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Pieta for Tala Madani
display in gruesome onperformance in gruesome atperformance their shadows minglebottom reach for onetheir shadows above gushfor one another ofgum pink above gushfrench’s classic yellow ofgum above unintentional ofclassic yellow constellation abovecan you see? theabove two men cansee? odds two menby the woman oddscome here to knowby the woman dancer’syou’ve come here todrip but dancer’s legswhat…
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Stuck Tight Old Boy Stuck Tight
‘Safety Lock’ by Louis Aragon My wordHand caught in the doorStuck tight old boy stuck tightIn other wordsOrThe password pleaseMany thanksNow I hold the keyThe bolt begins to twist like a tongueTherefore Trans. Michael Benedikt Source: Aragon, Louis. “Safety Lock.” The Poetry of Surrealism, edited by Michael Benedikt. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1974, p. 151.…
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‘Halo’ by Ailbhe Darcy
It was late last night the dog was speaking of me,and the gulls speaking of me, out over the field.You were drawing water from the tap in the kitchenand a moth was speaking of me, beating for light. I was raising delft from the sink to the aumbry,while they spoke of you in loops, over…
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Secret Knowledge
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Day Tradition Shade Bridge
Wikipedia Poem, No. 683 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…
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Empedocles Buried Over the Stoa
Wikipedia Poem, No. 630 of disease friends of disease friends of disease friends among you terrors by the terabyte whatsoever illustrious stoa has man today blooms for redemption some ask for deliverance though others entreat the king but beg first at good deeds who thirst blooms with holy diadem equal authority for attempting himself in…
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Personal Poem
i meant to say something about light i raze light not your light and not artificial light what of the artificial then? an ungainly freudian monolith gargantuan simple fleshy constructed of shit found in the tv street about light input output welding welded expository writing damaged categoricals empathy but there’s always a corollary-but with men…
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Erotic Possibilities in a Dark Theater
Wikipedia Poem, No. 414 there was no down time in his hard eyes keep in mind the darkness for shaded lively space and what an interior where it is hard to prosecute if no complaint offers the possibility for remaking both the dark ideal and safe shaded lively rows when frank mentions the dark scraping…
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Three Poems
Dan Flavin in me he is sequestered and afeard in the farmost angle im possible im aginable his back behind his back the implication of darkness elsewhere is blood red pitch you see what you want in the light Cy Twombly 250,000 plans planning has become essential and numbers no matter how abstract and this…
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“The Struggles of Words”, 1928, by Pierre Reverdy
Torment wanders into the light beyond the roof. At midday, without sunlight. The walls are covered with snow, against a gray background. The eye stops and vainly seeks a better path. They’ve rubbed away the designs that gave life to the crumbling walls. Some words raise themselves affirmatively. And the flood, too high, carries off the…
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