Decompose // Jack Galmitz

Decompose
Copyright Jack Galmitz
ImPress 2014
New York, New York
ISBN 978-1-312-23332-4

Gregory K. H. Bryant




























Decompose
































ax
splitting
wood
live












three
stones
shaped
differently













blue
tumbles
down
brown















without
a
fire
escape










a
story
retold
omissions















Offertory
of
the
Lion







































incommunicado
without
a
trumpet














clasp
red
my
friend










ooze
eyeball
slit
peremptorily














pass
through
phantoms
sequentially













dreams
of
the
daytime
















mattress
springs
in
green







doing
her
nails...
god
















eden
of
walled
concrete











that
white
light...
stagelight















a
rose
the
tower










































a
flour
sack
fiber














a
police
cordon
greeting











hair
brush
electric
touch
















the
sky
paper
streamers









outside
the
supermarket
Indians















outside
the
supermarket
wagons




























refused
a
horsehair
brush

















the
man's
visage
catfish






marimbas
six
of
them

















jokers
are
a
commentary







threnody
for
a
living















words
fall
in
line











lights
off
comet
edited
















the
dream
before
life









night
drops
its
anvils















windows
of
the
marvelous











































a
dream
grazing
field
















in
the
event
inflate









their
homes
are
boxes


















looking
in
skyscraper
windows







































danger
of
wax
figurines
















reminiscing
with
myself
scrupulously











in
daylight
black
lightning
















the
eleventh
plague
people














































stalactites
stalagmites
without
clothes














green
of
bronze
cloak












Im
crying
bird
dying












machine
gun
this
antisymphony









an
internment
camp
this














life
is
base
carnivore





































much
like
laundry
love















bringing
home
a
doll











snow
glorifies
the
shovel














rain
forefronts
the
forest











like
things
fall
together













marble
women
lack
arms











marble
men
lack
members

















it's
a
scar
memory











































like
things
fall
together



























members
have
diminished
drastically













marble
men
lost
noses