Yes, yes … but this is too uh, too much like
they congregated on the threshold of Earth to listen to the reading from the book of all things when the word was used as that spiky little brush you
lengthen your eyelashes with, the powdery chalks you draw across your cheek, and nibble through the spectra of,
lost in some box canyon, at a dead end,
who doesn’t love a small kingdom?, a frightened rabbit kicks its hind legs so hard that it can break its own back. She presses the knife against her thumb. Al-
ways, ssss, it came out, I will make your name great: and you shall be a blessing, sort of, the circum-
scription that circumscribes nothing,
or stroke the good, serious face of a horse! Or, as the poet (not me) tries to reassure himself after
the long honey sunlit journey into
this night - » blinding business, I’m standing erect / in the photograph. It’s the sea / in the background that’s tipping. And it was all
strange and it was all natural, as na-
tural as strange and strange as natural, as strange as strange and as natural as natural, kinda like my desire to quote the bit about the “Jew with a capital ‘T’”, in search of transportation or a postcard, who “begged his mole-
cules to link together”, who, “placed in a jar with air holes, she awaited her trial in a state of religious bliss.” Phusis kruptes-
thai philei, to quote Heraclitus: Error 404 - Not Found. Oh no! You looking for something just isn’t here! It was Valentine’s Day; the poet (not me) tried to make an artificial vagina out of stuff in the refrigerator.
[Note: Sources: SPD Fall 08 no. 2, starting w/B. Isaac Goldemberg, “Pact” (trs. Stanley H. Barkan with Wanda Rivera and Roy Cravzow), and Ilan Stavans, in a blurb about Goldemberg, at Zeek, September 2007; Ed Barrett, “IV. Lady” from Tell on You, at Shampoo 9; Michael Basinski, “The New Concrete”, at UbuWeb; Sandra Beasley, “Small Kingdom”, “Theories of Non-Violence”, at A&S Online; Liz Beasley, “The Pear”, at AGNI Online; Dan Bellm, “Blessing”, at Zeek, May 2007; Alexander Solzhenitsyn, as quoted by Aaron Belz, epigraph to Belz’s “Honeymoon in Altai”, at Jacket 12; Aaron Belz, “A Garden Patio”, at Jacket 15; Edmund Berrigan, “while walking in lately …”, at MIPOesias Magazine 2007; I skipped Jacqueline Borowick; Daniel Borzutzky, “Love in the Time of Poetry”, “Small Woman, Big Man”, at La Petite Zine 21; a search result while hunting down a bit of Anne Boyer, as found at Lisp Service; Anne Boyer, “Everything Nice Has a Crafted Satin Finish”, at Jacket 30. The Heraclitus, by the way translates as “nature loves to hide”]
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