FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: POINT UP Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words point and/or up, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on April 18th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Point Up will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 19th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Jeffry Jensen


IT WAS A SIGN THAT GAVE ME PAUSE


I found myself taking the target off the wall

as the stars wander close to the vest of syndication

no 2 crabby toad sucking vengeance breeding

stemming from a formula buried 10 feet below

in the slow lane of murmurous psychology

I watch the honeysuckle unpruned and sagging

between the hobbling and the passionate atmosphere

evacuating the entire front of buoyancy

before a furious tide swings into action

shuffling was not going to help my cause

a mule on the bridge turned plowing into philosophy

a sewing basket lost to imperial design trimmed to whale size

a wave pattern crushed between doors of perception

mud flaps spilled into a kind of juvenile treachery

upright and naked when cowardice is my last refrain

there was a judgment nailed to my backside

sleep took a powder in the moonlight

right angles wheeled and watchful down to the letter

Jethro Tull was found on the wagon of lost fleshy promises

no flame large enough to reach milking day

a particular heartless astonishment bent on straddling

when no one heard the shape of liquid dry up

fear could point toward rapt absorption of musical squatting

wide and waiting for holy conformation as windows

take a fresh direction as roosting becomes a common outcome

tree to cut 4 ways to Sunday best shining onward

as rest comes to signify solidarity of hollow purpose

there is one bluff left to rise the clumps of lamplight believers

I can nuzzle indifference with a wink and a moan

gripping a grave with a slant more square

than backed into bleeding shapes of California bearing

down on trembling in an upstream style of blowing juvenile transgression


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