A Poem by Heller Levinson

perpenDICuLARity 

 

uprise               zenith stealth                stilt wagon

                        lurch riddle

                       Agastache cheeks

pointing indicative thrust push/pull toward perpetual portend

perspensation precipitation the perpendicular provides the

isosceles triangle urban punctuation erotic gender switchbacks

merrily morning glories

 

vertical    horticultural    strategical heretical       remote demote

reinforce pushup reinstate

holidays ://: gunshot          spurious ://: ramrod     counterfeit

enables law enforcement the bones make no bears about it

broadside barely bareback       a mark a jot a hand up a holdup

upright bass mast baton flagpoles candles headstones

oppositional

to flat

 

 

Heller Levinson lives in NYC where he studies animal behavior. He has published in over a hundred journals and magazines including Alligatorzine, The Cartier Street Review, Counterexample Poetics, ditch poetry, First Literary Review-East, Hunger, Jacket,The Jivin’ Ladybug, Mad Hatters’ Review, Mad Swirl, Mid-June, Moria, Omega, Otoliths, Poets for Living Water, Skidrow Penthouse, Street Cake Magazine, Sugar Mule, Sulfur, Talisman, Tears In The Fence, The Wandering Hermit, The Toronto Quarterly, A Trunk Full of Delirium, Venereal Kittens, andWood Coin. His publication, Smelling Mary (Howling Dog Press, 2008), was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize. Black Widow Press published his from stone this running in 2011. Additionally, he is the originator of Hinge Theory