 Got a Box Full of Letters, photography by Charity Heggestad (USA). 2015. harbingers T concerned for U V W-X riffed no notice plucked from farm of cube signs dark days had come Z peering over partition hoping alphabet coup Orwell said of the work [ R E D A C T E D ] & now mad scramble N’s in with 2’s & U’s doubled over into T’s sector labial glubs & fricative grit of drowning sailors doomed aboard capsized ships fled as emptiness floods each tight compartment none part of today’s tomorrow’s stenciled crate Whole lotta H C J K 3 left on everyone’s mind & What can be spelt without U’s V’s W’s X How language dies & dies & dies again entombed in letter setter’s inconvenient box lost Ask hard questions close eyes camera moves in hear hard answers cringe while the other side faces to the floor hide single U V W-X Tony Brewer This poem was first published in Bobo Books: 1.1.1: Vol. 2. 2017. Tony Brewer is chair of the Writers Guild at Bloomington, Indiana; executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Festival; festival director of Slam Camp at Indiana University; and one-fourth of the performance troupe Reservoir Dogwoods. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016 and he has 3 books: Hot Type Cold Read (Chatter House Press), Little Glove in a Big Hand (Plan B Press), and The Great American Scapegoat (self-published).
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