"Loud House" [by Kelle Groom]

Loud House

Het up boys, skitter boys, muttonchop

go-go boys, gurgle music, kidney stone

music, muchachos party, rubicon sand fire

flaring party, thunderbird ski hats in summer

party, sweaty head party, pound & thump,

socket burning beach party, orange forklift

beach, orange moon ba-boom, hooch smoke,

ta-ta smoke, stonkered house, pandemonium

tetherballed, turtle orbitted, oriflamme ant

house, rust hilled, I know I’m violating

myself house, Maybe  you’ll see me

on MTV house, No, dude (to a dog) house,

evening knock knock knock knock

house, evening anamatter clink: glass and tin,

goo food jars, chest hammer music, earthmover,

dog bark music, beep beep back-up

talk, rag and straw sleep, panic sleep, dart

sleep, rummage, rumple, canyon sleep,

sulky bunco, mittenheaded boys, saw-

voiced reclamation boys, fumarole,

radio pale, tar breathing boys

in the chewed grass, white sail an exhale.

-- Kelle Groom

from 32 Poems