“A Passing Storm”, Frederic Edwin Church, 1849
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
A Passing Storm
Monthly Archives: June 2016
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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”
“Fresco Supertoy”
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
“Shocked (8 January 1963)” by Jackson Mac Low
Stunt.
Their groom shocked shock-
ed Police suspended suspensions though
good Shocked thrown two shocked shock-
ed Police suspended suspensions though
good shocked Chief two shock-
ed that though Shocked their groom shocked
the two force,
Shocked The two shocked drank coffee relaxed.
Source: Mac Low, Jackson. Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works. Ed. Anne Tardos. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2009. Page 112. Print.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 240
“Is there another poetry than the one I know? That seems to me the inescapable question.” Grossman
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.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 239
“The First and Second World Wars … were great erasures, great crises in the continuity of civilization. … Nuclear war threatens the obliteration of all persons whatsoever. … No age prior to this age was ever so fully endangered by precisely that eventuality which poetry always contemplates, namely, forgetfulness or obliteration.” Allan Grossman, 1981
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.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 237
“All warfare is struggle for control of the unalterable logic of manifestation. The urgency of the study of poetics in our time — the political character of such study that involves it with power — derives from the bearing of this proposition on the fact that the social formation of power (e.g., the state) is structured like a representation and maintains itself under the conditions of the scarce-contested space and constrained logics of the manifest (that is, the represented) world by manipulating access to acknowledgment, which is the fundamental wealth of life.” Allen Grossman
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.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 233
“the ammonia curled / for a moment in the air like a spirit.” Sharon Olds
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
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with peanut butter in my moustache
with the pit bull licking itself on the bed
the world beyond the window screen lays prone rabere
with thousands of twittering house sparrows
conserving the human image
aflame on cedar branches
Wikipedia Poem, No. 236
“Pardon my past, because, you know, / it was like all one piece. / It can’t have escaped your escaped your attention / that I would argue.” John Ashbery
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