MiPOesias Magazine

SCOTT GLASSMAN

Scott Glassman lives in Palmyra, New Jersey and works in the educational testing field. His poems have recently appeared in South Carolina Review, Cranky, Poetry Midwest, and Shampoo. His chapbook identity / crisis is forthcoming from Dusie Press in 2006, as part of a new publishing collective. He also curates the INVERSE Reading Series in Philadelphia. More of his work can be found here.

Returning from you

i am nervous and the nervousness prevents thoughts from slipping absently through mouse-covered womblets. i am anxious so that the cloud-whose-caravan-abandoned-it kneels to investigate. i am the tracks availed by station-welcome, i am not welcome. i am asking for my identification. this is the gait of personality type. i am coloring a cactus plant shaped like a lesion. i have buried its air-roots in painted migraines of sand. i am anxious to fall down to no good. some good. i am up to the challenge. i'm not. within crept-forward skin. i am nervous, i have said that. i take pills whose pictures alternate between adolescence and shatter. i am aggravated by the state you keep pasted to your eyelid, rock formation & autofocus. i cannot sharpen on the windowsill that prominently advances over the muffled heads of pedestrian speech-garments. i am the failing crosswalk lines that have been lifted by ibuprofen raindrops. if you don't mind. i've been stringing out my button-sized pulse to make a less devastating bouquet of unnamed solar flares. i am heaving my mail toward the focal point of emphysemic cliffs. i groom a growth of kneecaps under one heel and a fetish for white almonds under the other. if you don't mind. i'll take command of the jenny wheel, regurgitating gin inside bats' astonished expressions. i will read the preface backward. stoplight of wands. stroke the stars away as though they were immaculate fires blessed with semi-lucent mosquito wings. if you don't mind. i will collapse outside of words and wait for them to rise up and slay me