ride this “while”

a dozen           sparrows
peck               epic crumbs
along               this steaming
engine             has one flat green hood



 


 

 

              
     

 

 

 

 

 

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