THE COMPOSITION JAR
small composition jar
in these few words
barely reach the page
a process by which
the person removes obstacles swallowing handfuls
of rags swallowing handfuls
of muttering tepid you become you do
a large room full of the same person
double-decker kissing
the plurals approach this notion
of writing
as it is the fasteners
fasten what holds fast faster
held in relation
to things
children screaming
at the bubbles
they themselves produce catches corners of the eye
a dog eared miniature
of the printed addendum
rise again wakened skin
the better thing
encompassed here
spelled out
light shadows the man with a bedeviled groan
a bedeviled flask
as the wheels speak
a small bundle of them
make a star of it
a taller slender streetlight
a lower lipped movement
fraught with digits
tipping tip tips
diggle – the off center of a cracker the machine of life
rare fruit hanging off
the machine of life
a perfect reflection in fog a swizzle stick alphabet
how to open standing up across the table
—Nico Vassilakis