"billboard of her sleeping" by Eli Halpern

billboard of her sleeping
by Eli Halpern

                              against hill
                              in a sky
                              the sleeping girl
finds her wrestling

                              (a psychedelic
activity) She wrestles with a jacket

                             The asleep girl hillside of
           wind piled
                                   public
                                   hair I let
branches comb up

A wrestling experience of blue. The wrestled is made
up of lockets

of girl                                    tinkles when

wrestler is crushed canvas            swirled shape of

                                    up-combed
                    nettle

                  Asleep

         blush hives

performer    water
                               exchange for—eyelash blinder

                               hillside I crouch        throttling
        life out of silk

Eli Halpern has lived in Chicago and Providence. By the end of 2009, he hopes to have lived in Wales as a shepherd. His sheep have appeared or are forthcoming in Sawbuck, GlitterPony, and Shampoo.