John M. Bennett
Tumbling Lac
chub me crisp ,mondled in the basement
my club crisp an toweling hole
your blaze hole glrunting ash
email ash and howling (cliff)
the cliff hug you numbered
hug your final hair your air
drift and way ,hair mine ,cglue
fondle lac an drift nut an sore
fumble the peas an lac stroker
misto peas tumbling through the light
brought your gash through )nest(
nest to me ,cglim ,stlopping head
stlopping raft the tune hint
cough it up ,the raft rings ,fork
your itch fork rustles in the sloup
mud ,sloup ,crystal ,nattering
red mud flavor ,sorna dip
dip your housing chub an mustle
Sheet Bundle
bundle hant uhn jooter slept against in
blot dance jooter hunda one nor phone
black the phone oil silder in ah noose
noose leak ,dang shiner ,ham brant cock
nope nor was ,hump leak decking ,airy hall
braid the hall lens clacking in sum breeze
name the nuttered breeze or sleeve grit
whatta grit lousy amper sand and splinter
“splinter” useless snore an off the clampoline
lutter useless huh was “useless”? ...drift...
estrus drift or bond yr blond leg flaker
file the estrus that ,ape ahead ,clumpy east
drummy ape an cubic slot an dipper stun )stun
my( slept outside the strumming sheet
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John M. Bennett has published over 300 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press), CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL (Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed)), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods), and BACKWORDS (Blue Lion Books), NOS (Redfox Press), D RAIN B LOOM (with Scott Helmes; xPress(ed)), and CHANGDENTS (Offerta Speciale). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.