Eddie Watkins

Compost Pile

This tomb is a recipe, nerve bible of slime,
delving midget that sprouts a giant's eye.
It is a lime noise. And green splurges on remains,
as a choice tigress vaults our weeping
to jack a train implicated in Apollo's death.
Hewn starfish penalize the amber pond,
pond nurturing necrophiliac ferns,
and declare hashish a leonine mobile
symbiotically twinned to crowds in oblivion.
Crowds pasted by the buttery shavings
of an ornery star. Hair of star
suffusing blending mass. As lovers pass
in dream strolls, purple lowers the lid
to lift up a polished squirm. And buildings peel.
A tremendous kite drops freckled isotopes
to fry in the sun, spooning out moon decimals
fertilizing the autochthonic paper.
Late evening enters ohms to read,
in its serpent fortune iconography,
the final gutturals of multiplied ink.
Grit under pressure becomes visionary cartoon,
drawing down its full spectrum of pens
to pin up the Nile, tide of hermetic remarks
ibis art preserved in apple rot. The hairy emergence,
flanked by twining poles, summons an eclipse,
and the morning train compresses into deadly rush.
Solar forehead slides in and out of midnight's pelt.
As rugged guppies sift for turquoise remains,
worms shovel halls with subversive nipples
in steady streams of voluptuous interruption,
exquisite winds out of infused fetor,
electrical flickers in sinew's mineral membrane
stratifying the compost of magical memory.

 

Body of Thought

It is thought from below which leads
in mixture of thought. A profound
schism, dark on dark,
that vitalizes poles.
Each mutually injured tangle a spot
of inscrutable white. The coagulum.
Cream that murmurs rock. Diamond
in mammary clod. At the hand's altar
minutes break from circular wood
to comb that hair
in veins of wind, rain
from seeds to incalculable rot,
flow to thickets woven
from molten play. Abrasive vivarium
in stone. Hand
that alters hand's return.
It begins at limbs under that bed.
Body abiding after mangling thought,
radiating wholly in oblivion.
Nasal star mucus spume.
A dog come to pollinate brain's bush.
Anchoring bees circling a thing
to minerals stored between shocks
of trembling sight. Flood
in suspense beached on surplus. Bleached
by degenerative sun.
In remote thorns of executioner's nest
it peals back cinder
to violate the tune. Contrapuntal rasping.
It gnaws paper to limit spoil,
positioned on an ancient guess
to break through wall. Break through
back and forth to conceptive glow. Survival
fed beneath behemoth yokes,
mercurial through vital miners.
Oiled slippages that accrete
haunt of residual hymns.
It varies its completion,
puts on sod linkages that
self-immolate on lawns. What gap
that severs clarity
to inundate the burdened maw?
Star-nosed moles render clods
to ardent bodies. Recipe
scrapes flesh to foam,
broth of bone,
seasons cauldron with fermented bean.

Legend of the Louse

Contemplating here the woolen letters
the plant on the sill the hair
behind heat tubing. True fringes
match to bi-directional friction tips
to stitch ignitable clues. Yeasted
by an infinite parallel of fractioned rows
I teeter in the cradle bilge, dashed vector
in a mapless mastermind.

Even at a spooned-up lunch

he possibilities the pulsing glare, the under-drone
of human hum. Manifests in concrete solvent
to trail the beads and wrestle through the duct.
Spillage is mere skim off his, it weeds
into goated cove: meat tragedy monument.

 

The reward: unprecedented veining. Hush floodings
in his ear routine. Homey tunings
soft as socks, filth arrangements filling century.
Mother comfort of a muffled monkey rage. Conception
in the marrow tucked into road, hedge to blood-worthy
scribbling palm of spilling sunshine. This chair
and that filmed extension eye into grime. Time
to click in and ratchet to a gritty nimbus channel.

 

His tender vatic grieving of pinhole nitrate grain.
Hand me that battery to get me glowing.

 

Virgin Cocktail

Joy is a slice of marginal evasion.
It rooms with the Green Prodder
furnished oilmen renew in
overalls of plenty. Tease that unleashes
deaf reckonings canyon mirrors
with a chime. Pine bulb slaking.

 

Pilots rear tiny zip controls.

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