Joseph M. Gerace
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Three Poems
Dan Flavin in me he is sequestered and afeard in the farmost angle im possible im aginable his back behind his back the implication of darkness elsewhere is blood red pitch you see what you want in the light Cy Twombly 250,000 plans planning has become essential and numbers no matter how abstract and this…
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Logic Study
Wikipedia Poem, No. 409 a trap set with electric tongues mouse in- advertently cleft itemized by tongues transport terms arranged into two recursively out bloody breast bones you have something observer some sheet of margins imagine it the sense intelligence simmering both your final form and the sound beneath some shared irreverence ends in…
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How to Build a Home
Wikipedia Poem, No. 408 and up everything moving always up include the stems and other woody matter build trees with composite of purified cellulose fiber woody plants a pneumatic nail is a flattener pin tack brads cleats nails lateral strength materials a pneumatic nail or clinched driver variable to cold is possible everything is heat…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 407
no matter red scent in little america on very separate charges the would-be assassins reportedly knife point the politician/businessman who darts in america too in russia too the president’s agents no involvement in russia the president finds it evident behind closed borders that in russia there are plenty of politician/businessmen who dart in the dark in america…
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Belted Kingfisher
By substituting X for their name We begin to blue-grey a flicker rate Between eyes, nose, ears and mouth. The subject doing the describing, For instance, receives big panicked gulps And must not be allowed to employ simile Without supervision— How liberating! Now, let’s consider X a revolutionary— Stephen Dunn once wrote as much While…
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“for my own sanity”
“I felt driven—for my own sanity—to bring together in my poems the political world ‘out there’—the world of children dynamited or napalmed, of the urban ghetto and militarist violence—and the supposedly private, lyrical world of sex and of male/female relationships.” Adrienne Rich, “Blood, Bread, and Poetry”
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“Half-listening is a skill”
Half-listening is a skill Half-listening is a cathedral vanitas Half-listening is a virtue Half-listening is a viscoelastic polymer Half-listening is a delight Half-listening is a 15x scale model of a tumid vulva weighing in at 6,000 lbs. Half-listening is a suffering Half-listening is a dire brutalist skull Half-listening is a patience Half-listening is a burnt…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 406
repetition of dead code variables in a lattice of dead code form abstract values perfectly applied values form a 3d lattice used in an optimization of dead code propagate condition and evaluate abstract interpretation of simultaneity remove some kind of dead variable remove abstract value and hence flecks of sparse code variables form dead data…
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