JOHN SAKKIS









from The Islands


The Moveable Ones

after Michael Palmer

 

 

quite often take fright

and my name was Mighty-Elk

in other words, a hospital

part of a prelude

for burial-chord; some of these

 

remains lies behind

at the store

Yesterday we met a young Benjamin

over soapy Turkish coffee

preaching on death

in Athens, of bridges

of choral, his attribution as

well, and probable

re-rooting of sense

(so-called)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes we are at war

whose feet were cold

as any stone.” A fright

and hollow effect

with their lobes turned outward.

Yesterday I met a young Benjamin,

 

a physician, and a horn;

the horn filled the room

warning the nowadays to hump

about the effects

of war. All his parched

lobes perhaps

as well, etc., all

that was finally heard

and most

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I dreamed about the city

3-D-clay-model

ing, in rows, step

the devil, the Disney

arches of Munich, moral

lapses in the wreck, another face.

The stains or lack

of of war

 

Amorgos Bay, tacit, popular

the list of dismembered

parts much-used

dogs, rosy-cross

hatched hinge, leather

no-man’s land, wallet

of 12th cen., alive

liturgical, Baron, far less

variety and nowadays

and how

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are three kinds of Bridges:

 

Red, colloquial, sterile

dogs and Greeks, an

authentic finitude; Mikis Theodorakis

travel by hovercraft

 

from Piraeus to Oakland

thence by Sandbar

in a manner deforming

as well off diminutive

portage to support

suspend bridges

of the manner, the graffiti

and reserves territory

or of ideas sacrilized

and threatened

 






 







John Sakkis is a huge fan of Project Runway. His other favorite shows include Arrested Development, The Office (American version), Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Contender. He likes long distance running and family BBQ’s. Recent work has appeared in Dusie, New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Shuffleboil and Hot Whiskey Magazine.  He has work forethcoming in the new The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel anthology. Born, raised and living in the Bay Area he blogs at www.bothbothseries.blogspot.com




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