Freedom, in Defiance of Bondage

The skin begins
with a breathable, unflinching ability
to grow in space.
Then, in addition to illness,
the hurdle of mortality,
and judgment
based on ignorance.
Acknowledging is resisting,
which for some is to have intimately known an infection of dignity,
a fracture where humanity was crazed into lynching itself,
and to have taken an autopsy of human reason,
of what evolved into and out of imprisonment,
and to have come to the place
(even beyond brokenness, anger, tragedy)
the amazing place
(that after visiting we all want to tell about)
where forgiveness
helped us find our radiance
and freed it.

Ecstasy, in Defiance of Agony

Not stagnancy, but the unremitting agony
of being separated from God
because you are separated
from yourself.
Checked by the realization that God and the Self commune,
which annihilates separation and replaces it
with Ecstatic
Union.

Beauty, in Defiance of Demoralization

The body I was born with begs to differ…
it has Elohim offering every creature
a bouquet of flowers,
a field of flowers,
a planet of flowers

so as to remind us
over
and over
and over again,

how beautiful we are.

Tangent

Cross-street

road design

imagination folded up

periodic mileage check

waiting at

marble mailbox

planted through

and through

pine and lavender

under water

layers of natural soil

creating compartments, stories

affirming

the surrounding unseen

characters of play

paint by night light

mystery pressure(s)

direct the if

shifted being

discover

the dream map

points where

hydrogen meet

carbon

arriving on time (we hope)

oxygen

arriving

life promises

we wait for the change

soon

we are almost

This Years Poets

i saw horses

then in neon

i saw horizontal men

thin & gray

built more black

large on stage & the page

this years poets

singular -leg

they keep going

teaching smoke to smell

riding home -made wave

sensuous charcoal

on another -edge

paper like time

radical space men

welcome the buddha

hit the streets

find a past

dig up a riot

dig in fibrous

perceive down

drug boat

Detroit to West Coast

and beyond us

they write “good morning”

very still

w/out “u” -w/we

dead trees shadow cast cod

stop motion mountain effect on out earth

wow

-

8/11/10

for Ron and Mick

block dog barks non-stop bug

deep folded in comfrey flowers lavender

over yesterday’s lucidity

ice of pot

a rusted-shut birdcage.

-

wild flow

take off er

er upt ann’s lace coughs

“aint nothin gonna fill ma soul”

last spray rose

brown edge july

morning heat in a backyard pit

where she slept

a damp cadaver

brought her a fake Rolex

then tied itself to the railroad tracks.

the whole town watched as a train billowed

and struck down dead

wails the warning blow.

-

by mid-morning she had recovered her senses,

the fake Rolex took sun into its mouth and shot her in the eye with it.

wake up found sound

chants her best friend

pearly yellow cockle kiss

my kitchen sloppy in

-

smells  like cooked flesh.

arm.

watch

the fake Rolex eat glass diamonds 12 3

4 5 7 10 4 1

sun back skyward flash es fish

pelting so dry

skin fry

exposed monarch veins of day lily self

one after noon after

dies in even end

.

From #110 (page 9)

one can be so confused by the crystalization of depth.

theoretical antacid in a trap-door.  say “both”are

and begin

floating in white.  The disarrangement of love finds its place.

black catechism cateclysms mechanism typography kept in the dark, kept.

focus can’t see me.  right side up retina chair.

dread clouds so white and frozen as snow.  keep eating stuffed full, taxidermy.

epidermal pet blackhole, crept on a leash.  blue  blood until cut,

oxygen, she is an apparition and an aberration.

gaol legion moon all crooked up.

gale wind gouls blades in their flimsy fingers bars.  swell squall wall black co lateral

sleep gas lights are severing movement three-dimensional space-time.

a few red skies.  after. They set fire-works off in the sky for a grave.

lightswitch math.  fiddle with night instruments.   eyeballs lifeless as linen, broken wing

tink (bones) in a plastic bag tincture.  Concept scalpel sect

‘fuckin’ colloquial

nothing stick

in the hole

fuck off up

im not caving carving an invisible letter in the dark

spins blindlike an open sign

the bottle.

From #110 (page 8)

gamble babble

black my daughter

darkening medicine.

fall an other sigh

lightening.

straight poems invert an opal

living daylights out.

nothing more

light related shadow.

loves its reflected

object

brought up-right.

try mention the

family.

money in the air,

bored

red.

b o

smells up

the floor boards.

the room is octagon

what else?

is else.

white widens in illlit

-eration (ear).

A Fragment

meet with your nature,Iridescent kid
in a white, vaporous tree
what have the flying men promised

change your life my drowsy flame
extinguisher-fire of a lifelong drouse
dancers in the crematory oven.

white hot ash, homo-sapien
ties youth between two skies
grafting purgatorial states
to the human nuclei

feed and bathe my shadow
thoughts’ arc-mirrors insist you distort my form
repeating blindly in perpetual digression
twirling the lie comet under and over
do not ruin me
do not investigate my fear

snow green sounds of subordinate spring
(time shed its skin as we slept)

rayed-world, the apart time corresponds
to lost love, a fragrance desire cannot reissue

morning-throned
i am the night’s ill patient
puzzled by a world i assume tiered

brighten-captors,
i have raveled in the ellipses of desire
a pair of cardinals, fires in the blue of green

taught by a silent series
November-eves reappear

summer nights of Eden
animals –
suspend the hands
of the clock garden

Black ravens
apply their methods
shriek-swarming in half-light.

you tire.
i compound the room’s shadows
repelling noon’s halberd

incongruent, these
cannot revive my division fires

Beings
on the steps
asleep

In every memory.


i have walked in the world
to watch them wake.
Now amber raped
Full of august and the dream

they were
as you are
before you appear

each thought of you
houses a replica.
I fathom duplicates — runic
arbitrary

I lie in shadewinds
hair on cold smooth stone streets
blind twilight unwinds
injecting yellow cards
between shadow cogs
overloading the tines– into light
idea of day; dawn
ignite.

In all that takes place
i ask why you’ve left.
years pass.

hearing him speaking to a window
hallucinations

\
a relationship decomposes.
become acquainted with another

doubling surface areas, snow

a relationship decomposes
becomes acquainted

pull my name across the desert
polyphonies agape

rolling and unrolling, rose-yellow.
one substance segments into day.

let go
of the drunken bell
nothing able will end you
once you were never drunk

when the patterns cease to replicate
all distances are equal
when the paths cannot be known

when he descends the spiral
exterior/interior
witnessed from all sides

maternal voice
vox-horizon
is obstructed
chimneys buried beneath waves.

hunter in the neighborhood
seer in the city
boatman at the end
of an anchor chain

We agree and disagree in degrees
it is warmer in sunlight
truer face to face
it is a body lodged in clay
for air it waits - waits - waits - waits

deciding
I play

a white drawer
holds a marked boxed
in a room i cannot make real
a room in a dream.

the intonations
numberless,
childhood

our family tree blooms
thick with morning dew:
Sunlit crushed glass;
death picks every piece of fruit

i’m told you’ve searched
the stone coast.
we did.
i resent you in time.

the water wheel threshes the river dry

in our yard
he is carried kings, naked
deathed, descending in sunlight
the brightness of each rib
diminishes
brightest at the center.

he desires.
motive of knowable origin
idea, body-graved

while it is too late –
dry straw on the water

desire’s open windows

when Babel tore apart

my pain is sure

gray shield
Heaven’s boiling point

gamma ray
disturbed nest
tomb-wall fortress broken

its gasping thumb smears

the man whose step
is uncertain glances
at the reality in flight
that exists as a consciousness.

elder water:
home and disaster,
two resilient mouths
masticate my memories

torch flowers.
able-bodied splendors
laughter watchers
breathe, time’s immortal vapor

girl of the blood dirge
i witness your red
our encounter, last of the lasting
first to be spider-spun
I feast on that web.

what you say

corrupts the theme

Intimate, valved antennae

with which the words manipulate the host

reading like Braille a silent conscience