Pierogi Press No. 7: Jeremy Sigler, “Basics,” “Livin'” and “L.L. Beans”

Basics
Jeremy Sigler

Calendars
break months
into week hearts

the ear’s algae
the black coffee

a basic
I base it

my body
on

an absentee
islandless sea

melon threaded
screw driven
in

and then
the moon can

sneak along

 

Livin’
Jeremy Sigler

All call
and the mind
with the tingle
jets
the skull cracked
and
a cartilage daybed
my head
my hair-horrendous
dreams
newsprint sheets
ink espresso
summer drifting over
to me
working
hammering the nail
it knows will bend

un-sexy porn
stays on

 

L.L. Beans
Jeremy Sigler

Rush with me
from the fog
infested peer

strip me
from the
clavicle
coast

clear onto
the sea-board
black

a line of chalk
the end of talk

my fingers at
rest in the rest
of you

or so they read
on my paperback
palms

Toes twist in
the L.L. Beans

and the weather
proof wind wants
to hear more