2 Poems by Joseph Harms

TELEOLOGY

To hear their webs asilver rote; achrome

proscenium neath wayward oaks’ clockdrip

of ossicles and moths; demised the riv-

er’s chthonic charnel’s restive churn; distrait

there retrogrades a cloud as chevron stars

eclipse, perfervid mantic honks; dehisced

dehisced and happier, there’s probity

alone; alone this life can slow; inoc-

ulum; ingress seropurulent; flume

a lee how quakes one tree among the sighs;

motile in chair comforterwrapped behind

the shed in which she camps; a rock in twelve

neath chlorite flux irradiates as sows

selenian through limbs pianoplay.

BIOPHILIA 

Not body, guts but kluge her Civic’s ev- 

itable ruin: declensed cession of gall- 

ipots’ housecalls; the coming febrifuge 

of chaffwed opioids the sun’s confit 

beyond the calvary of boughs where far- 

row clouds but not the sun; distal down Frear 

to hit fore close the liquorstore by Lit- 

tle Caesars men their broome would retrocede 

to offer Bel a ride, usurp usurp 

adducted arms neath flannelled breasts. As vir- 

ga’s darkle imprecates from fulgent brood 

so forwards Bel in equipoise upon 

ukase. Her maculate crooks. Its derac- 

inate semblance dayin depose each tree. 

Bionote 

Joseph Harms’ fiction and poetry have appeared in Boulevard , The Alaskan Quarterly Review, IthacaLit, Out of Our, Poydras Review , Red Ochre Press, Lines+Stars, Bad Idea, SPECS, Mad Hatters’ Review, The American Dissident, and, among others, Niche. He is currently seeking a publisher for his sonnet series Bel , as well as seeking representation and/or a publisher for his novels Cant and Baal .