Tag: Napowrimo 2026

Were revelations velled
You could have un-velled them

To dance the seven
With your head on a plate

Tongueburger
Satiated apricot

The joke in poems
Is pronunciation

Elocution probe
Moon’s moon

The neutrals have won
A little channel runnels

Down flatland
Through the marsh

Skyly
Stroked by the feather

Heart-ear
Swallow your pilgrim pill

On pilot’s checklist:
STAY ALIVE

Dignity, always,
Dignity

Magellan flagella
Muriatic blurb

I assure you
Says the crocodile

Rude with mouth full
These tears are mine to give

Clocks never say midnight only 12
Dring droses ring bells

Stow the bleachers fold the dais
Ribbon the scrolls

Nothing is permanent
Just very very long

From Pamphylia
Land of tongues

The sounds words make
Is not their fault

They can’t help it
Being spoken

Feels like speaking to
The language

Undertrawler
Inxile

Returning already
From where you were going

Er ero
Sheer eroist

Are you telling how or
Must and

Would will
To the future

Er
Ess

Listen
The present

Is telling
Every

Wherever
Of the where

Abouties and
Aroundnesses

Live limbs
Reach back to touch

Your face
Gently measuring

Threadlineage
Anyoneymous

Wing flock
Are you speaking or breathing

Asleep
The furies trill

Half-flying
Half-roosting

Portmanteaucrat
Juridical octopus screes

Talon tentacled
The ink slow clouds

If there were terraces
Ever on the bluffs

Now hillsides of boulder dust
Wilderness farms

Chaossifications
Earless and listening

Along the islands float
Around the zephyrs blows

The oceans smell
Like seas of sea

I bless every sneezer
Bless the sneezer
Not the sneeze

The plough of ploems
Meandering over here
While youander over there

In doom pollen yonders
Pretty good right
Like the pretty wildflowers

The pretty bees prettify
On their way
To where the pretty dance

Told them to fly
The art for art’s sake
Balloon animals

Popped by balloon needles
Saked for sake’s sake
Pastoral, presentoral

Good morning
Sings the morning
The only song it knows

Have you on a hilltop
Released a bicycle
The big wheel
In the front
Eventually becoming
The same size
As the little one behind
Staying upright
So long as it’s in motion
How long is that
Let us agree
On tools
Of equal measure
The love you feel
Expressed grammatically
With only intuitive syntax
Only the minimum alphabet
To take up space
Your body already
Holds itself around
Bride of the day
Temporarily occupying
The circumstance
Turning around yourself
Inside yourself
Like a top
That keeps spinning
Holding itself up
A top with no bottom
Or a box of all sides
How would you know
If you open the box
On all the sides
It isn’t a box anymore
But you
Are still you
A series barely
Or a sequence almost
Collapsing nowhere
You don’t already
Hold yourself
Up against
To what
To tall enough
To board the ride
To see over the bar
Vertical horizon
Look at you
Not knowing this
Is how you look
Lookable
Uprighted
Look what
Goes up
How far it goes

To hold
the anti
of the thing
against the thing
to make it purple
in the red light
your insides
cherish

So easy
to smash
the little thing
to see the anti
to raise your hand
and move at it
the waterfall
and your torso
already wet
from the mist
every object
sprays off itself

Nothing
doesn’t choose

The skin
that touches skin
then presses
till skin gives way
membranes pop
and the words
smear
ink around

Is orthodox
the opposite
of paradox?

A pair of ducks
they say
like any two ducks
in the skein
can be paired off

V

Duck 1: I’d rather not
Duck 2: But I’d rather
Don’t my rathers matter?
You’re using
language
too much
the poet says
try something else

A colorist pales
violences
of ultraviolet

Doxy doxa
dog whistles sonata
heat death alive
the ant-
i wash away

This notapoem
is a recipe for
words a poem
package comes in

Masquerades
in tin, fur
query or inquiry
then sponse

Spectra
for every letter
in order
one at a time
yes no materials

All at once or
once and for all
A ray B ray C ray
D ray E ray F ray G
ray H ray I
et cetera
endless et

And then?

Empathies
empathied
every last one

Spick and span
Or one or the other

But not both
Venn diagram

Of what is diagrammatical
And what is not

The marks on your body
Descend into your body

Skin neverending
Erasures reinscribed

A system
That monetizes money

Gawks at free things
Freedom to think

To say what will be done
And witness the doing

Safe
Beyond the shock front

The present provides
From longer spans

The left tense
And the right

The revenants
And the reverents

Take your hand into
Your other hand

Where it joins
Other others

In a slurry of
Galaxyzygy

Eclipse songs
Subtle mud

That leaves a mud smell
Everywhere it touches

Even the world
After you

Wash the world away
Gentle

Scrape my freckle
With your fingernail

The you of which you speak
Gleans yous in the yousland

There are so many
Mouse hair sweaters

On cough owl chairs
Vaultchested, cantalouped

The gnashmash reconfigures
New word comes next

Getting larger as it goes away
To remain always the same size

If you hunger for your hungers
Baby bird, will you take worms from any worm giver

If the worms themselves approach
Will you pluck or wait for the gift

Baroque specific tooth sayer
Lines shake out your sorrows

Tremors tremulously tremble
OR or OR

Which have you chosen
Which will you choose

Polecat pupecat
The pretty gray poison
Is no longer manufactured
It turns out poison poisoned
The vessel it shipped in
The beauty bounty movement
Moved the pianolions
Made a stack of needles
Breathburned
The eye loves
A surreptitious smoothing
A leaf emerging
From a forehead
To infiltrate the air
Metamusic playing
In the idioregister
A tweezer in the toolshed
Cedar mothhouse
Path of reast lesistence
Rust latitude rot license
A lute, a lyre
Smooths Sooths Soothes
Hermsongs
Garage music corodoscopes
For the open door infinite
Gradations of open