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Flux L
Puzzle a gaunt alley
Play snow’s poison blues
For a fade regard kestrel
Caveat emptor flux
Dawn of dolorous entity
Singed by torn beard doze
Humdrum sinuous topiary
With a fox a fjord lick
Lamp dubbed aspidistra
Leaf of form kissed fume
Flux K
Ivory razor, blue map of bizarre dome
Thinking, the drawling master in his cave
Agog, dog’s comely nook, hedgerow quietus,
By the blamed abalone caught cardinal,
Where groweth the angelic saxifrage
And gorse nymph, ablaze in blight:
Harp, embrace corpse, in silver abstract
Apparel for verse formed by scarecrows,
Nude anonymous lawns notched dumbly
By quills and fronds from a complicit forest.
Flux B
Apposite animate
baste = rob whey
tremor as a hart
snowing gorse chap
aspic puffed by fear
fey eyes
allium marten tonka
terroir as sky in
a min a grackle frock
like light tan milk
Flux E
“No swoon so fine” Anaximander
In syllabub swam a grub canker
Wont patch a corner moniker cairn
Topical malady drag a coot quince
Solemn like an empress stranger her
Of all curs muddy noon incipit
Wombat mystery foxtrot rose
Charm a duck gone mooning glibly
On par with hilly morning calm tip task
Matter mouth tot wound quip
Flux C
In the lawn an amulet faintly
Diogenes pith arc remnant
Omnibus of boy god venery
Furrowing from fronds to vale tear
Where the dusk habitus dimples
Happenstance of telluric year moan
Gone like a djinn’s gibber entrechat
Bibulous it sings winsome foghorn
Rare oak octopus of longing
Port wine Scheherezade of shame
Rahul Santhanam is a mathematician and experimental poet, with work accepted or forthcoming at The Rialto, Otoliths and Meniscus, among other venues. The sequence “Flux” looks outside literature for its models, in particular to the Lyrical Abstraction movement in painting, as exemplified in the work of artists such as Joan Mitchell, Nicolas de Stael, Gerhard Richter and Maki Na Kamura.
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