stocking louise glück
for louise glück
i said you could snuggle. that doesn’t mean
my voice crept through the spätzle boxes
kissing the sexy sulci tween your ears. it means
your birthday or anniversary or thursday
and you’ve come up picking turducken, most
multivalent of meats, so unlike the little red
apron/red hat number that pins me by the tills.
you have a house account. can i help you
to the car? perhaps you’re looking for a driver
in the classical style, or a post restante poolboy.
i’ll net you where rats and roaches rest, just
buy low on olives from the liquor store largesse.
ok, i’ll swing the olives. shake you a grey goose
martini ball brimming with blue cheese like a
pustular third eye. this is not cheap bit of talk
flowering to god. it’s an inter-office memo
delivered along chinese roots, fortune cookies
spiked with pink slips. next it’s the restraining
order, may i take your number? may i roll out
charon’s old coins for the ticker tape parade?
i said you could snuggle. that doesn’t mean
my voice crept through the spätzle boxes
kissing the sexy sulci tween your ears. it means
your birthday or anniversary or thursday
and you’ve come up picking turducken, most
multivalent of meats, so unlike the little red
apron/red hat number that pins me by the tills.
you have a house account. can i help you
to the car? perhaps you’re looking for a driver
in the classical style, or a post restante poolboy.
i’ll net you where rats and roaches rest, just
buy low on olives from the liquor store largesse.
ok, i’ll swing the olives. shake you a grey goose
martini ball brimming with blue cheese like a
pustular third eye. this is not cheap bit of talk
flowering to god. it’s an inter-office memo
delivered along chinese roots, fortune cookies
spiked with pink slips. next it’s the restraining
order, may i take your number? may i roll out
charon’s old coins for the ticker tape parade?
Zach Buscher resides in the Wild West of Massachusetts. He just received his MFA from the University of Arizona, where he was a Beverly Rogers Fellow and Poetry Editor for Sonora Review. His poems have appeared in 42opus, 580 Split, SHAMPOO, tinfoildresses, Wheelhouse Magazine, Juked, and Otoliths. Some others are forthcoming in sawbuck and My Name is Mud.
P.S. In terms of something spooky, he recently discovered that Sarah Palin is a very distant relative. The horror!
P.S. In terms of something spooky, he recently discovered that Sarah Palin is a very distant relative. The horror!