Sonnet
Can I be sure time will stop for me
in the blaring release from a root
killed by oxygen? Obviously, yes:
one hand claps the asymptote to death
and the echo tunnels to a complex place
Adam fingered God in the ceiling rose
taking the whole for what it will be: brain
in anal lysis feeding the backed-up flux
at the storm drain to imaginary time
I shot my biopic to biofilm:
the p-brane sweeps a volume out; the worst
stain you can leave is still machine-washable
— o dry word work take up my reference
and go, this close to being the life.
from the French of Stéphane Mallarmé
The little boat without oars
sleeps by the post that shackles it —
on the water we are not as yet
reflected to raise the keepnet
the river with no other emotion
than blue daybreak idly
flows from Valvins to Samois
frigid beneath the caress
this sudden movement similar
to shaking off with a shoulder
the dark cargo of sleep
that all alone might test the willow
is Paul Nadar upright and green
casting the net wide open.
from Sourdough Mutation
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a code
retched
bodily
go blooded
orphan
go lily
oilskin
sheet
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beer dung
solero
in a moment
for life
●
modernity
no flight
pattern
embossed
costive
immortal toil
●
tibetan jet
light black
heart sick
promoters
bee-stung
axe
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oregon wood
cumulative
cool
weakening
off drystone
shine
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days are froth
stirred by frog
legs come
inside love
my scum
is setting
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a thread in drum stakes
cased the joint account
token encrypted diptych
in kit form owes
a camphor incus
inclusive sieve for fits
●
do something
winsome
emoting
to me
●
emissary Kong-tone
not gemlike
kill image agents
negative I’ve
the widow Hogan
downplayed
on film
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till death erase all ties
shallow me
me allowed to wail
hello meal
wedded to mallow
etherised all desire
●
rake-like father hands
write with a feather
featureless theft rites
the battle half
of the alphabet
to the fabled
bleeding birch
●
fallible alibi
fall loyal yellow owl
flutter lies bleeding linseed oil
allied to dealing speed
deep sorrow maniac worries
can I amass
more of these
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jelly tot
sortilege
totally
regressed
●
germolene animals
slammed in a kennel
mechanical molar sheen
needs you to die
lacking one chemical
o comedic tic
my kit-form
germ line
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marred epaulettes
telescopic dream sex
smeared kapok mark
the karmic pokemon
economy
o no my key
stage one
ageist ghosting
bitten off less
phoney self
fleshy shellfish
shy on a shelf
I feel
life
ish
●
spiral putt
breath token
acetone dough
deflate us
subtly fed
fly bottles
bottomless
om
let ketosis
be my
kenosis
●
self-transforming
machine elves
delivered adrenal cortex shots
to evident shaved xerox Scots
you blot the rocks
we’re buying
●
yang furniture you rang
out an intended line
deadline for one in ten
●
it used to being
emptied gripes
there is nothing
to think but of it
●
aphorist fog hat
a fat forest hog
●
codebase bebop
an epoch defaced mark
tactile pocket kettle
elected trick
skirt rickets to go
stowaway yaws
sway hams this way
as this may
dismay
●
whispering pismire
ribs in grass
ingress of resolve
you shun
honey
you know
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