POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
I imagine that undressing a color, though, would be so much like peeling a memory away from the grey and the white matter of your brain.
Empty vessels
make the most sound, I think,
as you rip the fairy lights off the handrail.
I buy too much, for someone of my stature.
could pawn a skinny metaphor to purchase a plump skin.
its reputed in our lineage— to daydream a life that shreds our pockets.
It recommended
soft porn, as gentle prodding and petting parent
to parent might calm and soothe the kid.
The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.
Do not say anything anybody else has said ever. Things are not “bleached by sun.”
I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.
I would always rather be happy than
dignified. Rather held than held
in awe.
and then her eyes fully opened — blazed through with strands of mud
it’s touch-and-go with me and weddings
