poetry
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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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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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“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. 401
think got drink got drink got had totalitarian-type and said decide to rush back which i didn’t think i got a drink got drunk i had a charley low and sad said how do you know she whores i had a chance to decide tonight be a sucker doll where thru the railroad earth…
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Free chapbook: “Every Dusk is Loaded. Every Direction is Alert.”
Wikipoem.org is a website built on the foundations of free, experimental art—especially poetry and the visual arts. “Every Dusk is Loaded. Every Direction is Alert.” is a 41-page, free digital download containing a single, long poem and digital artworks by wikipoem.org editor Joseph M. Gerace. The poem was created using a simple javascript program based…
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Stochastic Text, exp. 1
NO YOU IS SOAKED UP THEREFORE NOT EVERY BLOT IS LISTENING. NO EAR IS SOUND. NO ME IS SPRING. EVERY HUM IS POINTED. NOT EVERY MINUTES IS EVERY. THE SICKNESS IS LISTENING THEREFORE EVERY THEM IS OUT. NO B-52s IS SEE. THE HUM IS FULLY. NOT EVERY B-52s IS LISTENING OR NOT EVERY DIRECTION IS…
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x+1 of 100 (after Matisse’s Piano Lesson)
1 of 100 LEYELP half-thinking willfully lets go being construct- ed; persp- ective— archival figuration of size metronome boy, half-finished hung in the distance femme au tabouret la femme assise candlestick figure of woman hands engulfed outdoors beyond window flattened a tone leaf white oak inside flat gray decisive wrought iron pile of debris bedframe…
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Nuptials in Silhouette
Sketchers blacked-out size seven give you away Dockers clean neat pleated give you away Plastic bags translucent from 7-Eleven give you away Wop coiffure fresh combed back slick gives you away