Ratty dried
ratty coffers on the ranked mattress
seeping back the copy shop the crunchy
alley glass and gravel left your
finger in the weeds rat beneath the porch
stung and shivered
you were coughing on the ladders you were
crawling in the basement you were spraying
in the bedsheets tou were stopping on the
shredders you were booming in the closets
rung and slivered
)bent )dropped )hashed )breaded )juiced
)peeled )known )loomed )head )slobbered
)ouch )folded )drained )called )bled
)plowed )grown )ran )fouled )dried
John M. Bennett
Dr. John M. Bennett
Curator, Avant Writing Collection
Rare Books & Manuscripts Library
The Ohio State University Libraries
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Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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