Dreck

henry bohan

THAT BASTARD DÍAZ

Slack beds of coral thrush-ed In
autumn's imposing heat a
man is smoking
kretek before the car
collision Maple sap
corridor Lower beast lower
lip grazing the bark like
bare skin beside
a swimsuit; a gibbet
staining the sunset, a deaf
horn yelling in
mountaingoat
Life beneath the cliff, in large
objects
Life beneath the cliff who sprouts
brick-worthy gourds
- glands -glands,
enflamed craters
in pre-pubescence
Roses in extreme
smoke Cock thrust
through the gap
of a frozen window,
the glass licking its own
bladder Exhumed 'neath
a shuttered moon, the
momentary reflection
off a dented medal
Burning marquees,
burning,
exterminate the blank night;
kill the moon; ranges
worth a damn,
spewing to the border patrol card pool The Nazi Díaz, fine brown uniform like the burnt ground, uniform No acrobats from the tarantula rowing rowing across the vermin parquet, stunned cricket not even moaning for the ripe spring night, no, so burnt is their acre.



DECIDING FOREST, DETECTIVE SUN, & POMEGRANATE TADPOLES

Deciding forest
starched
in winter bristles
, Christlike loose
limb waxy
in the detective sun
, an eye will die
; the pain a chemise
, the window open to
bees and wasps alike
-
Ballooning curtails
glancing sweat
, the bare tails
destroying
,
swaying away
,
a dissection of pomegranates
orating forts
.



Henry Bohan lives in New York, where he has lived nearly his whole life. Before that his parents lived in Berkeley. Before that they lived in New York. Before that they lived in Philadelphia and Boston. Before that he doesn't know