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Perpendicular Wildlife 1 & 2
Queen Anne
Queen Anne arrives on time
Solar flexing stationary
Delusion is her style
Operation ‘Magic Hat’
She’s a pre-grown teen
Byzantine
She’s rolling up her jeans
To impress the jester who alludes he has no ears

The literal blimps shoot comet wine
Perpendicular wildlife hanging from vines
Roman number III equals literal blimps
A clothesline goes ragged miles
Closely touching the sun
If you see the literal blimps go hog wild, gold-toned
As you’re collecting massive,
stacked-up piles of literal blimps
Called it safe
On base 83
The ump found the new way to shave your face
Up & down the brandy mount
Servicing cars that ride so many miles
Tarry cups
Golfy cups
Morning dew mountain cups
Wooly pigeons
Mouse rat brothers
Scatter on haunted blue myst roads in May

Halfway To Harmarville
Poems/lyrics written between June 2014 – December 2016
in Pittsburgh & Ben Avon, PA. Most became or will become
solo, Wiretappers, or Znagez songs.
Dedicated to miniature small towns & villages in the
southwestern Pennsylvania area that somehow continue to
maintain distinct, defined identities. I like to call them “Yinznation strongholds”
Alternate titles included: Shamu Tattoo, Cocktail Cowboy,
& Eloquent Hatchback
For music & addt'l writings:
briandisanto.bandcamp.com
wildraft.tumblr.com
benavonjam@yahoo.com

Wild Raft ~ 2016

Front cover collage by BD. Titled, “My Favorite Portal”
Background of collage was a shot of Camp Horne in the
1920s - a seasonal summer camp for employees of Joseph Horne
Dept Store. Credit, Ben Avon Historical Assc.

Ileo Jocks
Custom fox
Hovering next to the tomahawk box
Neural lox
Caverning along with the ileo jocks
Merial distance
To the end of the helio hedge
Sally isn’t happy
Lost a vote for wailing
Expensive jewelry failing
And cheap
Racing in cars
Dealing with no-no’s
Mason jars
Holding your halos
Air Force One
Gravitating to the naval sun
Trusty dust
Letter to the editor
Hustle fuss

Back cover photo taken by Richard Magnelli at Roup House

Custom fox
Hovering next to the tomahawk box
Neural lox
Caverning along with the ileo jocks

Smiling Rhumba Dogs

Licking Pyramids

Sitting under ice
Lighting off Malaysian crackers
Judy’s friends arrive
Allocating pancetta, yes sir
Studios polite
Best to dress the ‘boil age’ jet pool
It’s safe to save the night
Reptilian worms don’t need a rowboat

Slowly toking months & days
Thank you to Shadow & his lucky hand
And Crowbar sinks his teeth
Sling deeper to the cavern shire sunbake
Connections in detention hall
Distance is all he was
Spring-loaded doses of dragonfly melee
Indigenous deals

Smiling rhumba dogs
Smiling rhumba dogs

Stunt badges tattooed on
Non-grossing
Rolling foolish pins up scraping
peaks
Clip your unbuckled seat
Tall lamprey swimming very deep
Indigenous deals
Licking pyramids for all that they taste

He believes in western sci-fi
Cannons shoot the pests & steeds
Speaking in loose terms of something great
He returns a molten effigy

Tall lamprey swimming very deep
Indigenous deals
Licking pyramids for all that they taste