Joel David Beacon
The Peach Thieves
so then
set yourself
before things
when
fields
not yet
cropped
or boxed
but
plotless
without end
or object
there
remember them
as one
unfigured sum
where
muchness
loosed
from law
or logic
still
clung
in clots
of pulsing light
behold those
tolling tones
that
touch
on what
goes on
beyond us
here
reach
out
feel
the yield
of meat
plunge
pitward
for the core
and tongue
and tongue
and tongue
so long
it stung
and come
to know the world
by heart
and
wonder
how
we never
really
noticed
this
until
just
now printable
Between You and Me
but
just
between you
and me
how
daybreak
through
those
slanting
blinds
slashed
that
wet
flesh
in lengths
of sleeky eel-
like light
left
skimming
its
slick
skin
these
sheets
of sheen
which
caught
the wriggling things
beneath
(or so this seemed)
then
expired
but
breachlessly
as evenings
into seas
yet
here
our bodies
bobbing
in the bathtub
the sense
of something
overlapping
you
and me
both
flaccid
and placid
as a manatee
who doesn’t need
to breathe printable
Like Some God
Like some god
had stuck a straw
in-
to
the milkshake
of the universe
and with
a
big
long
hard
pull got
all the way
to the bottom of things printable