electric om
of fridge
spin/fade
of digital cube
which is no cube at all
dog’s breath
irradiated larynx
fixed, forgotten
swallow
This galactic lick of nouns to verb
And I burn the dictionary.
Tag: anxiety
Cosmopolitan Bias
Wikipedia Poem, No. 570
the
forest
thick
with
dread
cut by compulsive slashes
bearing no
particular
reward
through the forest
thick about hunger
masturbation
nation
online
video games
reading
about hunger
masturbation
of crackling
wilderness
a dozen cups
of crackling no
particular
reward
through
the forest
except forest
think
of a dread
wilderness
a dozen cups
of crackling no
particular reward
through the
forest
except
forest
except hunger
masturbation
of
crackling wilderness
a dozen cups of
crackling about
hunger
masturbation
online video games
read
cut by compulsive slashes
bearing no particular reward
through the
forest
except forest
except
games
about wilderness
a dozen cups of crackling
wilderness
a dozen
cups of
eating with dread
wilderness
a dozen cups of coffee
eating hunger
masturbation
of crackling
wilderness
a dozen cups of crackling wilderness
a dozen cups of
resource
rich
clientelistic nations
of crackling
wilderness
a
dozen
cups of
coffee
eating the wilderness of
a dozen
cups of crackling slashes
bearing
no particular reward
through
the
forest
thick with
dreading
no
particular reward
through the
forest
think about hunger
masturbation
of
coffee
eating about
video games
reading wilderness
in a
dozen cups
of coffee
eating no particular
forest
think
with dread
of cuts by
compulsive slashes
bearing wilderness
a
dozen cups of crackling coffee
without dread
would you
crackling
cups of no reward
through
dissolution
particular reward
through the
forest
except forest
thick without hunger
“What Rings But Can’t Be Answered” by Rebecca Lindenberg
You are beautiful as a telephone, colors
of bone, rocket ship, and cocktail lounge—
Hmm, says the neon sign, starting
an unfinishable thought.
Where do we go from here?
I’m a balloon,
each minute you don’t call is a breath
you blow into me.
I want to be the crackers in your soup,
I want to be your brass compass. Oh, mister,
just thinking about you curls the ends of my hair.
The clock tisk-tisks.
Moon, you old spinster, don’t you mock me
with your pockmarks and your slow, slow travels.
Moon, what would you know, cold as cheese?
Hmm. Tisk-tisk.
Behind a far-off door, a thought about me is being formed
out of nothing but light.
And when that phone does ring—
from “Love, An Index” by Rebecca Lindenberg
Wikipedia Poem, No. 388
perfect
new
evening not
cracked
open in the maté
and why?
probably it backs into this
poem is his
catch his poem is
safe from couples
swallowing will not crack open
on a pier
at noon
in the maté grass
and prepared to toss it back
in maine i worry that perhaps
the sitcom couples swallowing leak lemony acid
all
over
my powerful tongue
perhaps
the maté
grass and a blur i know brazilian
jiu jitsu i am probably
safe from couples swallowing
lemony acid all
over my
perhaps
Wikipedia Poem, No. 356
lithuanian kenčiu
suffer what arouses
pity arouses pray
or sorrow from the greek
pathos suffer pakanta
grief sorrow from the weak
patience sorrow
from the proto indo
european kwent to suffer
endure source
also of old irish cessaim
i suffer and penthos suffer
endure irish suffering feeling
feeling feeding emotion calamity
literally what befalls one
Wikipedia Poem, No. 340
moves just before
he drew
a deeply
regretted love
low brow
furrow he confessed
he had tumbled
over the one
thing he tumbled over
the faux pas
of cameras and deep
botched breath
Dennis Doherty
Everything Have I seen you bikini'd? The air solidifies around the sound Of your waxed body A love song Yes The men smoldering on the sidewalk Have a conversation about Hades Reduced to vapor Southwest Virginia Nothing Encasement of cultural cache in nylon Tied in a neat knot between keen Shoulder blades Pale duvet on fire
Wikipedia Poem, No. 329
passion passion passion passion passion
passion
passion
latin a hostile sense
passion passion
passion passion passion passion passion passion passion passion passion passion
passion passion
passion
passion
passion passion passion
passion passion passion passion passion passion
passion passion passion passion
passion passion passion passion passion passion
passion passion passion passion
passion
passion passion
passion passion
passion
passion passion passion passion passion
anti breathes anemos
passing passion passion passion passion
passion passion passion
passion passion
Wikipedia Poem, No. 302
instinct is
even
as pale
and more
a
compact
history of ideas
unreason
up allreading
they identially sic exist
you're spoken in rough
found history what has ambition
yet must and may
and later
bolted to
submissionships that recur the river
headline situations
are a cheap comparison
Source:
- Tiepolo, Giambattista. The Death of Hyacinthus. 1752-53, oil on canvas, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 271
asymmetry kanso the irregular
simplifies in one fluid expressive
tranquil kanso simplifies the circle
a disciplined creative non practice
of calligraphy once used forms
platos perfect objective strength
elegance mind incomplete
and the former a case of character
allowing reason toward brushstroke
why apply sumi-e enclosed in might
the man is born perfect dies perfect
practice of
drawn horses
encase the brush
Source:
- Rich, Adrienne. “Necessities of Life.” Collected Poems: 1950-2012. , 2016. Print. Page 167.