Sunday, January 03, 2010

Sara Larsen

TO BILL


priests   &   happy   people

in their epic super-8

seesaw wood up & down

the whole arienette
gonna collapse

silver,    in cool sleep

dream     the heart had a

stem cell



TO ELSA


word,     cranial,    bud antennae

on the phone your
voice
crashes open the cylinder

   all existant layers

      plowed through—

we have entered a time
of consequences

    all   full of  hair-blood


i can only say my heart breathes

   pumps verdure light



TO JOAN MARIE


is death which jerks us out of tenacious

minute organisms

every manifestation of our own



Nakedness

a state of continuity through

business



TO JO


beautiful blood, beautiful brain

god knows i work hard to escape

bloody snob, ezra
  meant “jewels”—

alas, poor old

   masters

let me indulge the

  american letter:


“i of course like your old man, and
i have drunk his Goldwasser”


Sara Larsen is a writer who lives in Berkeley. She co-edits TRY! magazine, a bi-monthly literary/arts zine, with david brazil, and is founder of earthworm press & projects. her chapbooks include to paradise a dashboard (autonomous earth press), doubly circulatory (artifact press), 2000 decembers (ampersand press), 23 Chromosomes for David Wojnarowitz (earthworm press & projects), and most recently, NOVUS (earthworm press & projects).