ADVENT DAY FOUR: Elisabeth Workman

S W O O N C L I F F

a body bristles

full of any

one for more

to the point

is noise is

energy & no

one’s not in

vited to freak

out or part

icle & smash to

wah full frontal

apoplectic

bloodspurts

in a bout

of base joy

stuck on the

deck till it

’s time to

dock to press

their lips in

to the amp

litude of all

-at-once orbits

sounding out the

double signals

of a dead con

sensus—it means

us—rushing into

the lash the

throatslit swine

like a swoonboss

an original

bite like a

jubilant pop

-up book of

phobias full

of songs in

an as of yet in

decipherable m

other tongue

ELISABETH WORKMAN is the author of eight chapbooks, the full-length Ultramegaprairieland (Bloof Books 2014), and, forthcoming very soon from Dusie Press (!!!!), You Always Live Again (of which the poem above is part). She lives in Minneapolis.