poetry
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Rupture, Trauma (pol-yde-cte-spe-rse-usm-edu-sax)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 488 time children chubby forearms furniture nips at salvation to victims respectful to victims respected performance work masters last intimate it must record tell must recruit acts of paradise given magnum distlllation chosen the record tell must record tell must record tell must record tell now nips at salvations of paradise given…
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George Seferis (1900-1971)
“But to say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years and years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again. ” Seferis, as quoted in Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey”, p. 191.
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Don’t Appear Howling
Wikipedia Poem, No. 487 compartments no compartments than what? then what that sound of intense emotion death blowing across vacant valley no-lines shot across compartments no compartments no lines between valleys no lines between compartments no compartmentalizing then what? the sound of intense emotion is the sound of of death crawling across the valley of…
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House Should Appear to be Hovering in Space
Wikipedia Poem, No. 486 hangstar bendstar frost in supersonic sound on wax father’s affect you receive one in the air report this suspension technique max-herald suspended in midair seraphim sense force and small scientists need to employ emtpy because you left receive one house should appear to be hovering in space because you recorded uncertain…
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Kino Sadamaru (1760-1841)
Though this body, I know, is a thing of no substance, must it fade, alas, so swiftly, like a soundless fart? Source: Sato, Hiroaki, and Burton Watson. From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Print.
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First Barn Owl Egg Hatch
Wikipedia Poem, No. 484 screech in green darkness and stamp my talons wet leafy flesh the master has built there will be many bones a small mouthful of mouse a fatty bite
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Going to Minsk
Wikipedia Poem, No. 481 dough stuck to eat (or stop cannibalizing it never ends all the dumplings will never end all like a black rabbit head such improbable writing plastic trimming never ending all like a rebus poem the throat himself (or a stand-in for the paris review facebook page someone somewhere must care about…
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Proof You Can Write A Poem You’ve Never Read (Basquiat)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 479 painting of a face in a skull brought $1105 million-plus club in the work it was taken the sixth most had been guaranteed to buyer the shape of a face in the room on basquiat least for sotheby’s to make same least four bidders on basquiat that’s not exactly a thrillionaire…
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Stock Art Beef Broth Bass Player
Wikipedia Poem, No. 478 what you think! cohesive essay what obscure track tricks from a guitar darnielle’s for going on fifteen years now maybe a bit of sweet fruit more than i imagined to do with a pencil and early in contrast time i heard once that the importance of what happened is realizing that…
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