Two Novels
Is the Kingdom Where Nobody
| and the small yellow car | slipped | |||
| and the bicycle | slid across the ice | and the girl | got hurt | |
| and the orange | roared | and the farmer | dug a hole | |
| and the horse | ran away | and the fish | swam away | |
| and the astronaut | floated gently away | and the robot | went home | |
| and my little sister | and the lion | held hands | and they | flew away |
| and the snake | smiled |
What Is the Action
She I the bridge. "Final like a mineral" as eyes more stale.
Her back. She away. I the bridge. She away like herself away. More so.
She away like herself away a fever a station I the train. The bridge.
The trucks like management. The taxis fat as yolks. The water metallic
as photographs of water. The sun elsewhere like prey. She away more so
like history. Her back. Her back and I. Its curve like mercy. I her vertebrae:
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia,
Azerbaizan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Kazakhstan.
The bridge. Elsewhere like her. Over. The bridge. Under. The water. The
metal. The water.
Shannon Holman, New York, 2001
