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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Heller Levinson Revels in the Burlesque Avante, the Backfired Transparency, and the Nightglue Luster Lure


Negative Dancer


aplomb-ing          ring-a-lev-i-


o bowl burlesque avant toe


derrière port de bras dip dolphin drizzle


porpoise slick


bear brigade


por-cu-pine


periwinkle


Calliope calypso antédiluvien liquesce


sum-mer-time


hypericum


turbinate jounce ramp radical gravity decline


declaration


deciduous


unbridle legere legacy leap sus-


pend float ar-tic-


u-


late



NUGATORY


dart diminish dispirit draw


malfunction


obviate


deprive


the suitors wore trucks.


transparency


. backfired


bareback provides superior


     contact.


      illustrious of alien is the cuttlefish.


           not too close not too far


  forthright furthermore


won’t you at the right moment


plume array cross junction superlative


permutations enliven sitting cross-legged


pleurisy in all its forms

companionship wears thin


scrutiny



lure in salubrious slumber


inundate disrobe scatter shutdown


      simmer swell


      diffuse


slur,       slide parade


      en—


sorcell


moisten


bounty stellar gloam nuzzle gussied slumber sartorial


calamitous dethrone repose respite


under-tow


gleam sonorous nightglue luster lure of asynchronous spur


bipedal loiter


nugget psalm


u-


biq-


uitous


 The originator of Hinge Theory, Heller Levinson lives in the lower Hudson Valley.  His most recent book is Lurk (Black Widow Press, 2021). His upcoming Lure is scheduled for a Spring 2022 release (also BWP).