Tuesday poem #8 : Edward Smallfield : duet (Lorine & WCW)

                                                yellow

jasmine              that smells so sweet

 As I                             paint the street

I melt                this delicacy—the marrow

            through              the window

        lavender &                          little-peet-tweet

pert girls         in the stifling          heat

of September       I need           a piano.

    lapis lazuli

                                                     I

the only one     the diphthong            ae

       that slepen all the nicht with open yë  

   without                               thought

of a sudden        lights             go out

Edward Smallfield is the author of The Pleasures of C, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (a book-length collaboration with Doug MacPherson), locate (a chapbook collaboration with Miriam Pirone), equinox, and, most recently, lirio (a chapbook collaboration Valerie Coulton). His poems have appeared in alice blue, Barcelona INK, bird dog, e-poema.eu, Five Fingers Review, New American Writing, Páginas Rojas, Parthenon West Review, 26, Wicked Alice, and many other magazines and websites. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi, Paou, Paros, and Sofia, and lives in Barcelona with his wife, the poet Valerie Coulton.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan