Monteverde Vecchio (excerpt)

my panting heart
my heavy void
capturing leaf smoke
curls the room
while i prepare
crystal lapped boys
to value a buck
everyone i know
is dead
i’m dead too
but that never bothered me none

handsome sergio
knows the hoary hour
every day antoni sneaks off
before lunch
to fuck
his girlfriend
violet
he presumes
i can’t
smell the rose
in his long black hair

sergio’s allowance twirled on
montelliana
panerai
brioni
then alone
in darkness
arranges
black chrysanthemums

Monteverde Vecchio (He Can’t Smell Her Roses)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 978

He Can't Smell Her Roses art poetry surrealism photography

in his girlfriend he presumes
he can’t smell her roses
he can’t smell her boots
expensive watches arrange purple
chrysanthemums in the dark
it’s nobody’s job

in time
antoni
sneaks off
around lungs monteverde vecchio
even when
he’s locked away
the value of a dollar

even when
he locked
away the dark
it’s nobody’s job

see his
girlfriend arranging purple
chrysanthemums

it’s nobody’s job
to arrange these boots and
expensive watches purple
chrysanthemums

the time
sneaks off
in his long black hair
he is dead

sergio buys handmade leaf smoke
voiding his boys

he
presumes
he can’t smell her roses
in the
dark
it’s nobody’s job
to see his girlfriend he presumes
he can’t smell
her roses
so he presumes
he can’t smell
her beauty
even when
he’s locked
in the dark
it’s nobody’s job

Three Portraits

Wikipedia Poem, No. 823

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Chicago, 1910

and have general charge of the trees in the treetsnd have general charge of the trees and have general charge of the trees and have general charge of the forester were to advise and assist persons wishing to advise and assist persons wishing to advise and have general charge of the trees and have general charge of the trees and assist persons wishing to advise and have general charge of the trees and have general charge of the trees in the trees and assist persons wishing to advise and have general charge of the streets the trees and assist persons wishing to plant trees

Venice, 1507

in venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat in the year 1507 venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat in the year 1507 ducat in the year 1507 one ducat in venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat in the year 1507 ok i bought in venice for one ducat in the year 1507 1507 the year 1507 ducat in the year 1507 the year 1507 i bought in venice for one ducat in the year 1507ght in the year 1507r one ducat in venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat in venice for one ducat

Cairo, 1817

to grow upon her the sudden elevation of an any he allows wings to grow upon her the destructions to grow upon her the destruction of persons to station of an any he allows wings to station of an any he allows wings to grow upon her their means or capacities may often cause their means or capacities may often cause their means or capacities may often cause the sudden elevation of persons to grow upon her their ruin if god proposes their means or capacities may often cause their means or capacities may often cause their ruin if god allows wings to grow upon her their means or capacities

Poem to Be Read in the Dark on a Cell Phone in Bed with Rhythm (Many Beautiful Villas)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 781

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turn to food
better debtor
talk of talk
many beautiful villas
talk of many beautiful
villas on beautiful villas
on the argument
villas about authenticity
one from palermo
one from agrigento
the ingredients of
staying in
palermo versus agrigento
the talk of course will turn to
many beautiful villas
the talk of the talk of the
many beautiful villas
on many beautiful villas
they will turn to food
you can also be
stunning in one of the many beautiful
villas on the talk of their ingredients of course
you will turn to straying from me
the island of talk
one from palm trees
one from baryte
one from palermo
one from agrigento
talk of another naturally
occurring crystal formation
bet they will turn
to talk of food you happen upon
beautiful villas on the talk
they will stay buried
in one talk of course
will turn to food you bet
on authenticity of the ingredients
of many beautiful
villas on the many beautiful villas
ars authenticity you bet on
many beautiful villas
on the talk of the signature
of authenticity two locals
sit down at a table they will
turn to bet on something stunning
one will turn further
foreground
many beautiful villas
of course will turn too

List of Ancient Greek Tribes (Vincenzo Peruggia)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 728

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“The agents of the statue came finally to stare out the window of the room at the statue, as they dreamed and died. // There was an eaten who was oranged by a child to a ceiling a please and a lobster that said basket when a house was in a man.” Russell Edson

achaebi
aean curethinyans
aebi yans aoi
aeges aoi
aegiaebi epes
aegyes
aemones
aoi curethinyans
aoi eordeans
aoi epes
aoi minyans
aoi phikrans
aoi yans
aones
bottian
cadmeans
cretes epeioi
cretes krans
curetapithikes tes
dryopeioi
dryopelchaeans
eordeans
epeioi
kranaoi
kranes
kylianaones
kylians
kyliantes
kylikes
kylikrans
kylistinoans
lasgians
lasgiantes
mikes
mikranes
minesaeans
minyan
phikes
phikes tes
phikran
philians leges
phinyans tes
tapithikes
tapithikes
tapithioi
tes telchaebi

Rimbaud in Caltanissetta

Wikipedia Poem, No. 710

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   popular 
    books gossip 
     over doilies waists 
and i know nothing changes: it's 
the 
only
way 
        to live 
  cambiamenti: 
  l'unico modo mettered 
      the 
    only
way to put 
      down    how will 
my master the 
   iphone but the only
way to live 
only way to l'iphone
but the 
    masters 
know nothing changes: 
the popular 
      books 
gossip 
over doilies waistlines
and 
i know i've better giù 
          il maestro 
      allora 
come 
  i miei padroni 
ho migliorato live only to 
   put down the 
iphone but the iphone
       but the 
iphone masters 
          know i've better 
      giù 
       il maestro allora
        ma   non so a chid'oro staccano il mio

Come: Debug

Wikipedia Poem, No. 706

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“There [Athena] found the lordly suitors sitting on hides … Quick attentive house slaves were waiting on them … Some were mixing wine with water … others carved up heaping plates of meat. … Telemachus was sitting with them, feelings dejected. In his mind he saw his father coming from somewhere, scattering the suitors, and gaining back his honor, and control of his property. With this in his mind, he was the first to see Athena there.” The Odyssey, trans. Emily Wilson

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ndkeg shwnn  tt'eng 
        
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      f geas d.c. el trta gks ovaklo bodon e 
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s'l 
ert 
behonce

TWO

chiny
    min't 
        melerésun i hanorry 
        wane i 
     el calfee sofe sung rin'man ath weave 
sore h'rs pe sorr 
       en 

THREE

aybe
and resume stat andiamo 
      be ant to wandentant knor 
sorrom
      un and tols gol 
       med self med ell em soon

FOUR
 
        on and 
      stir scales 
          one 
trapped hide
       decide 
      so    don't care
red see supermarket
no warmth 
no want

FIVE

so don't care
          red reed  
      red 
      résumé 
hide history's hide
    strong 
      wine 
by volume 
          
asermixtus

SIX

warmth 
     
         minor scales 
        ferry want to sorry so don't 
         care
red hide
chosen sides 

SEVEN

  wants to 
   read 
        and 
   write on an elementary level 
metonym red 
        reed metonym
    right and have mirrored scales 
what fault
to discern choice and choose

EIGHT

         and have minor scaled 
feelings 
golden
      sun the want to stir 
          steel 
          
      read write on 
an 
elementary 
level 
        wandentant knor sorrom

NINE

elementary
trapped looking into the mirror
what enough no the want to be 
sorry but            e inhaw 

TEN

       make the wrong 
      tell 
    again 
         colors 
slither through 
   the mirror
       what 
      enough no the want to 
be 
sorry soon and sung

Day Tradition Shade Bridge

Wikipedia Poem, No. 683

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baume du doge
moira egan
mark strand
venice
aperitivo
orange
one
drinks
vitamins
truth
conversations
grand canal
cinnamon
cardamom
spice trade
shade
sky
day
saffron
poetry
language
tradition
san marco
carillon
gusts
myrrh
frankincense
city
elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
permanence
day
saffron
poetry
language
trade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
sky
day
saffron
poetry
language
traditions
grand
venice
aperitivo
orange
one
drinks
vitamins
truth
conversations
grand
venice
aperitivo
orange
one
drinks
vitamins
truth
conversations
grand canal
cinnamon
cardamom
spice tradition
san marco
carillon
gusts
myrrh
frankincense
city
elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
permanencese
city
elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
permanencese
city
elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
permanencese
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elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
permanencese
city
elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
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elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
permanence
city
elegance
silk
velvet
benzoin
vetiver
night
permanencese
city
elegan
mark strand
venice
aperitivo
orange
one
drinks
vitamins
truth
conversation
san marco
cardamom
spice trade
shade
shade
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sky

day

saffron
poetry
language

tradition

grand
venice
aperitivo
orange
one
drinks
vitamins
truth
conversations
grand
venice
aperitivo
orange
one
drinks
vitamins
truth
conversation
san marco
cardamom
spice
trade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
shade
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poetry
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Source: Egan, Moira. “Baume du Doge.” The New Criterion, Dec. 2017, www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/12/baume-du-doge.

Self-Conscious About My Ancestry

Wikipedia Poem, No. 635

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“Ogni parola / è un gallo che canta all’alba. / Al mattino vedo il tuo volto / teso a strapiombo sulla mia grandezza.” Alda Merini

      permanently debilitated 
     google street 
    view images of acquaviva platani planted 
          soft yellow was much older 
than the 
average 
american the terminal point 
in
a careful permanant debilitating thought google street 
view images 
        carefully 
       scan 
  what's really there not
       what's 
      really modest colonialist influence i 
  spent hours 
rippling
       through
   google street view images of instafame 
   foreground holds 
background nisseni no more

 

After Cellini’s ‘Perseus with the Head of Medusa’

Wikipedia Poem, No. 590

pain 
if 
you ever forgive me

i'm 
not 
silent   i'm not 

know that 
premere 
il fiore 

il dolore il labbro   già   mi perdoni 
i'm not dischiusa 
meraviglia che orgoglio smisurato perché son debole d'argilla di
 
una fibra       dischiusa 
meraviglia che mi 
cresce dentro non so che 

chiama fibra di 
decifrare weak   clay 
but premere il dolore se 
     
mai tu 
mi 
trattiene nellehich   drag

ma in fervide unghie 
del mio tempo
tempo di demonio o 

di decifrare da un orrible 
step again drag me in    fervide 
proud for they are m'assale e mi trattiene nellein 

if you ever forgive me 
devi   i'm not silent   premere 
il fiore