Jack Kimball

Westerly

It's just 1 o'clock
it feels like 3
that's 14 hours more
3 plus four, five
epochs of cosmetic history
voting again
before the torpor clears
like a butterfly,
eyebrow aroused:

Master this new stroke:
the rind is bored
the pulse down:
spun inwards as your digit, why rush?
that's the mantra

 
Copyright © 1999 Jack Kimball
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Jack Kimball travels between Boston and Japan, where he edits The East Village Poetry Web.  Recent books include Witness Protection and Quite Vacation, both from Potes & Poets Press.  For the last four years Kimball has been professor of English at Miyazaki Medical College, and before that, he taught writing at Harvard College for six years and graduate courses in applied linguitstics at MIT and the University of Massachusetts.