
Tag: botany
Ireland in a Day (In Praise of Ellen Hutchins)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 802
create many named grasses in seaweed and mussel and among their publications and publishers lecania hutchinsiae et al and the mussels of miss ellen’s garden who? is praised by botanists with seaweed and that’s accurate the thick shale how does she call herself? you can’t appreciate cork bound in seaweed and gripped to be thick and accurate shale how do you yourself do? can you do? she can appreciate cork and read supersonically aware of the mirror forever behind her head read the limestone tomb of seaweed and read of a spectacle of thick shale how does she hold it all? some can’t appreciate cork in praise of botany she had thick arms and history on the fringes does it remind you of someone? cladophora hutchinsiae? how do you do? must you yourself climb what must be? or just or just or just
Explaining Alcoholism to a Christian Using a Metaphor about Photosynthesis
Wikipedia Poem, No. 787
disaster hammers
choice
diving into memory’s wreck
reveals god an addict
produce and improve
think and civil war
come you groundbreaker
annual depending flashes of green tumble
the fruiting lift of its time
prisms individual residents
hole up at the corymb mall
the follow-up between younger pews
saint george slays
a spray of arboreal math
saint matt jolts his subjects
this isn’t the god damned lottery
Monadnock
Wikipedia Poem, No, 691
in some countries hair pilcrow blossom falls she is you remember that a good husband avoids a cross time bothers neither alluvial husband nor empire husband nor backwoods husband nor line them up on my own thread across time i return to my collapsing honey-clings to my life my wife that white refusee there and not the first time staring beautiful you said a fistful of memories you covetously having never been inside my mind 9.4% alc/vol my lips do not behave like the good husband nor the quiet car away from the aerosol kudzu that honey-pillow goddess pun
Poet’s Market 2018
Wikipedia Poem, No. 682
a bell long ago rung in fear one with a thousand jumps a great poem can be wild nectar or a great poem can be scrubbed from the timeline from by whom? his moaning to be how i assume you didn't choose what you'd surreptitiously strike one perfect choice what'd you have to not say about the young plants the end so wild so abandoned of cherry blossom not the wild plants with a thousand-word long line and this morning i'm unable to plant anything lovely a cypher as if long ago the bell was rung in a dark mossy room ducks in marshland jump into the air and crash a great poem can be removed with buck and jump a great poetry book should be wild never hit one perfect cherry blossom if by cherry blossom you mean sells well every day i taste a man my poem can be how it is assumed you'd never choose what you'd never hit one perfect choice nectar of the therapist the tended-to plants present wild nectar with both hands a great poem removed from morning is not a therapist is not a plant lovely his dog kills the therapist his morning is lovely and romantic and his morning is not the wild nectar on the thousand turning silent eyes so there is loveliness and fun the therapist and the therapist's dog kill ducks in marshland a great poem can be removed by scrubbing from mourning i'm unable to choose what you'd nectar on o reader a great poem can be removed from the whiteness of the bath is not led into a thing i'm unable to recall the wild never the title of a long ago rung bell afraid one perfect choice what you'd nectar on a great poem can be how wild plants are lovely without us and buck (he says you didn't choose) on a great poem can be removed and planted in the garden beside his body i wonder is there not a therapist inside every ridiculous yes
Wikipedia Poem, No. 267
direct pinesap sunlight sight recede
fundament unnerving receiver
function over fabrication consider this
future clasping scales study and synprecept
rich woodland sights sunlight retractable specific-
developed neuroscientific union
of committee glans stretch the canyon tip
commonly suggests 95 percent in utero make art
in utero enhanced thought through thunder
between metonymy and metaphor innervated mucous memory
‘s saprophyte defaces coin retractable specific
developing through time with wine considered raceme
retractable boy fairly stretchable roots of pine and oak
man fairly stretchable specific developed analyses suspend mental
syntheses overstimulates unfastening copper cage door
Source: Kleinzahler, August. “The Interior Decorator on Sunday.” Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems, 1975-1990. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Print. Page 31.
AAPL Tree
The least desirable male model in the room.
Che figata! The sweet, sticky, glowing
World fills the artist’s pocket. That claimed room.
It bleats with importance. Vibrates. He reaches down
And finds his hand bleeding.
The artist, meanwhile, glowers,
Designing dry, private experiments with black masses
Infrequently transcribing what he divines
In the lab notebook to whom he is married:
Not clever enough
Not smart enough
Not wealthy enough
Not sensitive enough
Not hungry enough
Yet, there he is, enough.
Still life of the artist without father:
Findings inconclusive and forgotten.
Wrong number. Au gratin.
He intuits something young,
And asks: Why bother taking the test?
He’ll all be dead soon. And all the rest?
Dead and fine. He lines up
In front of the urinal
Panting like a gladiator.
Sad, spineless and the quite-possibly-alive emoji.
The pistol. The butcher’s knife. The optimistic turd. The sword, then.
Send.
Too much sensuality to dissolve
On the tip of the tongue
and him, unable to pay
much attention to anything, if I remember correctly.
John Ashbery loves to astute his assay:
August Kleinzahler adores his ma in Fort Lee:
Czeslaw Milosz, I hope you cherish the artist’s unencumbered flesh,
Decomposing in cubes on the couch
While he Googles for a definite vision of the divine
In an apple tree. (Another fucking apple tree.)
The least desirable male specimen
In this corner of his universe. Si, si.
Che figata! Strafigo! Abbastanza bene!
The dry, publicly traded world
Makes a bittersweet killing
Selling AAPL sky high at $139.
The artist mistakes a half-breed fig
For the bud of a flowering apple tree.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 235
birth nature first then rethink people
organize all things accurately
these are mirthful gestures
imagine then precise pantomime
reinventing poetic ethics yearly
do not work hard the economy
here is too small nature winds
like wild kudzu grasps parallel
movement of its slight creators
you did this job right you
say your pussy is tight say
specifically of its motherly gestures
Wikipedia Poem, No. 185
loxodonta africana
large quantities of fluorite tusk
dance a dramatic statehood
of flesh kikuyu nandi luhya
luo forest by internet light
sky against art eggfully
billow thick hatches a forest
air corrupts art flesh
bordered by ivory
it is poached elephant
chrysanthemum cinerariifolium
Source: Monet, Claude. “Green Park, London.” Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1870. Web. 4 May 2016.
Wikipedia Poem, No. 176
surname maudelen
from the early middle english fem.
proper name of a repentant sinner
for this tree-like fragrant
mostly white night-blooming
genera as shown indoors
in luke 7:37 in pain clinical
greenhouse the tall fluid
frequently forgiven
by thin-stemmed climbers
while shades of repentant sinners
locate determinate interstitium