Eric Unger

Chicago

 

Eric Unger is poet, songwriter, and editor of Spell magazine, a journal of experimental and emerging work. The third (maps) issue of Spell is forthcoming in the early spring of 2007. Eric can be contacted at eric.ungerATgmail.com.


poem-
abovering a city green

 

songs-

caterwaul
stay fine
getting burned
the natural folly
fielding flies
notes from the xeroxed heart
  from Drill 7

Sex, Drugs, & Bikini Atoll

I.

The Queen of the May
converses with Jesus
paroxysms of pee sex
water play per se
underscores leakage
looks peakish
smokes kif by the jarful
lolls atop sheep herds
stray to a bone dry fen
shepherds drunk on Thujone
wood worms’ capsid dishes
flexi-discs of sun dash
concussive couples rehab
bashed microbes or Helios
takeover proxy disjunct
cured and cut to puzzle
interlocking scaffolding
gripping the bell tower’s façade
shaft-side facing dusk
under self-mulching berry patches
desperate fucking clump
as per self-fulfillment without fate
gauge percentage-wise
the self-blinding of loyal superegotists
variegated grass pies
absorption in Caravaggio
invisible medium
dead in transit
transmittance reliant upon
fever blisters in cold stress
or domestic sub-days
every light an artifice
rug thrown under wheel cart
uncomfortable misused body
inconsolable in a couch.

 

 

II.

Mantis casques represent memory
their multitudes resemble days past
stuck to green twigs in our collective surreality
bio-enclave envisioned fully living
surreptitious painter cloaked in dark matter
trilling voice of few-haired brush
scumbling mollusks from warm water wash
calendar of underdeveloped ideas
itinerant longing placed ‘neath a cervix
sphinctering closed to shut out daylight.

Malformed limb rapping at the vaginal gate.