THE SECOND SPHINX

loudlazylong
lash-lit lightning
prefrontal—none-wiser
stretched over sandy
waste in a dream without end
eaten by yesterday

— Kelsey O’Brien-Enders


composed of cut-up phrases from poems by Bill Knott, John Ashbery, Charles Baudelaire, and e.e. cummings containing either the word “sphinx” or the name “Cleopatra.”