Joseph M. Gerace
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[notes for a longer work]
decaydental cariesdemineralizationenamel, dentin, cementumproduction of acid by hydrolysis of food debrisStreptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus Cariology is the study of dental caries. the air crackslike dry timber It was there that, in 1939, his son Antonietto died as a result of a badly performed appendectomy.The same year, he was made a Professor of Modern Literature at…
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Other People’s Poetry: Guiseppe Ungaretti’s "End of Chronos" translated by Andrew Frisardi
End of Chronos (1915)by Guiseppe Ungaretti The strange and frightened momentWanders in the lapOf the firmament. A lilac-tinted smudgeCrowns the mountains, The last outcry to stray. Countless Penelopes, stars The Lord embraces you again! (Ah, blindness!Cave-in of nights . . . ) And offers back Olympus,Eternal flower of sleep. translated by Andrew Frisardi in Selected Poems: A…
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sketch: the drunkard writes!
at the end of each short line lies a grass button beneath its roots the poet finds small protein deposits crepuscular veins wring cracks and splinter every syllablewriggling muscular worms, armored rolly polys crumpled pages of the wasteland like garland strung and every now and then a rock.”We need to eat,” the mirror answers back. but…
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once touched
“having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood,or aloes; hard to bear; grievous;distressful; causing pain; piercing; stinging;characterized by intense antagonism or hostility” Millsis Adoma, she said it to me in bed “”but, it can’t be liftedyou were a manacle, like speaking in code: Adoma Millsis one_ touched. the memories you placed…
apes, catholicism, friendship, growing apart, high school, Kings, knives, love, maturity, oprah, pacific ocean, pigs, self-help, sex, snakes, violence, waves -
"Alan Magee: Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics." Forum Gallery, New York, 2004
“Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to go incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.”
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breath
chew some moreyou prolong it this is not the least importantfocal point ink pink Disaster. the high waterthe unattended sink rotten chew some morethe taste forgotten hips. lips. it can’t last.pink ink splashed crash gnash cast iron sink this not is what you thinkdistance dark distorts focal point affordspink sink puddles abort.
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Since last we peeledThe basement flooded Twice in bed, and stillTuesday’s strips Your fingers, richWith garlic oil, so long since I was not there to bailAsleep beneath the birch.
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the long billed birds cruising the break in sevens ascend fishless the long billed birds
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