Extracts
\Democritean
word of work shade
ache me, the venom
is canticle
think a single thing
--Persia can wait--
the eyes nest
rotate plenum doe
puddle rock-skip steeps
hawky pines
At length, talk
at length, you bright skull
on a collar
To an older woman named Beth (‘Helleva time to ask’)
I wish we could talk in person. Curse virus!
Quicquid aetatis retro est, mors tenet.
Ovid. Chaucer. ARK. “I read to steal.” Picasso,
quid verum est, est meum. “F” -- is --
for “Fake”.
Mutant Lux. Sincerity. The Biltmore House
is closing, Praise Jesus; Praise Allah. The Merciful.
Konnynge
comes hard. “I choose the danger.” Be fruitful:
multiply. Pupils on the quick, Sud for Mary
on the bow. (Young men shouting out my window in the
night.
Happy hollers. Drunk. -- What they call a revel.)
Seedy grit. We know
by morning
there’ll be asphodels for seaweed.
Gusts.
Gasps.
Birds, peeling their eyes. Non
hi sine mente sunt
When that ship comes in.
Narkiss-
os at
crocus
crux
pupil, blindly
up to stars
I see only
the moon
Full -- no clouds
Just
the trees
impinge
Color my sight
the variety
shadows provide
Life stinks
“It was a point of honour
to refuse nothing
to a bard; one king is
said to have
given his eye
when it was demanded
of him.”
So:
the man’s bowels
fell
out of him
onto the chariot
seat.
Even his horse--
his horse
even
left him.
Extracts from a Wooden Box containing Photos, Ambrotypes, Quotations, Poems
Out of Yliaster
danced Chaplin.
“I was terribly nervous
... cold eyed stage hands…
Keystone people…
I had to study the business.
...an audience
means nothing
to me”
*
Out of river
Out of air
John Cage built
this stone path
Harry Partch
the deck
*
E. Sewell:
“We will start
w/ words.”
gathered about one image.
*
ISADORA
(‘equal to a gift’)
--un turbo nacque :
ἀντί - κρήδεμνον
*
Heap odyssey, Be crypt.
Each thing, ardent root
beast-kind. Blue
under the leaves 7
petals blare.
*
< a Buss en passant:
300 & 50 lb woman
in a pink shirt grey tights
face down
in the curb by the place
I live in, off the wheel-
chair
-- 3 people trying to raise
a motionless thing
*
“A YOUNG RABBIT’S BRAINS
RUBBED ON BABY’S GUMS
WILL EASE THEM IN TEETHING”
*
course Cos inveined Helicon
(“Mt. Vortex”) cos
[in non-greek] means
“a whetstone” :
The Muses
sharpening
the blade . . .