DES MOINES DISORDER
3/10/2019
“Fields of Opportunity” pleats of gold leaf
and khaki too, “hell yes!” potholes,
glass boot filled with maltodextrin,
and a bronze spider focus group
near the otherwise locust-ish thruway –
adjacent insured floodplain.
Hogpiss winter – the jitters,
never any traffic or reunions.
March the 10th, 10 dolors,
cashless Tuesday pre-Easter itch.
I predict the inmost debates of
10s of compulsions today –
As always, still sleeting,
headfirst fistmouth.
Rebehave for the next 20,
counting boss’s weather, my disease.
Shoulder March’s sodden knitting
as an inculcation of cure.
VERITAS, FIDES, DETENCIONE
Mrs. D
contra
saint spitting
on wounds
laychildren
palms open
visible bone
relic erupting
out
kneeling
the bloodwell
“stupid
Rossi boy”
sacramented
shin-to-cement
threshed
hell-pocked
amateur
ecclesiologist
decrying iphones
us
the pope the gall
to beg for David’s
line’s flesh
PRESBYTERS
bibliography
bibling
held bad
debased graph
the oldest man that has ever been forces a pamphlet
into my backpack filled with pamphlets
for reason is but losing
let’s circle
back and babble
like abbots
JENKIN BENSON is a 1st year PhD student at the University of Notre Dame. He principally studies the creative interchange between Welsh and Irish modernists. He also writes poetry. You can find his work in the Grinnell Review, Deep Wild, and New Note Poetry.