Win Knowlton
by Brian Stefans

"I never seen this room looking so good."

AAA
Another American Artist

     in 200 cubits or less

marks shadows via copper-wire pigeon toes
the "not-me" syndrome
("not me shadows, not me asylum!")
and revisits the Star Wars trash compacter scene

by suggesting Olive Oil’s knees
are stronger than iron
and were first imagined
by Alfred Hitchcock looking through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s

rushes

     I heard that,
     Else von Freitag

"My little idea is in pieces until I finish this work."

*

My idea
is in parts.

     I’d take up a samovar and play whist there
     with the Marx brothers while everyone and I
     stopped breathing
     somewhere in the vicinity of the catacombs,
     being buried and being alive among the leaves

strewn about Magritte’s grave.

*

My idea
is a heart
in the basement

UNTER DEM LINOLEUM

     "p-thuck! p-thuck! p-thuck!"
     (a purring sound)
     "ooh, boy, you done something bad
     by them Klannies"
     (echoes of Philip Guston)

other terrestrial hauntings
decaptivated by Fisher-Price
joys

     now that the idea of the flood has subsided.

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