I want to [un]bracket what I recognize; space hangs from the hooks, covered from head to foot in white veils,
a tune, a ? [a question mark], afloat on the DNA foam. There are the victims, there are the events. My god, so far, so close to
home: “We closed the house, cranked the Model-A, and started out, … over stony mountain ruts” …
talala, which has something to do with Blade Runner, talala, at least in France; never
in formal bodies or memory structures, or in animals, the cunts of paintings. / [slash]. “… Sometimes I think the future begins
at the bottom of lakes …” (Even Agamemnon in his thickheaded stupidity had a feel for the bottoms of lakes.
(I mean a feel for the gods the gods (Please tell those gods to quit
pummeling. CLOSE/CLOSE/CLOSE
PARENTHESES. Noon whistles, and he eats alone each day (“he’s in good company”). Am I [is Gwilym], if not the fox, at least the raven?
An iris rots in a vase above the fireplace. Each comma ticks like sleet against a windowpane.
Or if not the raven: some infinitely stuttering thing, like a traveler who’s never before been in an airport?
“Humble is the charity of early mornings. Everything that happens then must happen: to you, to me, to the whole world.” There is
no name for the earthquake that threw the all the words
off their pedestals. How do they do it, with no external organs? The weather, too, it is and isn’t. Ergo, vis-à-vis thy own Yar!, we ascertain that that thing in the mirror is closer to life than appears
[Note: Sources: SPD Fall 08 no. 4, starting w/ the last D and working back (I used ‘em all!). Craig Dworkin, “The Patmore Assumption”, at Monoecious House, Poetics No. 4, and “K”, at Deluxe Rubber Chicken #2; Marcella Durand, “Reading Postures 1”, at Jacket 11, and “Power-Ties”, at The Brooklyn Rail, October 2003; Jean-Michel Espitallier, Espitallier’s Theorem (trs. Marcella Durand and Michael Durand), at Kelly Writers House; Evelyn Duncan, “Picking Up”, at Poets.org; Caroline Dubois, “talala”, in You Are the Business (tr. Cole Swenson), and blurb for Dubois’ You Are the Business, at Burning Deck.com; Brandon Downing, “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth”, at Woodland Pattern; Kirsten Dierking, “Northern Oracle”, at Kirsten Dierking.com; Emanuel di Pasquale, “The Silver Lake Poems”, at Italian American Writers.com; James DenBoer, “Father Finds a Job in America”, in Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life (eds. Peter Oresick and Nicholas Coles), as seen at Google Books; Alan Baker, email, 8 June 2008; Gwilym Williams, review of Shearsman 71 & 72, at New Hope International Review; Richard Deming, “The Sound of Things and Their Motion”, as embedded in Williams’ review; Deming, as quoted in SPD blurb; Ales Debeljak, “Faces in Front of the Wall”, “At the Epicenter” (trs. Christopher Merrill and the author), at Ales Debeljak, The City & the Child; Jack Collom/Lyn Hejinian, “Questionably”, in Situations, Sings (not SPD); Bin Ramke, “Sad Houses”, in Tendrils (not SPD); Alan Davies, “Book 2”, at EPC; Ryan Daley, “Titled”, at Shampoo 27, “You make even milk bubbles seem like no fun, 31, m4w”, at Death Metal Poetry, 12 March 2008, “fractions/fracciones”, at The Hold; Michael Gizzi, SPD blurb for Daley’s Armored Elevator]
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