Blurb Song

Ryan Bird’s chapbook
The Long, Wet Sucking Sound
is a strange, exotic curve;

an Easy Button
of smouldering eyeballs;

a wolf whistle
of noble
birth;

an ear trumpet
of tributary requirement;

a golden affront to Pizarro’s
bookkeeper;

but above all else,
it is an adolescent conch,
blown to herald

the wet dreams
of tectonic

plates.