slang arrows

slang arrows of illusion tasked for per
formance, resonance, skater on a shimmy down :
legitimate is wholesome. but we want colors ! 
in a space renowned for science, nothing comes 
to mind but please and marriage, diligent.

1/3/07

angst at the gunning engines of my elders

Mr. Anxiety      of Infrastructure
Mr. Willbilly      Torchus And Soundings
he scare but      he saviour south 
it’s out of watching      that washing rivets reharps
that’s a blast      betone several steeps
that’s my born      seeking that leaps and sings
you’re for real! dog!      how many young can’t

2/20/07

variation on the previous post

now turning to reading (tornados in exile)

2/17/07

Torah reading (the narrative of the individual soul)

There’ll be no end of the cycle until the round ceases
and we’re left with only now — tōra — nûn —
the cycle demands we wander in golus, in exile with the Hebrews,
with Moses who drew us from desolation in Egypt the narrow place.

Moses, doomed to arise, throw off Egyptian robes,
crack Pharaoh’s magicians over the head with this staff,
lead his stiff-necked people 40 years in the wilderness —
never himself to behold the allotted land.

And this is the Torah, the turning, the holy superstructure
of a created universe. On the second day the land
was set aside for his people — not for Moses.

But on the second day the land was also set aside only for him,
all within him, holiness contained the multitudes brought
to that promised land, continuously reborn as light, darkness, Eden.

8/27/05

Torah

these books expand.

these books receive.

these books are not read.

these books were not written.

these books fill the empty space.

these books waste away or burn in a powerful blaze.

these books save.

these books condemn.

these books enlighten.

these books are on your shelf.

these books will have nothing to do you with you.

every page means only to say Hallelujah!

these books are a pathogen.

these books are a living disease.

these books grow with the times.

these books speak.

these books represent an equally distant age when no law was observed in any land.

these books exist.

these books are not written.

these books receive all who seek them out.

4/8/06

you have to be in the right place

you have to be in the right place

the soul

you have to be silent and waiting

for the indigence to burn off

how much advice can a hungry man give?

the wild questions come with full force

after no one listens anymore

dare to be frustrated, to hate,

not caring and to smother the soul

in seeing names and commenting forcefully,

the past comes back

we don’t want the past to come back

bury it

2/9/07

Poetry, our kind meditation

Poetry, our kind meditation,
holds no promises, but patience –
see how, every school that plies
the ashen page, its name supplies.

And looking in the cup of air
we find delightful words are there.
Whatever hum the street arouses
gifts us thoughts for darker houses.


10/8/06

fashion at 10 below

       Ralph Lauren rolls
       but bed
                  everyone else drools
       everyone else wears my shirts
                          salve said saint
               my blue eyes
          badinage per blindfold

2/7/07

god on two channels

this god looks two ways this god speaks out of both sides this god turns in both directions this god stands at a black crossroads this god hiccups this god draws the two doors closed with a single motion.

8/27/05

red sky at morning - summer

lightning flash red

across her leg.

this morning 
the atmosphere shouted 
like it was hollering down

a barrel at a drunk squirrel
asleep at the bottom.


7/20/05

body modification on the radio.

body modification on the radio.

where the houses thin out away from the city
that’s where you find the people inside

are thinner, too.

1/2/07