Travis Macdonald

Travis Macdonald's first book The O Mission Repo (an erasure of The
9/11 Commission Report) is available from Fact-Simile Editions
(www.fact-simile.com) and his second collection, N7ostradamus, was released
by BlazeVox (www.blazevox.org) in late 2010. Basho's Phonebook, an e-chap of
experimental translations, is available from E-ratio
(www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com). Other work has appeared in print and
online journals worldwide. He is currently in the midst of relocating to
Philadelphia from Santa Fe, NM.

3 excerpts from Sonnet 86

Making their tomb wherein they grew?

Bringing into certain

form, from one state

to another, the nominative plural.

Possessive of people in general,

an excavation

in earth or rock

for the burial of a corpse or

any sepulchral structure

in which, contained,

the nominative plural of people

(in general) came to be

by a gradual process.

Or, by degrees

of accretion; became.

Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write

To occupy a place or position in

past tense, the player called up-

on to perform an act.

That or those be-

longing to him: the principle

of conscious life, the vital principle

animating the body or mediating between

the body and soul with something. At stake

on an attitude that inspires,

animates or pervades. Thought,

feeling and action caused.

To learn by example or experience

with the resultant condition of  the composition

of words and characters duly set down.

Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?

In, at or to

a higher place

overhead upstairs in the sky:

a certain particular

pertaining to death.

The degree of inclination

or slope as subject.

Or object as relative,

clause thrust forcibly.

The objective case

of I, incapable

of being

emotionally moved

bereft of sensation, extinguished.