Candy Flipping
spacing out as the chimpanzees hump
reading reviews of robot vacuums, gravlax
and double mezzaluna knives
under the blue spruce the spine
of a lady fern uncurls
I see three lights
Ill Wind
when I get afraid of death
I touch your soft thighs
and imagine glasses of cool milk
even though I don’t drink milk
Cheerleaders for the Sun God
They go: Ra, Ra Ra!!!
Windjammers
futuristic rocky shores in corduroy shorts
putting a sexy leg on ice
coffins of asteroids honor our anniversary
the proximity of windjammers are a matter of perspective
sea otters made of broken pencil lines
enjoy a very long lunch
Flop Era
Civilization is janky
a fortress made of hairy legs
what is a sound in geography exactly
20 years ago I was in Alcatraz
Swallowing vitamin E gel caps
Spelling licorice
Imagining strawberries
counting to 100
thinking about baseball
trying not to succumb
Headwind
trying to google evolutionary economics
but clicking on evil dead rise by accident
of course there’s an orca in cape cod called old thom
of course
wandering through the cat grass
and drifting
into the imaginary isthmuses
as the clippers sail over my head
the white days and nights
are swept up and tossed out
Notes for a Super Long Epic Poem
talking boat or magic frogs or something
Camels?
Mike Andrelczyk is the author of “!!!” (Ghost City Press)
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