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don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine art - poem

from switzerland 1987 book DON VAN VLIET * SKELETON BREATH, SCORPION BLUSH
reprinted in denmark 1 may 1991 magazine copyright along don van vliet interview
reprinted in italy 1996 book luca ferrari * pearls before swine ice cream for crows

a tin peened reindeer
metallically hoofed on glass
scorched cotton snowmen edged the corners
flesh colored powder mountains
yellow lights melts cobwebbed articles
vague wire tunnels resembling
peeled flesh caterpillars
housing very tiny red christmas tree lights
the nativity scene
re-enacted in ivory soap
a bone shade from age complete
with tiny straw manger
the christ child its face replaced by an elephant's head
intricate lace cups each ear and bands the trunk

don van vliet 1987

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you might be interested in the other poems from the book:
gil
the tired plain
odd jobs
seam crooked sam
three months in the mirror
infra-grams
 
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