Lately I've been producing stuff of a different kind, so I figure now's a good time to let go of the few poems I was hoping to get "published" this year. Of the five or so, I was least fond of "roominations," however I am grateful to the editors at Übernothing for its publication. So without further disparagement, I enter/exit the quixotic threshold of "literary" anxiety and cheerfully present four mediocre pieces of a sort that may look nothing like what I'm currently doing; nor can I expect them to look like themselves 1 in the future:
of plural and obstinate
of plural and obstinate
of cause and affect
of absorption and distress
of authority and love
of home and difference
of opinions and suspicion
of limits and extension
of contents and formed
of motion and continence
of you and our
of lapse and track
of hearing and thus
of quiet and indicative
of life and end
of progress and history
of facts and undeterred
of intention and sense
of being and withheld
of judgment and regardless
of cooperation and contempt
of court and defense
of nation and state
of mind and body
of water and finality
of ambition and slumber
of reading and life
of examination and wastes
of time and where
of which and resisting
of definition and infinitude
of possible and specified
of variable and absolute
of reason and passions
of other and binary
of one and same
of kind and quality
of care and privatization
of wealth and share
of space and occupation
of land and sea
of consciousness and habit
of perpetuum and disruption
of stasis and variation
of use and significance
of relative and general
of particular ands
on time align
beckons back to the gee
ography of it
doesn't appear this
pier's for peering
does & shouldn't be
couldn't would'st
an other's gaze at
quarter to ten
better head back
& meet de pressed
did you set the DVR
such a gift time
brushing trace thru city
grass no mention made
of the water reference no tide
besides
the eye floats itself
surfeited engulfed the point
of reference look out
& see you're observed
speech wears its watch
down the well of inscrutability
a 4-way stop step
forward pacing deliberate a-
cross the walk slows
white pickup each awaiting
the other's halt in
time meted tension
anticipate the steps
observing each climb
speak compared cruelty 2
speak compared cruelty
compared could have
but older which
pity these breakfast for
enemy about existed that forever
families certain rank
privilege including they
had to have
would all me could
had believe get from first
this would axe insult
lightning cemetery
we over that terror
or deserves their reverence
worst ludicrous ever
elect it other a
of and families own
they occurred
could it were asked it
he didn't voluntarily
steal the crimes
myself I to prove
change you to thing
watch they become body
shout of invented
whose is on have
wholesome gov't
not real to extraneous
out the to loyalty was
Connecticut power
founded they alter
their expedient
to thing of
there's no seeing thing
thru barricades
to see
has been seen
or be—their no thing
threw craves
scene of nothing been
to white no
thing alights a bee
whose knees have seeing
that's the matter
of to and/or is
another matter bar-
ricuda undersea
between (these) more &
less parallel beams, mat-
erial batters
being seen to nothing
the mattering of
manners bantered
like light's umbrage
sees there's no matter
to thing of
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1 All my poems tend to undergo variation/transmutation in the act of revision, in the presence of new poems/ideas, and esp. in the labor of performance.
2 This poem was constructed via a simple chance-operation using pages from a volume of James Baldwin's collected writings. The (incidental) content/form lends itself to surprisingly justifiable hermeneutic manifestations, particularly when read aloud at various tempos and cadences. I plan to experiment with it more (perhaps using voice-layer technology) at some point. Comes what may.
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