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Jim Behrle's latest chapbook is Recent Sonic News (Please evict us.) and Who are the Big Boys? (with Matthew Wascovich) is imminent. He edits Can We Have Our Ball Back, is poetry editor for Pindeldyboz, and contributes to the syndicated newsmagazine “Here & Now“ on Boston's National Public Radio affiliate, WBUR-FM.
Villanelles
1.
Given in to pneumatics:
Red star
Fingered, some edges
Misplaced, star misplaced
Zeal swallowed
Lost to travels
Dim star or tree, star tree
Dimmed, edges
Zealous, misplaced
Travelers, borders, fevers.
Red stars light
Lisa's face, Lisa
Swallowed or misplaced
Lisa
Star, edges fingered,
Yet traveled, yet
Zealous Lisa, dimmed thusly
Given up, lost to travels
Lisa star this brow and
Tree, help pneumatics to push
2.
Reminded to shine
When Lisa doesn't call
Or write, remains
Alit when Lisa calls or
Writes forgetfully
To remind to shine
Lisa writes and means to write
And means to call
The cops on me, shiny copcar
Shiny weapons, lawyers
Shine and chase, remind to bill
There
Are no cops or calls
When Lisa's alit, when
Lisa's shiny on me and means
To forget, forgot to, Lisa chases
And writes
Of shine, to remind
Me to stay alit, alit in copcars
Writing of her shiny weapons
3.
Oh but I have been so good
Oh but I am saved
Outside myself
Being this good hurts so
Good, oh
But I have faltered
But, Oh, I am saved
Outside Lisa, I have been
Good enough to falter
Oh how good I have been
And hurt, saved
From Lisa so
Outside myself, being
This good hurts and saves, oh
But Lisa, save and be so good
Outside me, faltering, oh I
Hurt so good, good enough
To save Lisa
I am good and hurt and Lisa
Saves hooray good