THE BOAT
A boat is a hole with a bottom a brim
A broom is a pole with stiff bottom fringe
A boat sometimes a bowl to dish up a binge
A broom a coarse bridge rowing dust into bin
A hole with a cover has something to share
A pole with a core cuts a durable flight
A hectare of water makes a laboring night
A night of asylum glares reflective pate
A pate pares its hairs over pale wicker gate
A night strikes a brindled bell hard in the face
A surface state determines a recovery phase
A fluctuant reflection lends shape to delay
A light cast through current cloud colander crate
A correspondence with poorly distributed dregs
A table to lift the night’s meal off the floor
A broom in the closet a boat run ashore
THE ABYSS
after Doris Salcedo
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
Abuts the doors
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
Abjures the floors
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
Abridges the windows
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
Abrades the seams
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
Abides the rows
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
Absorbs the beams
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
A brick
ONE HUNDRED FISHING HOLE FOUNTAIN
after Bruce Nauman
one fish caught
two fish clot
three fish clopped
four fish clipped
five eclipsed
six fish lapsed
seven fish slapped
eight fish slipped
nine fish shipped
ten fish shilled
eleven fish shelled
twelve fish swelled
thirteen fish sweltered
fourteen fish sheltered
fifteen fish slathered
sixteen fish lathered
seventeen fish lathed
eighteen fish bathed
nineteen fish batted
twenty fish battered
twenty-one fish buttered
twenty-two fish muttered
twenty-three fish uttered
twenty-four fish othered
twenty-five fish bothered
twenty-six fish brothed
twenty-seven fish frothed
twenty-eight fish fathered
twenty-nine fish fattened
thirty fish fastened
thirty-one fish hastened
thirty-two fish chastened
thirty-three fish chained
thirty-four fish drained
thirty-five fish brained
thirty-six fish braised
thirty-seven fish braids
thirty-eight fish brayed
thirty-nine fish frayed
forty fish flayed
forty-one fish played
forty-two fish plagued
forty-three fish egged
forty-four fish edged
forty-five fish wedged
forty-six fish hedged
forty-seven fish hitched
forty-eight fish ditched
forty-nine fish itched
fifty fish etched
fifty-one fish cheated
fifty-two fish heated
fifty-three fish hated
fifty-four fish mated
fifty-five fish muted
fifty-six fish refuted
fifty-seven fish refused
fifty-eight fish fused
fifty-nine fish fussed
sixty fish sussed
sixty-one fish shushed
sixty-two fish slushed
sixty-three fish sloshed
sixty-four fish slashed
sixty-five fish sashed
sixty-six fish dashed
sixty-seven fish dished
sixty-eight fish dissed
sixty-nine fish distilled
seventy fish stilled
seventy-one fish tilled
seventy-two fish tiled
seventy-three fish filed
seventy-four fish fled
seventy-five fish fed
seventy-six fish feted
seventy-seven fish fretted
seventy-eight fish freed
seventy-nine fish fried
eighty fish eyed
eighty-one fish pried
eighty-two fish pied
eighty-three fish piled
eighty-four fish pilled
eighty-five fish pulled
eighty-six fish mulled
eighty-seven fish milled
eighty-eight fish milked
eighty-nine fish bilked
ninety fish kibbled
ninety-one fish nibbled
ninety-two fish nibbed
ninety-three fish ribbed
ninety-four fish robbed
ninety-five fish bobbed
ninety-six fish cobbed
ninety-seven fish cocked
ninety-eight fish clocked
ninety-nine fish caulked
one hundred fish cauled
Morgan Võ is a poet and librarian, and author of The Selkie (The Song Cave, 2024).