"I assure you this is no medicine," "I suppose another passenger," and "Without Seeing"

I assure you this is no medicine

 

I tripped on the    [spinal flex
                              left spittle
                              on the avenue]
 
 
                dust around the
sound hole to the
[city]
 
 
                it rings in the most
     meaningful way
 
 
[I arrived an hour too
 late and could not
 find the]
 
 
I could [not]
I [could] not
[I] could not
 
 
I am
I am
I am
 
 
select this [please]

 


 

I suppose another passenger

 

                       click
and
               shaking
 
 
                enjoy another
                waltz
 
 
+mercury
+hesitation
+emptying
+orbiting
 
 
I am not fit to yell
 
 
not as
I once
was

 


 

Without Seeing

 

refraction
 
                                  [humming]
                                  [humming]
                                  [humming]
 
 
              a train on the...
 
 
nebulous removal of
the barrier
 
 
                         turn it in
this
              direction
 
 
[I caught a lump in my [throat]]
 
don[t]
be so
so
so
so
 
...
...

 

 

Nathan Anderson

Nathan Anderson is a poet from Mongarlowe, Australia. He is the author of The Mountain + The Cave and Deconstruction of a Symptom and has work in BlazeVox, Otoliths, Beir Bua and elsewhere. You can find him at nathanandersonwriting.home.blog or on Twitter @NJApoetry.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Sunday, July 31, 2022 - 22:00