Ann Pedone

From: A Round Thing Now Shining. Caught

Musky is my

paradiso churning its own

piss into butter majestically

transitive Catullus’

newly electrified                     cock it

opens to me like a face this

rewiring of Romance

Language’s raw meatiness      let’s

make it less

mossy more     solid homophone

orgy-porcelain

bowl so ad hoc you could       eat your

breakfast cereal right out of it

Nox

Sound glitch fruit-

chew is transdermal    hormone flying

way too

close to the sun much too easily

confused with              mother’s ear carefully

shaved and waxed for the holi-

days needs to be          rewritten as

de-

frosted vegetable lasagna not so

well-hung these poetics are

Nox

It was the fact that your

Uptown

homage to my own misreading of

private parts hastily                 sketched on back of

Greek diner

napkin makes us both so         cumulus so

neatly rhapsodized

Amphetamine fetish                I think we could all

benefit by mother tongueing it just a bit more than this

Nox

Unrestrained Mother               Mary

sounds soft urinal scheme to destroy

empire of         poem straying

further and further into milk-fed cunnilingus

the lingual really

needs to be                  cleaned out do it

with bleach maybe a little                   sandi-

ness the ugly

truth is that                  all the 

its orifices all cleaned out with bleach the hard

Catullus base-

Ment tapes were chemically induced

Nox

Cunty-writing is a way to       curl from

vocative to vocative without stopping to swallow    

poly-

ester mirrored poly-

lingual while everyone else is in the lobby trying     

desperately  to

sugar

glaze daytime CNN’s linguistic

swaddling  what exactly                     are the language

politics of menstrual-simpering

sugar

Glazed swaddling

assumes every form of Roman birth               control was

Nox