NOVEMBER STORM BREAK<\/p>\n
So dense and swift these clouds, it\u2019s the tanned olive
\nmoon that seems to move;
\nas if into this wind your life will lean
\nsusceptible to imagery, the inwrought
\npull of all these metaphors we live
\nin. Now look\u2014the mien
\neven of the drape is fraught<\/p>\n
with it: coronas, eyes recoiling off <\/p>\n “November Storm Break” is reprinted from\u00a0Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charles Leggett<\/a> is a professional actor based in Seattle, WA. \u00a0Recent publications include Bottle Rockets<\/em>, The Centrifugal Eye,<\/em> and Cirque. \u00a0<\/em>Others include The Lyric<\/em> and Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry<\/em>; work is forthcoming in Big Pulp,<\/em> GlassFire,<\/a> Constellations<\/em> and Graze Magazine<\/em>. \u00a0His long poem \u201cPremature Tombeau<\/em> for John Ashbery\u201d<\/a> was an e-chapbook in the Barnwood Press \u201cGreat Find\u201d series.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOVEMBER STORM BREAK So dense and swift these clouds, it\u2019s the tanned olive moon that seems to move; as if into this wind your life will lean susceptible to imagery, the inwrought pull of all these metaphors we live in. … Continue reading
\nthe ceiling; or a gaff<\/em>
\ntrickles the storm drain; or a stage\u2019s curtain<\/em>
\nmurmur passing cars; the blowsy skein
\nof each second, frozen-framed, a tea leaf
\nscholium, a garden
\nin a cartoon hurricane.<\/p>\n