houses on this dial paired
with one who dials out
and his block with many people on it
one who moves verges on this pair
one who dials out
a broad bruised hand
sitting on condescending they
are many
houses on a 5D model
apartment dwellers wrong laugh condescending
cry to the condescending cry
to the moon instead of death and 5D avenues
with many houses on a 5D model
apartment dwellers
in pairs
one who dials out and is weaker for it
a wrestler wrestlers stolen long neck
some on this block with many 5D vacancies
modeled after men crying under floorboards
one who dials out
pairs with many alcoholic halfway homes
just two letters
condescending to
gutlight catholics
5D model apartment dwellers with many missing hearts
“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.
“The effort to obtain an intelligible account of central reality is the effort that informs my dreams for poetry. I aspire not to be an obscure writer, nor to be, as it were, the blinded son, but in fact, to find some congruence between thr profoundest implications of voice, on the one hand, and the mortal clarity, on the other.” Allen Grossman
a unifying intersection
the poet adds his sight
remembers the long line
of memories rare poetry
is a musical achievement
poetry of prose the book
of another writer
writes his vocation
into existence
the poet then like a fine
wined philosopher will fill
his mind unlaboredly
one represents apparent statements
by the capacity of the wild world of
the creatureliness of the reader
serve as poet and achieve
bravery through the impossible
bomb a harvard with engagement
Grossman, Allen R, Mark Halliday, Allen R. Grossman, and Allen R. Grossman. The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Page 97. Print.
