POETRY

SELECTED POETRY /  2003 -2024 © JOSEPH OSEL

▸ Barrel Jumper / Imperative Papers (2023)

Dinosaur / Imperative Papers (2023)

Playtime / Imperative Papers (2023)

Lil / Imperative Papers (2021)

Nail / Imperative Papers (2020)

God Is A Hammer / Imperative Papers (2020)

Conservation / Imperative Papers (2020)
 
You're A Victim / Imperative Papers (2020)

Soul Tragedy of Errors / Imperative Papers (2019)

Zero Ground / Imperative Papers (2019)

Talc / Imperative Papers (2019)

Infirmed / Imperative Papers (2019)

Destruction / Imperative Papers (2019)

A Carnal Hypothesis / Imperative Papers (2019)

Magnolia Plainsman / Imperative Papers (2019)

Subsistent Forms / Imperative Papers (2019)

Victimology / Imperative Papers (2019)

Goodbye Koi / Imperative Papers (2019)

No Swimming Pool / Imperative Papers (2019)

Snapshot Bangkok 4:01AM / Imperative Papers (2019)

How Does it Feel? / Imperative Papers (2019)

Sad / Imperative Papers (2019)

Outside Nana / Imperative Papers (2019)

Jungian Therapists, Ladies With Mullets / Imperative Papers (2019)

Poem Shells / Imperative Papers (2019)

You'll Find A Way / Imperative Papers (2018)

Mama's Tiers / Imperative Papers (2018)

Ontology / Imperative Papers (2017)

Hypothesis On Terrorism / Imperative Papers (2017)

Sacred Geometry / The Commonline Journal, #37 (2017)

Persuasion / The Commonline Journal, #37 (2017)

Contempt / Imperative Papers (2017)

On Intellectuals / The Commonline Journal, #37 (2017)

Vygotsky's Russian 1915-23 / The Commonline Journal, #36 (2017)

82. Respiratory System / The Commonline Journal, #36 (2017)

Life Eats Life / The Commonline Journal, #35 (2017)

Primitive Program / The Commonline Journal, #34 (2016)

When the Incarcerated Incarcerate Eachother / The Commonline Journal, #34 (2016)

Mark of the Beast / The Commonline Journal, #34 (2016)

Legacy of Hatred & Frontier Justice / Perplexed (2016) Imperative Papers (Rev. 2017)

Resurrection Theme / The Commonline Journal #17 (2012)

Pretty Damn Good / The UK Beat (2011)

People Circle Overhead / The Commonline Journal #13 (2010)

Autos in Tuscaloosa / New York Quarterly #66 (2010)

Holding Fast / Black Sheep Collective (2009)

A Waste, A Very Sad Waste / Loktic Die Zine (2009)

Buried In Vienna / decomP Magazine (2008)

My Harborer / Denver Syntax (2008)

Improprieties in Late January / Mad Swirl (2007)

Thirty-Seven-Hundred & No Heater / Mad Swirl (2007)

The Final Stretch / Mad Swirl (2007)

Dead Animals on the Sidewalk / Mad Swirl (2007)

Maps / Mad Swirl (2007)

The Coffee Scene / Zygote In My Coffee (2007)

Lines of Nirvana / Silenced Press (2007)

Plight of the Apples / The League of Laboring Poets (2006)

Untitled / 63 Channels Magazine (2006)

Blessed Beside Bombardment / Poets Against the War (2003)


 

LIFE EATS LIFE


Roots traverse

The water table and the sky

Life eats life

Survival and violence

Grafted here in copulation

Convexed in a condition

Of pure exhibition


© Joseph Osel, 2017
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'Life Eats Life' was first published by The Commonline Journal (#35)