Jeffrey Little The 2River View, 8.2 (Winter 2004)
still life w/castanets

i.

an iron lung pedaling a stationary bike
on a box of wheat chex, cayenne

ii.

{i used to know what was what. a door
was open / a door was closed. then
duchamp walked clean through a brick
wall carrying his chemistry set
& afterwards even the sun smelled strange.}

iii.

peppers & the really big things to say,
like america or ontological, as if
mint julep couldn’t cover more ground.

iv.

sheet rock & the vestigal errata of a limb.

v.

that night i used an industrial grade
soap on the dishes,
but i was in trouble here, & i knew it.

2River