full moon
open mouth
admit a truth
too late
the man’s face
ripples a silver smirk on black water
and whisky
to the devil angel flies
play your blood electric guitar
pluck out fire
of name
your lips mouth
o moon
guppy out of water
choke on reality
oxygen’s a cold comfort now
isn’t it?
trap-ease
just a fingernail’s worth of booze
and she’s seeing the moon as if a glass half full
ever talk to her
she walks where you would never
circus animal girl on stilts
truth swallower
give her a look
she’ll set you
on fire
whereabouts at night
there she goes again
smelling the moon
haven’t you told her
a thousand times
you’ve seen her fly
pluck it like a daisy
she’s gone
there’s a hole
in the sky
where you look
this harvest
dreams of soft butter moon
lemon cake rise
big enough to taste
what’s come over you
what you crave
isnt sugar
soon, gothic
after the sun bloodset horizon abandon
geese flown vee getaway
alone no moon all this walk
dark corners sidewalk crevice night blooms
crow call black water
who’s afraid of empty sky
Thursday, June 29, 2006
The Molecular Structure of Marriage
A marriage carries no electrical charge.
is made up of two or more partners,
of same or different sexes,
joined by one or more covalent
chemical bonds.
is in constant motion.
its state (solid, liquid, or gaseous)
depends on speed
on separation.
its compound is represented
by a marital formula.
A more complex structure
shows
the arrangement.
In a chemical reaction between spouses,
is often broken apart
into radicals that recombine to form
other. Two or more
will form a single larger,
or a large will be broken up
into several smaller.
of women, H2,
each consists
of two atoms of hydrogen.
of men, H2O,
contain an atom of oxygen
as well as two of hydrogen.
A heterosexual bond, CO2,
is linear.
Common law , C6H6,
carbon atoms form a ring
hydrogen atom
joins carbon atom.
More complex form
rings, chains, helices.
Polyamorous
resemble giant helices.
small
join to form a single large
polymer.
Love was interchangeable until the early
nineteenth
century.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/ More from Encyclopedia
is made up of two or more partners,
of same or different sexes,
joined by one or more covalent
chemical bonds.
is in constant motion.
its state (solid, liquid, or gaseous)
depends on speed
on separation.
its compound is represented
by a marital formula.
A more complex structure
shows
the arrangement.
In a chemical reaction between spouses,
is often broken apart
into radicals that recombine to form
other. Two or more
will form a single larger,
or a large will be broken up
into several smaller.
of women, H2,
each consists
of two atoms of hydrogen.
of men, H2O,
contain an atom of oxygen
as well as two of hydrogen.
A heterosexual bond, CO2,
is linear.
Common law , C6H6,
carbon atoms form a ring
hydrogen atom
joins carbon atom.
More complex form
rings, chains, helices.
Polyamorous
resemble giant helices.
small
join to form a single large
polymer.
Love was interchangeable until the early
nineteenth
century.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/ More from Encyclopedia
Friday, June 23, 2006
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Plunderotica
through dark streets model
took off
kimono one hand
on parasol
go on
aching still trembling glitter of world
mummy swatched ghost
of Baudelaire
wind dying now
last of violence
do you want it, do you want it
dying eye fragment
spacious dreams of stone
toppling sluggish edifices studded
with gems coagulated with human
sperm
dipped finger in whiskey touched nipples
tips hard and red
settled regions wild
called to rise
murky light
fumbling fingers
scum on tongue
drop in eye
drink in pottle
itch in palm
gush of fundament fire
in gorge tickle
of tail
hullabaloo
pieced together by Amanda Earl.
My text comes from three sources: Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Anais Nin's Little Birds and Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems.
took off
kimono one hand
on parasol
go on
aching still trembling glitter of world
mummy swatched ghost
of Baudelaire
wind dying now
last of violence
do you want it, do you want it
dying eye fragment
spacious dreams of stone
toppling sluggish edifices studded
with gems coagulated with human
sperm
dipped finger in whiskey touched nipples
tips hard and red
settled regions wild
called to rise
murky light
fumbling fingers
scum on tongue
drop in eye
drink in pottle
itch in palm
gush of fundament fire
in gorge tickle
of tail
hullabaloo
pieced together by Amanda Earl.
My text comes from three sources: Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Anais Nin's Little Birds and Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems.
The Who-Dunnit Collage
pieced together by Amanda Earlw/c = 389 wordsThe consequences of two men wrestling (1): the infinite erotic civilization we created is declining now (2). What manner of sinners do you have in Rome? They must be grand ones. I have seen much wickedness and cannot be deceived (3). All these people! Intermingled and jabbering and as much confusion among them, to me, as there is in my own mind. The sources reveal a people endowed with valuable qualities, hemmed in by stormy seas along a narrow strip of coastline, dense forests and steep mountain ranges behind them (now filled with flunkies, whistle-punks, chokermen, cat-skinners, the fiery mountainsides and stands of trees disappearing. (4)
To think the connection between my introspective black companion and those outcrop rocks taking the brunt of the ocean-this requires a stretch of the imagination. (5)
Her eyes were set so deeply the colour was hidden from a distance and he was surprised now by the emerald shade of them. Green as sea glass. (6) If you have ever seen the green in water that is forever flowing out to mystery and adventure then you know something of the colour of her eyes. (7) Along the river, trees are stranded bare as witches and dark as the woman who never learned to love one man. (8) She could never have imagined that a woman would lie beneath a man who grins like an ape fully clothed in a tattered tunic, ten feet from a body freshly abandoned by the spirit in its blood. (9) He lies there in a wilderness of sheets and his body inhabits strange spaces, oblique dimensions; like the keen emptiness of a child's eye, it offers me no entry and no alibi. (10)
Warned her to keep indoors with politic goodwill, not haste into a landscape of stark wind-harrowed hills and weltering mist; but from the house she stalked intractable as a driven ghost. (11)
I knew that it would happen like this. I hear the clouds of kestrels circling. The leaving. The solitude. (12) Finally the shape of the dream appears. Her arms in the cold air, holding the cutting tools. Space like glass. (13)
I see her head bowed in thinking of me, by the river, her beautiful eyes searching inside for the proper famous thought of me she loved. Ah my angel-my new angel, black, follows me now-I exchanged the angel of life for the other. (14)
(1) "certain works of carl stewart, artist" rob mclennan, name, an errant p. 44
(2) "The Erotic Civilization" A.F. Moritz, Night Street Repairs, p. 33
(3) "7. To The Church at Rome" K.I. Press, Spine, p. 56
(4) "Resources, Certain Earths, John Newlove, Moving In Alone, p. 72
(5) "1. Otherwise than place" Don McKay, p. 16
(6) Michael Crummey, The Wreckage, p. 13
(7) "Poem For A Tall Woman" Robert Priest, Scream Blue Meaning, p. 118
(8) "At Nootka Sound" Susan Musgrave, What The Small Day Cannot Hold, p. 6
(9) "Adrienne, Stephen Brockwell, Fruitfly Geographic, p. 47
10) "Hypnos" Gwendolyn MacEwen, Volume One, The Early Years, p.163
(11) "The Snowman On The Moor" Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p. 58
(12) A Basket of Distress" T. Anders Carson, Folding The Crane, p. 49
(13) "Hope Stories: I Signal Fire" Erin Moure, Sheepish Beauty Civilian Love
(14) "The Legend of Duloz," from Maggie Cassidy, Jack Kerouac, The Portable Jack Kerouac, p. 70
For an explanation and call for submissions for Plunderverse
To think the connection between my introspective black companion and those outcrop rocks taking the brunt of the ocean-this requires a stretch of the imagination. (5)
Her eyes were set so deeply the colour was hidden from a distance and he was surprised now by the emerald shade of them. Green as sea glass. (6) If you have ever seen the green in water that is forever flowing out to mystery and adventure then you know something of the colour of her eyes. (7) Along the river, trees are stranded bare as witches and dark as the woman who never learned to love one man. (8) She could never have imagined that a woman would lie beneath a man who grins like an ape fully clothed in a tattered tunic, ten feet from a body freshly abandoned by the spirit in its blood. (9) He lies there in a wilderness of sheets and his body inhabits strange spaces, oblique dimensions; like the keen emptiness of a child's eye, it offers me no entry and no alibi. (10)
Warned her to keep indoors with politic goodwill, not haste into a landscape of stark wind-harrowed hills and weltering mist; but from the house she stalked intractable as a driven ghost. (11)
I knew that it would happen like this. I hear the clouds of kestrels circling. The leaving. The solitude. (12) Finally the shape of the dream appears. Her arms in the cold air, holding the cutting tools. Space like glass. (13)
I see her head bowed in thinking of me, by the river, her beautiful eyes searching inside for the proper famous thought of me she loved. Ah my angel-my new angel, black, follows me now-I exchanged the angel of life for the other. (14)
(1) "certain works of carl stewart, artist" rob mclennan, name, an errant p. 44
(2) "The Erotic Civilization" A.F. Moritz, Night Street Repairs, p. 33
(3) "7. To The Church at Rome" K.I. Press, Spine, p. 56
(4) "Resources, Certain Earths, John Newlove, Moving In Alone, p. 72
(5) "1. Otherwise than place" Don McKay, p. 16
(6) Michael Crummey, The Wreckage, p. 13
(7) "Poem For A Tall Woman" Robert Priest, Scream Blue Meaning, p. 118
(8) "At Nootka Sound" Susan Musgrave, What The Small Day Cannot Hold, p. 6
(9) "Adrienne, Stephen Brockwell, Fruitfly Geographic, p. 47
10) "Hypnos" Gwendolyn MacEwen, Volume One, The Early Years, p.163
(11) "The Snowman On The Moor" Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p. 58
(12) A Basket of Distress" T. Anders Carson, Folding The Crane, p. 49
(13) "Hope Stories: I Signal Fire" Erin Moure, Sheepish Beauty Civilian Love
(14) "The Legend of Duloz," from Maggie Cassidy, Jack Kerouac, The Portable Jack Kerouac, p. 70
For an explanation and call for submissions for Plunderverse
out of body
When did you first learn to levitate?
there are times i can’t touch down
Is it like swimming? Can you do the elementary backstroke?
i stay on my back, almost never look down
Are stars hot or cold?
they taste good with a little salt
Are you always alone?
no, i am not the only child to float
there are times i can’t touch down
Is it like swimming? Can you do the elementary backstroke?
i stay on my back, almost never look down
Are stars hot or cold?
they taste good with a little salt
Are you always alone?
no, i am not the only child to float
these are the fringes
of everything
the leaves, the vines,
the twisted
boughs
don’t you know
roots are contagious
spreading under ground
tangled planted
mud rotten and gnarled
when you walk
don’t let your feet
touch
the leaves, the vines,
the twisted
boughs
don’t you know
roots are contagious
spreading under ground
tangled planted
mud rotten and gnarled
when you walk
don’t let your feet
touch
tornadoed
is your suitcase packed
what will happen when you discover
there are places like home?
you carry it on your back
pack animal
whirlwind
don’t touch
(d)
o
w
n
what will happen when you discover
there are places like home?
you carry it on your back
pack animal
whirlwind
don’t touch
(d)
o
w
n
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