Thursday, January 1, 2015

A full second


A full second
Breed -strife
Always
Makes sense
The effect of
This game
Since the wheel
Begins today
Reading more
Atmospheric

Let me put this
To you direct
This stuff
Was happening
With the article
Indefinite

A white house
On a green hill















Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Don’t worry


Don’t worry
Each mind
Is a total factory
With logic to labor

Game on
This morning’s gambit
Angling your legs
More than life
Itself
Crouched in
Elaborate defense

Keep and eye out
For fireworks or guns
Shot and trembling
Many will miss
The fury
And the sound
And the craquelure












Tom McGlynn
copyright 2015

Monday, December 29, 2014

From right


From right
To what’s left
Her needles
Have been
Shed

A son peeks
Through
Her trunk
With winter
Come to ground

A clearing low
A clearing















Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Sunday, December 28, 2014

I totally concur


I totally concur
I got the idea
From fiction

Some days
We binge watched
Retreads of future
Museums
Felt
Barely held
To be passing

You need to do
Better than that
This facility demands
Attention















Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Saturday, December 27, 2014

There is no question


There is no question
(This is the other side)
As paid by those
Better told
And arrested
Accumulating
Enough

This world
A tiny bit towards
Life preserves
And floating
Fades

Overall purpose
Remains
A dead subject
To raise

Mother, come
Make my bed
Soon

Farther a few
Charming men
Appear angry
With boxes


















Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Learn how


Learn how
To respond
As first light
Goes flying
Nothing wasted

Finding what stuck
I’ll dig them out
Rather than
Material things
A headless loop

The state, waking
Recoils
On the banks
Where this was
Taken













Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Friday, December 26, 2014

A hold was placed


A hold was placed
Regardless
“We are losing our stars”
A lot made
Out of skilled work

For the basic
Infrastructure
Does in fact
Reveal heroes
Not great
At having
A boss

Sure there
Is patience
For a one time
Oldest story
Should everyone
Turn on delight


















Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

With that—here is an ought (after Emily Dickinson)


With that—here is an ought
To Poverty align
A Silence with a Thought
Together— with a Sign

Who would shun—to choose
Sums greater than a Part
Which knot Omit— too loose
Whose end denies the Art?

You made a way to Tie
Your Mind to coalesce—
Of course— to fast its Die
A Shape to nothing dress














Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Friday, December 19, 2014

The point


The point
You seem
To make
There is no
Crying in art
If  bundled up
One learned
In the afflictions
Of man
Estimates of death
And lapidary
Good cheer












Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

Thursday, December 18, 2014

I gotta roll


I gotta roll
Tongue in groove
The amount I owe
My latest book
Unlike
The most

In case
You missed
This photo
Taken
No reason
To be surprised

How about trying
What’s presented here
The shallows
Of my depths














Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014