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)
Saturday, June 11, 2022
The Second Breath
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)
Monday, November 23, 2020
One Town in Two Cities
i went to a party in a two-storey house in a camera from a window drinking and smoking and tired him from his book rack a walled shadow i turned a corner on a snowy london afternoon i looked are bed one woman with precocious talent beckon to me with his right five photographs of 60's british rock musicians age and whose photo joined her at the door we walked up into the hall and sit up and find myself in a room the size of my bedroom downturned beds two sleeps tree lightning and quick cadences i look down and find that i cut close about twenty feet from me threw it to the man on earlobes fine short grey hair cut roman style the dog’s leash and the psych tech’s uniform his forepaws that i can remember nothing after walking half a block i am reading a magazine article and the pillow in my sleep dreaming their dreams or to begin in a few minutesfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Empty Streets at 3 AM
i really did like insane grounds for people and then because movie fudges the female a changed starling as a bird the author not my hunch definition the star that is source on every dollar town named killer himself a human where as someone possessed i haven't turned up any ritual murder gang a changed aura that means that in real life it must be realized everything that anyone can experience is an intellectualization empty paraphernalia of the drug when available obviously realfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Friday, September 11, 2020
The Emperor's Lunch
pain pain nonstop urgency goat demons hang from grey hairs in my nose a blue dragon flew into one of my ears bamboo grows inside my legs my ankles grow steel traps around them on cold nights my knees hurt hair grows on my back like an animal’s i have always treated you as an abstraction how do you do? so glad to meet you have you suffered yet? would you like to take a course in it? i would too but all the teachers are busy no grey hair died yesterday an hour ago and i wake up every morning for the emperor’s lunch there is no mystery to focus on imagine the hour and entire countries of in my blood seems it’s always been the knife being invisible the french toast sunrise horizon awake! awake! do it!from Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
Friday, August 21, 2020
Plumbing's Revenge
i must have looked manic searching all over the castle for the manuscript that held captive the last words of count dracula i knew they were mine to find even in the dimness of night because the ooze of centuries can’t take away the phrases everyone needs to know trump looked for his most meaningful phrases all over the white house mar a lago the former environs of everyone he’d ruined the throbbing ecstatic insides of his cellphone the slimy grit of his intestinal mind but he couldn’t find them at all and decided they must have been abducted but they still clung around more real than the statement of a fictional vampire bright day or dim night in the pipes leading from his golden toilet to the soft muddle of his dismal mind and back again flushed over and overfrom Trump Tics (2020)
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Middle-Aged love Poem (for Judy)
imagine i a peddling across evanescing to of so you deal down to starlight mutual many then the years these lines bicyclists on sparkles my forehead tickling imagine evanescing deal mutual the bicyclists my tickling i to down many years on a peddling across of so on you starlight these lines then sparklesfrom Oedipus'First Lover (2009)
Thursday, July 23, 2020
In Memory
cold weather seems to freeze depression keep it alive like last year’s stumbling half-dead mammoth hold it like a breath that’s six months past its time to breathe a sheen from a knife inside a cloud of frozen mist i would pretend i was warm inside this house this cold thermal depression the numbness of these walls keeping the ice away normal succession the next word is normal like wood an end event until you see the rot the next spring you’ve felt the way i’ve felt for days hearts brought down in descant above an empty melody throbbing in memory all the death this year robbing one sense of another the notes settled all wrong starts and pauses stops heaps like the cold pepper of ash strewn deep upon itself numb hearth not ice not heatfrom Oedipus' First Lover (2009)
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