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Four Poems
by Rachel Daley


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France

you wan a check
    uh check
you a shek fake
wuh rachelle
        you rachelle
check      check
              you ra
     wore check      hah
war high          sheck
   shek haute
what a to me
    check
bomb sheek
        basement checks
hard czech
     won shell
  shek shell were
  won shek hep
          wanna me hi
  shell wan
     were shell shek
czech sure
  shell
      won eye check
hard check have
                          uh
        heaven check
another eye way
      wont sheck
                 rachelle
wer shek
             shut reck hi
worn le czech
        shot heck high


French toilets

                     shut tight
bulb          chicken high
         thinner horse is out
arms great           octa
             hokum leg bite
    light green seed
  down   donut
dime
        all starz bio
primo
       bay   bonzo
                (wart prize
mayo lager    bee
                      mine
        a tremble yew cog
spritz
      blech
      porsche
      alt x fest
marco player hep
   train         but fly
say tree             say
                already dorn
sez kitchen files
    don know anythee
french toilets less
      red rummy
               skunk   flik
ride ride ride ride
ride ride ride ride

(heavy tree trunk
     vulcanize my pies
(gets the nuclear
       loa
            stay wake
marzipan tea glide
       glisten gleam glum,
her rize


Train, but fly

hungary
        aboard a stiff
rife me meridian
              salt minton
 amadeus right
       me polymagma
pretending
   100 mayhaws missing
100 ways that             hair
            say yes sir yes
when you asked it
                        yesyes
        voted vibe deck
gain each odd
      gangplank hungary
chase
           ones my mistic
bathroom one hit
sip n three
        stalactite risk
silk will elaborate
     tradition
underfed
              wool ere lastic
      lichen tech to
tech pace
    field or breast
          night spits eck
    prelates to prelate
fate
     sorry diz
undetonated
  edge to
         spelt
abrogation
     thankfully
and slipped
     under queen
mention


Jealous plate

bluebird surmise
they seem to all
look that way, blue
ribbon and late
nettle of alabaster
porkpie    shop
winks this july
to tourist pasta
that's what it
reads like
in japanese logic
of mantle julius
caesar consol
idation
it hammers fashion
   now simper piazza
plaza la place
bus since you find
you've done it all
tho wrong
and have money
to simplify points
and rates of tithes
you settle for prim
copies
in swimming often
broaden happiness
             in definition of
  insects' parallel lovelifes
     lovely tho cheap
sundress
  less slight
than you are you
      grace one bicycle
wide
     strapping one
foot before
another why
                not



Rachel Daley is the author of a poetry manuscript, Plasmos. Also, she will be running a half marathon in Brooklyn on April 24 in support of her participation in Wandering Rocks, Revolving Doors, a public art event to take place in Dublin, Ireland, June 2004.