JAKE BAUER | Three Poems
- POETRY
- May 7, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 4, 2022
O Y G B I V
Red featherbed said dread bred lead thread
Hereditary cherries in the incredulous orchard
slam into boyhood
Godhead zinnia
There’s many a— STOP
and DO NOT ENTER
Recentered
Dredged heart slips dead over heels
for lady
bug in Miss
Scarlet’s credenza
There’s tens a
red voices
inside your red choices
Seems
sacred hatred violence
confiscated)
Red of the early
enamored
A nail is not a person
until it is hammered
R Y G B I V
Orange retoranged
Returned? Retorted?
Supported
a family of me
on what
falls from a tropical tree
Hegemony
The pope, in the deep end, in water wings
Creamsicle lube
To inflate the vest blow
your orange
wish through the orange tube
A Clockwork
Clementine
Be mine—
goldfish, baby-cant-
aloupe, toxic petri dish
& Agent
Equal Parts
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid and 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid
THE GERHARD RICHTER SCALE
This ocean
is not the ocean
I wanted
to take up
residence in your
handbasket
of easy crimes
little swipes
of golden
bikes, pre-dawn
I mean
I mean
she had a lot
to accomplish
with her feet
all day was
was only halfway
Jake Bauer is the author of the full-length collection Tracey Emin's Tent; the chapbook Big Pool, Oh; and co-author of the chapbook Idaho Falls. He is also the Marketing Director for Saturnalia Books.
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