Mark Young, Ten geographies

Six Deformations, image by Irene Koronas 

Ten geographies

Arnhem Land

Modern Living &
The Ancient Way of

Life is a boutique fund
manager focused on

delivering long white
sandy beaches & azure

waters to researchers
tracking feral cats.

*

Winnipeg

                    Grain orientation

                                in electrodeposited

               nickel is a type of

                       comb added by bees

                to prevent most

                                     mediated plastic

                         deformations.

*

Bogantungan

A low level plat-

form & a spartan

waiting shed were

funded by the

Commonwealth

to help the war

effort. He looked

at his watch &

noted the time.

Span class="cap-

tion-caption." The

bridge collapsed.

*

Rhode Island

          A woodcutter & a

                 priest have just

                    played to a half-full

                    tent with their songs

                 about the crybabyblue

          color of fibrillation.

*

Walvis Bay

Sodium bicarbonate,

when strapped to a

pallet ready for your

shipper to pick up, is

sometimes miscast as

a literature-sharing

platform but, for

choreographers, is

always a reminder

of their mortality.

*

Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver

                      I enjoy going

                bowling, trying to lose

                         those vanity pounds

                                 highly respected

                 within the genomes

                        of cassava cultivars.

*

Bucharest

Street lamps were already
switched off. Queues
formed to buy either cook-
ing oil or some random

compensation lawyer. In
the 1970s crisis, a strong
sense of teamwork was
not an easy pill to swallow.

*

Shukenegi

                       Gambling addicts tend

                 to be shorter than

                              sea bass, have narrow &

                   short pineal stalks to

                          assist in pattern recog-

             nition or the use of simple

                         algebra. Even the Japanese

                     will not eat them raw.

*

Galicia

                         A Marine holds an

                       umbrella on the famous

               medieval religious pilgrimage

                          to Santiago de Compostela.

                    Very nuts-&-bolts.

                  He might not look as pretty

                          as Beckham, but he can play

                    football. His services include 

                      all aspects of waxing & tinting.

*

Chappaquiddick

She wore out

the rubber, then

hit a motorcycle

with separate hot &

cold taps. It was like

emptying a pebble from a

shoe. This is a ball park estimate

but the assumption that the sheep are

neither pregnant nor lactating means that

having a robust & attractive website is para-

mount.

—Mark Young

Mark Young's most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York.

A chapbook, a few geographies, of some other poems in this ongoing series was recently released in a handmade limited edition by One Sentence Poems.