Three Poems by Heller Levinson

Corner of Main and Spring

tally                                                abate

                 comeuppance

                  assortment

        ~                                     ~

gather

gathering opportunity

swivel

swivel opportunity

invite

Corner of Thoracic & Pine

limn                                  lyric dust

             mote flotation

               brushfully

Corner of Abeyance & Audit

accounting                             measure

                                                measuring-up

                                                       (curational

                                                       (cut-off/up

                              (cur-ing

                                    (casting    (cast-off

             (caution       (cus-to-dy          (car(ing)e         (care-ful

calculation

in the p(a)u(r)se of calculation → burble

                                                            buckl(ings)e

from calculation this abeyance,

toss-up , limb-meander , sprig-folly

sinkers barming in non-arbitrational conveyance

 

 

 

 

Heller Levinson lives in NYC where he studies animal behavior. He has published in over a hundred journals and magazines including Alligatorzine, The Cartier Street Review, Counterexample Poetics, ditch poetry, First Literary Review-East, Hunger, Jacket,The Jivin’ Ladybug, Mad Hatters’ Review, Mad Swirl, Mid-June, Moria, Omega, Otoliths, Poets for Living Water, Skidrow Penthouse, Street Cake Magazine, Sugar Mule, Sulfur, Talisman, Tears In The Fence, The Wandering Hermit, The Toronto Quarterly, A Trunk Full of Delirium, Venereal Kittens, and Wood Coin. His publication, Smelling Mary (Howling Dog Press, 2008), was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize. Black Widow Press published his from stone this running in 2011. Additionally, he is the originator of Hinge Theory