THE MORPHINE POEMS by BOBBI LURIE

JEFF HARRISON Engages

the morphine poems by Bobbi Lurie
(Otoliths Books, Rockhampton, Australia, 2012)


[each line below is an excerpt from Bobbi Lurie's the morphine poems]




dark teens
linger
crows
of the deep dive
not the truth all dark teens love camus

crows
linger
like a box of empty flight

memories wish
the virginal

incompatible personages
dark and barbed
crows
crime at
the crack of every eye

i... i... i...
small minutes
blown like twigs

crows
live less time than
prose
geese a willow
geese a willow

the perfume merchants
about disease they write persona poems

outcasts
speak dirty windows
unpronounceable
mouthfuls of
green rain

that's why
crows
fifth time
crows
mouth
hate of honey

without language memory leaves
virginal

bleed still cream
crows

yes
bleed
cream
yet
yes and
pray or say
clay the day

studious hawks
love camus
all dark teens
cannot
love camus

crows linger
box after box
claw and caw
clay the day

camus
does not allow adieu

a box of empty flight
is
a quiet house
and
camus
is
an unhoused creature

perfume merchants
pleasantries while
away
the day

no one's refused the cheap view of this world

only
crows
shy in their refusal

black oats bats
demand
the sense of lace

camus
his
face of a rabbit
cannot become a habit

subtract
mimic face
from
verse

cannot

unfathomable

mimic face
lost in language

box after box



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Jeff Harrison reviewed books for the past eleven issues of Galatea Resurrects. He has publications from Writers Forum, MAG Press, Persistencia Press, White Sky Books, and Furniture Press. He has e-books from Blazevox, xPress(ed), and Argotist Ebooks. His poetry has appeared in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II (Meritage Press and xPress(ed)), The Chained Hay(na)ku Project (Meritage Press and xPress(ed)), Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Xerography, Moria, NOON: journal of the short poem, Dusie, MiPOesias, EOAGH, EXPLORINGfictions, and elsewhere. You can read his poetry here and here.  You are welcome to read Antic View.