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Jim Behrle
City Point
ISBN 0-9674857-2-X
2000
$5.00

Jim Behrle is a homonym for Dinty Moore, a territory sound in Boston to the core. A crow is not a crow unless one says so. Ask Jim, a visionary bowler mowing down candlepins of strike and the never to be mentioned--except as sound of sight--gesundheit! That passing local of time and times whose places in mind serve as pillar and post-it. Just watch. Every won sight is like a saltlick he eyes on his block.

          branches, long as arms, have fallen,
          block the path. air too chilly, ridiculous.
          skin pink, wanting in.

          trusting the two trees that twist up and stop the sun,
          red for miles along the edges.

Fresh hash marks for the urban georgic and the crisp apple in apprehending. Jim Behrle goes to people, places, and things like a aphrodisiac to a hanged man, conflating ege with object in "the hour we give back to the sun."

--Michael Gizzi