Five Poems

by Geoffrey Detrani

Exit

Hydrant’s scrupled head

Laid 

like bare scarp

skimmed out

cut from the furrow

starving its pleat 

The barge wade

Through

corpus channel

what next is its pacing 

what fuel made

oxygen that fed its clay

As if to exit

Lay

Adze

The lunatic tax 

And propeller come to acre

coverlet gesturing fertile outbreath

Soil of a certain way 

Has a client state 

the head of a pin 

Invents

an inertia of the world

Laid untranslatable 

Sheath

This lumbering arm beneath the head 

Dance with your marauder legs 

the fragrant bullet  

The air that cushions the uncertainty it surrounds 

One impossible squalor voided upon another’s

prospect  

Confessable in insipid rain 

Sheathed

of prismatic engorging 

Debt

Oblige

radius allowance

the tanker with sore tusk

Went to the chasm to brey and gamble

Sweat as the water is thin

by a pensive gesture

into the bow 

the silver-pink

The stairs to derivation’s obvious furniture

Sleeper’s beckoner’s set piece strata

the balcony is loiter

wastes

its beat of exhaustible chroma

What

borrower laid to its supine debt

Stairway

Hold the cell in the foolish ribcage

glue and tar

take out the molten rock

Sugar on the walkway with glimpse

hereditary tassels

wetted

Overmorning

exonerate an arc

Sphinx is

plenty its dirty mouth 

what that leaves from the stairway

still holding out for supper

BIO: Geoffrey Detrani is a visual artist and writer. His poems have been included in Fence, Aufgabe, Action Yes, New Orleans Review, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Parthenon West Review, Grotto, Crowd, Broken Antler, Community Mausoleum, Antiphony Press, and Ballast among other publications.