Adam Munsey Tobin

"Revving ... man."

            Revving daily,

            spinning motors

            circle woods

           

            & herd words

            unbecoming,

            unspoken by a man

            when describing

            to a woman

            his own kind

            of half-unfinished

            reconstructions

            of belawned developments

             in western flatlands, never

             mind the desert, greened

             by sheer determination

             to hedge.  Risky

             landscape, this

             recovered

             forest meadow

             sodded over again

             with the image of

              a real estate

              somewhere in Europe

              owned by a king.

              A mower etches

              sound into

              action, scrawling

              empty sense of grass

              on grass, of wood

              on trees, marks

              on earth. This

              rightward movement builds

              on every blink a

              clarity of cut

              between two forests,

              the before and after

 

              insects

              were unknown

              to man.

Adam Munsey Tobin owns and operates Unnameable Books, a new & used bookstore with locations in Brooklyn NY and Montague MA.  With Catherine Bresner, he co-edits the magazine Spirit Duplicator (produced on machine of same name).  Some of his previous poems have appeared in Fence, 6x6, EOAGH, Spirit Duplicator.  A chapbook, Any Group Can Claim Responsibility, was once published by Mondo Bummer.  More poems are forthcoming in the next issue of Fence, and another chapbook, Animatronic Head Trophy, is now available from Press Brake.