Tyson Bley was born in 1978 in South Africa and at the age of 30 moved to Germany, where he continues to live semi-reclusively with a malignant Internet addiction. His work has appeared in MyFavoriteBullet, Blazevox, Poets Of The East Village, Clutching At Straws, Disenthralled, and print journals like Smash Cake and Kerouac's Dog. His personal blog is located at
http://soapstain.blogspot.com/
GENE DEFECT ON A TINY PIECE OF FOIL
I moved my new car, angrily, after the 3D printer vomited it out. I didn’t want to be parked next to one of the printer’s other aberrant creations: a selfish pig in an igloo. ‘The way to hell is canned – is a pizza chain oriented along the vector of the glittering dolphin’s thigh,’ the pig told me as I peered in and wondered if it thought either of us was parked in the wrong place. ‘The one who melts first under the skull street lamps is parked in the wrong place.’ I kept the following rude assumption to myself: that it, not I, was parked in the wrong place.
Fragments of Ben Nye rape makeup hit the fan and was karateed by the blades into the form of yet another new breed of worthless sentience: a switchboard operator sunbathing in a straightjacket. Lights blip crazily around him – a dragonfly lightsaber fight jumping on the bed to a banned dancefloor anthem. The weather update deliberately intimidates us with promises of an utopia made of crude materials gorging on fractals. I like the switchboard operator’s worthless handling of the console. To wit: an atom-based stunt based on the ancient technique of the ‘squirm.’
One of the partners in couples therapy was a mechanical fish. The therapist, clad in micro-mesh, assessed the situation from a bunker underneath the maximum security prison where his patients were housed with a periscope jammed nonlethally through the McRib in the hands of the non-mechanical fish partner. The distraught relationship he was trying to remedy was cargo lined in fish oil due to be sent to a Mexican border town the next day, where it would be detonated in a display of highly eclectic, hugely disorientating fireworks to celebrate the opening of a new bridge and the erection of a Morgan Freeman statue, his surgical mask bulging on the hour as the iconic actor burps grenades, to mark the passage of time.
THOUGHT LINKS EYEBROWS
On the top landing, observing the dirty rocket trying to climb the spiral staircase. The cat’s claw’s tristesse, from being away from the balloon milk. Frida Kahlo’s hysteria over the hairy blood vessel on her brow, sweat like leaves covered in urine. Cabbage Patch kids constipate the Menorah. The more of a grotesque consumer the Pope becomes, the more his wing catches fire. None of us are what we really want to be, except the condom. Which isn’t either what it wants to be but thinks it is. Namely bald. To precipitate the mermaid’s flight. A seagull wears its heart on its sleeve, then when not drinking from it puts it down on a sugar coaster. This way Bambi’s earplugs melt, just as condensation gives a loud report. The deafening music my guardian angel listens to while cleaning out my car. A slow-dance with lithium, also found in 7-Up and also quite a sexy mechanical model. So where has my sweater been hiding? Stolen from the school mascot in a Santa Clause pat-down. My Nissan’s shame. Flying when not playing with traffic.
NOW THAT THE AC'S DOWN
The apartment’s AC has to be trained to do the ‘obnoxious sniff,’ to make it a better environment for giant insects. I want to be taught the empty gesture’s sideways movement, to perform it without hesitation. With amped kneecap in robotic hoodie, it used to be such a great co-pilot, but we parted ways. I want to blend reality with elephant lips; through its grill my AC said that’s more harmful than crashing truffles. With acoustic guitar and rose in teeth, it decided to direct the fitness montage of Doctor Octopus in ski boots. I’m lonely now, of course. But today in the personals I saw that the human liver is learning from the whitewash, and needs help taking smarter, more economic cues from jingles stuck in its head. Fright bleaches – that’s what I learned. And that the rescue will pass you by if you’re stuck in airplane porn. And Mars will become one of the caterpillar’s eggs. And sanity’s landing strip will slather fake balm over her wheels – the instant she grows into a piƱata whose gramophone heart will be a byproduct of shattered absence. A raider of fake tunes’ heart. My favorite faker.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sean Burnham
Sean Burnham is currently a student at the University of Iowa. He enjoys making music, listening to music, reading, and being weird. Writing poetry is new to him, but he's confident he'll figure it out someday. If you happen to see a saxophonist on a street corner whilst meandering through Iowa, it might be him. Or so he hopes.
Crackle and Wail
1.
Solemn
and narrowed
eyes, how could I
be so blind?
There’s a tourniquet
around the day.
2.
He dragged his feet up
those stairs, shuffling
like a bull in a radio.
3.
When he got to
the top, he looked
at me and all
I saw was an IOU before
he threw himself
against the wall again
and again and once
more for good measure.
Bleacht
Rolling the sun back
the yart behint, I leap
t atop
the house to look
(my bett)
She was
gone. I screamt
and rollt out
the sun, thinking
to surprise her. She was
n’t surprised. Always
trying, I surp
rise with her
what she knows.
Flying Fox
1.
Aspen air-
freshener, pine trees cut down
for the sake of smell and why
don’t you plant a forest in your car?
2.
And in fifty years,
maybe someone will
drive your tree
over a bridge and into the bay,
crying and laughing to live
in a tree, to die
in a tree, to fall
and to fly, and why
don’t you plant a forest in the sea?
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Patricia Spears Jones
Born and raised in Arkansas, PATRICIA SPEARS JONES aka Patricia Jones has lived in New York City since the mid-1970s where she has been involved in the city's poetry and theater scenes as poet, editor, anthologist, teacher and former Program Coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and working with Mabou Mines, the internationally acclaimed theater collective which is celebrating its 40th year. Her accolades are almost too numerous to list and range from editing anthologies to playwriting and creating collaborative arts. She is the author of the books Painkiller (Tia Chucha Press, 2006), The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press, 1995) and Femme du Monde (Tia Chucha Press, 2006) and the chapbooks repuestas! (Belladonna, 2007) and Mythologizing Always (Telephone Books, 1981). You can find out more about her on her website http://www.psjones.com/, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Patricia_Spears_Jones and www.aalbc.com.
Sun shimmers, cold Canada is cold.
Leaves are heart shocked
Colors bleeding streets, streams, rivers, valleys, mountains.
Below the 49th parallel, de spirit is almost broken.
Mendacity. Mendacity. Mendacity.
Corrode ear drums. War corrupts our hearts’ thrum.
Oh and listen to the steadfast hymn singing.
Hear daily declarations of faith.
See sparkly flags
on politicians’ lapels. Funny,
This choir of dignified horrormeisters, each with his or her own
Gift—liar, thief, murderer, pederast, torturer—on display.
No one can make a joke. No one can take a joke.
Mendacity Mendacity Mendacity
Sons, brothers, sisters, mothers
Dead, more than 1000 dead
Below the 49th parallel days begin with expensive coffee
Days end in bad news.
Heart stunned and dream deprived.
Sun glistens.
Vase
Composition is not easy
You think these flowers just jumped into the vase
Arranged themselves according to size, color, texture
You think making a beautiful home is easy
You think the domestic is about floor plans
And ecologically correct cleaning products
I AM SICK OF THIS DULL HATRED OF THE EVEYDAY
Get yourself something exciting to do,
Investment banking
Or Internet Interface proxy
What?
I don’t know. I just love this vase
And you dropped it BY MISTAKE?
And it’s in pieces
And the floor is dirty
And we can no longer afford this house
Anyway
And GO FUCK YOURSELF
AND YOUR MAMA TOO!
What? You say I sound ghetto, well
Eat this dream and shit it out in New Jersey.
I’ll stop crying when this vase is replaced
And I can sleep in a bed owned free and clear!
Kinder
Walls surround the garden
Inside the illustrated children motion
A paradisal mode
All strawberries and huckleberries
And heavy ivy hiding the treasure
Old people cannot see.
Why are some children allowed this fantasy
And others eat dirt every day?
Is that the way of all possible worlds
The blonde child in the Gap ad
The lovely Eurasian in Ralph Lauren
The Black preppie in crisp linen
On an expansive lawn in Sag Harbor
How will they negotiate their prosperity?
With the people who will take them
Sometimes hence, on the road;
in a board room, off the Internet?
Marigold
Oh luscious girl friend
When last did you take a bath?
Water everywhere and yet you remain
Dusty as a road in Georgia
Or Alabama or Arkansas
You keep away the mosquitoes,
the blue flies, the little bitty things
that bite your neck laughing as only
Insects can laugh.
You’re free of all that—perfume—was
in a former life; so was dancing on bars
and wearing shoes found mostly in bad
80’s porn films.
So how did you find your way here
And are you staying through the season
And will the tomatoes grow better if close by
or just a litter farther away to give the sun more space
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Peter Marra
Peter Marra is a writer who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Among his influences are Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Edgar Allan Poe, Russ Meyer, and Roger Corman.
He has been published in amphibi.us, Yes Poetry, Maintenant 4, Beatnik, Crash, Danse Macabre, Caper Literary Journal, and Clutching At Straws.
He is currently constructing his first collection of poems.
animals clothed
animals clothed in
yesterday’s night sweats
run into the meadow
clothed in concrete
always checking the time
watching and waiting for
something to change
ridden by women
women always laughing
without smiles
lightning rinses out their minds
while the clowns touch each of them
the women greedily
guard their prey
and strangle them
by the telephone poles
(somebody tell them
what went wrong
stop.there’s.blood.everywhere… )
Friday, November 19, 2010
Wayne Mason
Wayne Mason is a writer, sound artist and factory worker from central Florida. When he grows up he wants to be Kannon. His work has been published throughout small presses and he is author of several chapbooks. The most recent Poet Laureate Of A Dirty Garage is now available from Erbacce Press.
Flesh and tired old
infinite gestures
Mmmmrrrrgggghhh
another middle finger
Soft Pink Characters
We are
wallowing
spewing
faceless sad
There it was
in steel toes
of Lakeland
via nothing
but death
Trees grass
purgatory
soft pink
characters
inebriated
We Reckless Alone
Cheesy factories
Now on to the noise....
Cheesy factories
Now on to the noise....
Everyone Florida
wrapped in apathetic
wrapped in apathetic
Flesh and tired old
infinite gestures
Mmmmrrrrgggghhh
another middle finger
Soft Pink Characters
We are
wallowing
spewing
faceless sad
There it was
in steel toes
of Lakeland
via nothing
but death
Trees grass
purgatory
soft pink
characters
inebriated
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Eric Asboe
Eric Asboe lives and works in Iowa City, IA.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Charles Crawford
Charles Crawford was born in Asia and writes creatively as a student at the University of Iowa. His likes include tap water and debauchery, and he is horrified by bees. He is not allergic to them, just terrified by their presence. One stung him in the ear as a child. Perhaps that is to blame.
The Apple Tree
As a kid I often caught my mother smoking—
Cloves, mostly, sometimes Camels— though one
Time I saw her light a joint beneath the apples
Of her wedding gift from uncle Leo, who said it reflected the soul
Of her marriage to his brother. He told a lie,
Though. Their marriage was never so perfect as that tree. No
Matter, because uncle Leo couldn’t know
That my mother would not always be the smoking
Vixen she was then, or that my father would lie
Sincerely, to me and to contemptible men, more than one
Time, to get away from her too-pure soul,
And her stabbing wit. And he hated her silent fits. But the apples
On uncle Leo’s tree were absolutely perfect; the apples
Belonged in the garden of the Hesperides. I know
They’d have been appreciated there: After all, nymphs are the sole
Purveyors of the truly perfect things, like smoking
A cigarette in a field with your beautiful mother one
Sunday, when the grass is thick and moist where you and she lie.
The first time I caught my father in a lie
Uncle Leo’s tree was barren of Apples.
I asked him “Did you eat the last one?”
He licked his lips and said “No”.
But he didn’t know I’d been smoking
Out by the barn. It was fate that I watched him pick the sole
Fruit from the low branches of our tree. If he ever had a soul
It’s in Hades right now. I remember many things about him; the lye
Burns I got the day he disappeared, how distracted he was, smoking
his stinking cigars. I remember, too, staring at the apples
Of the tree one day listening to him. He didn’t know
That I was on the other phone
While he spoke with the asylum, the same one
That would come for my mother, who’s only flaw was sincerity. Her soul
Would not let her tell the men who came that she was not insane. I know
She did not want to go, but she could not tell a lie.
When they came to carry her away, Aeolus roused the winds. Falling apples
Bruised the men as they led her off: She spent her remaining years smoking
In an asylum on a hill. She nearly hung herself more than once. No one there spoke to her
And she got so lonely. But I will not lie, smoking was not her sole solace.
I brought her apples every day, until the tree died. After that she would see me no more.
The Apple Tree
As a kid I often caught my mother smoking—
Cloves, mostly, sometimes Camels— though one
Time I saw her light a joint beneath the apples
Of her wedding gift from uncle Leo, who said it reflected the soul
Of her marriage to his brother. He told a lie,
Though. Their marriage was never so perfect as that tree. No
Matter, because uncle Leo couldn’t know
That my mother would not always be the smoking
Vixen she was then, or that my father would lie
Sincerely, to me and to contemptible men, more than one
Time, to get away from her too-pure soul,
And her stabbing wit. And he hated her silent fits. But the apples
On uncle Leo’s tree were absolutely perfect; the apples
Belonged in the garden of the Hesperides. I know
They’d have been appreciated there: After all, nymphs are the sole
Purveyors of the truly perfect things, like smoking
A cigarette in a field with your beautiful mother one
Sunday, when the grass is thick and moist where you and she lie.
The first time I caught my father in a lie
Uncle Leo’s tree was barren of Apples.
I asked him “Did you eat the last one?”
He licked his lips and said “No”.
But he didn’t know I’d been smoking
Out by the barn. It was fate that I watched him pick the sole
Fruit from the low branches of our tree. If he ever had a soul
It’s in Hades right now. I remember many things about him; the lye
Burns I got the day he disappeared, how distracted he was, smoking
his stinking cigars. I remember, too, staring at the apples
Of the tree one day listening to him. He didn’t know
That I was on the other phone
While he spoke with the asylum, the same one
That would come for my mother, who’s only flaw was sincerity. Her soul
Would not let her tell the men who came that she was not insane. I know
She did not want to go, but she could not tell a lie.
When they came to carry her away, Aeolus roused the winds. Falling apples
Bruised the men as they led her off: She spent her remaining years smoking
In an asylum on a hill. She nearly hung herself more than once. No one there spoke to her
And she got so lonely. But I will not lie, smoking was not her sole solace.
I brought her apples every day, until the tree died. After that she would see me no more.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Doug MacGowan
A Chicago native, Doug MacGowan has published history books and magazine articles during his writing career. He currently lives on the San Francisco peninsula with his wife, a dog, and far too many cats.
6.
She falls away from me
shadows and height
into her paradise
We must live walled apart
else she destroy me
and I rake the shards of her past sins over her aging bones
7.
The garden is full
crazy roses, not in a line
daisies turn from dust
among the ivy
among the weeds
Wounds of earth fold to scar over their bounty:
a flag
a ring
a bone
Leaf clusters crowd a path that led somewhere long ago, now ending at the stone wall.
Ungated.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Keith Higginbotham
Keith Higginbotham's poetry has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Beatnik, Blue & Yellow Dog, Clutching at Straws, Counterexample Poetics, Eratio, Liebamour Magazine, Otoliths, Sawbuck, and trnsfr. His chapbooks are Carrying the Air on a Stick (The Runaway Spoon Press) and Prosaic Suburban Commerical (Eratio Editions). He lives in Columbia, SC.
A Novel About Cities
on cabin buddha pipes streak
anything
here radical limits from nude clean fuzz
in parlors
memorial in about
at town is sleepy street dust bands
spat empty & power
stone
the
deadlines
ecliptic path selves staked large inside
pinpoint sea pullover cold
its
margin a small mirror
shredded
Probable Muted of Still
the hang hangs outside the cuckoo
earthy golden sky
under a thousand brightens above
subversive
gloom away rollers
waving sea toward square
strobes its a tall town
through to autumn’s
houses aging the away
flesh
fireworks,
and libretto fetters
held eyes
substance like still
migratory succulent this invisible
screen has out beak
moon
limbs
through the body
six intimate blows from
the colossal
future
of a muted new
Looks Shade Sky
encores in ordinary
the cinema which lilac red shot;
heat—have white blonde hard of the haired sun in its
night rifle of
number
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Sandy Benitez
Sandy Benitez lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming with her husband and their two children. She is the founder and editor of Flutter Press and Flutter Poetry Journal. Most recently, Sandy's poems have appeared in The Literary Burlesque, Pig in a Poke, Raven Images, and ScrewIowa. She loves Thai food and sightseeing.
New Wave Boy
When we first met,
you were my new wave boy:
baggy pants, Haan Cole slip-ons,
and long bangs swept stylishly
to the side.
I had just learned how to peg
pants, replaced tennis shoes
with flats, and wore vests
because layers were fab
thanks to Boy George.
We were hooked on Depeche Mode,
New Order, Duran Duran, and Wham.
Though you would never admit the latter.
I didn't know George was bi.
Was it that obvious?
Nineteen years later,
the clothes have been replaced
with casual yet comfortable.
A pair of Ipods sit on the kitchen
counter pregnant with the past.
Thinning hair clogs the bathtub
drain next to bottles of Nioxin.
And tucked inside our hearts,
a lovesong stuck in the 1980s.
Repeating itself over and over.
New Wave Boy
When we first met,
you were my new wave boy:
baggy pants, Haan Cole slip-ons,
and long bangs swept stylishly
to the side.
I had just learned how to peg
pants, replaced tennis shoes
with flats, and wore vests
because layers were fab
thanks to Boy George.
We were hooked on Depeche Mode,
New Order, Duran Duran, and Wham.
Though you would never admit the latter.
I didn't know George was bi.
Was it that obvious?
Nineteen years later,
the clothes have been replaced
with casual yet comfortable.
A pair of Ipods sit on the kitchen
counter pregnant with the past.
Thinning hair clogs the bathtub
drain next to bottles of Nioxin.
And tucked inside our hearts,
a lovesong stuck in the 1980s.
Repeating itself over and over.
Friday, November 12, 2010
J.D. Nelson
J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words and sound in his subterranean laboratory. More than 1,000 of his bizarre poems and experimental texts have appeared in many small press and underground publications. His most recent collection of poetry, NOISE DIFFICULTY FLOWER (Argotist Ebooks, 2010), is available as a free download. Visit http://www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. His audio experiments (recorded under the name OWL BRAIN ATLAS) are online at http://www.OwlNoise.com. OWL NOISE 0, his album of experimental spoken word, is available as a free download at http://www.mediafire.com/owlnoise. J. D. lives in Colorado, USA.
Von Instant: my FM
good moon in the afternoon
good afternoon to my haiku
cube "A" is underground –
beneath the earth
beneath the stars
beneath the eggs
"A" from type "A"
Exposure 11:15
The scorpion has one eye: the flight path of a word
The scorpion has two eyes: the spirit in the meat
The scorpion has three eyes: our puzzling moon
The scorpion has four eyes: microscopic prisoner
The scorpion has five eyes: another everything
The scorpion has six eyes: the wolf I fed
Palaeooƶlogy
The petrified trees
have leaked into
this dimension.
I’m feeling around
for eggs in a nest.
three Os in a row
I’m scrambling.
Von Instant: my FM
good moon in the afternoon
good afternoon to my haiku
cube "A" is underground –
beneath the earth
beneath the stars
beneath the eggs
"A" from type "A"
Exposure 11:15
The scorpion has one eye: the flight path of a word
The scorpion has two eyes: the spirit in the meat
The scorpion has three eyes: our puzzling moon
The scorpion has four eyes: microscopic prisoner
The scorpion has five eyes: another everything
The scorpion has six eyes: the wolf I fed
Palaeooƶlogy
The petrified trees
have leaked into
this dimension.
I’m feeling around
for eggs in a nest.
three Os in a row
I’m scrambling.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Kyle Muntz
Kyle Muntz is an Enigmatic Ink writer. From Amazon.com:
Taking place in a kind of "internal space," populated by living ideas, Voices utilizes broken typography within the context of an equally broken narrative to examine an existence in which identity and self have become, themselves, imaginary, but have allowed human thought and feeling to reshape the very nature of perceptual reality. Language is given a new, unfamiliar shape: complete freedom to explore the framework of an intricate semiotic landscape.
Excerpt from Voices
The rain
came first. First
silence, then the rain, a (taptap) tapping
raindrops
falling quiet in the midnight streets droplets lying
quiet
on the pavement quietly tires passing over
to smooth out the rain iron
our sins
into the floorboards
of the city down so low
not even the janitor
remembers to clean them up
any
more.
::::::::::::::::::
As if
there were order to this introduction. I could say I met her there but that would undermine the scandalous necessities of sequence. And
yes, I realize I’m rolling myself over, as if I could really make this
journey back in time, but I don’t think the rules apply when you’re alone with gorgeous girls
in
the rain.
::::::::::::::::::
I met
her on the vestibule,
seeing as she was there alone. I have an affinity for strange places, facing outwards onto the night. You could see the stars from there, but it wasn’t a good place to write poetry, though sometimes at noon the sun slanted at strange angles across the tiling, engraving the floor in skewed
congruencies of light, tangled in shadow.
Up above, the moon made faces for her. The emptiness pushed further away, a pressurized dilation, bowing down around the center. Every heart beat for her, every word to say. When it was for her, the world became real poetry, to be worthy, even for a moment. Maybe
she would greet me. A turn of the fingers, bright flicker of straining vibes. I knew she’d heard me, because she had ears, to state things blatantly, to name an attribute of her,
isolate the principles of her
altogether, culminating a pantheon onto herself,
otherworldly beauty
and
blatant rendition (changing space). If there’d
been wind, she might have taken flight. Because
she could soar,
altogether. On the
vestibule,
I met
her
there.
Taking place in a kind of "internal space," populated by living ideas, Voices utilizes broken typography within the context of an equally broken narrative to examine an existence in which identity and self have become, themselves, imaginary, but have allowed human thought and feeling to reshape the very nature of perceptual reality. Language is given a new, unfamiliar shape: complete freedom to explore the framework of an intricate semiotic landscape.
Excerpt from Voices
The rain
came first. First
silence, then the rain, a (taptap) tapping
raindrops
falling quiet in the midnight streets droplets lying
quiet
on the pavement quietly tires passing over
to smooth out the rain iron
our sins
into the floorboards
of the city down so low
not even the janitor
remembers to clean them up
any
more.
::::::::::::::::::
As if
there were order to this introduction. I could say I met her there but that would undermine the scandalous necessities of sequence. And
yes, I realize I’m rolling myself over, as if I could really make this
journey back in time, but I don’t think the rules apply when you’re alone with gorgeous girls
in
the rain.
::::::::::::::::::
I met
her on the vestibule,
seeing as she was there alone. I have an affinity for strange places, facing outwards onto the night. You could see the stars from there, but it wasn’t a good place to write poetry, though sometimes at noon the sun slanted at strange angles across the tiling, engraving the floor in skewed
congruencies of light, tangled in shadow.
Up above, the moon made faces for her. The emptiness pushed further away, a pressurized dilation, bowing down around the center. Every heart beat for her, every word to say. When it was for her, the world became real poetry, to be worthy, even for a moment. Maybe
she would greet me. A turn of the fingers, bright flicker of straining vibes. I knew she’d heard me, because she had ears, to state things blatantly, to name an attribute of her,
isolate the principles of her
altogether, culminating a pantheon onto herself,
otherworldly beauty
and
blatant rendition (changing space). If there’d
been wind, she might have taken flight. Because
she could soar,
altogether. On the
vestibule,
I met
her
there.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Kathy Burkett
Kathy Burkett lives in Central Florida with her husband and two Dachshunds. She is a high school drop out who eventually earned a B.A. in English. She has published poems in various small press publications in print and online. She makes collages and dolls. She plays kazoo for adoring audiences of odd dolls and stuffed animals. She sleeps, eats, and does other mundane stuff, too. She likes to eat the empty holes in donuts and has begun to lose weight by doing this. She thinks small dogs and sock puppets should take over world governments.
Mad Scientist
“Break!” he yells, hammer crashing, smashing a flashlight. Trying to see where the light comes from by breaking it apart. The mysterious power of stars and the odd coldness of technological progress. Nothing is illuminated just now. Waiting for light to emerge from darkness. The immaculate birth of an angel. Disembodied songs of sonic rainbows. Hum of pure energy. His flesh vibrates with music so loud he fails to hear it. “What am I?” he hollers hurtling a large calculator into his backwards image across the room. He wants to see what he’s made of. His face disintegrates into slivers of glass. His hands bleed ketchup-red, fingering shards of his former face. Human soup stains his fingers. Licking bloody sweaty palms as he drains out of himself. Iron and salt shocking his tongue, bitter cake batter grossly under done. He gets cold, shivering from too much science. He covers himself with unyielding pieces of glass and darkness thrown together into an awkward quilt. His eyeballs roll back into the comfort of his skull, covering their backsides with twin blankets of skin. Too much light. The sun is a big flashlight forcing him to squint. He’s in a field of pink sheep. He’s a contestant on a game show, and he knows all the answers. All of the questions are bad jokes. There’s a silent laugh track in the background.
Vacuuming the Void
Sir Real has the unfortunate task of vacuuming the void on a constant basis. Any small particle that enters the void has to be removed promptly so that the void's emptiness remains unblemished.
Sir Real is a plain looking fellow with no eyes, ears, nose, mouth, or any corporeal form to speak of. Every moment of his existence is spent pushing an invisible vacuum through the void with his nonexistent hand, sucking everything into invisibility. Every page of his diary is blank and completely transparent. He thinks of nothing all day long. It is this singular thought that sustains him.
Sleepwaking
A squirrel wearing a moss wig
disappears through a tiny door
in a towering tree shedding its leaves.
I jump up three branches high,
follow her. Find myself inside
a circular wooden room, portraits of
Bloodhounds carved into its walls.
Bowl of broken glass on a low table
Bed made of matchsticks covered
by a quilt of woven tea leaves.
The squirrel reappears holding
a wooden spatula. “You know
you can’t stay here,” she says,
shooing me away onto a branch
thin as telephone wire. I fall
onto prickly green Astroturf.
My skin stiffens into plastic,
hard, smooth and unbruised. I stand
stiffly and wobble through the door
of a purple doll house, find myself
staring at a toy television that
broadcasts invisible news.
The clock is paralyzed at 10:10.
I don’t know if it’s morning
or night. I can’t see through
these painted windows.
I slide into a waterless tub.
My eyes are wide open,
making sleep impossible.
There is no dreaming like this.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Duane Locke
Duane Locke lives in Tampa, Florida and has had 6,502 poems published in print magazines and e zines, including Nation, American Poetry Review, and Counter-Example Poetics. His last four books 2009-10 are Yang Chu’s Poems 376pp, Crossing Chaos( Canada--Order: Amazon), Voices from Grave (erbacce, England), Soliloquies from a High Wall Cemetery (Differentia Press) California; A Marble Nude Pauline Borghese with a Marble Apple in her Marble hand, 53pp.Scars publications.
I WANTED TO TALK INTIMATELY WITH
SOMEONE, ANYONE
I imitated an automobile,
I sounded
Like a horn being pressed--a motor
Failing to start,
The squeak and skid
Of a quickly pushed in brake.
I added a spin, as if he car was out of control.
I was standing by a fountain in shopping
Center hallway.
I had an audience.
I had been in the desert so long I had not spoken
To a person in years.
I spoke the old colloquialism I had learned when
In a monastery.
The audience looked bored.
The people began to leave.
All my audience was soon gone. They might have stayed
If I had not tried to communicate.
They might have stayed if I had kept imitating
An automobile.
I BECAME A PLAYER
The chromatic
scene was like a poppy printed
On a translucent plastic
And backlit by a purple light bulb,
This mist curled conjoined with stage floor dust.
The mimesis was deemed “romance,’
Which meant it was a Hellenistic reenactment
Of an Attic myth, Apollo
Trying to get Daphne to comb her
Wild hair into an occasion for a cordial cocktail.
A nun appeared, a strand
Of blond hair slid from black cover hiding her hair
To segment
A slight indentation on her forehead.
She touched
With her green-painted fingernail
That black silk shirt with a white tie
Of a passer-by.
We knew it was a fragmentation
That was dislocation in a world
We were taught was rational
And intelligently ordered.
The mowers carrying boxes
Packed with the beliefs and values
Of the past sixties’ ungenteel generation.
The mowers talked in high diction
About baroque art and the counter reformation.
It ended with a dance.
The mist had risen and thickened
And no one could see what was happening
On the stage, but a critic pontificating from
Ceiling loud speakers informed us--
It was a dance, a minuet,
Bare feet moving according
To regular traditional metrics
To crush grapes.
LIGHT INSIDE A LUMP OF ROSE QUARTZ
A light, shaped
Like a crooked spiral staircase
With some steps lumps,
Other steps look like
Opinions of the wind,
Ascend or descends
According to the mood
Of the perceiver or faith.
The color of light
Is one of the colors
Of the many-colored peach.
This light is the peach color
Of yellow, a mandarin
Chinese pale yellow. This
Lights is so otherworldly
In spite of its orientalism
If it wrote a gospel
It would Gnostic Christian,
Mything pleromas.
It is the light that
Some perceivers
See inside a lump of quartz,
Rose quartz.
This lump of quartz
Was given me by a girl
Who had gold twists for hair,
But who ran away
From being a nurse
In a nursing home
To wear only
Only a white sheet
Stolen from Sears
To pray all day
Worshiping the sun,
To pray all night
Worshiping the reflected
Sun light of the moon
In an unknown part
Of a rain forest.
I now am painting on canvas
The lump of rose quartz,
Dimming the rose to accent
The inner mobile yellowish light
Which when painted
Will be still and false
To be imagined mobile
By the perceiver.
I am painting on a ground
Gessoed white, and
Sprayed with a Duccio gold
That Duccio used to give
The proper background
For the divine.
I WANTED TO TALK INTIMATELY WITH
SOMEONE, ANYONE
I imitated an automobile,
I sounded
Like a horn being pressed--a motor
Failing to start,
The squeak and skid
Of a quickly pushed in brake.
I added a spin, as if he car was out of control.
I was standing by a fountain in shopping
Center hallway.
I had an audience.
I had been in the desert so long I had not spoken
To a person in years.
I spoke the old colloquialism I had learned when
In a monastery.
The audience looked bored.
The people began to leave.
All my audience was soon gone. They might have stayed
If I had not tried to communicate.
They might have stayed if I had kept imitating
An automobile.
I BECAME A PLAYER
The chromatic
scene was like a poppy printed
On a translucent plastic
And backlit by a purple light bulb,
This mist curled conjoined with stage floor dust.
The mimesis was deemed “romance,’
Which meant it was a Hellenistic reenactment
Of an Attic myth, Apollo
Trying to get Daphne to comb her
Wild hair into an occasion for a cordial cocktail.
A nun appeared, a strand
Of blond hair slid from black cover hiding her hair
To segment
A slight indentation on her forehead.
She touched
With her green-painted fingernail
That black silk shirt with a white tie
Of a passer-by.
We knew it was a fragmentation
That was dislocation in a world
We were taught was rational
And intelligently ordered.
The mowers carrying boxes
Packed with the beliefs and values
Of the past sixties’ ungenteel generation.
The mowers talked in high diction
About baroque art and the counter reformation.
It ended with a dance.
The mist had risen and thickened
And no one could see what was happening
On the stage, but a critic pontificating from
Ceiling loud speakers informed us--
It was a dance, a minuet,
Bare feet moving according
To regular traditional metrics
To crush grapes.
LIGHT INSIDE A LUMP OF ROSE QUARTZ
A light, shaped
Like a crooked spiral staircase
With some steps lumps,
Other steps look like
Opinions of the wind,
Ascend or descends
According to the mood
Of the perceiver or faith.
The color of light
Is one of the colors
Of the many-colored peach.
This light is the peach color
Of yellow, a mandarin
Chinese pale yellow. This
Lights is so otherworldly
In spite of its orientalism
If it wrote a gospel
It would Gnostic Christian,
Mything pleromas.
It is the light that
Some perceivers
See inside a lump of quartz,
Rose quartz.
This lump of quartz
Was given me by a girl
Who had gold twists for hair,
But who ran away
From being a nurse
In a nursing home
To wear only
Only a white sheet
Stolen from Sears
To pray all day
Worshiping the sun,
To pray all night
Worshiping the reflected
Sun light of the moon
In an unknown part
Of a rain forest.
I now am painting on canvas
The lump of rose quartz,
Dimming the rose to accent
The inner mobile yellowish light
Which when painted
Will be still and false
To be imagined mobile
By the perceiver.
I am painting on a ground
Gessoed white, and
Sprayed with a Duccio gold
That Duccio used to give
The proper background
For the divine.
Monday, November 1, 2010
G. X. Jupitter-Larsen
GX Jupitter-Larsen is a writer & artist, based in Hollywood, California. He's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s including punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture. During the 1990s he was the sound designer Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories. There are three published novels written by Jupitter-Larsen. Raw Red and The Condor was published by Blood Print Press in 1992. Sometimes Never was published in 2009 by Crossing Chaos, and Adventure on The High Seas was published this year by Enigmatic Ink. A book of French translations of his essays and short fiction, entitled Saccages has been published by the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival and Rip on/off. Vincent Barras, who translated John Cage's Silence into French, wrote one of the book's introductions.
Excerpt from Adventure On The High Seas
Nude and drenched in saliva, she was sliding down the esophagus head first. The blood was rushing to her head. Wave after wave of involuntary peristalsis pushed her towards the stomach. She had been swallowed whole, and with all her panic, wasn’t able to think of anything else.
It didn’t matter that her eyes had been glued shut by all the drool, there was only a damp darkness which, like the inner wall of the esophagus, wrapped tightly around her body. All she could feel were wet rubbery slaps against her skin. She could barely breath. The heart pounding in her ears wasn’t her own.
Suddenly she sensed warmth. She was approaching the stomach. Before she could fully comprehend what was happening, the surrounding muscles, which had clutched her so firmly till now, started to relax. Then, without a sound, she had been spewed into the belly. Plop; then fizz. She splashed into the hollow organ of acids and enzymes.
She still couldn’t really move that much, and the stench was overwhelming. Right away, she started to feel a sharp bite at her legs and buttocks. It was like sitting crunched-over in a bound sack half filled with corrosive slush. The digestive juices were kissing away her flesh, burning away at her muscle tissue. Digestion had begun. It was stinging! It was painful! She wanted to scream, but could only choke on the fumes. She couldn’t make a peep. Between the anguish and her suffocation, she knew her body was being tenderly liquefied.
Before she finally lost consciousness, random impressions pass by her mind: the pussy-willows she used to collect as a small child; her first kiss as an adolescent; oxygen.
Her body had been converted into a soft paste, a dough-like pulp. As she moved passed the duodenum and was received into the small intestine, she was further dissolved by the juices from the pancreas and liver. After all of the nutrients from her body had been absorbed through the intestinal walls, the undigested parts of her were propelled into the colon. There she remained, until she was expelled by a bowel movement.
Life had been too exciting to be fair. Her anatomy had been a meal for some creature from the countryside. The eye sockets of her skull gazed upwards.
What wasn’t then eaten by dung-beetles for food, was subsequently absorbed into the ground for nutrients. Even the dirt was hungry. Heavens to Betsy! On Venus the soggy sun sets in the east, but the sapphire sky that was above us was hemorrhaging with bliss. Formidable disasters, drawn to a few smouldering remnants, were anxiously chewing cud in a gesture of exasperated difficulties. Immediately forestalled, the rust advanced alone the distance between two floods. Measured steps revoked and replaced any impending surprise. The standstill hurried off, toppled closely by silent crumbling underfoot. Vacuum sowed confusion. Ooopsy daisy! Lavish rot from a variety of overlapping and complementary flourishing decays.
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