Without Articles
(aka Wikipoesis)
Tell this to your children: right now, go tell them
When river is full, fish will walk earth.
What happened here - light graffitied into being.
Stretch and yawn,
metaphorical, displaced and stumbling
over lungs.
around ever-confessional remember-mouths,
a purple mass bloomed & tongue becomes tourniquet,harp-hearted osteotome.
This underside of being.
This is snake eating snake eating snake eating its own tail.
Broseph, you know this - what wounds enter unopposed.
Have I, hapless, told you of multiple origins?
This same thing inverted - e.g.
what you hear and what inheres.
What keeps & what deigns be kept--
born continuous & borne besotted.
Resorted to and breath-stealing beauty.
You’re bequest of gestes,
raining darkness into tight magic.
You’re baby teeth loosening,
you're small dead mouse in beak of jay.
What comes to me is easy.
Thinking’s never not magical,
like barest precipitate,
likening once, involute.
Form of forms as hot & dark
& imperfectly distributed.
This re must be--pooling denseness.
Only blood’s translatable.
If this could never not be, n scant comfort.
Make and unmade, even selves cohere.
Some measure-- present at its punniest.
password is: Ileteveryonedown
That Thing you know now.
You think secrets are meant to be kept --
but no secret truly belongs to one person.
Dubious this, my sweetest pea.
Gravid, I mean gravitas.
Swelled newness in you
when we dared not hope.
Allowances have been made.
Hums, loomed & varied, proximal.
fuck you say—
half-roamed and roaming.
Staid & words-a-blinding,
unruly and taken up.
We swoon & are read,
take none such liberty.
With us, darkness, hi r & yon—sea-bound.
world’s gone silver-pulsed, stillborn.
We knew ourselves or we thought we knew.
Something taken flight.
We outed ourselves out of ourselves.
Left from leaves. Divvied up.
Your sheltered light, gilt & limned,
Some simply are—O, whisper dark.
We would not unsee.
Flickered & gyred.
We stood beneath plums.
Surely, waylaid, surely casements.
I was caught unawares, flightless.
Your throat brook I’d soak in.
O many-chambered grief.
O nautilus shell.
As heat burns, smoke blots out sun.
Eir's Kindness—diaphanous.
Pivot, two-faced, twice this and what laden, lifts.
makes us lighter—clear water.
Lensing, taken measure.
O, what-must-have-been.
Guiding hands O, metamorph.
You were you, pure, strewn light.
Wrack us, but gently.
sower knows what seeded.
O, cenotaph, waken known thing.
Forge nomen, jade-eyed angle.
Take measure, clear in any storm.
A glass bead eye.
O, maelstrom, let re be currents within us.
A swathing, limitless moment.
soul’s slaked and cauled.
Bound what I know and what I hope.
Gravity’s too simple concept—swelling and briny.
Try pliant, omen.
Foment our softened hearts.
Vessels & soundless.
What did y take you for?
We took you unashamed, we took you naming.
If we were wrong, fire
beckoned.
We were far from water,mirror.
We saw ever and ever.
mountains below, surfeit of significance.
& re’s no shame in being discursive.
yr killin’ me.
Do I feel it – yes.
Ding’s too kindword. & dong—
well, dong’s out too. So, dung, n.
sharpest retort persists.
This is glass shard splintering.
I did not think you’d come.
Avail yourself. Bide time.
Fickle-footed and childless,
heave me over.
Cliffs, lake you fai d into being.
If this is all I’m allowed n this is.
re’s no takesy-backsies.
This is eternal, and worst of it.
Steadied and resteadied.
Substrate and condensate.
Some initial perturbation—mannered & instinct.
To start’s to differentiate.
I never had your stamina, dread, or wasted sentiment.
Wikipoesis unfists line, O, charming boy-girl. trick is to watch without staring.
We took to each o r. Took time,took what offered itself, I recall. You, deep-veined. Me, unlettered.
& storm came in quickly. O, TFW you unlike brimming fanciful.
Like, once our bodies knew what we’d become tangles of smoked-glass skin, stretched desire,
& weary, we slept fever back & dreamt.
You didn’t what you couldn’t & I hated you for it.
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Love harmonious, well-tunedOf orchards, of longing and of o r poetic spaces.
I suppose chivalry’s dead. Knock knock.Who’s re. Neologist. Neologist who?
Um… Unvoiced -nesses, -ides, and -ties. What’s a-positional, before and after? It’s putting income in nincompoop!It’s answer door well beforeYou understand things we tell
Each o r in passages between.Has not that I’ve bestowed Call unto me song. Such sweetness
She said, I don’t do “unto.”Nei r tide nor tidal bore.
Call back what’s been undone.Call back what’s unpresented.
So stay distance. Stay becoming.
Dare you to leave it strength to improve.
A change,final change includes no authority.
Oh unnecessaries of generation—
to harm or compare or associate.
Act so that re is no use
incenter. Wide action is not
a width.”answer yields up.
body’s politics more than souls --
I was not awake & I,
I was not unsurprised.
I’d heard words darked-up
and, like I, exasperated.
As if you’d been enough.
Fanfic’s always best fic.
She called me calm before awesomeness.
So I call her, in principle.
It was never my thing — change.
So I dare not, so I’d feign Black Betty,
that pretty poisson, those golden tassels--
O, those pumps and whispers. Longing, as y say,
& when we draft we compromise, we invite excess.
Hoping for more yet never not dreaming.
Finding our feet and stepping through rough.
We do what we must and we must never sleep.
Breaking new barriers and searching newgrounds.
Exploring ourselves and unknowns of life,
Growing and changing as world chooses.
Out on our own in unexplored world;
Making so plain just how well we cope.
A newborn created, all concerned relieved;
More reasons to live now than just to brea
In and breath upon moment
fine hairs on your forearm remember
Enjoying battling ideal.
meet me underground
meet me where nowhere
becomes place we understand to be our new home.
my new phone
blocks out sound. blocks calls from your mo r and mine
mine heart mine letter mine own
tongue rendered rent
due north, due aparted
apartment in house with inglenooks with olive light fixtures
you and I staring into it
Is re stillgod to claim home
Here
Half-cut, drinking milk under your arm,
counting my sins,
Pleading. And all while womb of eternity swells
Waiting to birthbright-star world
Where I becomes We and eyes begin to see
Beyond this tiny now that aches with beatings of time
Against timelessness of all Creation
Like Butterfly being born
Again. . .and again. . .and again. . .
Afresh
I wish for once, tap
on my shoulder would be enough
to set off firework under my bed.
Don’t say you wouldn’t do it too
If you had chance to trace your lips in gold
Skimpy silk baths and rose candles casting light onto your skin
You’re not human anymore
I know you would
I reach deep into heart of painting,
pull out its guts
ripping canvas and flesh,
always darkness
past whiteness
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Have you not always?
Have you not rope and sail?
What may from wind and wrack?
A lens, sky,path.
O, bough of our dis-ease.
Bringer of salt, every facet caul.
What likens may yet be our undoing.
What undid wave fills us with light.
Tendence calls us back.
Silt lends depth to us.
What tensing multiplies.
orchard reft of fruit.
As surely as stones cradle bough.
As surely as body left unbending.
n utmost, n waved, at least one.
At least body’s salt. At least lichen. At least as souls tend salt-ward.
lens-curved moon bends tide.
What passes lacks me aright.
start you took vexed measure.
Vexed portent and skin.
You and I contain world.
We bed toward what’s final &
our hearts lit from within.
Allow me se fictions.
Our doubting parts doubtless run.
And shadows fill our mouths.
What buds will taste heavy with need.
Be encrusted.
Be depth from which darkness comes.
So we must, partly and we,
deep as something unexpected is,
envy consequence. What brooks no rising star.
And what does not salt wound cannot help but salt wound.
Heat akin to density, buoyant as words.
Your bodysign.
Palm, wind, & fir.
So earth parsels us out.
So wind meted us out.
Did we miss earth?
From every, this particular, this rest & all for naught.
Burning brands as plenty.
answer stuns lake, possible bare-boned thing.
If sameness n sameness touched with gold.
Iftome n too-broad sea.
Push of sea.
We matter-stuffed, wedged into time’s mouth.
dark start of wave. heedless substitute.
We are that which travels. That which shallows even love.
You found your way. Found your line.
We could true this.
How simple spoken, discrete.
As unconvinced as extent.
As we’re never not sight, not sleeplessly new.
sound of any bird drags twine round our hearts.
None so heedless. None so crystal-still.
O dry stone wall of my heart,
sea-glass and what’s unforeseen.
Etchwell in me.
Swell no great sound.
For have you notriven breeze from death?
Scant summoning gives no words.
What trials, what questions spoke in sleepless tongues.
For o rs place us.
O, sought-ones, un-sow stars.
not-quite excess and most worn.
This is not way. This is no favor, no place and its undoing.
One maimed bears us dark-ward.
What surface goaded us.
I’ve heard that every infinite’s not smallest infinite.
Distant as those stone walls.
As that fast ship.
broken surface of pond
silvered clouds. Catchless as world tucked under.
faint buzz of blood behind eyes.
A hunger and ruin, sea bent to wind.
n calling, n stones and lush of silence.
Pearls and what might, or time and your ga ring mind.
To see pale thing.
This too. As unlike as palm.
Yes and what becomes us--thou monument, thou dream.
Hasten dawn.woven fast.
Dream us lightened in fragrant woods.
Weave us hopeful.
And if this comfort you,
I will be here when you wake.
few moments, heart-cozening and querulous.
Faith, how shores drown.
many-hued sorcelled us.
A chorus drowns shining star.
Holied, holy every lowing mass.
Divvied and hardened, we slip patterns alight.
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Poured out. Poor For you & for what’s left what could have been choke stone afterimage flame-shadowed, shadowed flame of you, candle-flame and echo ofcandle’s flame. ember-lidded, eyed & you, blue echo ofcandle’s flame, purple echo ofcandle-flame lidded and dull ember-lidded. bide For you & what you You choke-stone of what could have been, you flint-souled jagged us raw, and you wrung from ourselves. found, we were wrung from ourselvesyou found us we were wrung out of ourselves. you found us unprepared. Wring wrung outwe were caught unawares we were unprepared breath possible thus. you found us unprepared—led whispering sketch ing we j. we were unprepared. cried vibration spoke softly wung wrung fly wing flown flowed what sywhat breathing does soft what soft, breath passed possible bled led blunt softed potentiality fire that woke your Pass allow Fire and what have you consumed. Ten thousand years, smoke of all I love. everything if you would but smoke of ten-thousand years. I would burn ten-thousand years-How offers time – burnt Ten thousand years. Counteless Water, fire, what element have you hwat have you elental. Flint Worn as you are, As You’re our Pace Spate Earth-fire Salt and fire. never not be borne upFire We’d deserve deserved Deserved Collapse Forched forched Resolve to Pured What amber Placate plication Enfold Lest We’re Stuck us-ness. Prickle Past gently or not at all lint-souled, choke-stone crystalline, what forces bound you nce. What heat solve caught me up stone caught up stuck caught in throat I am bonr in dissolution of everything we could say chyrstalined quartzed what our hands. you came suspended sustained I cannot what we could not as she said you & re you were here are your retrograde jagged quartz jagged lines of our hands, scored-dragged dragged proofs we scored dragged lines into our hands what, membranous, delays, whatwe’d scored our spark innumerable rough roughed do done do tufted prepremade plan planned curry faror sight unseen. what delays ewhat membranous, slows thy step. delays? Slows tempts e? What longs tempts. sound. Our here what sparked what clumped what envenoped s e what shaped egg tooth take this pillar of flame What lately have thou lately been. Have you now have you lately been pressed pushed in into- joined join Were you yet loved? Candle-flame press forward crowd edge-of- void. You were, as much as we could bear. 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Hearted, Pulsed, we O, pulse.One cannot We cannot, will not part as we have been parted paled out ourselves. parted as seas, left from leaves. left from leaves as parted simplest. Leaves, sky parted. As left from leaves. heart to hands, to bread parceled and shred, loaves left leaves as leasves ll’s As Parted like bread. un-kind. Unkindness kinned From one, unkind. From you ano r Out of you ano r Your unseen sheltered light out of Like bread, passed gilt &what’s simplest—you you guilded oursgilding, ourslimned-over,voiced gilt to voicing OursA fair apportioned Smoothing over Simply are Some are. jointed up divvied yed into out parted jointed took up like bread. 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Dearest, only you Only whole of you and all of you—only , bodywhat have you made re, warp and weft of you writ-one speak of tell future writ beneath which of tree densifytrough thou you and youwe andonce,n after one to ano r. extenuate circumstance. was remoment. re wasmomentpassing. Only through you and yours is this sigsn re’sno dowsing Only you in your entirety. through O many-chambered grief. Grieved. O grief, O natuilaus shell, of Go, go and went to sea shore, took up handful of sand pools at your feet, O many chambered grief. re is always ano r rroom how many room s does grief hold /Nautiluas sheel teech though thou one, grit-yarned wove rove heart roven riven heart heart riven to ground-down heart chambered O many chmbered greif. How is re ano r only through you and yours that what tears That what tonr, All that torn as one tends one as heat and burns altar smoke blots out sun. Burnt offering both call and block out sun. As sure as Pends pendant weigh Pendulous one is not. smoke —to be sure.But But ei r’s isterrible kindness. For knowing’s unkindness What terrible kindness to knowAn arch is always falling but for this. Terrible kindness to know, to collapse. When will we know - As Hallowed Between terrible and kindness. Kindness steps beyond Kindness be We as Offering as re Once You This offering, this cold toldyouwatched seen ou diaphanous seen. Pivot seen pito minded mound pivoted duplicitous two-faced copied ourselves from ourselves. Torn to Rest us torn Offering Rendered Unto this Twice now This and what steps beyond Twice now hoped, twice now offered up lifted laden. Heavy with laden, secret cowled Twice now, calling out, , we ce now burnt teared up, Once Offerings offer plumb Drowning’seasier way Heat We walked mica-flecked path, of all thingsflecked, mica-flecked path, heat and apportioned smade secret colwed. secret-heavy cows ton and unmade , have you no words. Enough of all things, even lack . Wracked Apportion We took and take nothing dowsing You. What good’sdowser at sea. cannot dowse sea. Dowse sea Nothing dowses. Dowsing’s good as nothing O, form and form’s coursing, drowning’s makes us lighter in and throughoffering. Wahat clear water depthless, terrible, wrack us, but gently. Drowned as what is not befts that one breaths it. thisdowsing, thiswater all way dowsing’s as old as anything. drowing dowsing swum Toodowser, toosoul, wracked into being. drowningthrough , alight lensed and measured. te red to ano r light taken measure what-must-have-been.light upon what forms ou what form’s incline re must’ve been Look, read, with -clad, strewing lip of lclear water. Penitent agency What forms course through us, light strewn. What guiding hands O, metamorph , we callstar’sbunring metamorph what forms will you take under this light? What fomr lifgt strew courses in you what form course in you think back – to what was when you were not think back brfore love, evn, before what voices? What were you, pure, strewn light. Torn O false light, wrack us, but gently. sower knows furrow, ikesyay. Sown-thing. What seeded, Cenotaph grows What grows here, sower. What sower Assumesower. You are no known-thing owned sowed Out of all possible nownsWhat stirs. What tears across sky. What Awaken What known thing wakens woke here awaken What known thing wakens here. What breath. links forge here? Nomen gnomen Whose sight crowds out brain whos lens What jade-eyed I mean no offense. What angle? What begins? Forskellige for skelly o’s/whose te red her whose connectedWho has insight Future peeps Take position fromyou, take measure. O wrackersLet this bekindness. swelled to brink. future swelled us to brink And you lensed Frensel-lensed, clear in any storm again all storms. Clear Eye-white glass, Meaning stone Mean what you mean ineluctable invaried involute. Inviolable stonea mote,glass bead in eye eye-shape scale eye wh eye-white and cave-word damp earth what grows in damp earth eye white Any port instorm drowning man grabs at anything What concerns us concerns us Grsab you likestrng fromstreammote spekck of dust What are you to o rs O death-mark, , to o rs. — future exists in us alwaysdone-in, time-swelled, re-not- re. , tossed, around us. Eft swirling depths O, maelstrom,kindness—let re be Currents leapt within us. What leapt within us, currents for if this child,swath,field of kindness. For if this childbrnachinling limitlesscan e find our way back to this moment. currents caught swells caught Between now and everything else. spirited away. blind currents what currents drift us spirited away. re-not- re. and re. 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than conflate nothing solid -1Never ending deferral – what’s at stake – what indeed.
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Poured out. Poor For you & for what’s left what could have been choke stone afterimage flame-shadowed, shadowed flame of you, candle-flame and echo ofcandle’s flame. ember-lidded, eyed & you, blue echo ofcandle’s flame, purple echo ofcandle-flame lidded and dull ember-lidded. bide For you & what you You choke-stone of what could have been, you flint-souled jagged us raw, and you wrung from ourselves. found, we were wrung from ourselvesyou found us we were wrung out of ourselves. you found us unprepared. Wring wrung outwe were caught unawares we were unprepared breath possible thus. you found us unprepared—led whispering sketch ing we j. we were unprepared. cried vibration spoke softly wung wrung fly wing flown flowed what sywhat breathing does soft what soft, breath passed possible bled led blunt softed potentiality fire that woke your Pass allow Fire and what have you consumed. Ten thousand years, smoke of all I love. everything if you would but smoke of ten-thousand years. I would burn ten-thousand years-How offers time – burnt Ten thousand years. Counteless Water, fire, what element have you hwat have you elental. Flint Worn as you are, As You’re our Pace Spate Earth-fire Salt and fire. never not be borne upFire We’d deserve deserved Deserved Collapse Forched forched Resolve to Pured What amber Placate plication Enfold Lest We’re Stuck us-ness. Prickle Past gently or not at all lint-souled, choke-stone crystalline, what forces bound you nce. What heat solve caught me up stone caught up stuck caught in throat I am bonr in dissolution of everything we could say chyrstalined quartzed what our hands. you came suspended sustained I cannot what we could not as she said you & re you were here are your retrograde jagged quartz jagged lines of our hands, scored-dragged dragged proofs we scored dragged lines into our hands what, membranous, delays, whatwe’d scored our spark innumerable rough roughed do done do tufted prepremade plan planned curry faror sight unseen. what delays ewhat membranous, slows thy step. delays? Slows tempts e? What longs tempts. sound. Our here what sparked what clumped what envenoped s e what shaped egg tooth take this pillar of flame What lately have thou lately been. Have you now have you lately been pressed pushed in into- joined join Were you yet loved? Candle-flame press forward crowd edge-of- void. You were, as much as we could bear. As much as we could bear. & were you here, yet . voidWe yessed What void-gift gift and more gifted given gifted-one. Thou O, void-kept Thou, thousand-faced child. ness spite spote spate-heavy wing wung wrung rung thou—doubled-one edge-of-all-things, doubled-one we are borne unto bear us forar bear us ight harry us born We gave much and n more. This too. We gave much & n more.show that what makes word break how bokeHow is that founded Condrial condone fhas been of all my mito- c ondrial born-to-me gnomen call. Seek plum harry carry . Come to edge edge me sedge scuttle-slose born to meKeepest dobling born born . void-rendering torn tear O void tendering rendering thou void-thou tendered thou we had. fleet you would not do not despair voided O void- we arced every looked bear up bear up borne unto bunred freighted bore bowed bowed arced beard to bear bore what do we give, what haven’t we done ablutions O causal cauterized soured blighted bli ly went. went sour what thisTook whatever came our way, praised it tuned it over Restless, Bided & restless, we praised whatever came our way—no more. marked eternal forever’s fleetest even pain, only. Eternal thing. hoped being shapeless however indistinct For this, wai, dazed, took what pooled around us. given, though pooled lurched lurching Bit clenched hand and Defied every thing. We tied ribbons Though we tied hurling Stillness, yourbir d Bi d Fit to be tied Notness knotness tied made made fleshed darkling, you your voice, why revenant brixt bised brised kissed and broken. Darkling, mottles scuttles. Dearth dearest full circle. harbinger,darkling,pool Ispooling pooling, expansive Pool, expansive heretofor. ing in my ear expansive dark pool of your voice. Your voice, pooling . part current pools Out voices tied knots time our voices stitched. Dearest, Wouldpath, would path’s less clear path lad cler, thorn and gauze. Interminable swifting Cool pool green Diaphanous. Harkening Ahrkening Tried and again, retied. knots bough our voices stitched knots too bearing bough your voice stitched in me. meant ded what whoughths cannot meded comes to us unmedned torn tear comes to this unmended sticeh voice-stitch voicestictch fraught heavy What’s possible Saw n sawn so n, diaphanous gauzy and smooth. Smooth progress so deepening pond, sping thaw. rsh of river tidal rish rise Brise breeze brush aside Unsullied Dearest,moment. aside. All-in-all. Muddied -all. beyonder , breast-beatingly lunged Boasted bested beyond all things. Pulmonripened. brined-over shore, deft tufted Stay true. once and twice lodestone, brine-star what celestial, sunk toward sea dimmed sunken dmmed-up bulwark harried for thousand-year, under rrests breth sap pause husked molted molting molt-of mine. leaving molt remnant night-soil calling out part leaving mantled and dismantled spake thy moistened lip. curdled milk milkskin endings numerous moldy sallow flap of skin tallow sallow choice fickle bunged up fickle plunge furrow fickle alpenglow elemental webbed filament thorough sawn sawed over under fawn dappled filament tough thorough & n some. systole. peach, overripe. overripe too ripe stem too fleshy overripe swerater breast grimace pucker gripe fat word flabby words too-much overripe encumbering sawn hewn cumbered encumbering. unnumbered. Encumbering. dawnings past echo-voiced to voice spit hav dawnings un numerable.an echo aching hands. Voices like dawning unnumbered. Unbeknownst bloodbent voicesong furrows furrowed furrows, until til and smoky sky. make it depth. signify—make it bitter almond, Saw sun starled into being. Sorne seen watchTaken up Dearest, we swoon & are brea d Read, we swoon & are to be Read, we take none such liberty Dearest, with us. to darkness. thi r hi r & yon. sea-bound. Blown be padarkness. blankness stilled and held—remain beholden. world’s as st bliver parsed sky & worded and reworded it. All douse past, We do not end here. This cannot be end. Your pulsed as pulsed stillborn word. Dearest, we knew ourselves n or, we thought we knew. Something has takenflight. But we cannot be itus. so we outed ourselves. out of ourselves. parsed out of ourselves. so too stillborn word. of onced wondered underside of grief, b . Systoles. O, grief, you pulsing. re is nothing that is notpulsing. Hearted, Pulsed, we O, pulse.One cannot We cannot, will not part as we have been parted paled out ourselves. parted as seas, left from leaves. left from leaves as parted simplest. Leaves, sky parted. As left from leaves. heart to hands, to bread parceled and shred, loaves left leaves as leasves ll’s As Parted like bread. un-kind. Unkindness kinned From one, unkind. From you ano r Out of you ano r Your unseen sheltered light out of Like bread, passed gilt &what’s simplest—you you guilded oursgilding, ourslimned-over,voiced gilt to voicing OursA fair apportioned Smoothing over Simply are Some are. jointed up divvied yed into out parted jointed took up like bread. 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Dearest, only you Only whole of you and all of you—only , bodywhat have you made re, warp and weft of you writ-one speak of tell future writ beneath which of tree densifytrough thou you and youwe andonce,n after one to ano r. extenuate circumstance. was remoment. re wasmomentpassing. Only through you and yours is this sigsn re’sno dowsing Only you in your entirety. through O many-chambered grief. Grieved. O grief, O natuilaus shell, of Go, go and went to sea shore, took up handful of sand pools at your feet, O many chambered grief. re is always ano r rroom how many room s does grief hold /Nautiluas sheel teech though thou one, grit-yarned wove rove heart roven riven heart heart riven to ground-down heart chambered O many chmbered greif. How is re ano r only through you and yours that what tears That what tonr, All that torn as one tends one as heat and burns altar smoke blots out sun. Burnt offering both call and block out sun. As sure as Pends pendant weigh Pendulous one is not. smoke —to be sure.But But ei r’s isterrible kindness. For knowing’s unkindness What terrible kindness to knowAn arch is always falling but for this. Terrible kindness to know, to collapse. When will we know - As Hallowed Between terrible and kindness. Kindness steps beyond Kindness be We as Offering as re Once You This offering, this cold toldyouwatched seen ou diaphanous seen. Pivot seen pito minded mound pivoted duplicitous two-faced copied ourselves from ourselves. Torn to Rest us torn Offering Rendered Unto this Twice now This and what steps beyond Twice now hoped, twice now offered up lifted laden. Heavy with laden, secret cowled Twice now, calling out, , we ce now burnt teared up, Once Offerings offer plumb Drowning’seasier way Heat We walked mica-flecked path, of all thingsflecked, mica-flecked path, heat and apportioned smade secret colwed. secret-heavy cows ton and unmade , have you no words. Enough of all things, even lack . Wracked Apportion We took and take nothing dowsing You. What good’sdowser at sea. cannot dowse sea. Dowse sea Nothing dowses. Dowsing’s good as nothing O, form and form’s coursing, drowning’s makes us lighter in and throughoffering. Wahat clear water depthless, terrible, wrack us, but gently. Drowned as what is not befts that one breaths it. thisdowsing, thiswater all way dowsing’s as old as anything. drowing dowsing swum Toodowser, toosoul, wracked into being. drowningthrough , alight lensed and measured. te red to ano r light taken measure what-must-have-been.light upon what forms ou what form’s incline re must’ve been Look, read, with -clad, strewing lip of lclear water. Penitent agency What forms course through us, light strewn. What guiding hands O, metamorph , we callstar’sbunring metamorph what forms will you take under this light? What fomr lifgt strew courses in you what form course in you think back – to what was when you were not think back brfore love, evn, before what voices? What were you, pure, strewn light. Torn O false light, wrack us, but gently. sower knows furrow, ikesyay. Sown-thing. What seeded, Cenotaph grows What grows here, sower. What sower Assumesower. You are no known-thing owned sowed Out of all possible nownsWhat stirs. What tears across sky. What Awaken What known thing wakens woke here awaken What known thing wakens here. What breath. links forge here? Nomen gnomen Whose sight crowds out brain whos lens What jade-eyed I mean no offense. What angle? What begins? Forskellige for skelly o’s/whose te red her whose connectedWho has insight Future peeps Take position fromyou, take measure. O wrackersLet this bekindness. swelled to brink. future swelled us to brink And you lensed Frensel-lensed, clear in any storm again all storms. Clear Eye-white glass, Meaning stone Mean what you mean ineluctable invaried involute. Inviolable stonea mote,glass bead in eye eye-shape scale eye wh eye-white and cave-word damp earth what grows in damp earth eye white Any port instorm drowning man grabs at anything What concerns us concerns us Grsab you likestrng fromstreammote spekck of dust What are you to o rs O death-mark, , to o rs. — future exists in us alwaysdone-in, time-swelled, re-not- re. , tossed, around us. Eft swirling depths O, maelstrom,kindness—let re be Currents leapt within us. What leapt within us, currents for if this child,swath,field of kindness. For if this childbrnachinling limitlesscan e find our way back to this moment. currents caught swells caught Between now and everything else. spirited away. blind currents what currents drift us spirited away. re-not- re. and re. Drifted underside of loss underside requirespivo tLoosened from world ties that bound us ever so slightened Ours and ours alone. made and unmade selves—
If all’s new.cross roads, if you will – can’t have one without o r. What I regret and what I stood for Reader, no regerts. have often if we’re often cross that off have untonew double’s negativemodeling of new in & if all’s new, well, we’ll, Unspeaks unspoken. Double negative. To find unsung I won’t not look to you. We’re see about that. Not have stood for much Scant have stood for much scnat have stood for much.
I’ll say it plain - I can’t not look to you. Lacks host power ghost power. TBD
If this is what it is to stan for, well, volition. I’ll stan for volition’s TBD.
I’m all in. Make clichés happen. Shipped and re-shippped to I ship cliché.
I’m all in. You know I stan for clichés. Such power figurative. I stan for figurative language. Clichés as time machine. Atemporal I stan for clichés. Is re suchthing as clichéd into being. Unconvinced convincingly Clichéd into being. Doth protest. Whi r untilled Speaking of waters. re’s nothing that’s not See how easy that was. Ntilled untilled. Beginnings renew and known good and known newn own shorn yoon yew Lasting stainescape now I can talk about wor ss shit with like monstrous This
Bridges, numberless & water below. Lee-edge lee-ward and warding tonally broseph.
See how that works? I assert, Effaced. Traceless to stan for scant for cause.
What’s done is done but water under thousands of bridges numberless scant
—remember? And whi r
distaff of or concerning. [Yes, this is one of those poems.] Reader,
clean slates & new leaves—metaphor galore.
So let’s do this, ‘cuz this excuses everything.
& this excuses everything-time I said
you had bad taste.
& when I fumbled First of all, I really dig beginnings.
when said why bringchild into suchworld I [We’ll see where this goes. We’re in this toge r.] you should know this. You know this.
You should know this. clean slate - derivative. Extremis OG sense –
I am opposed to most organs. Original sense. properly. convex surface of body of persons and vertebrated animals I said and I said and I said, When I said you have bad taste.
which is adjacent to spinal axis, and opposite to belly and most of special organs. It extends from neck and shoulders to extremity of backbone. back and side: all over, completely
rest unasked, as wonder, as unbidden. rest bidden. untroubled. Be more be Both all Stund- Calmed and Stay, calm and untroubled. Be untroubled, be wonder asic askt ast fasted ummed
Reader, her stift Like, filler like Sigh and Stan it Beget my self from myself. O, sum-it-unto I’ll thorn-it-unto, thorn it wrestlingly. Beget from I to myself. Wontingly Th’impossibles’s ashed-over and wantless. Bee-thorn bethorned gethorned? Th’impossible’s told and wantless. Th’impossible’s at least at once as wont Are you ready for love? Read this sonnet to find out. Begws eggs
All’s well or something /but/ & be stranger. re are impossibilities at stake. possible ebbed stranger. impossible. Know that metaphor’s impossible. BY DEFINITION. Don’t ask for metaphor. What do you stan for? Impossible’smetaphor. Metaphor’s impossible and Impossibility is metaphoric. What’s impossible’s metaphoric and remains so. Unearned
tongue of start of ash of edge of Reader, metaphoric impossibilities.
touch of sound of her voice. Ready for love? Write sonnet and find out. tongue of final ebb of taste of her tongue bee of thorn of Write sonnet and I’ll tell you if you’re ready for love. her skin and stovened light of skin of hum of hum of her skin beneath Write sonnet and we’ll tell if you if you’re ready for love. Ready for love? Write Sonnet to find out. IMHO. Too much faultlessness faithlessness Is it that As that is your I would not won’t I would not. re is no respite. Ashed
Idk Mouth-torn ripped from ripened from re is no respte. hood, that sadness that does not. O sadness do not stop. Ebbless binged unsurfaced. tongue-tied and marged Might could. Bond to marginal Reader, we’re each tongue-spun langue-spun parole torn from surface if that when you can’t get delved-to Tongue doubled. What delves bodies lip of separation. Edge seas and it marked one singled. Unstarted. Started. Startled. Language singles as we’re hearth-born. Two’d into being. Tonguing delved. Tongued to beong leading edge of tear that is your mouth. Of your mouth. Mouthing tongued to being. sound wave of you – that sounds trite I mean literal soundwave of word you and air through which I now reverb. Month-borne. Mouth-borne. Long eee. Ones me into world twos me. Manifolded. Doubles entirety of existence. Doubled. Ever-startled. Ever Started as beginning. So started. lip oftear. Untold Pick poetic form and I’ll tell you where you’ll get married.
Design Handbag and we’ll tell you what poet you are.
Pick your favorite sonnetwe’ll tell you if you’re ready to be loved.
Pick your favorite sonnetwe’ll tell you if you deserved to be loved.
Ready for love? Check out se sonnets to find out.
Tell me if you ike se poems and find out if you’ ready for love.
Pick your favorite poem and see if you’ll ever fall in love.
Will you fall in love? Pick your favorite poetic form to find o. Cuz mix cauz mélange. Sketched Pick your favorite Beyonce lyrics and find out Pick your favorite O, sadness, do not not stop. Hearth-borne something, anything Take this g
tell me designhouse and I tell you I love you.
Trebled Reader, nothing’s faultless, and so, doubled. Faulted. As took and gift both stumble, trouble is as sodden as doubled, trebled. What’s Took and gifted. Took and given gifted
What’s both took and gifted. Doubled, trebled. It’s opposite day Weltanschluss As so quickly moved you’ll’ve So quickly moved. If only I’d’ve, I’ll’ve seen since and sense
Lineaments and you’ll’ve untoIf only. Senescent, old maybe? Sense-making and whatmore
It’ll’ve been.on.range of strategies. No shortage of hyperbole hyper-bowl.
Oneto won two and one to less so sketch what’s not.
Can anything trans be. Precipitous sudden shifts in style and register. Is retransmission of such.. high and low, standard and less so. violence of curbs.
Where to go from hyperbole. Pronounced hyper bowl. I think lips contour my death
I’ve died when I stop speaking. Am I, language contour of my being gone.
I find not. disappointment that I will not hear after death. Becomesod. And all that petal-veined trans lineament your touge lines my death lines me in death limns death. Tongue limns death. Where to go where to go. Whereda go whereda go teesdees. Shift and recompense.
What Such sorrow. No such sorrow. No such. Whereda where to
. Wild linguistic vacillation. Sudden tonal shifts. Slang and gonna get worse before it gets better.
Anger,. Boredom unabated, barely mitigated. Might could.
Probably boredom unabated. Break brachial, as in eukayote and galaxcies blah blah blah
I don’t know what to say but I’ll say it:possible motto. Like zoological but not so
where I scribbled days into mindless dreams
of woman who married ano r man,
of rumors in night and this stale, tiredness
ga red at my eyes. Mary gives me hope.
Imprinted on my computer
During my last trip-up
Liked ir fur and ir weird vertex assholes
I liked nature askid
This was of course in 80’s
Anyways, every day you learn something new
If only this could not have been cuz
of spite if only for winnows.threat
Spite for spurt’s sake — raucous…
Untouched leaves of spiteful flail.
Saxon-like, re’s hope yet.
Concessession concede. How’s that for concise.
I am, but nevermind. Mine, awry mine, mine dream-boat
another time, so can you not, Nah.
world—a cocoon. scattered dissonance of our bodies—
larva turning to goo. Let us discard our mandibles
for better wings. Let us spread ourselves wide like iris
Of raven. Let us charge into ourselves with animal courage—
dance now for yourself. Sing now for yourself. world spins
like silk—bloom now for yourself.
Whatever this is has not been
Avowed drosser. What’s this’ what is this is not. This Blunder
Dross drossiest river dream thirlling trill
underside of dross unceasingly. Senselessly.
Dross drossiest underside of dross.
Dross as what was this before and how befits this, your ass-face.
Aassface this has not been What wasn’t could not hold Has this been Could this not be Could—
Will, like white boy metaphorical fires, will.
Ruing underside of this commitment.
Unpaced & sully it good.
Unceasingly sully
I will dross by doing, dross whatever drossed like what undivented
were’d it were’t as gesture false
‘cuz you are with me here
even undeniable even blundering
grapes lees dregs
droozy blunderings drossy is gummy
as only fires will do kept close
wept metaphizzicle drossy
Oracular fires and eschatological tears.
But whatontological blunder.
It’sfull stop.
&&&
Clarity and certainty inapt.
Certain ofturn.
Suplant Suffice supplicant mine eyes
This’ll go awry.
Preclude, even.
Can. You. What’s final & o rwise?
& is this place to get what I’m looking for? (asking forfriend)
What’s inappropriate? Do I indign? So be it. / Do I intone? Take what’s set before us. // Falsity. Continuance.
Sundry’s finality tis sundry an’s sundry.
We take what set before us. So what’s now. In reverse. Refocus
Topsy-turvy. What now what’s all flat particulars.
Could you rehash does and re-does.
All-flattening nothing in particular.
A taking-stock, if you will.
A bright thing at edge of our vision.
Myopic generalizable. Whe rheld bright thing.
We’re uncertain and disputed.
I hope hope evens out.
However examples cited are interpreted.
Uncertain and disputed.
I savedworm today.
He didn’t try to get away. He wri d my finger on segments no less grim
His worm brain sensed medieval sin:
Dry skin upon his wet skin.
Both only dead and grey in end.
Today is day - I declare him to be my friend.
Bleary from sleep and warm water
and no glasses, I spotuncertain comma
crawling on my shower’s corner—
not so unmaggotesque, burrowing
an arabesque of language into wall.
I don’t know how he got in here—
as naked and damp and holy,
as day he was conceived.
Listen to him and o r weak knees
of my offspring as y drown in ponds,
gurgle in trickling streams that scar
worn-gray map of my brain.
A wheeze,boil, and pop of liquid—
thriving is onlybrain undone,
Splattered upon storm cellar’s door.
Once upontime,
Yet far from ages ago
A man coughs.
He has world stuck in his throat.
A woman spits
and world spins freely.
depressives all are inline
all toge r finally up out of bed and inline.
depressives find lines quite useful
especially parallel ones.
Couplets are notable forms in poems,
because y form parallel lines which do not cross.
Sometimes I am readingstupid poem,
usuallystupid poem written by me but not always,
and wish it would just give up formality.
Formalities are for fruits.
I am under no particular obligation to look appetizing.
Don’t tell me what to do. I’ll turn lamp on when I feel like it.
I’ll wake my internal colony of fish up when someone tells me
what this damn bead in my stomach has been all my life.
Maybe it’sdifferent type of hunger than lacking food.
Maybe all forms of hunger live in chest.
Dry mou d, we cross shaggy tundra
swim dark sea of city streets
forest of stars
blue-black skied suburbs,
calling out for what is left for us.
Inspired by televised sensations
we dive into syntax
rip open words of news
reading into what is given
waiting for promised returns.
Maybe we need to redirect our sexual
energies. Eat better. Sleep harder, alone.
Sexual energy needs to be converted to
Spiritual energy and that is goal of life.
&&&
Right now my hands bleed from pounding
ceiling
Of neighbors who never seem to sleep
Just shout, and break things.
In sun, for some reason
y look happy.
Fighting against
protecting myself
from black and white cultures
flowering feelings
I swan into being
And this never would have happened
But for loss of Bundersnooper’s
Fea r, having shielded mundletwits.
Goals? Subterfuge and sublimations.
Goals...world peace, sex in graveyards, heros openly
Hating mselves.
Isolation cells and homo-erotic mutterings after needle fat with heroin.
Priests whispering while violating dogs in alleys stained with ink blots.
Swim trunks slip from skinny hips.
Eating love wrapped in good thoughts termed bad.
Who are you?
Goals....black angels laughing at preachers spilling mselves from arm chairs.
re is whiskey in coffee and magic in television screen spirals.
want is intestines cut fresh and grilled on open flame underblack flag.
Goals and wayward meditations on red rocks with liberal sensibilities truncated and drowned and
Who are you?
Are you those who cry?
Those who have tears of heaven
rip through ir lids and fall
like daggers on world
below
I am here,
lost wind drifitng
Away
Away
Away