4 poems by Heller Levinson

Soft Peddle

laminate lightly with proper oversight

measures taken

only so many fingers required

don’t bite the hand that feeds you

even if the crops come early the

new fashions won’t be ready

camouflage

circumlocution

plush monstrosity the girl next door

forever fever

with avail

with hindsight

fret frictile fiction

    They’re summering in Europe

the hazards of withdrawal surmountable

with banquet

hindrances aver

creatures of habit

deft dart deliria

varoom →  vaHROom throttle thrash

tarantella tilt

rummage rouse

rive, split decisive, 

ramp-up axe chop helter skelter jamboree

a fault line at the heart of velocity

a ledge of capers

disintegration 

an old robe

MAGNET

         (with Helen Frankenthaler

pull pullulate prompt draw

drizzle skitter aerial

lop

baste

pucker

acrylic pounce

slink gravitous pile

compile

compose

mag-

nificence drag, drugged maroon in/trans fuse

      lured

  from root – extravagate –

spoolthrough rattle loose un-

encumber

encumber = shelled up

unshell to venture volt magnetic frolic rip-

arian thrall

splash pulsation

    light ex(celling)ceding light, boosted

      from fanfare, recedes to illumine,

to brilliantine

an

advanced oblation

OTHERWISE

a vowel with its own longing

trusses a cancelled incipience

cuffed persuasion

needled apex

numbnesses repeat their mornings

harnessing humgravel

translucence

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