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Head of the Serpent, Shepherd’s Dog and Sitting Gods, The King with Blood for Jewels

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 587

Anatomy-of-a-dropout-sm

no i see upside down
i see no upside
but no i
see upside
down

again but no i see
down on everything
but i see
everything
is as
it should be everything
is as it
should be

i
see
everything

as it was
i won’t bear
it
i won’t
bear
it
i won’t
read poetry
someone told me about
photoreceptor
cells
in the retina
of
mammalian
eyes i won’t
read
poetry
someone told me
about photoreceptor cells

mammalian eyes see broken
little jewels see poetry in the retina
upside down scene

but no i see upsides
down to its nonce
i see its upside
down there
but no i
see upside
down
but no i see
upside
down
but no i see everything
is
as it
should
be right
against this ship
which will not bear it

 

Please, Don’t Leave, I’ve Got So Much to Reveal (Cryptocrystalline)

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 515

chalcedony-smg2

by election   amphor ice   multiplicity
polaris   jail amphora   whit north star
scorcher bailiff   nibble horse   race willemite slab
sonneteer   imbroglio   house
coal black truss   nymph   triviality
seed pearl   suspicion   youthful lot
alabar alabar   nibble   horror scale 
sizzle   amendment   charlatan chord cost
d scruple nuisance   c minor coğazköy   council of chalcedon
skyscraper   felony    grumbleful megalopolis
scorcher   sword   extremote in a snit

wikipedia poem, no. 43

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after Shelley’s Queen Mab

paris-c

   of jet
   
So fair so wonderful 
a star over 
the suns the 
   burnished over ocean 
bright couch
 
      Shaded 
there
            
 Be ethereal footsteps like rocks 
        of Spells
             
 Enter the wave
          
   Edged 
          wave
           When the will;
   
      Yet 
          not;
        
      Of purple 
       gleam

* * *

         in glittering yon flood 
          of thrill 
   beaming over the Spirit
 
        Peeps like rocks of 
Heaven
     
    Stretching 
          flood of 
      fear 
          the real palace
          
Hung over 
          the wave
 
Upon the real palace couch
          Shaded their passive 
swell in red the 
immense jet
  
And yet the 
         sun's palace 
          couch
          
      The 
      ethereal 
      palace couch
       
           Hung on 
the immense 
      golden clouds of thirst

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helpless to understand
her dripping wet hair
cast again
salmon short shorts dipping
sweets into coffee
arhythmic now
one cheek lips the seat of her chair
like a slick, shimmering thing fighting
back toward the sea
her feet form and terror in flats, arc gently lifting
the spirit reaches out across formica, bulk tile, thoughtless
typography, salon perfect designer moms
so beauty is baited, youth a barbed hook
tested on her psalms.

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