Nuclear Blanks

By Charles Bernstein

Your Car Is Thar

The tempo, see
Demagnetizer
Like a sandwich
Near a rodeo
Some cucumber
Interdicts

Autoretortrobot

In an espied olio
reflexion's agile dad
borrows nutritious movement
LA's lines disabuse tantrums
viscous corridors--last imagined
dejected hacks--inacceptable, pearls
simply in the conversation--tan, utter
conned monstrous miasmas. Simply
provokes choice, churls, an uncle in circa
forms chrysalis, affiliations of the duh, da.

Nonce, lo, sufficient mint

Nonce, lo, sufficient mint
levitates last fall's doze, nuts
those pantaloons, facile mints
elopes with Del's lugars Mel's success
vertigo announces in the shaker
or horizontal indefinite mint
why one in cage in Del's
mar last enigmas

Hey, Queen, Me a Pun Aporia

Hey, Queen, me a pun aporia
pour desire aside a phrase
singed makes--combs a freeze
pour no to mar lag or beads as
preoccupations, for a phrase
conned and pummelled--combs a freeze


Homophonic translations of four poems by Esteban Pujals Gesal’: "Eucarista", "Autoretratorrobot", "Nunca Lo Suficientemente", " Hay Quien Me Apu–alaria" from Blanco Nuclear (Malaga: Puerta del Mar, 1985).

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