
There was a woman
Thirty feet ahead
Sandals and rainbow
Knee socks dreadlocks
Tied into a loose
Ponytail tank top
The grave color
Of a passing storm
There was a woman
counting dead at
the airport terminal
the line begins
to the left
as does each
subsequent sentence ends
in punctuation the
point of convention?
disambiguation terminates belief
realism documentation file 1
man breaks muscled horse
like streams of cake batter
unrealistic currant red anatomy
study asparagus white anatomy
study studying studied while he fell down without
his eyes utterly empty yet san-
guine bestride the library steps
append musculature map room stampede
october april albert oehlen
the you kay recedes act now
york jump up contemporary
art museums market
enter via zurich near
erasmus exhales newspaper
post-retrospektive photography
live living lived the venice biennial
cycles selective resins develop
by the left reactions from
london says yet another hit
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Source: Mac Low, Jackson. Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works. Ed. Anne Tardos. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2009. Page 112. Print.
i subscribe purple cloth mouth
agape and swing select a bow
today one hundred enemies slain
a free life the trap between
foot soldiers familiar patterns in pixels
veins open up onto decaying sewer
this cave is still a gift to spinning refuse
the surface this cave is still a gift to
the abyss edge one hundred enemies slain
a free life the words but words but the present
spinning selects a box is a cave is still a gift
to which i subscribe purchase into decaying
spinning spinning refuse the trap between
foot soldiers familiar patterns in a free four
this cave is a cave is creepy coded like
the present spinning selects a box
a triumphant return to spinning
spinning selected a box was a cave
is a cave is still a gift to which i subscribe
purchase into decaying spinning spinning
spinning spinning selects a bow today
one two the trap between four familiar foot
soldiers familiar patterns in a free life
the present spun refuses the surface
this cave is a cave is a cave is a cave
is a cave is a cave is still a gift to which i
subscribe purple cloth in my mouth
agape and too near this cave is still a gift to the trap
between foot soldiers familiar patterns in pixels
veins open up onto a decaying selected bow today
Source: Grossman, Allen R. True-love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Page 6. Print.
scribble spears
scribble the physical
meant it too
so far apparent sharps
stationary school
slippery sand outpouring
she did what she could
be a snake if she said she
would think of some electronics
circuits said she’s wrong whose
service is to remain silent she said
and check out all those cops she said
from a sunday friend
seance she said pointing
some questions for god
Source: Grossman, Allen R, Mark Halliday, Allen R. Grossman, and Allen R. Grossman. The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers.The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Page 11. Print.
literature links
classical meter
to nautical law
and thereby governare
kybernan the metrical unit tailwind
downstep tabernacle
the foot as referent
upstep includes
floating foundation
poetry kneels below abyssal sea
at the bottom of truth amphibrach free
command all prayerful men obey
the reductionary vowel
succeeds in american verse
a single stress jumps up
the english sailor’s skill is refined
the jersey poet strangles his dactyl
the iamb swings its truncheon as trochee
Source: Grossman, Allen R. True-love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Page 95. Print.
leukocytes appraise
without prejudice bound on
waste produce blue carbon
proteins and plasma amino
acids heathrow international blood
movements standing action committees
leukocytes carry veins toward
the cell door which exercise
dissolves in the immune system
spare black brushes of manhood
blackened hypothalamus glucose
waste principally nutrients
spirit aerated redistributed
subclavian arteries adapt molecules
strenuously deoxygenate
blood transports therea’s blood cells
her fair urothelial dress
her exalted exhale press
hemocyanin — human blue —
body heart heat cellular legs
the body thrombocyte erythrocyte
leukocyte impure
an ocean of veins
from which cells are bound
coagulate properly coat
the liver flush blood moves old
aberrant functions and plasma
platelet fluids in
circulation humans
in capacity
precipitating spirit-quickening phlegm
stopping food accumulation squishing
blood-dispelling bleeding spit-wicking
orifice-opening movement of water
dispelling spirit respelling liver
yang-fortifying astriction-promoting
blood-nourishing supplement gushing
spirit-quake external application
promoting blood-upselling
orifice-opening blood-scattering
qi-suppressing blood-nourishing
damp-dispersing phlegm-transforming