Poems from the 12-Hour Couplet Contest: Sigh, Adam Strauss

Adam Strauss lives in San Diego.  Poems of his appear in the Brooklyn Rail, Prelude, and New American Writing.  He adores the works of Marc Chagall.​

Sigh

Dog—dog—loose
Like a gotcha-gotcha goose

In a patch like denim
Where plenary mocks plenum.

Thus this, and thus venom
Brightens his leg as would a bruise.

They told him he would choose
A blue eclipses green, should sense

Prevail, nor should he hawk phlegm: hum
Evasions, like diapasons through a lens

Focused on refractions tang its throat,
Tantivy factored by tens—and Tennyson’s moat.

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