MONOBONS by HARRY K STAMMER

 Four Monobons by harry k stammer

 

 

[untitled] #1

 

Jack found this is in the backyard. He brought it in the house and cooked it and ate it. Two forks. Two knives and two napkins. Jack breaks the cap on the ibuprofen bottle; twelve minutes persist into the future. Sue opens a door and walks into a room. Sue sees Jack and they both find a kettle to make some tea. Sue says “I’ll be back in twenty.” Jack takes a shit while the trash trucks come down the street, stopping and beeping while backing up. Sue shows up a little later. “Honey? Would you put the meat on the barbecue, please?”

 

debt is a problem 

 

 

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[untitled] #2

 

The running begins as shuffling, then tripping and falling. Doug wants to get up but flailing shoes devouring soles stops him. There isn’t any point of getting a tourniquet the blood has spread out and out. Sue sees it. 

 

bugs gather on my skin

 

 

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[untitled] #3

 

The rocks are not exactly lined up over the yellow hill. Crows take the ground after rounding, flying, land, walk around. Clapboard house in the late sun. October sun. Elizabeth or Sam stand on the step and stare east. Two gravestones stand out. Long shadows. Crows stop then fly up and around. Then land and peck and peck more.

 

The wind blows through the window, candle lights the curtains

 

 

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[untitled] #4

 

Terror in one corner. The other corners east, west, north pull at Jon’s compass. The understanding is, in a way, like a tangerine slice. Bugs bounce against the screens. Yellow jackets. Jon says “sshhhh” as loud as possible. Silence. That’s not how it usually works. Locking the back door, Jon steps into the kitchen and waits. 

 

donuts a bit of sugar and a seaside town

 

 

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harry k stammer is a writer and musician who lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA USA. His books include every beyond’t nothing (persistencia), tents (Otoliths), grounds (Otoliths); and tocsin(Otoliths), sidewalkss  (Concrete Mist Press), walls't's (Sandy Press), -48 (Sandy Press), Getting To One - with Eileen Tabios (Sandy Press), and alleys't' (Concrete Mist Press). Recent noise/poetry pieces are available at http://harrykstammer.bandcamp.com