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Trees of Mars
The book laughed in my hands
Red gloves
There were ley lines in the lettuce leaves
From the red greenhouse
Space Tunnel tomatoes
Red troubadours in placebo orbit
Look at all these red pebbles in the sand
And that little tree among the onions
Born on Mars
Endless red edits under the sign of Earth
Red body cam
Blood roof light
The human tree is red
Game red
Gray scales are red in youth
Sweet help
A direct line feed live from no midden
We recycle the red scribble
Ode to Gaspara Stampa
go on
notes of twilight
like the peppery flesh of the mushrooms
your hair is a wedding
my cithara
a sound bridge
the lost concerto
the old name
for Venice
night wife of the winter anthology
love made me live in fire
like a new salamander
doomed and illuminated
in the forest of knives
I am a comet factory
Images with Notes
a polish of birds
inside the grass
I show the birds
multi-coloured waters
they like it
but they don’t trust me
the cliffs of the albatross
an island folding wings
nothingness the nest
marble waves bring riches
the fog is a big bio bin
in the bonded landhouse of shapes
trees of things
images of chance
islands disappearing
in plain sight
a birdbath
the first sundial
a sound
in all directions of the sun
a seam of green
rock and rain
bite-shaped holly leaf of the deep
sarong of the voice
Tony D’Arpino is the author of four poetry collections and three pamphlets. His most recent collection is Sky Tree Sky (Alien Buddha Press, 2024), a sequence of poems based on the journals of the Scottish botanist David Douglas. Poems have appeared in the Evergreen Review, the Winter Anthology, Volume Poetry, London Grip, and Blackbox Manifold.
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