Big Bridge #10

Export: Writing the Midwest

 

Mark Kanak

 

held up

help
       [by surprise]
                                                                      i:  anmeldung
  register your suitcase
           at the desk

       try try try as you might
you cannot say                                                                       ii:  versuch’s mal
           wing by bending

       asleep in lover’s arms
                  yellow or blue

pains press up
          ‘i am
       poison arrow’
           laughs
   kisses                                        iii:  milchbuck!  steiget’s doch uus!
            and propeller

                                   [get out!]


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