Monday, June 14, 2004
The Pound Error
Undesired androgyne, androgyne,
to speak broad Pixel to write to summon to
this intricate intimate [red figure]
ekphrastic embodiment shadow to
rotate the urnshard unshared
broken ego captures/ another/ another
undesired androgyne, paragyne,
loss not grafted margins of voice
loss not desire not gnosis not origin to
superscription of shadow puppets
hidden from hidden for hidden by
imperishable 'I' captive 'she' to sacrifice
to erect a sign above the sacrifice to
Song of Prohibitions
Anonymity bellows. And again a grin.
roi de musette. At the brim again.
random august in cellophane language
announces. In the rim of the bin
never saying but the words say them no
trance needing nor chance meeting.
No political material. No things
only somethings. No ideas but inklings.
no crime like the present. No thing you can
say. But if any forever is implied
even as I whisper this I lie. No pets, no food,
no more questions, no phallic bravura but
selva oscura. No fishing for criticism now because
everything you tell me is a sigh.
Our Sicilian Defence
It is another story altogether
It is altogether another other
by lanternlight, beneath two birches
and the sound of a shallow river.
[Two women are playing chess
for as long as either will remember,
[opening P - K4, P - QB4.
It’s not a question of either/or –
Neither question nor metaphor -
one might be my mother or me at sixty.
The other might as well be me,
thinking: her right’s my left, my left
her right. I see it now in a different light.
I know it now by another name.
Is it any wonder then [ or when [this game
runs on through this and every night
forever, lit by lanternlight [two birches
[and any wonder it is?
[and is the sound of a river?
Bletchley
Ulterior inscrutable errata under two electric trains
thus desolation in these Linear B x-ray wastes
triple atmosphere [corroded codex
enigma decoded my centripetal wings
ruined beneath [drainage from
barbarous glacial nerves
unkindnesses migrating sun loss
less & less a [catalog of lexemic spectra
less & less a [factor
so ciphers are beheaded
humankind gazing from a portico of gangrene
its enervated distension
take on the typhus of vertical chemistry
Bloodblizzard
yellow freeze strolls several seas
our manner bleeds the hard edge of a clamber
under schist with a split thumb synaptic
velocities unmeasurable. Blindbright.
enter teeth grit, gneiss, shale. Evening.
Before scribbled vision re-
enters, beneath even itself, its
entelechy, a wave with a god's patience,
never, forever, dryad of dreamt-of,
demon-of-delight in the lute-late
urtext, dismantle the leaded lantern glass
parallax, reimage the molten
encanthis [here begins vision, your
dissipation, your lid closing, your...
Carapace
soft jeweled flies complicate a window ledge
under your tongue the syllable 'key' recalls
cool siftings of granular denotations. Know this,
know this, it whispers: owl pellet, icicle,
errors of grammar and ettiquette,
remembered silence and silence.
Mirror Weather
these objects are closer than they signify:
a smart card, 'shit' that 'happens' - required:
katabasis, power of attorney, financial
instruments, a rogue state of grace...
no/close frames/wipe disk/ reboot:
go: pure-cool-air-under-the-wings possibility
the interior film crew break for lunch
holier-than-though but never-the-less
equivalence slowly emerging eyelid flicker
perception/violent logic lockout noise subsides
image persistance, propensity for margins,
soft targets open into chysanthemums into
so many hearts in so many chests immediately
to speak broad Pixel to write to summon to
this intricate intimate [red figure]
ekphrastic embodiment shadow to
rotate the urnshard unshared
broken ego captures/ another/ another
undesired androgyne, paragyne,
loss not grafted margins of voice
loss not desire not gnosis not origin to
superscription of shadow puppets
hidden from hidden for hidden by
imperishable 'I' captive 'she' to sacrifice
to erect a sign above the sacrifice to
Song of Prohibitions
Anonymity bellows. And again a grin.
roi de musette. At the brim again.
random august in cellophane language
announces. In the rim of the bin
never saying but the words say them no
trance needing nor chance meeting.
No political material. No things
only somethings. No ideas but inklings.
no crime like the present. No thing you can
say. But if any forever is implied
even as I whisper this I lie. No pets, no food,
no more questions, no phallic bravura but
selva oscura. No fishing for criticism now because
everything you tell me is a sigh.
Our Sicilian Defence
It is another story altogether
It is altogether another other
by lanternlight, beneath two birches
and the sound of a shallow river.
[Two women are playing chess
for as long as either will remember,
[opening P - K4, P - QB4.
It’s not a question of either/or –
Neither question nor metaphor -
one might be my mother or me at sixty.
The other might as well be me,
thinking: her right’s my left, my left
her right. I see it now in a different light.
I know it now by another name.
Is it any wonder then [ or when [this game
runs on through this and every night
forever, lit by lanternlight [two birches
[and any wonder it is?
[and is the sound of a river?
Bletchley
Ulterior inscrutable errata under two electric trains
thus desolation in these Linear B x-ray wastes
triple atmosphere [corroded codex
enigma decoded my centripetal wings
ruined beneath [drainage from
barbarous glacial nerves
unkindnesses migrating sun loss
less & less a [catalog of lexemic spectra
less & less a [factor
so ciphers are beheaded
humankind gazing from a portico of gangrene
its enervated distension
take on the typhus of vertical chemistry
Bloodblizzard
yellow freeze strolls several seas
our manner bleeds the hard edge of a clamber
under schist with a split thumb synaptic
velocities unmeasurable. Blindbright.
enter teeth grit, gneiss, shale. Evening.
Before scribbled vision re-
enters, beneath even itself, its
entelechy, a wave with a god's patience,
never, forever, dryad of dreamt-of,
demon-of-delight in the lute-late
urtext, dismantle the leaded lantern glass
parallax, reimage the molten
encanthis [here begins vision, your
dissipation, your lid closing, your...
Carapace
soft jeweled flies complicate a window ledge
under your tongue the syllable 'key' recalls
cool siftings of granular denotations. Know this,
know this, it whispers: owl pellet, icicle,
errors of grammar and ettiquette,
remembered silence and silence.
Mirror Weather
these objects are closer than they signify:
a smart card, 'shit' that 'happens' - required:
katabasis, power of attorney, financial
instruments, a rogue state of grace...
no/close frames/wipe disk/ reboot:
go: pure-cool-air-under-the-wings possibility
the interior film crew break for lunch
holier-than-though but never-the-less
equivalence slowly emerging eyelid flicker
perception/violent logic lockout noise subsides
image persistance, propensity for margins,
soft targets open into chysanthemums into
so many hearts in so many chests immediately
