Poems Niederngasse

Bob Marcacci
Two poems from a series of alphabet poems

X Marks

the spotty telex
facsimile fax in a faux
exiguous hawk
spotless necktie
     exit            X-wing heretic
plotting amscray on the tottering
treasure map of an expatriot
X-File negativity fowl in a foray
not X-ray vision nor incision
rescinding exoskeletal cramp
non-superman or even manly nonsuch
existential stencil in a pencil-box
no merry X-mas
nary a speck of X-centricity in this gen-X
examine the signature he marked
                dotted line spark
dotting eyes               crossing tees
X-ing X-es
sexing yes yes in a fearless
anti-inflammatory execution
eccentric exemic examiner
conferer of letterature
letter X or let her lay
                    X-less
crossing her legs and flex
star-crossed executor
batting her eyes at my fix
crossing out words
in inexact inflection
or actually axeing
dead weight
lexicon


                          YY

      too wise for your own good
    should your lies reach those yearned for
        vowel hues
       reconciled whiler in the idyllic styles
                            perhaps widening and wined
      the final interrogative of the alphabet
    questionable penultimate cry
         from this letter to a relative form
        unwind the wise (prelude before Z)
        by breezes and high-flying bygones
           love-letter of my time
             a rhyme among the icy white
                 of writing          yeoman
                in your imagination
               wire and hi-jinx
                    a fine line
                 letter with a tail
                   i write to you
             why i do

Bob Marcacci: Currently, living and writing in Beijing, China. Formerly, doing the same from San Francisco, California, where I attended university. Recently, my poems have appeared in Snow Monkey, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry and Tin Lustre Mobile, as well as many others.  email: B.Marcacci