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Close at Hand
The evolution of a person concerns reworking one’s own synapses of coherence Sick with doubt usage means you become the sage, tell us how to help you recover your vital potential Confront yourself Challenge yourself to a duel Map the day’s hours Do not imagine the bottom has dropped out No matter how hard it […]
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Flood Stage
An orange glow outlined sunset And now this moonlight solace The Susquehanna River crested today at 41 feet We knew from the radio Broken trees and flooded streets An outline of mud and leaves An outline of worry that woke me slowly A thread of song in my head A film of water across my […]
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Third Amantia Ode
Moon and gloomy-star, silver wheel, blue lure masker, toy : magic disk and doubt disk. Wide-dark. Cloudy wind-dark. Twin-lit moistener. Metal cloud-storm. Loss beacon. Night courser. Orange summoner. Strange radiator. Scalpal-harasser. Mushroom food-jewel and madness-jewel. Moon’s stone and sun’s bane. Heaven’s fiery backside. Earth’s threads, Earth’s filters. Resounder of the word’s way Moon’s urine mainstay pillar fulcrum Monarch of everything that sees the sun’s light dazzling daytime mesh reseen as […]
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Blake
This essay originally appeared inWild Orchids #3: William Blake The cycle of creation, redemption, and apocalypse wheels like a great zodiac in the creative heavens of Blake’s prophetic works. Creation was Blake’s mastery; as Los, he toiled at the furnaces of Ulro, contemplating Enormous Works, battling the world to forge his poetry. Redemption was the […]
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Lost
Still looking for the piece of that word that fell off the last time I used it — thinking it might explain what happened next or say what didn’t
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Disintegration
It’s interesting to note someone else might’ve written this had I fallen asleep beside the woman who tomorrow will wake by someone other than who I would be if this had not been written
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“morning light-rays shine through an ash”
Some curvature in every seemingly straight line – Devin Johnston morning light-rays shine through an ash tilts as dandelion leaves towards sun arcs a spider’s thread from eave twelve feet to tip of wildflower green shaking stem the ash curved in the shape of a thread
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from CULL
the motet, its / note against note · still precincts / interstices of the said — · variants inassent / an at distance · the elongated gesture / fitted intervals · lapse tresses / pattern & gesture · at margin forms / drift of, occurrent — · of a part formed / grown articulated to […]
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XV (from Tibet: A Sequence)
In these abstruse lands, under those sourish minerals among the most secret (deaf) of ancient worlds By the marshes or under the sleeping magmas, the thin laminate of deposits at the hearts of the ancient geometries I have seen the playfully brilliant jets, the rare gold that pierces coarse bedrock. Self-secret life, Tibet, yourself as […]