poems by owen lucas

Date rape harp head steering wheels
Ends of just unflinching heels
Beyond the carp in voids of calm
Curled up inside a car alarm
Who untamed pariah blunt
Screaming imitation Ginsberg
Lines in gravel lungs.
Cold, ecstatic drunk down in
Selling off undone possessions,
Running up and down exalting
Lohman black hole centrifuge,
In fits and energies of husky
Mania, poet in the night.