Mosquito by Alex Lemon

Author:Alex Lemon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2010-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

A Country Mile of Soft

Do it, the river wept

this morning. No one will

know. I burned

the autographs.

Licked crayon-wax

from my fingers

to celebrate waking.

I wallpapered nude

so when I flipped

into the down-dog,

I became the jumping

bean’s slow cousin.

This is the New West.

The la-la in sagebrush,

a magic-strummed scenery.

Last night was guns & confetti,

an elephant-sized centrifuge & we

were spic & span, tongued safe & clean.

Happiness

does not keep him from feeling

the woman within kick and claw.

His habits are not his alone.

Behind the sunglasses’ missing lens,

an eye blinks sunburnt. He reaches

with perfect manners, right arm

stealing tomatoes from the salad.

Left sleeve sewn to his side, he is spill-proof,

enjoys tart wine in chiming glass.

Locked away, a shoe befriends half a scissor,

collects pecks from a lonesome lovebird.

A pant sleeve pinned above the knee,

he looks as if he’s been jumping

one-legged in floodwater, saving

only one of the twins. He wears

the up-all-night face of singles tennis,

orders individual knives from infomercials.

One sock. One nostril. One glove. One arm.

Wave to him when he holds nothing.

At happy hour watch him handle the two for one.

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