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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