Collecting the Dots

By David Blumel

"Ritually infused / and crisply strung out / on a madhouse journey / flatfishing." With trippy interference running throughout, the collection of poems in Collecting the Dots explores change in an environment full of slick spots and turns and muses on the concept that everything you need resides at your doorstep.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tall Island Press
• Release date: Sep 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9780991327256

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COLLECTING THE DOTS

I’M SKIPPING LUNCH

Standing dumbfounded

I confronted a flood

of shooting stars

mistimed gushers

floating silences

leaky stretches

a surreal scrape with Big Foot

an outpouring of theories

of doodles

of twinkles

all told

eliciting an aha.

Oh my.

SPLAT, CRACKLE, SQUAWK

Approaching staccato

and breaking at

the more encouraging part

unleashed an unnerving

vibration that changed

J’s bounce underfoot.

The reactive transition

steep and clean

jarred loose her icy silence

and did not leave any stains.

It all came back

just like that

that the blue tabby was a copycat.

But she had already been

drawn to the original.

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