Mike Hauser
The East
Ack, goes all of it
By its total force, a view
Coloring the way. I hustle and
Don pure cloud, singular then anew.
Energetic in-person I offer a teach-in
For connecting the dishes in the sink
Guns and other mammal stuff
How we move into the room that is assigned
Ink to make a poem. A neat rhetorical
Jet stream of speaking widely on such topics.
Kitchen-speak would frame this as normal
Leafy context of a burgeoning franchise, episodic
Mute periods with a fortune your father lost.
Now a goose may walk in front of any lake
Ousted by wind, and over explaining lo-fi hip hop
Perhaps we can draw a conclusion such as “Even
Quizzically, we fall into a familiar goofy slack
Riven with false Wikipedias” The Beatles
Should be kept in mind as candidates for
Thorough reinspection by the weed dealer.
Under pressure, a lot of ideas cave in. Made into
Victual succulence by a process of magic woofers
With abandoned uncle vibes. Go forward
Xonerated professional, with puzzling assuredness
Young and constellated in highlights in general.
Zodiac ambles within itself, all elbows.
Mike Hauser’s books include Advanced Baby Syndrome (Sodear Press/Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Red and White Balloons (Adjunct Press, 2015), and Flammable Water (Adjunct Press, 2020). Previous work has appeared in Bright Pink Mosquito and The Brooklyn Rail.