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rob walkerBiography
dunes, perlubie beachvertebrae honed to a pointbackbone’s ridge disintegrating the sharp edge loses focus drifts off bleeding into sky these microboulders rolled up and over knife’s crest southern ocean Sisyphus time’s lesson in persistence a parable of sand this relentless wind air molecules drum ears and hollows roar defiance as sirens beckon sailors, move mountains a grain at a time. © rob walker (from micromacro, Seaview Press, 2006) Catsyntax. ** It is not widely known that cats have their own verb-based language.Awake and slow arch stretch turn an almost go-round widen eyes cry out to upstraight-walkers still lying on sink-in mat check out notdarkening eat-stuff box it purrs unopening end of long sleepingtime warmbright comes up warmstriping the walk-on. stretch, fur-warming. Later, heat-stripes moved, upstraight walker will unclose box in the not-moving hold-still memory-moving pictures of the silvershine under-the-water flashers bring water in mouth we catch them with claws that flash silverfast the same taste comes in the round silver-hard cup we cannot bite open straight walkers open round with silver teeth held in notcat paws we not-move still as rock ground-jaw quivering then pounce faster than locust, lizard, bird. this light-rising we sit wait in their food-warming place stare at the not-darkening box waiting. © rob walker, 2006
(from Friendly Street Reader 31,
Scrotal ultrasoundShe excises the ab from abnormalwith amiable chatter & soon you’re asking where her kids go to school & you’re explaining where you live as your balls are served up on a cold plate (minus pasta) when suddenly she asks about the vasectomy. No she’s not psychic. Your history is mapped out internally. The navigator’s reading your roadmap & noticed a fineprint arterial route cut off twenty years earlier.
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