s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

As Plumb Bobs are Tongueless
John Crouse & Jim Leftwich

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Michelangelo / Michael Jordan

As plumb bobs are tongueless on-point faces that create
Characters in keeping with skin plugs retractions
Red pens skitter, await and string spun-air sidles
Firmament-to-ceiling longhands’ ministrations

Pig Pen

Head-scratch dustbowl wanderings how the ball bounces
Its cyclonic map, whether radar or vibe legends entropic
Graffiti letters whorl worlds to brow furrows renewing
Un-quarterbacked galaxy formation and legal sacking

Coming to Grips

Pivots bloodlines’ vortexes out-of-time secretions
Dust devils linking fairways’ commotion to lotion
Good gravy steamy locomotion handjive bedevils
Plotlines witless gripes and whacked divots

Soft-shoe

Tic-tac-toe dance card playbook of watusi vertical
Leaps to breakdance’s pin prick alphabets down
Drains, skull mugs rinsed of brains, zero-to-sixty
Slo-mo square prances spin-quicking dance floors

VISPO: Jim Leftwich. Words: John Crouse.

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Jim Leftwich is a poet and essayist. His latest book Poetry Makes Things Happen: Poems, essays, texts, afterwords, blurbs, notes is published by Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021. He is the author of The Blue Seam (mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2020), Doubt (Potes & Poets, 2000), Containers Projecting Multitudes: Expositions on the Poetry of John M. Bennett (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019), three volumes of essays entitled Rascible & Kempt Vols. 1 – 3 (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016-2017), Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1-187 (Differx Hosting@Box, 2011-2016), Death Text Books 1-9 (cPress & Vugg Books, 2005-2007 and Dirt (Luna Bisonte Prods, 1995).

John Crouse lives in the American Southwest.