Best Cleanness Poems

Cleanness, as somebody said once ,
Not where they clean, but where they do not crap,
And our yardman vigilantly  at the entrance,
Walks around with  a huge scary club.

Nice to watch, how he - with congenital grace,
For the slightest piece of paper or a mote,
Trying...

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Distances (II)
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.

She has never heard of Faust, or Frost,
and she is unlikely to have...

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