GLOOM

glommed lugubrious gunk-coated sullen lark

                                                tar

                             misgivings

 

peppered to obsolete logarithms solar-shudders shrivel rotational virility,

                                                                             capsize motility,

scuppered by the carboniferous bunk of an occluded legacy ill-advisements crud  canker  corrode,

un-

pack

gutted centripetals


HELLER LEVINSON’s most recent books are QUERY CABOODLE, SHIFT GRISTLE (Black Widow Press, 2023), THE ABYSSAL RECITATIONS (Concrete Mist Press, 2024) & VALVULAR ASH (BWP, 2024) with CROSSFALL slated for a spring 2025 release. His book, LURE (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the “2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.” A recent review here.