American Sentences

These are based on a 17-syllable sentence form developed by Allen Ginsberg. More info is here.

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• The E.R. again and it’s all my head’s fault — that egg yolk in its crust.

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• Ankles ringed with ears, a mouthful of eyes, I hear dirt and eat light.

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• The dirty madhouse windows are smudged with a hundred fingerprints.

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• Someone put a microphone in the couch and art in the garbage can.

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• Poems happen like the drunk in the dark stumbling on the rug, cursing.

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• In the madhouse there’s popcorn by the pantry door on Saturday nights.

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• In June pool covers come off, parents, teens, get drunk in different houses.

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• Sun summer-late, somewhere engines groan; we eat the conquistador’s heart.

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• The day’s heat begins to give up as the scent of lilies invades my head.

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• Unseen dogs on each end of the street bark; neighbor in his yard coughs once.