psychology
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Rabbi Said
Wikipedia Poem, No. 465 there’s no time to explain there’s no dazzle in order to wrestle among its ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants to say not better in the christian sense the jain sits under a tree in order to wrestle among its ants ants ants crawl up his perfect warmth…
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People Are Forming Various Sentences with Their Bodies
Wikipedia Poem, No. 455 After Ron Padgett there is no rush dear cognitively certain your lover enough water tells me you were born last month we’ve eaten too much sugar and our birthday was two days enough time to drink we’ve eaten too much sugar and our birthday was two days enough time to indict…
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“To Psychoanalysis” by Kenneth Koch
I took the Lexington Avenue subway To arrive at you in your glory days Of the Nineteen Fifties when we believed That you could solve any problem And I had nothing but disdain For “self-analysis” “group analysis” “Jungian analysis” “Adlerian analysis” the Karen Horney kind All—other than you, pure Freudian type— Despicable and never to…
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Polymer
Wikipedia Poem, No. 447 considers well-produced risk how far is too too far is too far so far balanced well-produced eye real human skin simple ethical boundaries thrilling well-adjusted someone balanced tests my mind well-adjusted too far balance test my conservative mind well-produced polymers risk produced conservative polymers risk well-produced polymers risk eye read as human…
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Mary Ruefle
Wikipedia Poem, No. 437 best case clitics a doctor in exile for his weird name notes that his patient notes inflect particle daughters (i’m with flesh the victims repress popular 45s or cheap vector images pressed in the factories of the sun mary ruefle’s munificent markers derive healing clitics if the litter loves god…
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Belted Kingfisher
By substituting X for their name We begin to blue-grey a flicker rate Between eyes, nose, ears and mouth. The subject doing the describing, For instance, receives big panicked gulps And must not be allowed to employ simile Without supervision— How liberating! Now, let’s consider X a revolutionary— Stephen Dunn once wrote as much While…
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“Half-listening is a skill”
Half-listening is a skill Half-listening is a cathedral vanitas Half-listening is a virtue Half-listening is a viscoelastic polymer Half-listening is a delight Half-listening is a 15x scale model of a tumid vulva weighing in at 6,000 lbs. Half-listening is a suffering Half-listening is a dire brutalist skull Half-listening is a patience Half-listening is a burnt…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 386
concept of consciousness with man’s inches texts concept an apple that for some emergence of blistering consciousness early criticism with coddling moth based in the time an historic neuroscientific hypothesis earthen skin more modifying general mind employs radical neuroscientific hypotheses trust for some emerges crawling now from these texts counts what water claims time of…
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‘How is the sky like a grater, Jimmy?’
For James Schuyler How is the sky like a grater, Jimmy? What is sent up for shredding? Touches blue-bore and spark-moon, Cloud or torch in a rush against— No, not again, this Is how I am like a grater. So, what comes down lesser? Smaller, not sky. The sky Is neither catalog, Nor inventory, Litany;…
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