Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Eggplant, jalapeno

 

green beans, tomatoes

zuchinni, orange pepper

sweet basil, oregano

cinnamon basil, tarragon

rosemary, English thyme

 

From Gage Ryan Jeter

to Dr. Gage Ryan Jeter

in defense of dissertation

“Teachers’ Lived Experiences

Within and Beyond

the 2016 Oklahoma

Writing Project Summer Institute.”

 

Eggplant, jalapeno

green beans, tomatoes

zuchinni, orange pepper

sweet basil, oregano

cinnamon basil, tarragon

rosemary, English thyme

Three good sweats

 

today—gardening

weeding, riding

stationary bike

 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

6, 7, 8—

I lose count—

shots fired

down by the

Canadian River

Two years ago

a bullet broke

a kitchen window

in the cul-de-sac

just above

the river

 

Seeds dropped

from volunteered

sunflower—

thick rope twisted last year

along the ground—

have germinated

volunteering dozens

of seedlings

now rising

above the grass

Center breath

 

Thoughts move, yes

left to right

Never step in

the same one twice

 

Their latest missile launch

prematurely ejaculated

and was gone

 

Shovel spur

Overturn

light-dark

sand-soil

Spade in

seed, seedling

water, weed

glean

“Die Uhr spricht ängstlich mit dem Spinnweb an der wand”

 

At dusk

shadings of gray

that are

yet that can’t

be named

before gone

 

Other

Othered

An other

An utterance

To gather

To utter

Another

Together

My Monday

 

today

31 hours long

 

The thought

over the Atlantic

that one engine

blows

I hope’s

not the thought

that starts

the explosion

 

“An image of a black hole’s

event horizon

would take it a step

further.

            For astronomers,

a synthesized image

from the telescope array

would also test

Albert Einstein’s

general theory of relativity.”

1. When is the bomb going to explode?

 

2.     Where is it right now?

3.     What does it look like?

4.     What kind of bomb is it?

5.     What will cause it to explode?

6.     Did you place the bomb?

7.     Why?

8.     Where are you?

9.     What is your name?

 

Four different nights

in Manitowoc

in the police jail

6’ by 8’

narrow cot

toilet and bars

 

“Reiten, reiten, reiten, durch den Tag, durch die Nacht, durch den Tag. Reiten, reiten, reiten.

Ah, zum ersten Mal in den

deutschen Wäldern pissen.

 

I will never see

that tree

the same way again

photographed

digitally altered

reminiscent now of Franz Kline

 

I read and wrote poetry in a deer stand

south of campus

We often slept in the woods

huddled around fire pits

in woods now gone

south of campus

UW-Stevens Point

Martina’s Imbiss Stube

 

Cinderella Brautmoden

Sport Krauß

Foto Heinrich Studio

Markt Apotheke

Geldautomat

 

“You don’t get ‘credit’

for ceasing to do a

dangerously wrong thing

you never should have done

in the first place.”

 

“More than half a million years ago,

in the midst of an Ice age,

a landbridge connected Dover

in the South of England

to Calais in Northern France.”

As much as I want them to

 

Die Vögel singen nicht auf Deutsch

 

“Why did he contradict

traditional rouge

memorization?”

 

In a store

in Paris

an American

irritated, shouts

“Does anyone

speak English here?”