Ratcatcher, by Ed Coletti
for Francis Jammes (1868-1938)
moimoimoimoimoimoimoi
sodifficulttowrite
…………tooeasytoreciterecite
fly infestation
speckling sun-bleached
living room walls
pointillisme’s
blemish
for example
the me-poisoned
decomposing rat
beneath the floor?
within a wall?
when flies finish
rat flesh
does matter count
entropy demanding at least
some foul cooking pungency?
beneath the floor
within a wall?
no odor here tips me to
where dying rats retire
to transform.
Ed Coletti studied under Robert Creeley in San Francisco (1970-71). Recent poems appear in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Spillway, Big Bridge, and Kentucky Review. Most recent poetry collection The Problem With Breathing(Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015).
Posted on December 21, 2016, in Issue 19: Speculative Poetry and tagged ezine, poem, poetry, The Were-Traveler. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
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