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    A triple play. Brian Lucas— painter, poet, musician—eye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is awake with profound and restless detail. Out of the ballpark. I await more. — David Meltzer Shock is the awe of reading—“a fable folded into sea.” The elemental act of reading is physical as well as chemical, a catalyst transforming the coastline of clouds into the graceful synaesthetic prosody of Circles Matter. The circles that matter are lines of approach, the “Contents” describing 25 poems and 3 drawings, from “Awe” to “Sketch of an Eclipse.” Brian Lucas’s elegant Circles Matter moves time, in time, “Never resting as ideal state.” —Norma Cole The creative mind is a vast and never-still momentum of thoughts giving way to images and metaphors that, when followed, reveal paths connecting suns and cities, galaxies and cells. Brian Lucas has found a way to navigate the language of this complicated field in a way that fills the reader’s creative mind with the possibility of landscapes seen in trance-vision, or concepts like “each part is an illusion” understood as thoughts heard in rhythmic mythological time. Circles Matter, because “every brain has an inferno to occupy.” — Kristen Prevallet While reading Circles Matter, a mirage of lines spins around me. I feel as if plunged into a teeming interregnum, where the invisible brews and comes back to itself through “boundary-less sensations.” These Circles are made of “clues… hidden in the songs sung.” After an indeterminate duration of contact with the text, I feel as if Brian Lucas has chanted a hive of codes beckoning through “yellow” “light.” — Will Alexander Brian Lucas was born in Visalia, California in 1970. His previous publications include Telepathic Bones (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2010), Light House (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2006) and The Trustees in Spite of Themselves (Neko Buildings, 1999). He contributed drawings to Force Fields (Hooke Press, 2010), a collaboration with Andrew Joron. After several years living in Thailand, he now resides in Oakland, California where he plays in the spontaneous music ensemble Cloud Shepherd. Book Information: · Paperback: 100 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-093-4 $16

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    A triple play. Brian Lucas— painter, poet, musician—eye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is awake with profound and restless detail. Out of the ballpark. I await more. — David Meltzer Shock is the awe of reading—“a fable folded into sea.” The elemental act of reading is physical as well as chemical, a catalyst transforming the coastline of clouds into the graceful synaesthetic prosody of Circles Matter. The circles that matter are lines of approach, the “Contents” describing 25 poems and 3 drawings, from “Awe” to “Sketch of an Eclipse.” Brian Lucas’s elegant Circles Matter moves time, in time, “Never resting as ideal state.” —Norma Cole The creative mind is a vast and never-still momentum of thoughts giving way to images and metaphors that, when followed, reveal paths connecting suns and cities, galaxies and cells. Brian Lucas has found a way to navigate the language of this complicated field in a way that fills the reader’s creative mind with the possibility of landscapes seen in trance-vision, or concepts like “each part is an illusion” understood as thoughts heard in rhythmic mythological time. Circles Matter, because “every brain has an inferno to occupy.” — Kristen Prevallet While reading Circles Matter, a mirage of lines spins around me. I feel as if plunged into a teeming interregnum, where the invisible brews and comes back to itself through “boundary-less sensations.” These Circles are made of “clues… hidden in the songs sung.” After an indeterminate duration of contact with the text, I feel as if Brian Lucas has chanted a hive of codes beckoning through “yellow” “light.” — Will Alexander Brian Lucas was born in Visalia, California in 1970. His previous publications include Telepathic Bones (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2010), Light House (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2006) and The Trustees in Spite of Themselves (Neko Buildings, 1999). He contributed drawings to Force Fields (Hooke Press, 2010), a collaboration with Andrew Joron. After several years living in Thailand, he now resides in Oakland, California where he plays in the spontaneous music ensemble Cloud Shepherd. Book Information: · Paperback: 100 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-093-4 $16

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    A triple play. Brian Lucas— painter, poet, musician—eye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is awake with profound and restless detail. Out of the ballpark. I await more. — David Meltzer Shock is the awe of reading—“a fable folded into sea.” The elemental act of reading is physical as well as chemical, a catalyst transforming the coastline of clouds into the graceful synaesthetic prosody of Circles Matter. The circles that matter are lines of approach, the “Contents” describing 25 poems and 3 drawings, from “Awe” to “Sketch of an Eclipse.” Brian Lucas’s elegant Circles Matter moves time, in time, “Never resting as ideal state.” —Norma Cole The creative mind is a vast and never-still momentum of thoughts giving way to images and metaphors that, when followed, reveal paths connecting suns and cities, galaxies and cells. Brian Lucas has found a way to navigate the language of this complicated field in a way that fills the reader’s creative mind with the possibility of landscapes seen in trance-vision, or concepts like “each part is an illusion” understood as thoughts heard in rhythmic mythological time. Circles Matter, because “every brain has an inferno to occupy.” — Kristen Prevallet While reading Circles Matter, a mirage of lines spins around me. I feel as if plunged into a teeming interregnum, where the invisible brews and comes back to itself through “boundary-less sensations.” These Circles are made of “clues… hidden in the songs sung.” After an indeterminate duration of contact with the text, I feel as if Brian Lucas has chanted a hive of codes beckoning through “yellow” “light.” — Will Alexander Brian Lucas was born in Visalia, California in 1970. His previous publications include Telepathic Bones (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2010), Light House (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2006) and The Trustees in Spite of Themselves (Neko Buildings, 1999). He contributed drawings to Force Fields (Hooke Press, 2010), a collaboration with Andrew Joron. After several years living in Thailand, he now resides in Oakland, California where he plays in the spontaneous music ensemble Cloud Shepherd. Book Information: · Paperback: 100 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-093-4 $16

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    Circles Matter by Brian Lucas


    A triple play. Brian Lucas painter, poet, musicianeye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is awake with profound and restless detail. Out of the ballpark. I await more. David Meltzer Shock is the awe of readinga fable folded into sea. The elemental act of reading is physical as well as chemical, a catalyst transforming the coastline of clouds into the graceful synaesthetic prosody of Circles Matter. The circles that matter are lines of approach, the Contents describing 25 poems and 3 drawings, from Awe to Sketch of an Eclipse. Brian Lucass elegant Circles Matter moves time, in time, Never resting as ideal state. Norma Cole Brian Lucas was born in Visalia, California in 1970. His previous publications include Telepathic Bones (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2010), Light House (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2006) and The Trustees in Spite of Themselves (Neko Buildings, 1999). He contributed drawings to Force Fields (Hooke Press, 2010), a collaboration with Andrew Joron. After several years living in Thailand, he now resides in Oakland, California where he plays in the spontaneous music ensemble Cloud Shepherd.

    Book Information: Paperback: 100 pages Binding: Perfect-Bound Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] ISBN: 978-1-60964-093-4 $16 Buy it here or Buy It At Amazon

    Awe
    X is a lyre or mountain range fable folded into sea

    Choir of revolt a miserable mirage occupied by specters launched from a nether eye covered with soot and bream

    Corridor with memory end letters and numbers brand its walls

    Here, the tree is silent world reverence lit ruins with skulls in relief having no roots spread across cracked lightning vista replaced by inner expanse

    Sight streams along until starpoint is enacted then dust but what dust it is! spooned into vertigos spiced by intrusion

    Seeing a face in every leaf settled on a seed of syllables spoken by the eye

    my tongue gone missing

    10

    Nigh Road
    The walk across a perfect furrow revealed its hidden slant as the valley subsides into microtones. A thicket housing skyline that promises to implode its particulars waited for our approach. Even particles have no say as we pace, take up space, string a wondering through hells finest vowels prone to shift without error. How can I stretch this moment disintegrating; it hardly resembles itself in its transparency and is buttressed by tuneless regard.

    Ebb from splendor, this submission.

    For Gustaf Sobin

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    Glimpse
    It contains but cannot stay full

    It has roots and leaves yet is still barren

    Sound or no sound neither either nor or

    If not now then when or will that wont be said or better left undead in the throat

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    Forth
    palpitant layer

    so expectant

    delirious mark on the spot

    where wind shines from a pioneer bud

    erases allusion

    to fragment

    slender

    rare grasp

    13

    Born
    Glint, glimmer not glamour Into beyond-number and definition Finally free of an elsewhere that Resembles not knowing where I am Where I was not I But a pigeon in a book about penguins Touched by the instant of ignition

    14

    Pins of Light
    Temples for the unadorned exist at the edges in the abyss outer limits unfold

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