Showing posts with label Catherine Wagner. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tuesday poem #69 : Catherine Wagner : Two homooptical translations of love poems in the Greek Anthology



Pottynot or Boy Annoy

You wits to empty annual, guy
new axle sexiness, elongate,

now ye, cave raven* shovelove
alcopop out of ethos unravel

o, ouch act poised toi, sexiness,
all epitaphs to otoliths or

Ottawa atone/atonal nut
fluxive is ovux wife

overskew avail.

*to be pronounced as in ravenous


TOY A TOY or TOI, A TOI

Of Katie mal-a-suave us tittie;
phew, totally, vulva ode
cacophonous
on a valve sun

call volvo, dickless annoy
Kropotkin/K, pot enough
April say waist off adulove
in peace yin/rove sexualate,

call ooh-cows a voice entelechy tov/
erratalove, book noël de-achievers
oh deviant apocalypses eponymous,

call Toronto/totalove
narrow molotov cupcake
so as endofus.



Catherine Wagner lives in Oxford, Ohio. Her latest book is Nervous Device (CIty Lights, 2012).

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan