thrip

john martone
samuddo / ocean
2014
thrip
copyright 2014 john martone
samuddo / ocean
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ISBN 978-1-312-38714-0
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thrip
one thought
cover-slip
a little/ alone-/time
1852-1922
an infnitesimal
see-thru
one thought
simple
dream
chloro
plast
9
chloroplast
used to live
on yr own
seven rows of trees
seven balustrades
a chloroplast
10
want words
to be
a chloroplast
whats
any
one
human
being
among
these
countless
chloro
plasts
11
every winds
the cosmic wind
chloroplast
always night
stars are brighter
than one thought
chloroplast
cover-slip
little windows
you want to save those
microscope slides
while looking for pollen
under the cover-slip
thrip
13
what are
the odds
thrip
small as you are
two eyes
thrip
14
everything
about you
translucent
thrip
under his microscope
sees a thrip
looks afraid
15
microscopes
highest power
thrip has claws
microscope
tunnel leads
to white light
a little
alone-
time
close
yr eyes
&
see
the bird
nest
blackberry bush
horse-nettle fern
its all one window
17
his forefnger touches
a caddis fy wing
a great heron startles
18
the one w/ poor eyesight takes off his glasses
19
the human mouth a larval mouth
20
that garden chairs
always empty
21
(his mental noise)
quiet down
now theres
a poem
22
take note
of this years
peppers
23
long summer day & a lantern in case
24
closest hell get
to cape cod now
this cape cod weeder
25
cut himself
on the blade
weeding
26
these days
more bees
than people
27
oregano fowers
bees are
in heavn
28
a bee stings
searing all in
timacy
29
human
being
tweezers
honey
bee wing
30
clumsy insect
tears off petals
looking for pollen
31
microscope slide
specimen cover-slip
look at this
32
chicory blue
folding up
matching dusk
33
microscope
see what youve broken
34
(100 x)
blue petals
cell walls are
ocean waves
35
simple
ovals
foxglove
pollen
36
spiny
hexagonal dust
out of the blue
chicory
37
nature
poems are
codons
38
countless worlds streaming
from a bindweed anther
his microscopes hubble
39
never be
back in that
house again
caddis fy
40
postage
stamps
fountain
pen
letter
press
micro
scope
really
lost
41
whats left
to feel
its all
design
42
a little
alone-
time
43
now go build
a little house
of cover-slips
44
guess you wont
make it to
ryoan-ji
45
cha an lc
a stone boy
poles a stone boat
to that far shore
in his eyes
1852-1922
2 petri dish
mornings gone
in a fash
47
remember
remember
a petri dish
48
petri dish
pipette & slide
but his hands are opaque
just like him
petri dish
wants a soul
49
he opens a petri dish
a robin continues
to sing
petri dish
all his life
growing a secret
50
he places a lid
on that petri dish
nothings left out
how ftting
a petri dish
in his boarding house room
51
petri dish
a good place
to keep his beads
petri dish
top & bottom
his eyeglass lenses!
52
petri-dish
the buddhas relic
comes back to life
a petri dish
as his grandfather
had a greenhouse
53
a petri dish
his mandala
petri dish
the void too
a medium
54
a petri dish beside his pencil case
the shamans voyage a petri dish
55
this petri dish proves the world is round
you tap the glass wall of a petri dish
56
its a sterile world around this petri dish
a parable
he pours lake water
from his ink bottle
into a petri dish
57
2 petri dish
washed clean
of his obsession
john donnes
crosse
john
martones
petri
dish
58
(fjs)
ksitigarba
carved in glass
looks down on this petri dish
his petri dish another kasina
59
a mechanical pencil
from the 1950s
to draw his microbes
he takes off his glasses
theyve chafed
behind his ears
60
you feel
the churchbells vibration
thru the petri dish lid
but which to prefer
fower pot or petri dish
the mind goes wild
61
the petri dish empty
but that wrens
at home
an infnitesimal
how far back
can you remember?
molten glass
glass pipette
pulled so far
becomes a thread
63
quickly
down a glass pipette
to that white light
hard to hold
glass pipette
unmoving
64
glass pipette
another
cell membrane
glass pipette
close as youll get
to a glass house
65
glass pipettes
and mornings fne-boned
birdsong
glass pipette
youre getting
nowhere
66
glass pipette
yr accidental prism
youve learned to snap
a glass pipette
cleanly
67
tip
of a glass pipette
his eye
glass pipette
brings back that bright feck
sea foam
68
shells on a beach
in a glass
pipette
an infnitesimal
glass pipette
that july
see-thru
junk man
w/ his microscope
thats a life
71
summer heat
his dissection kit
glints on the table
bee hive bird nest rabbit hutch
only his shack
stands out
72
a long drive
in search of
cover-slips
his microscopes
lens turret
his mental
disorder
73
chicory fowers make it a sky-blue road
pink sheets on the washline its an amish house
74
the microscope lamp makes everything stream
we kayak thru desmids w/ no idea
75
pipette
my little ones
have no idea
plastic
bottle
picked
from trash
full
of lake
water
no
idea
who
you are
76
seems a clump
of random stuff
till it moves
77
merismopedia
little
square
building
blocks
4
x 4
moving
all
by
themselves
78
peranema
we hide behind
an algal thread
gone swimming
alone in an endless
feld of light
79
that cell too
spinning like crazy
all its life
daphnids are eating
a water mites remains
everything is see-thru
80
under a microscope too great neediness
gone in the time
it takes to change
lenses
81
platyhelminth
long teardrop
adrift in a drop of lake water
all your organs
water-fea
my cover-slip
crushed you
82
a pinworm passes thru the light
a chain of square cells adrift in nothing
83
ikebana
he rinses off a microscope slide
your last
cover-slip
disappeared
84
raingutters
rich in protozoa
halo his house
his saturday
morning samadhi
a microscope feld
85
rhynchomonas?
from a certain angle
that protist
his profle
100-power
john martone rides
a giant sea turtle
Scapholeberis mucronata
86
shiki masaoka
running thru the same scales
his genotype
you return
those rotifers
to the bonsai pot
87
(after hosai)
all those poems
cant stop
cursing himself
moths compound eye
held up in tweezers
a solar eclipse
88
that loud crows
shaped like this
microscope
89
that empty
ring of lights
alive