Mitch Corber
It’s Levitation It’s levitation, larynx of lush archery Yellowed perch, parrot tipsy Locally a blinkin’ eye Would dawns announce a cowbell? A low choir of dewy eye & salty hymn on the wane? Theories fly haphazard in Kansas disasters Yes need teeters in a twig, resister to a thick windy grip on its membrane nervings Connective urgings angling rivers purge where they surge But grace is not too great for Grandma her cure for tired feet, a flash of ancient action Before the weathered pages of re-telling Our guest is October’s gust, a tug at the cuff Late cocktails accrue a rash of ashes A speech of worn knuckles, curiosity, creeds Stock footage of hats, rows of empty seats The bristle of a Fall sale, a whale of a deal Bear a brand name, Betty Buy! Buy! Buy! Intermittent Signals A truce of inches, it really hinges on me. You tasted a feeling frozen here, an errant hair. Paradox of wooden shoes and woolen socks. I pull them up. Cirrus solar-power. Spectral elegy. Whose beast of prey? To swirl the whirlwind proper. Whose slave at the moment of harness, whose tame getaway? Your dreams of joy deleted, latches broken. Jeans cut with a cleaver. A thousand midnight feathers sent in by a certain lily-white saint. Alone morose lamenting . . . . They say a great part of Antarctica is starting to thaw. A wonder it’s still polar.
Mitch Corber, award recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts,
producer of Poetry Thin Air Cable Show, has read throughout NYC. Mitch founded
the Thin Air Video Poetry DVD Archives
(thinairvideo.com) which include Ginsberg, Corso, Ashbery, Di Prima, and Cage. He's appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Nedge, Mirage and tight. 'Quinine', book of poems, is published by Thin Air Media Press.
(thinairvideo.com) which include Ginsberg, Corso, Ashbery, Di Prima, and Cage. He's appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Nedge, Mirage and tight. 'Quinine', book of poems, is published by Thin Air Media Press.