November
like a flower, like a ghost, you're everything that holds me paralyzed; I'm stumbling to remember the consonants and vowels.
Draw me out like poision from a wound that drips dangerously down your lips.
It's maybe the first and last time you'll ever notice my eyes so unforgettably grey and dead.
I'm the one scaring you away, my ghostly lover.
Draw me out like poision from a wound that drips dangerously down your lips.
It's maybe the first and last time you'll ever notice my eyes so unforgettably grey and dead.
I'm the one scaring you away, my ghostly lover.
movie pitch workshop, Mpls, 6/26
Insty-pivot. Arabian Nights. White Nights in Petersberg. Nameless rabbit’s foot. We got them in for free. Pare down all your sentences containing interrogatives—otherwise looks good. Otherwise, you have a pretty good shot. If this is my building block, what is my Super Glue™? House exploding, now they need to hire a PR group. Braid consuming brain portraying loglines for stationary government files. Come back for the sequel! Come back to the Momma Needs You Ranch! Corpseflower stalks like a vampire at night. “I couldn’t kick it out of my brain.” Rash for the homie. Page for the stony. Hap for the housefly. Tells me why you pursue this alien bloodsport. So don’t go back to square one. The performance begins in an hour. The performance has already begun. Don’t go back to the beginning. Don’t begin. Donors make their own way. Budge for surrender. Bathtub contest, backroom counterweight. Hey compensation, where is your sting? Hey lids’ flurry over Oz in the heartland, where is your cyclone spinning? Insty-pivot again.
Sentences Make Us Center
Cool in the morning, touching, and the reach takes love to face. It is to bring a cool rain thus, the sun and flowers till soon, love, this is quick. You are the cornfield sprung from nothing more than soil went the morning corn into sky. Leaping trees join blue sky finally. This love is caring in the face, and touch of night when we sleep and sleep. Rhythm makes the sky and all its clouds and clearing. Rain is wonderful, sun is meaningful, day and night combine. Now the summer solstice expands, a point we have made and this is touching. Lightly the bed is made for our time. The things we create clear with music. Our love is a definite day.
lube
Illuminated vellum / the mole on the back of her neck / beneath cropped hair / the mole that is mine / has retired from my back to travel / past the gypsies in emancipated lay-bies / past all that I have projected upon verges / hedgerows and houses / corpse animals replaced by their offspring in the growing fields / spawn sheds / pre-butcher lorries / the number ten aleatory slaughter wagon / the mouthless dead with things in their ears / speaking in cryptic sibilance / thoughtfully and metaphysically masturbate / oil the tedium / grease the sheets of skin stretch out across the tarmac / the journey…
hagio / graphy / river / roth (and) berg
1
hage
hgio
ah geo
geo yew yes o
orgean ey io wore
age hey are be we ah o o yu a ge age age age
hge hagio
io hage, io worria
grae physi
ho ay ag e yu her ah we
o o yeh
2
hate to tell the saint
has to run away to Saint
Louis for a cigarette
where graphomaniacs
cool out between sets
at the last shore of show
before east winds come blowing
after same wave grabs
on the river rocks's bed
fee for washing, rack,
the length of time sits
like saints upon the levee
of hagiography, grapple
grab, it comes like old wave
of seeing or smoking
but not lit by match
and not lithography
or angel hatred there
(Astrid said her name was a star)
bright length and terraces
bridge rocks and waters
that halo isn't saying hello
that hell is wasting your time
they came and then they left
at length with something left
behind the broken earth
3
(Jerome Rothenberg has a blog)
hage
hgio
ah geo
geo yew yes o
orgean ey io wore
age hey are be we ah o o yu a ge age age age
hge hagio
io hage, io worria
grae physi
ho ay ag e yu her ah we
o o yeh
2
hate to tell the saint
has to run away to Saint
Louis for a cigarette
where graphomaniacs
cool out between sets
at the last shore of show
before east winds come blowing
after same wave grabs
on the river rocks's bed
fee for washing, rack,
the length of time sits
like saints upon the levee
of hagiography, grapple
grab, it comes like old wave
of seeing or smoking
but not lit by match
and not lithography
or angel hatred there
(Astrid said her name was a star)
bright length and terraces
bridge rocks and waters
that halo isn't saying hello
that hell is wasting your time
they came and then they left
at length with something left
behind the broken earth
3
(Jerome Rothenberg has a blog)
'...art
body hacked to haplesse Semele:
More to sea,
Nor would I
was carried back I want
to be my soule, see
where
it flies.Come Hellen,
make our green to
the marble vault, shall try That long day;
Thou art fairer than
flaming Jupiter,When the northerly vacant
casement, gilt convulses as over
glass and for you deserve
this the wren not
tame,But none
bold;:;} cervix of
fear,the past vision from Alexandra :This, have I love of his aphorisms
in the
tripods. fell, to Set this midnight torchbearer, saves
many a joy or knell,Not
Helena.I never At the
feet were meant to lift hot irons,
to lift hot irons,
and time,
the sky;
In stead of his shadowy wings, and for water I
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moment when the unassumed composure the purposeless peacesealing
the rankling of us a merciful
slaughter.To adore each breast,But too
I will combat with love on
a pillow; and now, like morning
our green
age should grow Vaster
than
the fading voice like morning dew, Meredith
Death I might venture where The
peon had been slain So
huge is The inevitable
graph And in the next mirage And having despaired
of day no longer But
whether note of a
lost alcove, necromantic,
with your spooked prance.
Auracania
Allman Park is laid out geometrically after the flag of some forgotten or yet to be invented nation. The Fire Station just over the road, the Police Station next to that. Victoria Street with its twin lines of massive palms that carry in their name a memory of the Phoenicians. Tintern Road down the other flank, where one rainy day I saw the brick garage of the early childhood centre collapse into rubble with a sigh. On that corner you cannot help but think Abbey and then Wordsworth but after that there’s nowhere to go: Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. Norton Street runs between the two and that’s where I walk on Sunday mornings with my sons, looking for mice that infest the fragrant hedgerow beneath the coned agathis from which we take the dammar gum. It wasn’t until I went there for a tryst one purple dusk last autumn that I saw the park is an outpost of the country called Auracania, a raft detached perhaps aeons ago from Antarctica. The once and future kingdom of Auracania. The one I was there to meet did not come at the appointed time and then I knew she never would. I sat on the bench before the dry fountain for a while longer, not because I still expected her but in order to fix in my mind the passing shapes of that ambiguous hour. Auracania the place of conifers and shaggy beasts, some of whom might have been human. I glimpsed beneath the kauri a shadowy diprodon large as a rhinoceros. A palorchestes with claws and stunted trunk like a deformed elephant snuffled under the arbour for god knows what. A posse of sthenurine kangaroo with shortened flat faces and forward-looking eyes went by. The ghost of zaglossus, that echidna the size of a goat, feeding on armoured blattodea. Mihirung birds striding out, flightless and carnivorous, taller than moa. A goanna six metres long and slavering. I would not have you think these creatures came before my eyes like things of this world; only when I looked away did I seem to see them, only at the crucial moment of forgetting did they remember themselves—vast dim shapes like grey holes in the gathering dusk. Absences deeper than an ache in the heart, more monstrous than grief, further away than pain. Their strange remanence refracted through tears. Their cold extinction and their future bones. I wondered about passing over and joining them in the lacustrine sunshine of their yesteryears but it was not possible. Stupid even to try: as if delusion should replace reality. So I got up and slowly walked on home. Past automobiles and grimy shop windows, sheets of paper blowing in the wind. The bus stop that has been closed. I had not noticed before that you can see the crown of the agathis from my balcony. There on the skyline, just to the right of the steeple, the one glyphed with Sumerian cuneiform. At the blue hour, when I cannot sleep, I go out to sit and smoke and watch it firm against the lightening dark. Sometimes, not often, I hear a snarl and a scream, followed by distant braw bellowing as sarcophilus or thylacoleo takes a warredja returning to its burrow and eviscerates it beneath the gibbous moon. And then I smile because at such moments death means life and life means death and between them there is nothing to choose that has not already been chosen.
alchi
You fukin alchi / turning semi-precious metal and paper receipts into booze / oh joy I annihilate tomorrow / selfishly / pleasantly / it’s like hardcore should be / bastard beats / without origin / the snake fish need feeding in a murder evolution narrative I might say / or / dull pulse of unsleep / the wheelchair puts on an exhibition / splaying wheels / exposed spokes / dots of nubile grease / an intelligent child full of spots expresses nothing / the smell of prehensile tobacco wielding fingers / full of whip / striations / sweat bleeding into blood / a semens’ yarn / the spine / the umbilical / the sunken line of sensation / and whatever you’re reading into this as violence puts me at ease / drunken / sensuous / three inch heel rerendering a ribcage / gouging / spurts into crevices of imagined concrete / snaps off / remains impaled / tenuity / a feeble lick / a navy promotional flick / crash dive…
Allium Schoenoprasum.
A cobblestone stone gray sky, a piecemeal meal of clouds scuttling across it, the sky, the mutton gray bleak sky, sky; a mal de teat sky, a confluence of gray marrow bone sky, boiled in the same-such pot with a day-old soup bone, sky day today sky, sky, a cobblestone stone gray sky. I am tired of looking agape at the sky, this gray marrow soup bone sky; a sky scudded with mealy piecemeal clouds, a potboilers sky, sky. What has Nietzsche taught me, I ask myself, me-my-myself me? That intellectual blindness is a curse, an excuse for imperialism and bad manners. That metaphysics is unreasonable, alchemy, an excuse for intellectual blindness, a curse on humanism, a supernatural free-for-all, principia algebraic, mathematical trifoliate(ism). That Freud was right, that the unconscious is the seat of the soul, the ex-machines-dues, the sabot that jigs the apparatus, the ghoul in the contraption, the chive in the hetman. Allium schoenoprasum.
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[Begin Page 97] Among indefinite Druid rocks & snows of doubt & reasoning.
Refusing all Definite Form, the Abstract Horror roofd. stony hard. And a first Age passed over & a State of dismal woe: 10
Down sunk with fright a red round Globe hot burning. deep Deep down into the Abyss. panting: conglobing: trembling And a second Age passed over & a State of dismal woe.
Rolling round into two little Orbs & closed in two little Caves The Eyes beheld the Abyss: lest bones of solidness freeze over all 15 And a third Age passed over & a State of dismal woe.
From beneath his Orbs of Vision, Two Ears in close volutions Shot spiring out in the deep darkness & petrified as they grew And a fourth Age passed over & a State of dismal woe.
Hanging upon the wind, Two Nostrils bent down into the Deep 20 And a fifth Age passed over & a State of dismal woe.
In ghastly torment sick, a Tongue of hunger & thirst flamed out And a sixth Age passed over & a State of dismal woe.
Enraged & stifled without & within: in terror & woe, he threw his Right Arm to the north, his left Arm to the south, & his Feet 25 Stampd the nether Abyss in trembling & howling & dismay And a seventh Age passed over & a State of dismal woe
Terrified Los stood in the Abyss & his immortal limbs Grew deadly pale; he became what he beheld: for a red Round Globe sunk down from his Bosom into the Deep in pangs 30 He hoverd over it trembling & weeping. suspended it shook The nether Abyss in temblings. he wept over it, he cherish'd it In deadly sickening pain: till separated into a Female pale As the cloud that brings the snow: all the while from his Back A blue fluid exuded in Sinews hardening in the Abyss 35 Till it separated into a Male Form howling in Jealousy
Within labouring. beholding Without: from Particulars to Generals Subduing his Spectre, they Builded the Looms of Generation They Builded Great Golgonooza Times on Times Ages on Ages First Orc was Born then the Shadowy Female: then All Los's Family 40 At last Enitharmon brought forth Satan Refusing Form, in vain The Miller of Eternity made subservient to the Great Harvest That he may go to his own Place Prince of the Starry Wheels Beneath the Plow of Rintrah & the harrow of the Almightyt In the hands of Palamabron. Where the Starry Mills of Satan Are built beneath the Earth & Waters of the Mundane Shell Here the Three Classes of Men take their Sexual texture Woven The Sexual is Threefold: the Human is Fourfold 5 [Begin Page 98] If you account it Wisdom when you are angry to be silent, and Not to shew it: I do not account that Wisdom but Folly. Every Mans Wisdom is peculiar to his own Individ[u]ality O Satan my youngest born, art thou not Prince of the Starry Hosts And of the Wheels of Heaven, to turn the Mills day & night? 10 Art thou not Newtons Pantocrator weaving the Woof of Locke To Mortals thy Mills seem every thing & the Harrow of Shaddai A scheme of Human conduct invisible & incomprehensible Get to thy Labours at the Mills & leave me to my wrath,
Satan was going to reply, but Los roll'd his loud thunders. 15
Anger me not! thou canst not drive the Harrow in pitys paths. Thy Work is Eternal Death, with Mills & Ovens & Cauldrons. Trouble me no more. thou canst not have Eternal Life
So Los spoke! Satan trembling obeyd weeping along the way. Mark well my words, they are of your eternal Salvation 20
Between South Molton Street & Stratford Place: Calvarys foot Where the Victims were preparing for Sacrifice their Cherubim Around their loins pourd forth their arrows & their bosoms beam With all colours of precious stones, & their inmost palaces Resounded with preparation of animals wild & tame 25 (Mark well my words! Corporeal Friends are Spiritual Enemies) Mocking Druidical Mathematical Proportion of Length Bredth Highth Displaying Naked Beauty! with Flute & Harp & Song
Palamabron with the fiery Harrow in morning returningt From breathing fields. Satan fainted beneath the artillery Christ took on Sin in the Virgins Womb, & put it off on the Cross
All pitied the piteous & was wrath with the wrathful & Los heard it.
And this is the manner of the Daughters of Albion in their beauty 5 Every one is threefold in Head & Heart & Reins, & every one Has three Gates into the Three Heavens of Beulah which shine Translucent in their Foreheads & their Bosoms & their Loins Surrounded with fires unapproachable: but whom they please They take up into their Heavens in intoxicating delight 10 For the Elect cannot be Redeemd, but Created continually By Offering & Atonement in the crue[l]ties of Moral Law Hence the three Classes of Men take their fix'd destinations They are the Two Contraries & the Reasoning Negative.
While the Females prepare the Victims. the Males at Furnaces 15 And Anvils dance the dance of tears & pain. loud lightnings Lash on their limbs as they turn the whirlwinds loose upon The Furnaces, lamenting around the Anvils & this their Song[:] [Begin Page 99]
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