SINKING
︎︎︎ Adam Stutz
︎ Feb 26, 2023
Bruising is a cityscape (subtext: emotional instability
is transient/transnational) A philosophy dropped like a penny
to pick up sexual tension be the tile work of a Tetris enthusiast
my memory runs up the tab on departures/arrivals A broken stone
of talking points overcooked in a bouquet of tulips
crashing into the lingo of lax politics I relent I am talked over
a misunderstood gamble thrown out to passers-by
like an unmoored inventory of drive-thru dialects A threat lives
behind my sternum— a broad grin osteo-music offers surrender
to posture slip + I crumble against my menace All night I
whisper equations for tongue knot nibble + press finger-walks
on lost latitudes to cross-over hooked on a beautiful wreckage
my holy book window seat discussion slips under radar
slips under the skull a small rose stain of daylight dulling
by a wash of listening etching the old lines of ebb and flow
into the broken boulders I collect for my chest: Sinking
is transient/transnational) A philosophy dropped like a penny
to pick up sexual tension be the tile work of a Tetris enthusiast
my memory runs up the tab on departures/arrivals A broken stone
of talking points overcooked in a bouquet of tulips
crashing into the lingo of lax politics I relent I am talked over
a misunderstood gamble thrown out to passers-by
like an unmoored inventory of drive-thru dialects A threat lives
behind my sternum— a broad grin osteo-music offers surrender
to posture slip + I crumble against my menace All night I
whisper equations for tongue knot nibble + press finger-walks
on lost latitudes to cross-over hooked on a beautiful wreckage
my holy book window seat discussion slips under radar
slips under the skull a small rose stain of daylight dulling
by a wash of listening etching the old lines of ebb and flow
into the broken boulders I collect for my chest: Sinking
Adam Stutz is the author of Transcript (Cooper Dillon Books, 2017) and The Scales (White Stag Publishing, 2018). His work has appeared in The Equalizer: Second Series, The Cultural Society, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Prelude, Be About It, Deluge, Dum Dum Zine, The Pinch, Where is the River, Dream Pop, Cover, Ghost Proposal, Columba Poetry, Only Good Poems, INKSOUNDS, The Racket, and can also be found at stutzwrites.com. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Also by Adam: SEEDLINGS