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Dennis Willis Nov 2021
This is a nevermind write
something I started without
a light
Something I push on am not
pulled|And I recoil here
And run off.  Or try.
What cravenous
keeps me here
incongruous with the night
and your desires
Dennis Willis Jul 2019
Drunk in the sunshine
Of Wednesday this
on the patio
of Las Cazuelas

The wiring of this afternoon
shocks rice and beans
and an oversized margarita
with two straws

Into steady relentless
retreat
off the plate
deep in the glass

Up comes another
subject
chamoflaged
in floral nonsense

And persuasion's lips eat
Guacamole
from my heart
with chips
Dennis Willis Jun 2023
the Thursday's I couldn't
find myself pretense
has all but run

to single syllables
darting away from
the light as if
scalded  

all along and all
along you knew
didn't you
new again
instantaneous
instantiation
insta fren
listen 'gain
verbs reign

lift this part up
with your falling
fear of naught but
full enough
of listen

under look
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
this
the crotch
of your soul

slippery
to need

nerves extending
Do you

lift your head
now

Is it
this weakness

you have
for proof
is proof

Has
2 be

some thought knife
in your hand

it's wrist in your head
doing 360's

all is cut safely away
no connections are left
slashed so well
burn has no purpose

fear
lifts your eyes
just there

Assume high
higher

just there,
you see?

Sled dogs couldn't pull me
down
where
you are


Unfound


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Dennis Willis Jun 2021
We all need a poem
in this, here, I am not alone
hehe

We all need a poem
as we, mere, sing alone
re me

No one needs a poem
to read, sear, turn you alone
ta da

I always need me a poem
gets me, vibe-ish-ly, home
haha

The preceding has been
sponsored by
the sky
Dennis Willis Sep 2019
I am hating the tightness
of your ******
That grip your body has
Over me

Perhaps it's the shape of your *******
That is so infuriating
And abhorrent to Nature

Such perfection of angle
into my want
I move at you
like rope pulled

Astride surprise
I rise a flea
witnessing
you you female

You borderland
of willing dissolution

this knowing
of clear it away for me

I am the force
Of nature you seek

Though I don't understand
How
Dennis Willis Nov 2018
To treat people
Like people

Not things

My generation
Processed the fear of the last

Who fed themselves
To the beautiful machine

That made the world
Ugly

Littered with
What doesn't make us happy



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
Only with what we didn't have
and didn't know
we didn't need
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I am not included
here
anymore
If you still
include yourself
here
I am very
suspicious
of your motives
hah
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I feel myself closing in
when my arms fall
to my lap and break
through and debris
falls to my eyebrows
and I look up to see
myself closing in and
Dennis Willis Sep 2020
Noisome old child would be vibing tine
seeking orchestration waves of direction
keeping time and melodic line and silences
like boxcars parked in the switch yard
long as anyone can remember tapping along

snick snick goes something timely in the background
snick snick
snick snick
rising tenor has me hoping and looking up
for light to shine you should see the air shimmer

skritch skritch across a rising round solidity
are you are you are you still in this
song still playing along i can't tell
anymore i can't feel any more subtlety
i need the boom boom boom song
i need to ask i need to be along note
Dennis Willis Oct 2018
Well there's something here
Needing to be sad

I meant said
Emotion in my voice

Fooling
Voice-to-text

Or
not

Something here
Still needing to be said

We sew
in and out of life

then out

Pieces of the world
fall

world
remains

fallen tall
on itself

I, this poet
game piece

Superfluous
never fit better
meant more

drawing blank
of sound

Skinny memories interrupting
skin memories

Skinned
tonight

Things I can't find
are vexing

nonsense
become cardigan

still I resist
here

Going
Hammeringly
Faster
There



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Dennis Willis May 2019
This is a life
is it?

Sitting here
doing
watching

why am i
waiting
anyhow

I am frightened
by this question
renderedededed

I am square upon
the wind
and the wax

this accumulating
racket
of t ime

all the noise that's fit
to hear that
i hear that

i am that
noise
unless

time smirks
space yawns
and relaxes faster

and this inside
of bad making good
sense

lives today
smiles on us
is warmth

and i smell
of tomorrows
lust

all these nerves
all these neurons
need to make sense

of wetness
of a hardon
and there is no sense
Dennis Willis Sep 2021
I sulk not
oh wait
I sulk
differently
and over
that too
I sulk
Ooomph
Don't you
Ok Ok
Ahll stop sulking
doom up for you

there
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
We are so deeply prejudiced
when we Act
from fear





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Dennis Willis Jan 2022
I am restrained
from saying
what you really mean
by what I can't admit

this smooth part lies
accepting its ambiguity
under certain meaty fingers
searching I am searching

torque as a reason
for a stanza
a shortening of a cap
stop digging they say
Dennis Willis Sep 2021
For the one
who isn't drained
Dennis Willis Jul 2020
I read this physicist's
comment on consciousness
to Nell, my white bunny
Nell said,
Nibble, nibble nibble
Nibble nibble, nibble
Nibble nibble nib
Then paused
watching
in her quiet way
to let it sink in
Delightful!
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Dennis Willis Apr 2019
Whats
What were you born with?

What would you add or change?

What would you add or change to your children?

What might your parents have added or changed in you?

What, when I was a child

What if the races mix?

What if the commies win?

A homosexual does what?

Wut?

What to fear now.
What to want now.
In that order.

We secrete this
into our environment
say what

wut wut wut

sing
What's goin' on
pour what

On me
tasty new
never before

What
Is
That
what

I'm a what-er
wuter?
I wuter all day....nah

Apparently a word
That can't be
Soundly said

I am unspeakable?
I what-er all day long?
Unwriteable?

What is going on here?
I'm losing the what
Is the point
what now

Not enough who
in my life
perhaps I should be more of a
who-er?

Ahma
who-er
for readers
Who-er for you-er
Ah bring
the what-er

***


Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I prayed with them
at some alter
little knowing
Dennis Willis Feb 2021
What am I?
Well, a zebra
obviously
But, does it fit?
I think not
hooves
Dennis Willis Aug 2020
What are you doing
the same nothing
I'm always doing
what are you doing
Dennis Willis Mar 2021
and there is this moment
that has no bottom
the surfaces
around you
the people
around you
the furniture
around you
you cannot grasp
as you drain away
from everything
knowing
Dennis Willis Mar 2019
What is a song
Does it have long brown hair
falling down it's back
as it moves
around you

That note right there
a wave of arching
your back your head
exalting up and back
rippling back down
ruby highlights
dance over hips

we reach
for higher notes

How can I love a song so much
Dennis Willis May 2021
this juvenalistic probalistic
stream with no oil or butter
scalds no one
doesn't smell like breakfast
does it
sneak away from
that thought
'for your caught
with
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
Censored
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Dennis Willis Nov 2018
Fruit
Nuts
Vegetables
*****
?

Healthy and
Happy?

HeHe

Yes Mom's and Dad's
I know

am one

Calm yourself
well behaved folk

no need to deliver
the obvious wisdom

been there dispensed that

or do
   you
nee-eed to do that

not here button your fly

glad this isn't a forum
you can't

just sit and watch
life

being lived
not protected

to stillness
hmmph



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis Aug 2022
I'm in this envelope
of time
30 seconds bang
and here I go again
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
How to tell
they love you
how to tell
you're on
the right track
how to tell
there is anyone
there who cares
and if there isn't
how to tell
Dennis Willis Sep 2019
This haunting of myself
thought blows reigning down
on my fractured now
Oh how will I...
Dennis Willis May 2021
What would I teach a poet?
to write with your feet
so you won't miss a beat
to keep the page neat
and pretend to be sweet
that rhyming all the lines
is poetry dressed to the 9's
that reading it aloud
always makes you proud
to not pretend and let
the **** thing end
Wut would you teach a poet Kevin?
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
When do you wake up?
In the morning
in the afternoon
or in the evening
of your life?

Now?

How do you get
to that province
where knowing
yourself is easy
to sleep on?

Something always has to crash
My reality
To get me right here
Sleepy

Someone crashed into me. I can smell her.

I always think
I'll stay
I never know
I don't stay
Until
I pop back in
and realize
I'd left
Without knowing
I'd left

Found myself
Gone

And then I realize some of you knew it and tried to tell me.

Is there a crazy glue that will keep me here?
She smiles.

Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis Nov 2020
When I was not a person
I could not treat you like one
I could not understand the-the looks
you gave me
When I was not a person
I was a crunchy thing
good and broken spilt in time
unapproved and no way in
contesting for particles of, whilst
lifting myself out of self-hood
I raged
When I was not a person
I did things
I couldn't do as a person
that piled up around me
and couldn't be surmounted
encasing possibility
plastic wrapping the settee
When I was not a person
I was a much greater thing
then all of you could ever hope
to be though blind and hopeless
and crying look at me
When I was not a person
I couldn't let you see me
like this
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I got lost
on my way
to my
denouement

There I was
racing along
and meaning
flew clean away

I could see it
over the trees
wings beating
hastily free

Leaving me
able to admit
nothing and
a little lost
Dennis Willis Sep 2021
Let's not wonder
what you meant
Dennis Willis Sep 2019
I am oscillating in a wrestling match over
an infuriating soup of potentials
I'd be a wave but I'm particular
We'd know if you'd look
that hardening down and away

The universe needs to be seen
to be

So I close my eyes
belligerent
disappear!
Dennis Willis Sep 2023
Trying not to be
again
where I am
again

Things to not being here
shims between
me and


Even this is too close
this reach
too far too flawed
again

this thin distracted
thing howling
like ants and grass
again

shims again
Dennis Willis Feb 2024
In my head
ducking thoughts
bears chasing
through trees
me squawking away
hitting the other side
of my skull
and realizing
I can't fit
out that ear
Head for a nostril?
it is not going to work
i hold very still
and start vibrating
'til even the woods
are shaking
and the bears yield
to my faux quake
and then
because that is
so hard to do
so much to endure
I dampen down
the vibrations
and we're all good
and no one sees
Dennis Willis Mar 2019
I'm pulling the rope
Starting

To cough
Up a day

That is
groggy

Needs reminding
where did I put
my fire
last night

What was I
So on about

That space
fills easily

with candidates
who stand for despair

Sisters of you
Fan out
like reflections

Which of you
won't

Stay home
Sink or sail
alone




Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis May 2021
Nothing hangs in the balance
though I want something
to hold my breath over
so as not to upset
everything

Don't want to do that

Might as well
squeeze the rain dry

Each of us alone
in our thoughts

Mine running to edges
and choices

that I make up
in hunger

that I imagine
eat at me
Dennis Willis Sep 2024
We are the dark sea's
laughter
in the face of the light's
cold expanse

this karmic clash
of naught
and its best mate
time's taste

confused splashing
infusion
desires gashing
an' i just smile
Dennis Willis May 2019
small words
in a small
white box
i feel as if
I am burying
something
and begging
you
to dig it up
and exclaim
in delight
and a little fright
right right right
Dennis Willis Jan 2022
I have this teakettle
of angry
it whistles
when it gets high
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
Is a giant
FU

to someone
just don't know

who in general
in specific

it's you
you you you

you

i am frozen
in lone

line after line
no time

is lost among these
trees

of separateness
these branches

time winds
up hanging

you and I
am something

aware of what
transpires 'tween breaths

no matter
no matter are we

thinking this line
that line

oh it's fine
grip it tight

is unsaid



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis Apr 2019
R u waiting
for someone
Too?

R u wanting
for someone
Too?

Sitting or laying?
Wishing or praying?
Fearful or playing?

Alone with a phone
is still
alone

Alone with a poem
is still
alone

Artfully alone
waiting
for your touch

That crushes
syllables
to dust

Makes
my heart
bust

All smiles
post
great lust

I want that
Where are you
now


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Dennis Willis Apr 2022
Ahm always
tryin' to make
someone
feel hole

Ahm all about
that reeling
unexpurgated
hole

I feel as if
I know you
something
hole plus

and to
the degree
I feel
your absence
Dennis Willis Mar 2019
What is sweeping
through our
world
like a song?

What uses
our strings
and our valves
and our sounding
surfaces to throb
to thrum

It isn't today

What aims this
salted cleaver

you swing in time
with the base line

chopped ham evenings
unsalted mornings
a gap in my frontier

I wonder at what works
and for how long
the tradeoffs

Individuals pay for time
friction collects itself
a trophy
of far to go

Swirling eddies obscure
the depth of needed relaxation
lie down time
and smother its breathing

under which sleepiness
and other common notes
pluck life like soggy dogs
barking and shaking dry

It doesn't say does it

Waves of us
being particular
shaking us dry
converge on a wire

maybe the
whole stack
has to be
of play

and u
a funny
song
ster

Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis Mar 2019
What happened there I wondered
and I thought of the rain
it held to things
and light had a special gravity
across your face
it said the universe
lightly



Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis May 2020
We can be so thin
to each other

As if we will
eat the skin

of each other
as if we will

suddenly be kin
to each other

I'm deciding next
I'm declaring wrecked

is it win or sin
pulling at your grin cha
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
who's hands are these
are they my mom's
they are capable
of working so hard
though i don't
so much, i have
and they do
are they my dad's
i can work with them
they get
how most things fit
pretty much
on their own
are these the hands
of some ancestor
whose thumb swiveled
around abit
are these the hands
at the ends
of your wrists, henchmen
to would-be poets
Dennis Willis Jul 2021
Tears and the slaughter
of sobriety
Things forced into cracks
and thunderizations

That and a hammer

knock knock

Do you employ
thought constructs

North of the border

clambering over
things

darkened with salt

when one is empty

and drinks from the other

I am drawn in again
in a story again
being explained

again

hang on while I

reposition all of your
assertions

ummph, there, better, right
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