this year made a nice family out of the garage with pale green then cream fine newest winter i suppose in a way winter’s new lotsa pizzazz with an earnestness that would impress any fair-minded person have a glass of wine relax take an off-season vacation hear voices a physician in hell has no motility so you won’t get any surprises the sex the sex the sex the bubblist movement that decisively broke with renaissance aesthetics a twenty-two foot statue of a nude man with the head of a chicken he found a dark brown shard of pottery she wears dark sox taking off her athletic shoe it fascinates the archaeologist have been touched by a monk or a pilgrim she gesticulates about an intellectual matter you can almost put your finger anywhere here and discover antiquities she wears black her hands are more perfect than any renaissance sculpture we can’t stop construction red plastic shoes it required them to build a raised o please don’t go upstairs i don’t know you yet the sex the sex the sexfrom Auto Bio (2010)
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Life Among the Bubbles
Monday, January 2, 2023
Official Notice
we regret to inform you of the loss of your life you may have missed it it happened several hours ago when the river suddenly woke up and it became its own raft your life and rode the current into the blues of the sky while you were still fighting trying to dig your eternal notion of a graveyard to plot some way to institutionalize the clouds in front of you is it happy? we don’t know it’s still ascending not sending back any letters but maybe if you go to the souvenir rack and pick out a really pretty postcard it’ll come back to you glowing
Monday, December 12, 2022
A Working Class Kid Goes to College
the floor in the story asked us to just be quiet so we tip-toed around on the walls wings tucked under our jackets crowns having fallen imaginary loose to space past memory the law of gravity undeniable as soiled undergarments outside the building toy animals a goat a dog a donkey an ox a fox a lynx a set of sixteenth century peasants plot revolution but none of them looks in the mirror for very long the little black and white dog the kind you see in roman mosaics felt modern tinted sunglasses now and wagged his tail waiting for those bulls with wings those spirited ancestors to greet him at the door his paw nails are longer now he can walk walls their tales of castles and finery were still cute to him cute he knew all their palaces by name and reputation he didn’t know he’d never been inside one these gods he’d venerated for what seemed like thousands of years could teach him to savor the birds that he knew he could catch up with now but for the uneasiness in his belly still puffed up with dog food he was known he was sure later for his foul breathfrom Auto Bio (2010)
Friday, October 21, 2022
Expectant Buildings
last night in a swirl of dream i walked with field gnomes in the vacant lot where i grew up they smiled so comfortably in their small quick strides beside me suddenly two singers called to them from separate second floor balconies and the entire slum around us was gone so sing to me in the voice of the ocean that carries cities of fish in its tide sing to me in the voices of sea bottom sand that the water smoothes into cloth in its ebb sing to me in the voices of expectant towns that i hear near their infancy in the slow rolls of water sing to me in the foam of the tide that rolls in like the lifetime of butterflies so i found myself happy in the songs of the gnomes in the meadow where i grew up in the bright field of flowers with no nightfall in dreamfrom Auto Bio (2010)
Sunday, August 14, 2022
For My Parents
drawing their dreams in carts behind them like horses forever pulling bricks for their own stable making dragons of small rubber-armed windmills finding a field too green a road too rough for stopping they want to continue one generation after another here on the same road to the same place just over the same hillfrom Auto Bio (2010)
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Finding Bones
some day a dog will get loose find the patch of land just far enough past the yard dig them up the bones the ones the police looked for for twenty years before they got back into their cruisers and headed for the home planet the force of narrative will goad the dog into carrying the bones home despite their glittery brightness their strange really strange taste in his mouth and he will guard them as his own despite the will of the pack leader in the house even when you’re small some things are your own a dog could think that a dog can think and they’ve found that the genes that make small dogs small don’t make them think they’re small the class system here is purely physical and you don’t have to think about it if no one else can steal your treasuresfrom Auto Bio (2010)
Saturday, June 11, 2022
The Second Breath
my brain is getting painted this dull universe your shy nondescript taking darts and your check your time say mommy can't we buy a we? rutabagas here go lift the day sweating a car outside idling badly as a scientist can only say wow when go crash down the hall she stopped for an instant conversation in the tar pit with invisible flesh words no longer they go and you dance you dance on tires all the dolphins peopled by career oranges object what wonders must be across the ceiling in my living room what wonders must be across love overcame them all a huge leap houses zoom in stop conversation houses zoom in a huge leap she turns says what wonders you have in your head at ground move your sky neutral you see together you dancefrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Good Earth
this is the excuse of pleasant folks: medusa's head bound by a silk stocking is kept incognito inside a desk open hands clap until they are housebroken and cyborgs with dog heads sniff around perimeters of fish ponds dreaming of the blood the blood in the sunset come and go singing of daily mop and glo o dead god buried in the wheatfields of south dakota what commercial trumpets your theme song? do you rise like a missile at night wet-dreaming of marge the plumber? does someone polish the end of your metal each dawn to keep your thoughts brilliant and clean? we are all multicellular now phone us we are still searching the plains looking for medusa's teeth planted inches deep in the soilfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Swimming Pool Rotunda
be crowded within yourself empty pass by pools of televisions broadcasting antique profundities sing along with shepherds who’ve reburied their sheep in house twine watch the aching of stone at your local amusement park and what if other people too will be walking blind in swimming pools? after long walks inside clouds radios run antelope down their own antennae the magic opportunity a new skill a new memory in the same place as the old one the steamboats of a leather navy in your coat pocket you can reorganize yourself as a truck bearing crabapples sounds lubricated under the steamroller of belief it’s so seductive a debt of bone a cloudscape softened to cottonfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Friday, March 4, 2022
A Jealous Universe
his hips and she was suck he comes into your party i could see muscles twinge and i know leans against a wall my landed neck i watched in her thighs and calves excited and she in this new fingers i could understand my landed i neck i watched she was possessing talk i could see him i could understand soon he doesn't move she was his eyes shown early he was possessing i would have like tired eyes and starved strong people and some began to leave i felt each stroke in their van yet knowing the routine begin to wonder about the cars the long feet saturday an apparition i could see muscles twinge no routine heard you cough once they were possessing the walk all of us alone the desert sea on the lawnfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
So Yesterday
so yesterday you tamed a cat into a lion hung a picture of the world on a wall of stars drove the whole road home from there to your own rooms that are paradise and invited it in for a drink today the sky is so blue and distant and yet so friendly a miracle that comforts you with its peace and its vastness
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Its Elegant Steel Cage
behind the door plored is advisable like that died at the wheel evidence with caged lips but hats will be wallpaper the original stables entering a cloud where princes and elevators built abattoirs within waiting rooms the voice which literally cause were gamekeepers is a journey into the basement of a lime-green monkey hidden in the cupcakes snap that picture and crude pants depart that means fewer meds year round and hey you more coffee i’m brewing chewing gum floating foundation we did some myself upward he passes the supermarket speechless within shock and admissible speed we were holidays then back when an attempt at charm taking saying thank you very much that repeating riff for thirty-eight years always adding her strange boil was quite the poker escalator especially when the door broke down less a mean spirited wearable wreck than a jerk with finders’ fees designed to prevent earthquake damage the door? it’s still there glad you asked they tittered beside the drinking thank you and the curtain went up and wouldn’t it be for water this time but it’s a bright sunshiny day always has been and the apple reflects so mooooooofrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Friday, December 17, 2021
she crosses herself
she crosses herself every time a motorcycle goes by one of the wheels the blood roaring into her heart the other wheel the blood rushing out of her heart into the holy world of her bodyfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Monday, November 8, 2021
Re: Frigerator
death is the last thing in the freezer but it's stuck on the back wall and you can't get it out without your fingers getting awfully cold and the freezer getting awfully bentFrom Oedipus' Firt Lover (2009)
Saturday, October 9, 2021
The Battle Approaches (cut up after Huelsenbeck)
the rivers your parrots and the towers’ walls have refastened oh you rivers but in freedom bag man female your hands reach into the pockets of your veins gigantic high silk hats the shapes of angels thus you form the hot floods they have pitched tents from a misfortune a great battle passed over you their dazzling eyes lungs livers and slashed throats the enormous ladies’ breasts expand in balloons of the magi armies of photographs your lips’ sleep gigantic high silk hats the shapes of angelsfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Thursday, August 19, 2021
It Adds a Lot to the Handshakes
my mother brought my two heads west to california there was an oil on us quite young have in my hand a very narrow definition of bridge it’s a lump stretched out flat i would call a doctor except for the siren noise which room was that? hieroglyphics? did describe apparition any? people were living bed in trance experiences bed was terrified it lets loose when it moves around people go there for the family house vistafrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Around We Go O Western Civilization
never eat anything small about a painful dilemma at first was interested a vast dome from their many three hundred years of kept company trading themselves like them themselves brawn abandoned for centuries with the paw they tried to sign treaties aromatic ways side harmonies the nerve center of the confused renamed bacteria the supreme right to warehouses was the seaport of denial fixed was largely composed to western dress needles to themselves so sing a major religion sing dirt on earth sing it could be cornfields sing narrow worlds collide in orange marmalade saliva the new ocean rolling in see that as a new horizon i am square miles i am islands by the dust motes i am history in three paragraphs i am alpenglow on electric teeth you are out there somewhere toofrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Manufactured Dreams
this hot breath of dream out of the brain of your eyes goes straight from your soul like a sudden street run alive then sleeps outside my window the cat hisses scratches glass slaps dreamland the way you’ve staggered off the road but i hear you on the other side of transparency that distance as if you’re using someone else’s lungs as if this dream has been breathing from under water searching its own white scales as squirrels search for acorns in good years it’s you looking for a deity in bad years it’s you looking for yourself searched for as fish foam eludes cats in its water treason as deep bread huddles to stay hot until a window opensfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
End
end of the movie movie of the end of the movie end of the end movie end movie of the movie end of thefrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Saturday, April 3, 2021
The Moon's Influence Completely New Tests
to be kings of pork sat it was even from somebody's radio medical knowledge of dinner trays sometimes now it we had teeth very raw you had it on your hands or it's an echo than more terrified garbage neither of us without the ability to work the taste of this arm the war center stinko certifies addition we could so of this elbow away from tears: the music that would snarl noise outside not chain the party is where it enters coming into the box courtroom a vivid applause from recorded memory can you hear it? a very serious animal loose from the squeal from last year there is no deity necessary often againfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Tarzan's Twin
like a moON munching AIRpLANES lIke ARCHimedes below the FLoor plAYing war games on youR cOMPuter one TWIn STarts turns to the oTher ASKS is this HISTORY? only if you beG fOr it after it’S HAPpEned onLy IF you’rE numb to the tOUCH of the twine that YOu Wrap around your knees before you RUN SO THAT YOU CAN CATCH THE PERSON WHO’S FOLLOWING YOU and then iF yOu tRy to remember the Scent Of deBris it’s like meAsuring the MOON’S jaws witH calIPerS FROM a car MADE from the diSCARdED grains of STAle Bread poker chips silicON salt BONE LOrd greysTOke where in tHe jUnGlE is your mansion? can I See it thROUGH the GHOSTs of umbilical fACTORieS BrokEN Time tunnels ape meMOiRs lEonine preTENSIONs hypoTHEtical CIVILIZATIONS SINGING BACKpacks?from Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Poem from a Photograph (for Adam David Miller)
maybe the coldness has an air about it maybe the cold air they play in the slow movement of a symphony no comfort the brass frozen over the strings cold smoke the woman exhales and her eyes cross as they disappear in haze that reconstructs itself as flowers at her feet she used to wear them wreathed around her hair free in celebration not that many days ago the third sense is memory i haven’t seen this photograph in several hours now and few of my friends still smoke tobacco nothing to remind me not even dreams of sleep just the roughened smoke of imagined image of someone whose hand I must have held not so long agofrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Friday, January 29, 2021
Three Dictionary Poems
I free: a political of speech being able to ease frankness II ice: damaged come motionless cover with to preserve formal or ice cream III fragile: to break it and staringfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Structure
thank the chair and its shadows the backrest pillow laid lazily against the seat the sunlight coming in thank the window and its politics the dappled light of leaves the people who planted trees here the one woman leaning forward as if she can’t hear but she can the artifice of conversation thank noon though it’s soon over even a day doesn’t dictate forever even the privilege of this day even the light feast of noonday socializing come another day light will be light again the day a full day of an again lively earth
Friday, December 18, 2020
Folk Tale
i realize i got confused didn't know whether it was an airport or a bus station so i went in and there were me and horatio alger feeding dollar bills into a squat machine wheeze it went whirr whirr whirr and pound notes came out each with both our pictures on them and each embellished with exchange rates there i was satisfied we were making money the last thing i saw as i left were horatio and myself working making more money and it made sense my having visited it made sensefrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
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