BY
VERNON FRAZER
http://chalkeditions.blogspot.com
THREE LONGPOEMS
CONTENTS
FREE FALL 7
FREE FLIGHT 31
GROUND ZERO 69
FREE FALL
FREE FALL
NO MORE, NO MORE
-9-
Where genre succeeds, all else fails.
OF COURSE, OF COURSE!
But
what is, is what is
not
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whether it can be so
is the matter
of its energy
of strictures imminent.
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If not for the tights of her morals
strictures would asphyxiate
on auto insurance claims,
their dreary sameness.
REMOTE
is the occlusion of face
the artery must go to the vestibule
a student of the undoored locks
culture occult
a centered result
MUST
prevail
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revile
reveal
reveille
( or not
indefinite dependencies
whereas startling strictures ring
stalling the pulse of ventricles
clamoring against the crustacean shell, swelling
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QUICKENING
of all delay,
its decaying essence
turgid to the touch
inasmuch as its varied outcome,
such as:
at pace.
(Omigod!
not
with
standing!)
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If so, then the perennials must wander
the archetype desert, a locust Sahara tour
remote by the desert sea, certainly a bargain
for the cost buds.
Nourishing flourishing
rosebuds snow pods
growing blowing
winds sand
of time change
RESCINDS
the very fact
of
TRINE SHAME
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WE MIGHT AS WELL
Or, wherever
unfolds
to the millennium.
I N, C O M P L E TE / IN PROCESS
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BLINDED BY SIGHT
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To obey
is
to deny
a hybrid
For / ever
the chill moves against will’s resistance,
never insistent on
the direction of bikinis in autumn.
of leeing there.
locution
the factitiously obvious especially when features cannot condone
facetiously oblivious the dawning of the new brood, so daring
to the seed of its fawning maker in its sculpted stance, its bearing so
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as all things would be so if they were
so solicitous or not. The misbegotten
parable breeds arable secrets, finding
And yet,
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more came from the mountains of epic
lattice, a long climb for forks uncertain of the tine
at its
PRONG!
the stab back, its retort
acknowledged its dis-
contiguity, the text of the
report a porpoise leap
Silence
protested the roots of its origins
in discontiguity,
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if continuity persists in its present sense the tense will demand separation a room of its
own for storing faces of dead presidents unimpeachable security essence preserved glass
cases on display daily demanding sequence or ample sampling of the illusion thereto
whereby the powers that define reality shall empower their subjectivity through swimming
lessons in the void
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or declare its presence
through assertions
of sense
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beyond the apprehension of thongs and tines forking legs and spines through hermetic
displays of gourmet appetite concealed in kitchens of the mind raining supreme over picnic
benches of the unforgotten dismembered in essence of string elastic plastic its monastic
past the forerunner of the unacknowledged gift bestowed upon the age of season withheld
for reasons obscure as the secret texts of recipes astrological forecasts repasts washing
memory clean of all effulgence its dimming glow the present below which all sunder must
rent a partitioning to petition the sundry whose efforts delay the
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definite particle
its substantial abuse
reduced to chemical independence,
______________________________
scoop the petition comping feet clomping behind ahead alongside competition erasing
memory trace by trace copying its original the shell left in place deriding flowers and thyme
its carnival fragrance rooted in coronal occlusion behind which the shadow passes into
catheters of the mind misbegotten liquids overflowing impassioned signatures wherever
the meet rinds its way home the hearth Janus flames both ways blaming ambiguity for its
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failure to provide appropriate direction to the insurrection of its campfire thongs of
protests thongs of meat thongs of girls that greet naked thought projection with chaste
redirection of primal urges horticulturally unseen with yet another
______________________________
wields its
upstart part
moribund
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antly. And to leave
its etchings trace
on the race’s rotted cliches
stays aloof
from the stance
of impossible distance
Plutonian
in its methane
malfeasance.
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sd the temptress,
seamstress of Time & all
its dropped stitches
staring into the Fall
of Math Anxiety.
Arable, yes,
bearable, no
insensitive to
reclusive dissidents
at half-mast
terror
their
masked
in half-stitches
laughter
apocalyptic
after lunch
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continuity and other naked affairs the shell
persists that resist fenestral tampering of clowns
left
in its the barker’s green pitch in the hay
in place
present forensic evidence of amperage
deriding
sense under attack. Where shall all the backers go when the
flowers
the tense front is a circus kewpie dolls in thongs
and thyme
will demand looking beyond the Renaissance edge, its pulver
its
separation the tone of apocalypsed nuance, a subtle treasure
carnival
a room the hayrides measure in stilts, the cattle in feet. The
fragrance
of inches grow indignant at the viper’s edge. But falling is
rooted
its own not an occlusion so much a stricter interpretation
in coronal
for storing of capillary madness carried to a feverish degree,
occlusion
faces of heartless to the shadows minding its grave
behind
dead demeanor, demented like ripening fruit on vines
which the
presidents of the unclustered, and who shall give them light?
shadow
unimpeach- The photosynthesis of neon stranglers? The tempests
passes into
able of centrifugal fugued force? Of course knot.
Can’t tie me down to the bladder chord harmony with catheters
security of the mind
essence fecal wishes & stethoscopes. Nope. Not atall.
They got me coming, they got me going misbegotten
preserved liquids
glass cases both ways to Sunday Monday Tuesday and back
in the mirror again to see their reflective force overflowing
on display impassioned
the self sees the other self in itself outside itself
daily signatures
a hallucination off to one side beside oneself
demanding wherever
for how else to know all that can be meaningless illusion
sequence the meet
in the snake pit of Latin where scholars kiss asps
or ample rinds its way
for ten yore saxophones of ancient muzak
sampling home
winding from the west at can force cloaking we-all isms
of the the hearth
in raincoats of gold braided antiquity.
illusion Janus
The cold rages in quickly against the dense rages
thereto flames both
of overturned shrapnel. The perfect sense of being
whereby ways
somewhere else for something other than the mirror
the powers blaming
looking out for itself with brazen point to
that define ambiguity
its bronze-veiled stare wherever its sees them coming,
reality for its
whichever direction the power runs a cable
shall failure
electronic currency the sine qua qua qua of Godot’s
empower to provide
freon anticipation molecules. Where fools await
their appropriate
the fire the water sings citrus ballads for the quickening
subjectivity censures of the century’s last centurion crawl. All shall direction
through mark this empty moment of renewal with dread to the
swimming or peanut butter. Better fed than said, especially in insurrection
lessons social situations of empty rumors, founded in situ with of its
in the void flagrante delicto serving as your ghost campfire
thongs
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the saintly reprimands continue seizures to gall.
TABLOID REVENGE
in moments of secret
constriction.
of recent concupiscence
downtrodden, weary,
the night’s pleasure past, he sings
song of pecuniary rancor,
as never before.
And never again
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shall finitude seep
of purple terror
shall treasure
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bestowing the direction
the past shall take through the future
of now, of bikinis atolls
of destiny
their lineage on file and filled
obvious
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in, of course, the most subtle dissonance.
Meanwhile,
the facetiously oblivious
stamp rapaciously toward
privatization of destiny
prevented
the redundant
to massacre Flagstaff
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FREE FLIGHT
FREE FLIGHT
S
E
S
I
R
THE PHOENIX
s
e
h
s
a
e
h
t
m
o
r
f
p
U
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into life
into flight
into
g
n
d i
e d
s n
c e
e c
n s
d a
i
n
g into the great
ZAP!
no stocking matters contingent
on flying reindeer odes or outlying modalities
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in search of
or
predatory butterlies
in Leap Years costuming
from unsightly transformations
discoloration a given among the
d
r
o
p d
p r
i o
n p d
g p r
s i o
n p d
g p r
s i o
n p d
g p r
s i o
n p
g p
s i
n
g
s
FLIGHT!
AZURE CROSSINGS
of language
of thought
of surface
imperatives
sought with the vigor
of archaeological wisdom
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of uncertainty there can be no doubt.
Without such imperatives the candle cannot glisten
nor the trenchcoat listen from its somber shadow
to the chattering above clattering to deride his silence
& its physics cannot deny the aerial demented
scattering to seek protection from the trajectories of
d
r
o
p d
p r
i o
n p d
g p r
s i o
n p d
g p r
s i o
n p d
g p r
s i o
n p
g p
s i
n
g
s
so integral to
FLIGHT!
and all the integers
inherent in the lapidary oscillation
of isometric factories
a refractory presence fraught
with penalties of individuation
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& casualties redundant
as it
s
d
d n
e e
s c
c s
e a
n
d
s
transmittal of beige
where cattle graze products
of indeterminate obstinacy
abstinence its only known cure
the known quantifies its
ignorance smug as a bug in a
windshield. Wherever the bovine
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lambent on history’s clatter
the ordeal pursues its ideal
resolution, springs coiled
in self-referentiality
deferential to
THE SKY
THE SKY
THE SKY
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the figurative’s fly
with sly rotations
egomaniacal carnage of
uncloseted thespians pursuing
new
heights
up ladders of chronology
down freight elevators of ontology
to
g
i i
a a
p p
dis s
l r
y y
n n
g
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nonchalant streams of palaver
calibrating nuptial endeavor
with an incumbent riding his
cadaver into the great victory
celebration
unknown
f
a f
l a f
l l a f
s l l a
s l l
s l
s
let it be said
ashes to crashes
dust to bust,
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even flight
an incendiary tract
ensues
ASHES TO ASSES!
DUST TO DUSK!
BENIGHT THE PHYSICAL!
THE TREATISE HAILS ITS DROPPINGS!
THE TREATISE TRAILS ITS DROPPINGS!
AND MENTORS YEARN FOR LAVENDER APOSTASY
GLEANING WISDOM FROM THE THREE-FOLD PATH
REPLETE WITH THE WISDOM OF THE TABLES
TABULATED WITH RASA AS ITS NEBULOUS GUIDE.
THE COLUMNAR DISTORTIONS PROPORTIONATE
THE WISDOM DISCOURSES WITHIN
THE TRIPLISTIC MODALITY OF WHICH ONE
OF / OR ALL THREE OF ITS COMPONENTS
MAY ISSUE ADVICE WISDOM KNOWLEDGE
PASSION COMPASSION DISPASSION
ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES
AND MANDATES OF
-42-
wherever whenever whatever
flight stringent abundant
modalities intrinsic antagonistic
perpetuate merit factors
denial welcomes preside
radiate transplant negate
all some all
factors rudimentary primal
take ambiguities scrutiny
steps with empowering
to certainty its
wherever whenever whatever
you may deem appropriate to expropriate universal particulars from unsavory situations in
which earth pulls atmospheric compounds into the carbonic womb entombs the airy light
in grappling compounds whirling flesh ensues eschewing nutrients ground down by
old dentures flossed & polished & indentured to the corporeal relics unencumbered by
FLIGHT
as only those gaseous compounds would know stealing verbatims from Dutch Uncles to
overthrow nationalist regimes in utero dealing plumbing fixtures to misguided missals
resplendent with blasphemous protrusions scantily elegant & tired in the vestibules of
knotted fates rambunctious hawsers & unkempt hemp discarding the finitudes of hanging
bosses tossing dice in aquariums where the masses transform prefixed phoenix parts from
ASHES TO ASSES
&
DUST TO DUCKS
-43-
notwithstanding quackery in its highest forms the norm for metempsychotics committed to
bodies for indeterminate periods subject to intervallic assessments harmonic
reconstructions carpetbagging the Southern tiers weeping hysterectomies of hooded
leaders burning crossly on lawns of soil enriched with gingivitis grinning gums drop as they
speak the Tempe rate zone posted its Tuscon movements to retirement villages in which
the ashes
rise
of the
PHOENIX
even Birds
-44-
wrapping up their confirmations
so that you can let one go
get me not
in summer’s boldness
the proclivities derange
arrange
breath’s humming coldness
your derivatives will change
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Hear the bones crackle
to dust. Here the bones crackle
to dust. In weeping silence
the wings
that brought me
hear
them rustling through their transformation
so that flight can make them grow
sound
as a seasonal
appendage
upending the unending
springs that coil stings
when sprung the strings
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wherever birds shall
fly.
riffs
smoke their fire in legendary snorkels feverish with apocrypha stroke desire with accidental
forklifts integral to the rising process as determined in accordance with presumptuous
metabolic sources glandular in their mist not a single secretion between them but for the
shared metaphysics of laundromats complacent in their spandexed latitudes exquisite with
stretch formations chasing the limits of hair curlers and snapping gum clicking the track for
hooded sound engineers procuring forbidden smoke their fire a polysonic flurry of process
ensuring marginal platitudes proscribing enunciation of denunciation with syncopated fury
no limits to their bold transgression in the gravel pits of recreational pursuit during
evolution’s blast days everyone sipping cappuccino praising their arcane tidbits of
regression all points aggressive in a suit of cashmere the tip of the gray Stetson fedora
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RISING
from sundry sources
lipping apocalypse in smoke-filled tombs stating
ether/ore
in exclusive terms redacting
as superfluous the inclusive option
both/am
in cold pursuit of the redemptive quest
incestuously transcribed in the hidden tablets
advertised on latenight cabal TV
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the rightful spread of all wings across delusionary tables
enabling fables of the spurious to apply anecdotal credentials
to reverential supplicants endeavoring the weave of matter
to wind rings of kindness around ordinary ampules
either
gastric fluidity of a seasonal nature
its stature forbidding all future displays
of fortitude
/
penitent in its brevity
conciliatory in its threatening
grow against all who would
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or
deflect the sense from its tangent,
whichever contact may greet its best.
For the rest nothing is austere but the
peril of sequenced events trenched
RISING
evidence unfolds, mounts a steed
for hire. Lugubrious arsenals buckshot the sky where
FLIGHT
attacks the earthbound sirens. Whistle
the haze full-toned its blush. the thrush awaits with open
fangs. The trench wages victims of the flesh
get me not
in summer’s boldness
the proclivities derange
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arrange
breath’s humming coldness
your derivatives will change
or
the imperatives will burn reluctant cinder
tinder to the barer of the pair, all eloquence notwithstanding.
Nor the risen to undertake preliminary strategic
planning with deadpan exuberance
lurching in search of
RISING
THE PHOENIX
p
u
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takes
FLIGHT
The search
for survival though revival
quests enough
survival. Through
revival enough quests
the search for
WINGS
of dodecaphonic ascent
capillaries fervent
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with enamel
the postulates await
their theorem.
to stare the blue in the face till they drop from observation
in the air traffic controller’s situation
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who but a union could grieve?
Take wing! Take wing!
Sing as bolded lettering
taken as a line,
the shoe fits.
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against personal reflections in the eye
of a hurricane, deflect tense defectors
a jazz of language,
ear of eye,
eye
the left swings to a bird on the wing, singing, the right rings to a coal trane howling
steam in the night prophetic, each of them a king of the kindred ear where sense
becomes sound becomes sight becomes seer seeing seen on a scene beyond
the scene of the noirly-abled frequenting the historic district of the post-Pollock line
in conceptual motifs black as Henry’s first Ford & the next green million
vipers added to the mix muggling mystic brew smuggling the struggle nimby home
of harmonic substitutes & allegedly disrespective modalities allied against the sallies
of the muted in spirit the dumb of foot, acute or chronic, hear it brush the ear
or shriek the canvas word the page a process in transition never to be changed
rearranged deranged estranged alienated ill-fated destitute brute taking the name
of the label in vain the style as content the substance as form the epochal sable leaping
onto the back of a frightened mink on a guestbed dementedly vapid tracks
the hunted with a cane while water witches cook brews beneath the surface
of their welcoming barks. Ascension was always the intention, even where
klactoveedsedsteen was available by prescription only giant steps were made
in the procurement process through the efforts of those in need of koko
un poco loco the spirits came un poco loco the spirits un poco loco the spirits
the same for each, the treachery of the figuratively deaf blind & dumb
monkey see monkey do monkey hum a few bars & fake it, take it out
take it where air has never flown before, take it to the top not from where
those say who do not know, no secret but secret knowledge unhidden
in the quest for free form bound by associated conventions
dismantled intentions yellow brick road to the level Hell
its circles un-Danted, its lines indented, its measure invented with signature phrase
building resistance among its leitmotifs bothered to abstraction
the bucket sprays a wall of sight with sound
around which aficionados murmur
the bird or the trane
each one the same plane & one of their own both in
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FLIGHT
a jazz of eye,
a language of ear
to new life, to
FLIGHT!
Across the sty
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g
n
d i
e d
s n
c e
e c
n s
d a
i
n
g into the great
Dutch Uncle in the sky puffing his dirigible across the day darkening
his rhetoric with fitful spins of retrograde propellers his jet engines
unknown to quantum mechanics in blue worksuits intoning
technical exhortations to blasphemy among the economically
discarded & their hatching broods. The retarded movement
of obsolete diseases pleases the recumbent eye of the
affluent, seizing his dodecaphonic greed through
apertures of needy fingers his actual tonic
a dominant thirst for sight of the earth-
bound taking
FLIGHT
and pausing
to admire their wing
formations a liquid that
refreshes tired sensibilities
at the threshold of reedy affluence
with prophetic babies riding baskets
through the rushes, bull-like as only a cow
can be when exercising its gender differential
amid tensile etchings of winch and pulley stretching
the rigor taut at private institutions of higher learning
or aching for a better alternative unstated even denied
as the ruddy face appeals to the Master of the Sky to deliver his
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d
r
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p d
p r
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g p r
s i o
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s i o
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s i o
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s
a h s e a s a h
s e a h s e s e h s
s s h s s e
a e h a
s e s s
e h
h s a s h h e
s e s s e s
h a a s
downing to raise as Arizona retirement communities shuffleboard bingo & swing the dust
band of crowning Stetson natives riding restless in the southwestern dust a treasure on the
make looking for blue-haired ladies to make hay take wing take everything that isn’t
nailed down to the deeply-rooted tumbleweed indigenous to moral issues elegant in their
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thoughtful persuasion to mundanity
no capacity for mendacity ensuing only control
of thought control of opaque dissonances
in the dusk
an eye awaits
its sky of music
its ear of color
RISING
there can be no
phoenix
jazz of eye,
language of ear
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RISE ACROSS THE SUNSET!
FLY ACROSS THE NIGHT!
BRING HOME THE SECRET DEPTHS OF THE MADDENED
THEIR CRIES THE TONALITY OF ANCIENT ARCADES
CRY AGAINST THE SKY!
RING THE DARKNESS WITH SHADOWS!
BRING HOME THE GOLDEN SPEARS!
COME HOME CARRIED ON A FULL MOON SHIELD!
YIELD TO THE PRESCIENCE OF NUDE INVESTORS
PRUDITORY IN ECONOMICS ONLY DOES THEIR MORALITY PLAY!
of fruitful things
gone to ashes
gone to dusk
& buggerall
-60-
sodden roosters march presence immune to essence
while their cocked form sonnets forward
la dolte vida
nothing lasts forever
only there
can the lost substance be,
found, unfound, unsubstantiatedly true
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as the rigor of anecdote demands
of its young, the argot of recycling vapors
layering ozone in the salons of the flesh
stopovers in Phoenix
layovers in cheap motels
of rumored stewardless legend
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NOTHING!
not even the process
devoured by starving millions in Third World countries
a generous corporate contribution
h
a
n
g
i
n
g
a
s c s
r
o
t h e p a g e
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NOTHING!
(a fate of
indecision
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grope the groupies
gripe the grippers
ripping off the set
Gone Hollywood
with footprint aspirations
& Chinese
the accommodations
trusting to blind flight a burning thistle
Screening
the encyclical process
a jazz of language,
ear of eye,
-65-
Men without windows
live that way. Open doors
a jazz of language,
ear of eye,
eye
refurbishing unwitnessed decibels
with watt’s age & fern bar takeouts
Chinese, acryllic
footsteps attackl
(a fate of
indecision
Gone Hollywood
and other masters
of great certainty)
the remnants of Grummond’s
smoking days delays while they
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up
from
the ashes
THE PHOENIX
R
I
S
E
S
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GROUND ZERO
Ground Zero
[] [] []
/SPARE
minimalist
mute
-ation
-71-
where it all begins
flat across the desert silence the muted solo heartbeats at a minimum spare the mutations
extrapolating currency from the source rumbling its uranium muse spinning the dread of
all creation severed from the absinthe’s flow where no other can go be fore (or aft)
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accusing the intimate of sheep when fed itself
when a banjo steal will do the opposite
retracts defeats the greater
perpetrators
the tumbler meets its fill water seals
the leather hides rattle in the barn itself off from the neat
the ride stumbles underfoot off canticle mutes
from spur mutations
the glossaries of the chanticleer
BEGINS:
once upon a jeep graveling heartbeat across flatline readings the cloud mushrooms in the
distance of its conceiver’s eye winking slyly at the Hiroshima of history the roadside stands
selling fried armadillos the mutations of hundred foot cacti muted free improvisation tried
at its source the heart throbbing growths in the distance of ideas felt heard scene its
presence immediate no time to wait nor hesitate raining gravel raining snares raining words
from sources predating predatory growths of liposuction veneer twisted ruins of fabric
of mind twisted ruins of kind pursuits skeletal as Burma Shave roadside memories
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not an option
nor a compositional ploy
of Ancient Mariners landlocked
in the literary moment
mutating sound
as life imitates evolution
or versa’s vise removes its grip
loquacious magic
in the moment’s frenzied delight
as platitude or insignia
waving its muster like hot dogs
-74-
tumbleweed heartbeats tossing heat
where grain denies itself as other & seeds
in loops of animosity
circling the animate in their dreary code
to the moment
where growth explodes its
CONTINUES
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pledges itself to distraction
as another past blips gravel across the heartbeat of terrain
tumbling past other mirrored inflections
humming
under water
heartbeats flat against the desert throb hooves
percussion’s tint winding west where the east lies
under
hapless rays of the betrayal of oak residue
clinging to unseated beliefs in the heartfelt
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water
dusting matter into energy hydroelectric
nuclear Strontium 90 windfall other acid rains
decreed by acrid reigns to mutate the spirit
the evanescence
of storm clouds
gathering flowers
while the may-
pole twists slowly
in the wind-down
through the very
stem of being’s
most intricate
thrumthrumthrum
WE ARE
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the arid. There
where no man
nor water
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Dangers pose the worst
just ask any
or left
in the fields
of the gored
reach for the apex of gingivitis united in discrepancies of the very who dwell in the house
of each divided query well nor teach the nadirs of notwithstanding time-crux redundancies
derided clocks & other time pieces of high noon scattered over sand of weathered brain
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dust tarred & feathered in future times past so tense no tense invents nor purchases for
there
beats (blARES
where
(blARES beats
NINE
millimeters seeking to balance
the microtonal ballast leaking
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like a rattler’s death heart beat
away from
GROUND ZERO
to the
to the
Still,
the least must
rise
with the vigor of escargot
repleting
the size of demonstrative
escarole
ferreting the rigorous depletion
unslumbered
as the nascent turret lathing
lumbering
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basses bowed arco pizzicato
plucking
the sounds of feathers
from
the ducks of living geese
EIGHT
bestows its blooming grandeur
its weight looming slowly, but growing
ever blander in its lassitude. It
waits. The heartbeat blander than gloom
releases its glowing purr glandular increases
the flow of excrement
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to the harbinger of latent fury
surging forefronts to the rear
clinging tentatively to the mere
abundance of fictive fact
SEVEN
time’s over, the ref said, riffing his skiff or the wattage
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a loco pride
in the essence of essence
if the known
be truth or declared truant as such
the note-wary
shall hear the strumpet’s siren call
scary as all
sacramental barflies to the mustard
of guillotines
blazing both barrels heads will rumple
stilts kin
breed with police badges
threatening to
feed cross-country tourists
to the wedge
they form in the flying face of local life
no room left
for emendations accommodations or aberrations
nor bereft
of situations commendations for citations
of accuracy in
SIX
mediums
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its leftmost utterance retracts, retracts
light refracts
coming
down
to
FIVE
water seals from the glossaries
of mystic texts self-proclaimed
protect the leakage of private
truths seeking
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a (s) (n)
other answers not to be found
in the wreckage of
blast
or whatever mutating sequence
CONTINUES
there, or wherever the croupier’s gamble
leaps the sun: centimeters of metric tales enamored
against the hoary multiple exponential with light
distinguished / extinguished
follies verge air wherever the
hunger strikes
There,
FOUR
ask not
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the mutation’s mindly blare
fourth coming out of all sole evenings
intrepid with conclusions of foregone delight
nor
not
[] [] []
withhold. The matter weeps at its reckoning scandal its mordent. Hopes inverted is just us
delayed, no matter. How far the crow. Flies the straightlaced fie the intern and his cara-
pace accruing in the armadillar transfer of heartbeat energy to the chordal hum of
thrumming basses beneath the blare, raising it higher. The note as electrode, the neutron
as sound node: akin within the heartbeat breathing its rising pace. Charge the tumble-
weed: electrified tendrils reek out the firesome stench, slither desert eels gliding over gravel
the dry snakes of Eden charged the sun’s anticipated brightening enlarge the sky to
encompass. The ship estate barges star-bored into ports of calling fish through the biennial
stages of attrition documented by independent sources of hearsay. The evidentiary
thrum blares bass drums thunder snares pop motors rev ready run the edge jump as
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due distaste. Inside the clutches far pavilion
the papillon deeds its kiss to the gravel-paced
rumpus of eggshells
remunerating the hen for its young
betrothal of love
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graveling data’s groveling blue feet
of course on course in the course of it as it
is
or
may
THREE
be
wandering solitude
monastic in the stress of its kiss
other
wise to sharpening ways to sharing plaster casements
militia shelters hurrying ahead of the dread apocalypse
whose initial helter-skelter rush to darkened basement
blast
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scurrying ferrets internalized the weighing dangers off
set in actors’ trailers the reel terror lurking in the mirror
mutation blaring is reflection of hordes hurrying toward
a (s) (n)
historic rain prepares the autumn of its last nobility
in pursuit of a ductile recreation vehicle repairing
to the last despair inherent in the last metaphysical
becoming
TWO
musics heard
one ear
turned deaf
piercing
its very
nostrils
blARES
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the the
bell magic
free of its
powers blast
under pinned
its the
converging
ONE
PERMUTATION WORDS ANOTHER
PER MUTATION WARDS AN OTHER
[] [] []
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Crystal anodynes crush the unhurried.
heartbeats Synapses sneak their hockers in tow. thrum. thrum
Astride cataleptics the sea mists emerge
heart.beats gauntlets tossing the fro from the two to
thrum ,thrum
heartbeats market the hazelnuts dressed trans- thrum. thrum
missions, watching their epithets gargle
heart.beats & glow. TO THE LIGHT, TO THE LIGHT thrum, thrum
cry minds counting numbers between
heartbeats number. Starts the factional breakdown thrum. thrum
to fractions. Actions thump attractions thrum, thrum
heart.beats bump corporate mergers to copulate
heartbeats seats in backs of auditoriums ever. The thrum. thrum
watch heats. The boil waters. The lamb
heart.beats seeks its glow beside the still wattage. thrum, thrum
Electricity flows sounds to the finger’s
heartbeats touch and. The moment is. Near the end thrum. thrum
of the sequence of anticipation squatting thrum, thrum
heart.beats for its leap the crackle sings its singeing
heartbeats music one last breath before merging thrum. thrum
the urgent force that follows its own
heartbeats thrum, thrum
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a (s) (n) other blast
at
currency from
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