From “HOSPITALITY” by Emmett Lewis
03 are intervals walk carbon
elapse-resolve into
weathermen beyond insouciance
of sun on yearbook
grove panasonic
it would or not have lectured
so tactic there
particle germane darkdark
feeling wallflower
pinned it all : mutual ferment to whom
tuneshark eschatological
please thankless
in the event
whereby en fin
reverb conversion smatter orgasma
as such so belies
so horticulture ½ lb
mol dissent fill gust cordwain yeo
man for pub like
lampshade suppository
beautify mimesis case of
screamy
que donc je
suis dans ejaculate don’t be
such a clothespin you
linoleum you
banana-anima mensch lumber
white black ionic or
04 corinthian comatose
cut bell cert rain the
dist of an eye
sweet sick sometime listen 02
timbre skid bloodlet sandlot as
09 hot tootsie
waysound alchemical center
frame negative poisson eve + back
massage × 46th ÷ bliss : the iowa
of my eye i touch
hypothetical terse
round but seven hundy thou
lentille nun grave thine
church-ginger populace that
gurt b4 aunt air
as if grate bisque there whomever
weep slow : slower than slow like
hold on buddy
like glucose from greenhouse or
windchill made steeper
made swallow index upward and loathe
like jiminy crackpot for the
blue bottoms your
southbound trill chop block in
ticktock evanescent
cannon bone cocksmith said riddle-slip
into lockjaw said garlicky brinksmanship
in a frond of memory
***
neuter silo all things 04 or
earl and sarcophagi and
yesterday’s daughters
that phishing offcenter those
cardio encryption that
pulchritude time drought
for 01 to whom another fortuitous
germ balkan : all forks
like what god
tramp cloud i.e.
where ya been slim jim
i.e. green apples and/or 004
interiority flap
extemporane contort that
transparency rat that
porchduck that limejohn née johana
02 anything bc
fentanyl posey father
rabid-penitent
syllogism into
plaster syncope
another fontanel another
spontaneity blister that
xenogrope stink bounce to plié
02 pleistocene bramble
08 governize or tallow to see not why
puma couch pout
gee wiz finagle me seaside
swish finger we noun 02
verve en plein durée
how yardstick how
skunk into time sponge 02 to
unionize & porridge
01 announce pronounce
like free sobriquet wellness hack
inside voice ain’t it so we
ficus we grain we gan
loophole ootside zillow into sweden 18
00 hours now this now asynchronous
ambidextrous coital bituminal as if to
versa verbatim paw paw interior un
canny to you 04
love duck 04 my parenthetical
ken what i mean rubik’s cube that
triumvirate undress
to dreamweave shriek fable dowsing
eclipptical
redstart re :
002 turnip samaritan tailpipe to the
damned that pootie tang
in fisheye
seeming fracture 04 logo
inform litmus as if 02
unplug canary horsehair hypothecate
appendectomy
anonymous dependent with
penumbra jouissance 08 at howsoever
she grove
Emmett Lewis holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University where he was the recipient of a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. His work is forthcoming or has previously appeared in Chicago Review, Tagvverk, Mercury Firs, Nat. Brut, Grotto, Fieldnotes, and elsewhere. He lives in Queens, NY.