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Eric Ellingsen: “I Mean I Mean – Part A”

May 9, 2018 by PBQ Leave a Comment

(a)  I mean I mean

they start

a maze school

research trap history

know when both arms are pressed against one’s sides

one arm is warmer because

one is nearer to the heart

 

In I mean I mean a door opens onto adore

she finds herself

a designer of small centers

I mean expect cloggers

summersaults

expert beings in innumberable

how assaults salt so to speak

how unless apparent a parent a pear

 

To speak in I mean I mean she finds experts

in nextings nests

grounds amazed

finds hope waiting there as if hope sits waiting there. It doesn’t.

 

she was off.  In a sense in I mean I mean was seems was with in width is real and only

I mean expert in expect only

I mean we tend to measure what we care about leave

 behind a troubling wake*

I mean she only works when a dream is on duty.

 

                        

 

Filed Under: Issue 97

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