Posture of Unease
(an Ashbery Erasure poem)
It seems like
this film
of autumn
must be
why
we
get more
simplistic:
good
and
evil; we keep
caring, satisfied
nicely
We arrive
perfectly flat
on water.
Death
There’s more
to it
than our
own juices
from April Galleons
Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse
(an Ashbery Erasure poem)
Spiders
were our
neighbors
nestled in
the municipalities
We slept for peace
Then he came up to me
the weight of the present
lost just by standing
the hum
of a meritocracy
the
original fear
from Where Shall I Wander
DAVID DODD LEE is the author of ten books of poems, including “Orphan, Indiana” (Akron, 2010) and “And Others, Vaguer Presences”, a new book of Ashbery erasure poems published by BlazeVox in 2017. He is also a visual artist, whose newest exhibition of collages will be featured at Northern Illinois University in October, 2017.
David’s artwork, both those featured in Issue Two as well as many others, can be viewed and purchased at http://seventeenfingeredpoetrybird.blogspot.com/
