Paige Taggart

HOW AWESOME THAT YOU SPOKE
INSIDE OF THE LAMB AND
THEN SMOOTHED THE CHILDREN AWAY

 

The voice is meant to be heard
and read then condoned
to be prairie-fitted in
puffy sleeves along the
watering can by the
already open gate

The world trotting through the
spoon you hold up your
reflection

The biggest bubble lifted-up
with a wire-bent-heart a
seal of approval a lesson
to dismiss the bog from
the land that grows inside of
your person after you’ve
occupied so much time
your hermit had hidden in
land under the spoon
facing the occupation
tied under the war in a yellow ribbon

Thrown over the edge
with concrete blocks
tying-up its contents
judge the expulsion that’s
left penalized drug offenders
on the fly-tape

The time the entire village
was killed this way
in the Romanian shed
under bitter remorse
festered through the old-crag’s
knees spun into a bucket

The widower even flew a
child’s fox into the can
stuffed from the outside
makes the insides even
longer until poison
explodes yellow inside
your chest until the
crimson necktie cuts
off the water flu swung
around the building
patience come up for air
under the water that pollutes
your thinking

If the noise were a stout
removed from its brass chemistry
would the sculpture absorb the
profile of its inventor?

Does blinking come in the form of a wave enveloping darkness?

Law’s movement elbowing through a crowd
corrupting the song sung inside day
outdoors where the thrills of cycling slide seaweed
through water and lift-up molecules of an adolescence synergy

Inside the backpack is a
vague spoiling a banana from its freshness

How repeated the maker of man’s minds are

How many billfolds hold-up the land?

Does the inventor come in the form of a prisoner and by the time the idea is
achieved the lungs get to get out?

The cage wrapped around
building notions forced its
invisibility to spread
genius through craft and the
maneuvered clumps in content
spread form through the frame
and stung the rational man into
a state of feeling

If there’s only one thing left to say it’s already been said

Try growing a gasp in the form of a glass zebra
Try making a zee appear everywhere in its language

If inside of a hand is a
commotion and a chemical
lab breaking the city apart
then how underneath the
bricks are spiders achieving homes
how webbed infantilism breathes less
taking up less oxygen than the trees saw fit

A birth diploma fluttering akin to the moon

Could liability be birthed through a window and spread fictitiously atop a copy?

Does a simulation have feet to crawl legacy through ages
if the post-script came any later would the rumor be in trouble?

And if/when the rumor does relax its blouse to the gales
does the fighting hand make its fist grow stronger?

No gentlemen

No

So sorry to have tried to have hung the window in the middle of the sky allowing
airplanes to pass through its mere invisibility
if the band reached any further across the landscape the entire window may come
crashing down and horses would limp involuntarily across a field
and a crocheted cupid’s arrow on fire would scoot into the horse’s stool

The planet needs to relax

The prisoners need to be let out

The whole dichotomy will collapse soggy

And when the subtlety of a foundation contorts
it makes building bridges less stable because
the land bunches up under the steel leg and pushes its math into the horizon

And you know the horizon is far away from where you stand and the image of its
belittled shadow running into the sand is controversial
its ugly cardboard cut-out body pressed against space

How humorless the mountain filled with pudding pouring the Saints out

How much mirth grows inside of the tongue talked across the table giving the love into the
pocket that the pen should hold and your stoic vase filled with moths

How the abundance is images onto images on top of images

Compiling a scissor trot when you wrap your legs around the bearded earth

 

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Paige H. Taggart lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated with her MFA in poetry at the New School after, receiving her BA in Visual Studies from California College of the Arts.  She makes jewelry and you can find her stuff online: http://mactaggart.etsy.com. You can listen to her reading one of her poems online at Weird Deer. Her poems have appeared or will appear in the Agriculture Reader, La Petite Zine, My Name Is Mud, Blazevox, Ditch, Elimae, Robot Melon, Critphoria, EOAGH, Sawbuck, and Caketrain.

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