the river of writing 
           with its banks of birds
      and fish of memory

disintegrates into air
           and only as rain
      falls into the sea

    so 
     throw down your oars
   no anchor here 
           need drop

    we 
     desert ourselves
   to the muck 
           of swamp
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what was the sinking
i was thinking of
when i was sinking
into the sea
what was i doing when
i was drowning love
and love was dawning
over me

burning toast
drunk on whiskey
fat on roast
writing letters
from a noose
or no-- that's thee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

browsing animals
at the root of the root
of decay,
regurgitate--

and then they browse away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

holding hand to the wind
the wind

takes it away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vectorise everyone--
posthaste.

The ceiling fan clocking
o' clock.

Fear is a mousehole.
Fear is a mouse.

Without house.
Nose and tail and mouth.

Scorpion claw of the scorpion.
Claw of the cat afoot.

What is my failure and where is my grief?
Yes, of course it's incomplete.

Machinery of ragged claw
as scenery.

Every articulation, brief.
A man of God is an idol

and an acolyte at sophistry.
Like Christ, I am some other.

Like anyone.
What do I believe?

There are things I will not dare.
And it is rare that they are there.

Give me religions that are their own Christs.
The sentiments of lice.

Black inharmonics. The cold of noise.
I will make well. I will level.

I will balance out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is inauthentic
at heart?

My heart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We used the same language
to call for the end
to the call for the death
of Baktiri Africa.

They possessed the press
of massage and muscle
sausaged by conglomerate
giving us the wit

But when the Incident
conjoined the subtle horror
of parallel worlds

Loss of light and mind
became mundane-- We accept
no reward but grace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plant a cake
  in the scream of lost warhorses.
Cull gut-spells
  of madness from the slowest dogs.
Rake old maps
  of iron bumblebee and blue spices.
Drive down hawks
  with their names for winter thaw.

Lake monument
  of firewire sepulchre and gloss.
Cure arrows
  with starcore philosophy and moss.
Lathe skull
  til light in its cast is caught.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1000 Fragments

Something has changed--
blue, bittersweet
snow-- seamless
tangles of moonlight,
maple and oak--
footprints as puddles
of air-- a grand
abstention of cricket,
moth and overall
hum-- that second
shot, aftershock
and echo of that first,
held within that first--
o, copper bullet,
amber slug, tequila--
morphine-- cum--
angelhairs of spine
up, on end-- electric
rebirth of mind's
plasticity into plasmal,
dianoetic grace--

Put the motherfuckers
gainst old walls--
moonlight glints
upon embedded lead
just fine-- fragments
of trees litter
the scatter of bone--
create what else
you would know
as you go-- these o,
so fair worlds do
likewise-- cathedrals
of refrigerators--
what can be thought
dresses man-- all one
wears is metaphor
for soul-- a railgun
under floorboards--
a violet's broken stem
of palest greed--

But the mourning dove
recapitulates--
a ballet of serenade
and scream-- a bed
of forgotten, ergo
forgettable, com-
motion-- cigarettes
in a liquidity
of dream-- a chill
three degrees--
thumbnail to e4--
o, the hail too,
wicked with purity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sing a song of Solomon
Fish Tins-- gold-tinged
flakes of fish skins
cold-- as food or ferti-
liser, Solomon says--
a taste like a tumor-
Pop! Inside your head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iii.
 
prnegs mimrut eamunw nutris
rngism mertim uenawn tursup
ngsumm ritmen iuwent raspur
gsmumr tumniw einutr sepran
smmart munwun ietirs purneg
mmretm nawnut uiresp ringus
mrtumn wentar uusipr negsim
rtminw nutres aupurn gismem
 
tmnewn tirsup earung summir
mnwint respir uenags mumrut
nwnutr sipren iugesm martum
wnturs purnig eisumm retman
ntrasp rungus iemimr tumnew
trsepr nagsum uimert minwun
rspurn gesmam uuritm newnit
spring summer autumn winter
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i.

spreng simmur eatumn wuntir
spring semmir uetamn wuntur
sprung simmer iutemn wantur
sprung summir eitumn wentar
sprang summur ietimn wunter
spreng sammur uitemn wintur
sprung semmar uutimn wentir
spring summer autumn winter
 

ii.

rspirn gusmem aurutm niwnet
trsipr nugsem aumurt minwen
ntrisp runges aumumr timnew
wntirs purneg ausumm ritmen
nwnitr supren augusm mirtem
mnwint rusper aunugs mimret
tmniwn tursep aurung simmer
rtminw nutres aupurn gismem

mrtimn wunter ausupr nigsem
mmritm nuwnet aurusp ringes
smmirt munwen auturs pirneg
ssmimr tumnew aunutr sipren
gssimm rutmen auwunt risper
ngsism murtem aunuwn tirsep
rngiss mumret aumunw nitres
spring summer autumn winter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a mathematical composition of music 
fails without that certain intuition 
which is but tuition to an institute 
of ignorance and mock comprehension
 
as equations themselves fluctuate
in the steady-state of now and now
and here again an atomic clockwork 
splits to splice a shell entwined
 
as ideals undo the dream of day 
as dreams cull this winter night
within dim fabrications of data
 
as rose bulbs in cold compost
compose ariettas less of thorn
for blood than ice for summer
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you speak without mentioning
the type of god or good (there
are no good gods) that could go
or has gone without mention?

Do you listen? Do you read well?
Do you understand what you eat
and breathe and do you recognise
the medium in which you dwell?

We may as well flip a coin
and call it by what it is not--
Death is a master craftsman

intent upon the perfect tool--
There is no depth to reason--
Meaning itself? Imperfection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 
comfortable
convertible
 
collisions combine
cotillions sublime
 
as venus treelines dim
in lucid apogamous age
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

an orgasm, singularity
in which thought and action
completely coincide--

biofeedback, pitched
and bright-- sigil
of the signal of noise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What goes on
far longer than any mortal deserves?

A few meals; the dreams of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C-D C-D G
windchimes rotor
in a voice
to be heard by hoar

C-D A-G A
or not
not now
or not now

A-A A-C D
alleluia eunoia
shelobstrosity
black quicklime

A-G A-E G
no mirror
act of self
in reason

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding; not-
understanding: in haiku--
the trees talk to mulch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I lose my mind to the simple fact of that--
that what is good, needn't be representational
or just-- that all the literalism of lateralism
bows-- that each lyricism is rust-- that snow
that comes like blood-- that soul that runs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So we've been emailing, the twenty-plus of us--
half of whom whose identities I'm sure you'd guess
for not being on your side, and half the rest,
whom with a little thought, you shouldn't be surprised
to see enjoying your schadenfreude-- (of course,
there are the staff members who simply wait for you
to go down, that they can takeover and perform
a more than inadequate job)-- and since I've gone
pariah, now untouchable, I'm free to obliquely state
exactly what it is most believe, the obvious being--
you and he are lovers (this gets about even odds)--
now, there are permutations to this (sidebets made
not yet lost)-- does your husband know (or partake)--
has the cock-belch scuzz-eyed crookback hobbit-
tard in question suffered an accident, scrambling
shit for brains, bringing senility decades too soon--
(or is a mentality like that purely congenital)--
are you over-protective, so unashamedly biased,
because the slimeball of churl is family, or lover
(or both)-- but really (and tho this gets long odds,
it is my bet, and will be placed) is that soulless
self-lobotomised hypocritical one-trick phoney
(whose closest approach to personal artistic
creativity is the perpetual whoring of 'eucalypt')
blackmailing you? Be honest now. We dare you to.




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be sure he goes on a bit about recent pubs--
if he doesn't state which of those banal
scrawl-by-belch pieces of kitsch and cliche
have been published, boring you with wankery
of the wankery of how generic, pseudo-literate
editors for an illiterate audience in this post-
literate society place his crap in unread mags
as example of both vanity and mediocrity gainst
which others might appear better by compare,
he won't be pleased as a self-greased pig
midway thru a new shit-- and if Retardo's
not happy, somebody'll get banned.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Promise

the average unimaginative person power
over their fellows--
based upon a uniformity of ignorance
disingenuously called freedom,

equality or self-worth--
as personal choice without personality;
a stagnation
via the status quo of public decorum--

and one will soon
divest themselves of six million Jews,
and quite a few Poles--

not to mention an eternal disavowal
of honesty,
integrity and purity of soul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the uninspired liars 
         (cockatrice 
             chimera 
          manticore)
say inspired
      (as tho by wit
     whetted and fit
            to slay)
our lies are made
          (of poison 
    marrow and rain)
(not of truth) 
               bored 
with wisdom feigned.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
you want an idea
of a dog and man
i tell you break
thy supple spine 
and pray for god
to lift thy chin
and with whisper
lessening praise 
thy life to pull
silence and love
up from a silver 
gun a trigger of 
wing a lead fire
angel upon angel
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
commodify intensification:--
            the blue of bells bell bluely
            no--
                        knuckle to cheekbone

            hooves drum to roar wind
                        within the mechanism of snow
            a stratus pleural, o
            no--

                        spit
            upon the beggar who would be
            cordite & ozone

            o--
            blood wicks to coma-
            flail the orbital gravity of night

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
"If at all possible--

            voice is a cherub of chirrup and scream
            whose own voice beads as the scratch
            and tine of a syringe upon glass
            in polyharmic attenuation

            thought either memory but self-serving
            revision as false as fair or creation
            broken from dream itself awoken
            into dream true as starfire

            song but mockery of agony
            a curse upon stone that feathers
            rooted and hypnagogic about the heart

            hands but blades that curve
            as nests at nape breast lip thigh
            to egg the harpsichord lines of spine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it's okay-- no expectation
to understand-- or rather--
ignorance is thick round you--
which is to say-- really--
life's a lens-- only so
much light may strike thru--
growth but a shift in phase--
no history but yourself--

and truly-- that's okay--
lightning strikes the earth--
lightning strikes the heavens--
lightning strikes itself--

as weapon-- you are nothing--
a type of air-- little else

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here i am running-- here a dog is running-- here a deer
wades into a river-- here a bird frantic along the ground--
there the palest blue breaking sky-- there no rain but fog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the single connective american roadway ideogram--
emblematic tattoo scorched as branch and twine to briar and vine--
black planar-cut ribbons too vast to ever hold in toto--
their thin plastic dissolves to oil no matter how softly lifted--
and the mind a map more subtly defined.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the fan/ echoes off the wall/ in real-time

and you/ are beautiful as the world/ is cruel

in its/ minimalistic beauty/ rotten as it grows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunlight and two incandescents of three
war for sovereignty of a chessgame
in which each piece marbles black to white--
white halves to the righthand sides
of each player, respectively--

They sit with minds of bright moonlight
deadly in that nebulous thought
wavered tween nova and rock
in serendipitous plot-- nostrils flare

In high storm calm-- pupils dilate
as feint and subterfuge
toil for excellence to strike and fold--

And the room is God and Mind
is not and the war for love is lost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it's seven thirty-seven and you don't
wait for your change;
a collapse of ice in a styrofoam cup
on a cement floor;
a smile neither returned nor understood;
you want heaven and you'll never
scream the words that key the doors;
it's vulgar the way truth
scrambles for a hold upon power and loses;
rose petals fall in this ceaseless
storm;
these fires are fires of spine;
you've no words approaching poetry;
stupidity is your life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh hey the trees
all hail the mechanical
icefall swale
heuristic oh say
stepping deer
furs thy spine as oh
majestic
hooves titter-rasp
hollow night by yes
a convenience
of wind
cut with perfect knife

oh may blood
satellite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a
sapling bronzed
a
chandelier

a
cage of moss
a
glass table

a
banquet of
a

history as
a
tongue heart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

o, for expansive accuracy
a veritable diorama of penetrating ken--
but what do we have, but transparency
of truth and time, minor joy
temporary as sin?--

so be it then and closer, friend--
what mirrors the coming silence
must be quietly said--

what to fear but the nothingness
which rises to belittle self--
what to hate but that satisfaction
false as the greater world dispelled--

birdsong is a fire shearing diamond--
all is instrument and shell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i am insane--
the leaves ping on/off
to careen and siren and scrape
as they retaliate
their loss of form, which says nothing
of the night that will end
itself a type of rain
and the pain in my temple, a cloud
of lightning
rooting, with but a single flower--
petals that lure with perfume
that stains--
my tongue is thorn--
my fruit is fang.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the essence that builds the anger which kills
resides within my heart tonight--
air and terror.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the multiple agonies
of consciousness (if
that's not too great
a stretch) are thus
relieved: by love
and by disease--

the disease? death
of course and love
of course light come
as hunger that subtly
feeds and feeds (to
leave as blissful ex-

halation)-- a chaos
dark and serene

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten o'clock people with four o'clock thoughts
and twelve o'clock fears
            mutely pass the three a.m.
            scintillations of daggers and razors
            of dew and ice that adroitly
            strike the ravenous heart in pinions
            of light


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The house is green, a minor tower
edging a field of bluebell and clay
with wood at its northwest corner--
I dream myself a fair and quiet boy
at work and staring from dark windows
upon a Spring with scientific heart--
This much tentative light tempting
this much seed to flower toward fruit
hour upon hour upon thought upon hour--
Cursory summum bonum any summation
as wit is the shorthand of wisdom
and wisdom shrift most post de facto--
The green is that of cemetery fern--
Hawks spiral, masters of themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A woman groans, far back in her throat, nearly whimper
wrought with sexuality. She is warm, lonely, naked
and in pain meted out spasmodically. She is the species
incarnate, twisted upon her blankets, with an illness
beyond cure. Why mention it-- Lust and love; admiration
and pity? Yes, of course-- And as a wish for better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

250,000 trillion stars
within 1 billion ly--
O, universal infinitude--
I am angel of myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

names of flame whisper
ash itself a syllable
of cold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use your imagination-- I've used mine, and've imagined you
without imagination. The mind lies-- you know it's true,
as sense itself evolves upon contrivance. My heart composes--
matrix as tabula rasa specific; will as genius; time: sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the fields shoulder
heavens of cloud
with turning backs--

raccoon and rabbit
plain as darkness
scream of death--

good men hurry
as old hungers sum
the chill of love--

what fair contest
do you contest?
the soul as breath--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorrow-- each bead
a beggar's cup
of light-- withheld.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the thing
itself sings
itself as echo

the thing itself
sings itself
as it resonates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am mindless as I cum--
a supernova, headlight-sized--
a moth rising, wings aflame--
the body blinded by white noise--
soul the arch of abdomen--
the tremolo of muscle--
eternity forever ocean--
a glaze of eyes forever sea--
I am mindful as I cool--
a peregrine, my hunter's shell--
night flowers, my perfume--
and here I rage in calm--
the churn of beauty--
is not truth, but love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've talked of beauty before, you and I--
You sense it like one does a storm yet beyond treeline--
It's snow and ozone; woodsmoke and car exhaust--
More a filling of shadow than a diminishing of light--
Beauty, you say, is a tempest as eager as it is impetuous--
A wind that stirs in steady buffet--
Lightning that whips and does not strike--

Fine, my love; fine--
It is also a word beyond my ken, my mind yet rises to claim--
Here I am, a hawk disowned from the sky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Need help? Help yourself.
No assembly required. Work alone.
Love is a body politic. Vote continuously.
The greatest gift is its own receipt.
Knowledge is interest on loan.
Want more? Then do more, motherfucker--
whether supernova or blackhole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always speak your mind; never say a thing.
Shoot first; ask questions when out of ammunition.
Red sky at night means you're near a sizable city.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch; count your eggs.
Those who fail history might be good at math.
If asked an unanswerable question, give and unquestionable reply.
When in doubt, ask for directions to Rome.
The road less traveled is often a dead end.
A stitch in time saves none.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

great houses burn with strange fires--
rooms flicker and fade; ceilings throb
hammered by sky; rusted nails ache
with a cold horrored inability to rise--

the air within drums the din of oceans--
dronings layered to a siren knell--
each sense is touch and every ignorance
abstraction poisonous by weight--

eat your dinner and die your death--
the plate is clean when no longer a plate--
the cup a river and the cup a rain--

your hair screams entangled in horizon--
your breath smolders with the moon--
the dead centers of eyes abyss with life--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It should be duly noted
that the sun has yet to rise.
Show me Orion during the day.
Let it also be stated
the field behind this house has yellowed
but for the famished southeast corner
which is forever in shade.
Gift me the itch of antlers that I
might break the bark of young poplar.
As a direct aside
the last of the great moths has died.
Lord, grant me ease
in starvation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bedroom off the kitchen,
facing the library
and separated by a curtain--
To live as a monk is to become a monk
mellowing perhaps to vinegar--
What need of stairs have the aged?
Failure and light warms
these still rooms--
My dust an egg of name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two trees-- the smaller
with larger, sweet-tarter fruit--
rabbits fat on both.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You were born mindless. Dispute it if you'd like.
The post traumatic stress of being overtakes you still,
tho you've learned to cope, I'm sure--
A cigarette here; books like a soft drug there;
a raising of volume if and when the music suits--
Gathered assemblies of drownings you can breathe thru
that you may be reborn to the world in quietude
to better counter the machinery of disgust and hate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The chaos of cloud is too bright to look at without wincing.
Assume the sun is eight minutes away and as free as any automaton.
The grass is Easter plastic couching the serialised eggs of houses.
A woman curses without swearing. A silhouette ascends to nothing.
A few dragon-scale leaves hinge clockwise and then counter.
Gojira's blackness stretches in waking dream. I rasp. I writhe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't forget to steal the Warhol fridge magnet of butterflies--
There may not be any Warhols
                               butterflies
                               magnets
                               refrigerators where you're going.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

waterhorses

immaculate interior housepaint of choice
neighborhood children aghast
aghast aghast at the second story nude
there are apples on the help yourself

the threads limned in gold that lift

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 dry toasts, perfectly burned
2 green apples, too sweet
1 pot coffee, weak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shoot dog kick cat
skin horse drown rat
stake pig fry gnat
chew wasp bat bat

beg sea suck sky
hold wall pill night
heat stone hone knife
numb mind love light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stars are teeth
the universe
hingeless
jaws

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the whine quavers as it ascends--
not white, but pure as it is without what usually passes
for the true blue abuse of signal--
the parlance of price and you already know this shit, man
so crash without losing your mind--
and it's louder than the voice that asks if you want another
coffee valium child grave memory--
but you're not paid to think and you're not paid to feel
or to know or to care or to trust--
you're a slave of predestination and circumstance
same as rope, as needle, as petal--
same as math.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vestigal's a lovely word
as far as words go
not that any word is lovely
without a lovely tone

impregnable attenuation's
a lovelier charm
than the loving admonition
to fuck your cellar door

synthetic melancholia's
duotonic asperity's
an inimitable pungency
both expiry and mot

elocution's a word as lovely
as heart is not
nor soul nor mind are
tho honed to wroth

telemetric alleluia
alleluia alleles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vanilla's the salmonella of the mind, fucker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gojira's tongue--
pink mercury
itself a thermometer of joy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Verbs noun adjectives.
            Nouns adjective verbs.
                        Adjectives verb nouns.

  Adverbs adverb adverbs.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

layers of trumpets call the hounds; the number readers
close themselves to snowfall and summit; she swims
with the horizon; let us see if she drowns--

posit: everything is holy; therefore, equal; therefore,
meaningless; therefore, allowed; therefore, more
matter of taste desultory at its level of ignorance--

posit: creativity requires more than juxtaposition
of prelearned symbol; more than the dishonest tripe
of sentiment blindly echoed; more than an idiot's
recognition of attempt; more than morosophistry--

posit: whatever kills you, is truth; what poisons,
names itself as enemy of self; what sings of rapture,
best pierce thy cold fish heart as talon of raptor--
o, numberless; we with her, drown; o, trumpets call.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

infantile cocksucker
banal as a mental wetfart in a library
you fail the soul's eighth grade
perpetually

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here we are, mother-- carving ducks for the gallery
of finesse and flame-- the mighty insect bruzz
whelming in sonic ozone-- mother, tether

and i must say, mother-- the richest dishes
are but misuses of the smallest pills-- my hands
but gnarled oak impassioned-- mother, river

mother!-- i see your stiletto in the camouflage
of plume and genocide-- for you, no arrow
whispers struck-- no accurate reassembly
of memory prerequisite, nor meal-- mother, murder

mother!-- these are my nails in your eyes
and they do not worsen your sight-- fears of rats
gnawing open their own bellies, are rats-- the oracle
is a sneer, and lo!-- the future, snarling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lethe-lithe

with tongues as fine as eyes, / i beseech-- rather we--
as i am i in fervent multi- / (com/sim/du/im) -plicity

you stay, to let braid / cilia -> scale -> scalea--
to let sun & entropy / warm , worm ? wear us as

we wear +(we are both)-- / thought stem-spine carnal
in the canal of your (p/r/f)

-ear|ache-- twine micro- / cardia & lozenge the data-
plex of heart-mind light-->

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

untitled!

ah, bach! i mean, mozart-- ah!
the perfect singing i do not understand!
keys upon keys! lyric within lyric!
sensible nonsense! ubiquitous non sequitur!

o, christina carter! i mean, kubisch-- o!
the songs of machines i do not know!
partial constructions! mimesis in toto!
crickets in the gut of swine! open throats!

irem of pillars! a red sickle moon!
klimek! sand! voices of n. american owls!
sleep! a ballet of hands! bell orchestra!

recording a tunnel! jeff greinke!
the corner! mada fronta! dither remix!
with throats as fine as needles!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

soporific benign atrocity
--mecca
; medina; dresden
; nagasaki; antietam                   white-backed
; vietnam                                     vultures
      [ imprimatur
      [ nihil obstat




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

arctic winds graze over cavities in cliff walls
which will fill with water that will freeze and wedge
as pocket-threads of axeheads without handles
all of wind an ocean an arm a searching after calm
and the dirt in the river grows richer as it flows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to return to drawing now is to go mad
i have no visions and dawn in its darkness too brilliant
to go mad now i may as well return to drawing
words as braille made of light sightless fingers do not catch
define and delineate fields more scent than window
tho any window is both open and closed
and i am mad as a maggot in a hot dumpster
calm as a crack in the sky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

were that i were
that i were
evil distilled to its essence
and that essence incarnate
sentient and wise or were i goodness
partially assembled or half-grown
a bounty of fruit maturing with season
but i am fire with precious fuel
and i do not burn the bridge of nothing
that between us informs us as we are born

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cool hooves
follow a sandhill crane
upon the sinister bank
of the dark-mudded fox
to a bridge of swallows
with mudlark nest

led and lost
to mulberries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i wish
i wish
i wish for you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

soylent green is purple--
silent greed is purple--
  supurplexcellent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i have the secret of immortality:
i am the dross of time,
a cloth of clothos as chthonic dress;
the secret is this--

beauty abhorred is remembered
in the seamless current of days.
you doubt me?
mark yourself with stars--

gravity is eternal--
did you suspect?
here is an orange for your trouble.

just look, just look--
name us each by place and time--
the word is a mortal knife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fur seals
fur seals

fur seals-- elicitly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  ping
shawn lee's pingpong orchestra
                  pong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i hope you've your raise by now--
corn chips oyster crackers
cream of wheat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

o elegant
lines confuse to astound
break and
break and break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

make this one work--
make this one pay--
make make--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

workshopping
field recordings

of workshops
rocks porkchops

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

neon dark
neurotic

eyes erratic
flight diet

dives
lucifugus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the antecedent
must not reset
precedent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             dried worms       die to feed ants
cording to that worm       just passed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the mind flags
reptilian in the sun
of knowledge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what words i have are nothing
i dream you still and what i dream is forgotten

the snow hisses as it hits everything

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

empty belly
quichely cliched, and dogged--
bone roll home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

god is but threshold
wherever our focus dwells
tickling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my pattern is white-blue



blue-white
sky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what's the harshest sound
you can listen to

as music?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the cutting slash
that does not cut does not cut
the cutting slash does not
the cutting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oak maple sumac / sycamore ash
    birch fir pear / box elder
         dog elm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there is snow on the far mountains--
they suck the snow from the cloud--
cloud and mountain invisible now--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

plays intuitively-- slow--
stares until thought--

no talent--
some genius--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'm always cranky--
crank me, crank me, i say--

i crank myself up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is wisdom if it's not eternal?
What is wisdom if it is?

What is, what is?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tell me it's not poetry,
it's not--

o, how it is not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

happy birthday
just do it
the real thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   name his parts- -milton
make him talk/talk with him- -goethe
                             kill him- -eliot


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nightswim--
she ties her shoes together
then takes them off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frog Artist

the ones that last become more distinct
ones that don't are all the same

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

glissando
à la
glissade-- beaded rain


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

plasmal
heart of
plastic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

man
there is no worse

no better

no harmonic
to any universe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

no quicker than any
red-shifted blue-bright
littoral light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the tame want power
  &humility
  &the tame want power
      &strength of the lame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pattern diagram
kinetic metonymy
irony failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

who was the greatest philosopher-artist
to mirage & tease

meaning & dream? today won't say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is every argument
all rolled into one argument
that goes on forever

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

never ask
an easy question

at a liar's convention
even if it is genius

it is not

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i love you
i love you
i love you

i do
i do
i do

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you'll judge the same as i do.
know why?

to be just.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

knocknock
centipede

down the chimney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

briar&bramble
where forest and meadow
sprawl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i've no idea how you teach,
so i can't really prove that i know anything

nor is that how i learn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hrumgudmtu.
wtudo?

missu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

grenades
calculators

children hell
dogs as well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

an elevator
va. recordings of crickets
  bruzz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

two audio books--
william gibson's pattern recognition; left mono

john cage's art is either a complaint or do something else; right mono

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

brautigan sucked
donkey-ass
donkey-ass
donkey-ass all day

hunter s. thompson sucked cock

hemingway
invented the nine-clitted kitty

this is all true inversed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hemingway; brautigan; hst--
how much it hurt

for it all to have been untrue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bugs that sound like machines
noisome with grace

one caw of one crow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the emptiest
empty
emptied
emptiently
prematurely
empted
preempted
ettison
to let us in
to empty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disheveled cardinals
scruff--

Owls wait.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the higher up the mountain
the fewer the places

you have to go

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

butterfly
brains

butterfly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i i
i understand
enough

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

handle
spoon

a cup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if evil
were spider repellant

we'd have more mosquitoes
more flies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

do vultures taste ugly
overjoyed

and wise?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you want cynicism, be cynical
you want hope, here is hope

may you also be rewarded twofold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the uncertainty of fault lines
where there is no fault

as certain as plastic as protean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the best shit i ever read
was a tea within the bowl
of its thesis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

resavage
that we tame
ourselves again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here is light
light you say
i don't want no light

dark i say
we are dark
what we need is night

with or
without
stars

with or
without
pilot

sluice
array

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what do i know
any differently than an amoeba
that death can't catch?

things stranger than death

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with global warming, you help us replant the desert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

caverns?
we care about the mines
and the mist
from dust

of sun a brush
to dust

to cavern again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

look
what we
can do--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stagger
of the spirit--

to piss upon trees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stone fences
wall and chimney
house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

glove on the porch--

both my hands are cold

burning leaves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Death comes
you say Yes
you say Yes

You are worthy
to be an opponent
of Death's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

unable to be freely good
by the least amount of will alone
i kill myself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

half a people were willfully evil
half a people were dumb

who was right, who was wrong
we punish those who do not punish themselves

and we earn our sole reward
interest upon a loan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my pretty words are all i have--
they are all i can afford
if only silence were golden--
but i am poor, i am poor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

basically--
water rises
sun spills
moon bird
bone

whistle
cry

loot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the cat and the music
both make you twitch once in a-

while. and then you're swimming again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some believe (as
is their right)
the ocean is (the closest
construct of (un)infinity
one can tongue) and
defined by what is (not) ocean
plus or minus a drop--

they're probably right--
here is my cup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odds are, you will not lead a good life--
this will sadden those who do

and also sadden you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weiner dog holocaust--

i like my dogs bred true to wolves.
they ain't that.
let's fuck ourselves up a midget.
jewish weiner dogs-- to cut or to uncut?
i'd stuff a weiner dog, and then put him inside a balloon.
that's about it.
race them off a cliff.
no limit to the number of contestants.
everybody wins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes

If I were here for the people,
I never would've signed on--
The food is inorganic and the air recycles
ad nauseum--

The thump of a cat
can only make you go God damn it, God damn--
The farm is what we leave behind
and the garden itself a child's pet--

What is noise and what is not is what
no one need ask but wants--
The periphery pulms
as the center Solomonises--

Stars
descantily clad of course required--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yes i do--

some are very beautiful
some are terribly ugly
day to day, some change
right before your eyes
change, right before you
change, and some ever
do neither ever
at all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

spheres of empty
useless without throat
or spine

to hold them up
to slice
sun and moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

success is when everyone on earth gives you a dollar--
sometimes four or five (if only to take it all away, but--
no more than they gave)--

failure's just the opposite, by half--


and breaking even, shameless--
for whatever that's worth--

rest-- float-- here is my coin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mind is money and money, mind
a penny for your poetry

self-poetic rant read
as well as rime

the day is thunderous
l=t

the rain, patternless
eternity's nothing without

me with without

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

equanimity is the provenance of fools, haiku.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to try to discern meaning--
when there is none

to call it god

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a granularity of sand
the pearls of your eyes
see perfectly

but once or less

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

how does one know the truth
when truth is fire gone to ember
and ember gone to ash?

by going out to the woodpile
in the purity of fallen snow
to bring in wood dry as paper
to glance for a spell at stars
and feel by simple geometry
a far greater warmth of beauty
resplendent beyond the wisdom
of any mortal's hearth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why not speak ill of the dead?
We are cowards--

Let us do what we do best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thru the trees
meteors
quick as dream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

f <3
cum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  fuck love--

    cum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
you're the guy who kills the guy who applauds
the guy who judges the guy who knows
the guy who helped
the guy who hated himself alone

you're the guy who loves the guy who defends
the guy who robbed the guy who warns
the guy who shat
the guy who did not do a thing

you're the guy who supports the guy who fails
the guy who despises
the guy who mourns the girl of stone

you're the guy who buries the guy who fathered
the guy who lost
the guy who rapes that girl and sings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ink pickles paper
paper alloys light
light murders god
god gods death
god gods death
death is not god
moon upon ichor
shine on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

an anti-counterintuition

the idiot-savant-garde
as morosoph most sophomoric
sees no senior genius
à la wisdom parti pris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White-sided houses go to blue.
Leaves blacken. Winds swell.
Low clouds move against the moon.
I map Heaven to navigate Hell--

These blue houses polyp and shroom.
Yards yawn. Windows door north.
An apple gleaned makes a sordid tune.
We starve doom to chasten horror--

The loam houses script and cemetery.
Katydids die consumed. Dragons, too.
Whim mazes the mesh of capillary--

I am not homeless without reason.
Muses madden. Their eyes are blue.
Blood enough to drown the season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

passing clouds

                        falling leaves

            fill blue sky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grotesqueries

  1. Are you too cowardly to kill yourself?
  2. When you masturbate, how often do you think of your father?
  3. Have you killed an animal accidentally, telling no one?
  4. Do you choose ease, over both beauty and truth?
  5. Think of the worst done to you; the worst you've done to another--
      which is worse?
  6. Do you fantasize about legitimately killing?
  7. When you pass an accident, do you hope to see the dead?
  8. Do you secretly enjoy when someone cries in anguish, over you?
  9. Have you masturbated using another's feces?
10. How many of your 'I love yous' are false?
11. When you lie, do you maintain the deception until caught?
12. Does envy equate to hate, for you?
13. Have you any dreams you have not compromised?
14. How much would it cost, to answer each of these honestly?
15. Do you believe you deserve Hell?
16. Have you broken hearts, uncaringly?
17. Do you consider faking a mental illness, a mental illness?
18. Do you pity anyone foolish enough to help you?
19. Were you ever beautiful, or simply naive?
20. Does genius sicken you, the more immediate it is to you?
21. Do you revel in the self-righteousness of your own banality--
      or vice-versa?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the bridge       mayflies hover
cross over       the wisconsin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one hour as

  spectral voices;
          the actionless reverb of sitting rooms
          key and cocoon wallpaper flame
  the crow flies;
          blind within the whiteness of cumulus
  ritchie blackmore;
          tokyo machinehead
          a ham sandwich reconsidered, or hammich
          circa 2006
  a well;
          lean over lip and succumb to vanity
          o turing test, o gom jobbar
  inner time gardens;
          vines ferocious vine voracious
          vines audacious vine contagious
          vines
  the air vibrations under a doorway;
          mouse--
          sigh in addendum
          ad infinitum
  the sky's painted red;
          praise/agony::ecstasy/rage
  aquatic space;
          the meniscus of heaven
          distills thinly enriched blood
          as slumber tides
          fray indigo to hell
  one absolute hour;
          to three swallows
          equals two nests
  bernel & hoffman;
          & bernman & hoffel
          & manel & bernhoff
          & hernen & boffmal
          & beffel & hornman
  something that didn't turn out
    the way i expected;
          her smile as she looked at me
          as she smiled looking behind me
          to blush, locking eyes
  works of sound;
          heard well will provide
          holidays of silence
          as summum bonum thought
  snow;
          the first inch melts upon the body
          of ground but not the leaves
  a nomadic journey;
          four thousand footsteps
          half a footprint
  the narcoleptic;
          asleep on an exhale to wake
          on an inhale to sleep
          breath held
  as if it were passing in seconds;
          foremost
  sixty million years;
          uncles, aunts--
          not even knowing the names
          of those met at this reunion
  a single transition;
          ambient sunlight
          falls upon still-life pears
          to lesser degree
  the voice of jike;
          swish-scraping rebar
          in a gutter stream
  lethe;
          early water belatedly right on time
  two;
          feet eyes thumbs ears lungs
          questions errors witticisms hungers
          phonecalls signatures loves
  an ear to the ground;
          an ear to the sky
  vibrations during the aircraft impacts on,
    and collapses of, the wtc buildings;
          whalesong as notochord
          coyote howl as skull
          bison herd as heart
  continuous modification;
          antidisestablog
  a dosimeter in kulim and tainan;
          triggers as bullets
          fused at a difference of gauge
  surgery;
          which is 1/6 the time it takes
          to save a hand once bone is scored
  the agitation of atoms;
          none die
          decadently
  a plant;
          the coal goes in
          the smoke comes out
          cloud to cloud
  peyote;
          dry-heaving minor deities who careen
          as they scuttle the fucking inanity
          of sanity sans retrograde
  a rumpled sheet;
          gojira (the cat) beds (but sleeps?)
  the one who watches;
          behold the child
          sly and innocent as fire
          had fire mind
  the bell at hidden mountain;
          the mountain rings the bell
          the mountain rings the bell
          to listen for its clamour
          is to hear its knell
  the bumps of surfaces;
          the fluid touch of depth
          a linearality of finesse
          come shallow
  six more arguments in our favor;
          cunt cock asshole
          egg worm rock
  boulez is burning;
          the sky reclaims space
          no longer piano or willow
          or clock
  one side and other of the door;
          that this one locks-- 00:06
          that this one mocks-- 59:54
  spring-summer;
          work permutates
          by pollen and alleluia of frog
  a boarding pass;
          reread a dozen times
          and like any story
          unchanging
  index nodorum;
          phaeosphaeria, stagonospora, septoria
          a hectare lost in fog
  eurovision;
          the lowest common denominator
          is an appliance
          of misapplied science--
          not enough light to read
          hemingway's blues
  glasgow to airsaig by train;
          mesmer bildung supra-bildung
  a back-to-front reality;
          hello,
          history--
          night
  a piece of green;
          devoured by two caterpillars
          themselves nectarine
  it-is-ness;
          contextured
          by what-is-not--
          natural law

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you found the girl,
the wind, too, died or disappeared
from your senses completely;
your old dog whined, to see such sport;
you took care not to step too close
concerned with self-incrimination.

You crouched and prayed, you said;
you say you spoke moreso with bled color
than of condemnation or dissension;
that breath slipped to air as smokeless fire:

So this is God, and accident, and loss;
so this, malice and culmination of naught--
You dug nails into rooted ground, and tore one;
you stood; turned away. You called the cops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Things Not to Do Naked

do not beekeep babysit
vote die undress propose
perform any autobiopsies
spacewalk skateboard
sleep or wear evil well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is magic; this is a fiction
as much as lie containing truth,
and it is truth--
Undetonated atomics line the sea floor;
they irradiate and they plum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my mind is gone--
automatic cascades
of inconsequence
intermingle clasps
of unhinges collapsed

which is not to say--
nothing is done or
what will be done
technically a sub-
limity of invention

which i think to say--
(while not a terrible lot
as ever never enough)
that contours weft
in shadow of loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if everyone turned their faucets on
how long would the water last?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the homeless
protest

of home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

disgustingly happy
    the child i was

nothing disagrees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

connective
as tissue

haiku

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yellings--
laughings--

i just sit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the subatomica
of the thought of subatomica say

yes
no
maybe

and go away spinning-spun
with an arrogance of pricks
and fuzz and peaches

they limerick
and they spit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

genius is not fair
love is not inspired

despair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what does the poet tell us about himself?
he's articulate; discourteous
and prone (self-harm)-- autistic
as a matter of convention--
and at a loess of words
where image is lost

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

why?
they're dead?

are we dead yet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

things not to do
when naked?

do nothing good
wear it well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just say shit
and praise

but i keep
my tongue

nor do i
upbrade

the conscious
misspelling

nor do i
nor do i

and then we
go away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

apricot tree
piss-pot
rotten ground
measured
by flowers
and fires
as pendulums
of a clock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the fine line
between chance and dream
and certainty
broken

why escape death?
death escapes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

humanity--
the fallen fruit that writhes
as it feeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i am from heavem
so i know i do not have your support--

i am a tree of leaves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i didn't know what i was going to say
when i brought you here

over there are the ferns
maybe we'll walk over to them
when we come back

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the snow
as free

as ash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cowskull

inside the front door
upside-down

with a timepiece
right-side up

within its hollow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what was i thinking last
night-- karma?

duh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nature is mans to recreate
thought is his to form
and discard and reform

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

poem-sized
thoughts for poem-
sized words poem-

poem poem
nothing else
is poetry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

how best to listen
is without presumption

but some of us sing
some of us sleep

and bach is a
whatchmacallit--

not terribly long
asleep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The one-armed comic
vs. subatomic tranquility

vs.

an intelligence
without confusion

vs.

magic as sleights
of man vs.

every thought
spaghetti vs.

the success
of the failure

to comprehend.
Who would win?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

water fountain--
it's shit

no, that's piss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking at a picture
of the moon

back-lit by what no moon
provides, I could tell you

the stars themselves piano
and loom, knobby-kneed

and resilient, hellions
of pride to be taken

by whatever natural
law decides. I could say:

There are many pictures
of the moon. This mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i was reading
at a little faster
than a click

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shadow concept: a tunnel/room/ceiling of glass which segments, from opening to end, into room and hall-- tinted so that the deepest room/level, is in darkness.

shadow concept: that which we love, but do not say; that which we say, but do not have or do; that which we have had and have done, but regret having; that which we regret, but do not end, and return to; that which we love, darkly; subliminally; in phase and out of.

shadow concept: we never see the shadows cast by our light; we see only our light, partially reflected.

shadow concept: my mind, which is my heart, for you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pissing upon moss
upon a rock
a chipmunk looks for neighbors
a kitfox steps into the swamp
and the chipmunk is gone
so is the fox

there's nothing better
than catching the scent of fire
in the air
which until then was nameless
with ashlight and cold
and irretrievable thought

for us fire is home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a bad life today     may be a good life
        tomorrow     pauper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/\/\/\/\//\/////\\\\\\\\\//////////////\/\/\*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stark ravens
approach madness
crowding cloud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and what birds there are
are not counted
as the meat of ribs disintegrates

what is to be said but that
beauty beyond comprehension
will not work forever

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'll idly die
upon this risen ocean floor
relying upon tide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

practice what you
do not preach--

the profound

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

words

words

words faul

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

art and love and all the rest
can defend themselves as they are
defenseless while hate remains
a key dropping to the floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eno the single beetle
upon wicked wall in merry well
he stumbles how he do

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

circling
the core of language

a fly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i am a monster
costume or not

in costume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughts take time to process. X gives you that time.

You're arguing over poetry, as discourse?

Are you shitting me?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

language by
necessity is separate from
the thing it speaks of
even if that thing be itself
a rasp of self-importance
upon concrete

imagined cherry leaves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

whippoorwills
proclaim in anapest
pseudo-wit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

neo-modern artist without estate

found in a ditch sleeping late

taking contour and color of chance

in measures of fate

another buddhist become a beggar

another beggar become

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the heart of a soul be in a man
tho that heart be empty

made of wood and wind and dim lighting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

regiments of mind and loss
militarised against the wind

dandelions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the snow is quiet--
the moon falls quieter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a wren-sized moth
thrums upon the bug zapper
now off