"Selection From Loan Words" by Stephen Guy Mallett

Selection From Loan Words

Selection From An Open Letter to Gabriele Falloppio

Holding the men-

iscus at eye level,

you feel the sleep

slough off. Hair is,

and what is not?,

what re-fuses to

be?, ecifically all

salivaried, all not

here with us, bag

it for me, material

and each material

forgets the needle.

Selection From Salves

Ineffectual as kicks and snares

may seem or sound

to the blind-wound

aspect, I suspect

a black king oyster blooms in her

yard for the silver

fish crowding the garland

pretence is called alethic

chaos is pronounced cows

selah as a shield

to those sustaining me.

Selection From Gematria Blinds

Calque, from calcare,

umami from the silk

roads, a murmur of crows,

hella starlings, a mess

of teeth, syncopation, in some

gestural thought, only incomplete

in letters, you,

scattering her ashes over Yapeitso,

sandals left as amber is left.

Selection From Latent Roots with no Preconceived Object

The net rises damp, weighted with

What treasures, steam cleaves smoke,

Smoke cleaves steam upon the world—

Apical tissue efflux in controlled fire

Chartreuse fractals fractal in form

From broccoli stalk to stalk the webworm—

Stephen Guy Mallett was born and raised. His wife has many questions about the deep sea. His poems appear in various corners of the internet, and his limbs appear in various corners of the forest floor.