10 two-word poems

ellips(is land)mass

va(st ar)dent

fini(sh ine)ffable

gra(sp ill)usory

fla(sh immer)sion

bri(sk y)awning

enli(ven n)exus

ventu(re ad)venture

id(le af)lutter

lea(f ind)ex

Golf course

                                                                       
                                                 and fade,

                                                                                             and loft,

           and green fringe,
and successive wind.

                                                And come
                                                and walk
                                                the spill,

                                                                                  and flush
                                                                                  the lacing
                                                                                  birds.

And pool
           begin,             
                                                and humbling
                                                                     arrival.
                                                                                                      Miracle.

                 Circuitous driftage,
                            shape,

                 and spin,
                                                                     and flunk stream
                                                                     tendencies.

Trace, navigate,                        wriggle,

                                             yaw
                                                    and
                                             roll

                 about meander shape.

                                                    Detour prescience,
                                                    voyage bite

                                                    and finish

swerve.

                                 Oblique roam
                                        (blockaded coast),

                  layer,
                                       lode,
                                                        middle of the road.    
           

                                                 Gallery glide,
                                                 time

                                                 and tide

and hopscotch ooze.

                                                                            (Float sailing,
                                                                            skim enclosure,

       fairy’s brink
       and catalogue corner)

                                                               Channel apostrophe
                                                     tail-wind

       turn,                                                                
                                                           and veering turn.

                  Mark swing, carry slalom string.

Wild align.

                                                           Zany beeline.

                          Curricular groove, and planetary,

side-dish whirl south-westerly.

                          Stray narration, speculate.                                                      
                                                            Preternatural inflection.

                                    Starting gate…

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©Catherine Vidler