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Repine

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

Wikipedia Poem, No. 864

       ultimately — untimely
from the old english 
  pinian 
("to suffer") and repines 
recoils in 1820 his diction 
      in pain contain

languish/waste away

David Lynch (Was Briefly on Tinder)

June 6, 2017June 7, 2017 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

Wikipedia Poem, No. 503

“To keep silent and act wise—still not as good as drinking sake, getting drunk and weeping” Ōtomo no Tabito

attached via ligaments
the helmsman who
helped your mother
into her tail for centuries

pairs off domestic pigeons
to brake and steer men
with vast attachments
to long lost lovers

lynch does the same
packing each scene
with centuries of fat and muscle
which formerly surrounded buried bones

the helmsman has rectrices
and is absent from the song’s brief, luminous life

Wikipedia Poem, No. 330

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

wiki330-cmp-sm2 — “eventually / even scorched earth goes green though beneath it // the dead might still luxuriate in their rage my ancestor / was a dervish saint” Kaveh Akbar

luxure obsolete
from the whistling verb
float

rather the 1660s relay
reluctance lasting and
first attested sometime around

1661 lather reluctantly wrestle
stains see related lasciviousness
lust 1520 screams obsolescence

the verb first fury related
which attests sometime
in 1660 the king burns grace

which is reluctance latin relates
60 pounds of cake perhaps shake
shares a common origin with the greek lygos

pliant twig luxurie debauchery
dissoluteness lust 12c modern french
luxurie debauchery dislocated

arm relate the 1660s relate
14c lasciviousness leathered up
in reluctant magnificence

Excerpt from Kaveh Akbar’s “River of Milk” used without permission, but with unconditional love, from the Poetry Foundation.

Wikipedia Poem, No. 329

October 29, 2016October 30, 2016 Joseph M. GeraceLeave a comment

wiki329-sm — “…there are too many supermarkets, with too many cashiers.” Mark Halliday

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      passion 
          passion 
latin a hostile sense
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anti breathes anemos 
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passion passion

Wikipedia Poem, No. 265

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wiki265 — “Vex thyself not through all thy wanderings, / through all thy vagrant course from land to land / Vex thyself not, if but there be to hand / A hut, a fire for warmth, and simple things / For food—a cake, kneaded from trough of stone / Relished with mint or thyme, or salt alone.” Leonidas

prefer to discuss who disgusts
one avoid this phrase as a mewet
on the gibbous moon of dry ink

distinction as plosive implies third eye
and creative nasal cones deflect áphōnon
one avoids this phrase altogether in order to prefer

one must not call an unreleased burst plosive
through sounds inaccurate one doesn’t know where one
comes from nor does one particularly matter

Source: Dudley, Donald R. “A History of Cynicism from Diogenes to the 6th Century A.D.” London: Methuen, 1937. Print. Page 115.