I’m not
sure
if I’m
telling a story
here
or unveiling
my mania. It’s
like
the parable
of the wound
and
the voice.
Lava is everywhere.
A
wand passed
over the crowd.
The
wound cries
out. Someone, you
or
me, comes
forward, and says,
I
would like
to learn to
live,
finally. As
if death were
the
ace in
the hole. There’s
a
dog in
the hole. The
dog
is so
freaked out it
won’t
eat the
tranks. All we
can
do is
listen to it
howl.
Does he
know what black
milk
means? the
young tree wears
a
storm of
blossom beside the
bulldozer
and [the]
wires. Thre are
2
ways to
nagivage through this
thing.
They relate
to “embarrassment for
the
flailing comedian” –
and to “the
virgin
boys given to
premature ejaculation”. Or
perhaps
a calculus
that begins I
too
come from
the city of
dolls.
What’s up
with all the
beheaded
Barbies, by
the way? We've
all
heard the
millions of stories
about
beheaded Barbies.
Can someone explain
that
to me?
There enters the
Chorus of Women and unfortunately in the confusion the beginnings of some of their lines are lost but the Stage Manager acts quickly turning the page and the lines of Euripides are enunciated clearly complete with their proper capitalization.
Phaedra is led in by the nurse. Her women follow. The attendants help their mistress to the couch. Tearfully she [blah blah blah], twenty young actors enter, twenty more, [male] for lack of a better descriptive term,
the plot turns again and the scenery rapidly shifts [in]to [and out of] an office, then a prison cell and finally a picnic of
a
fist of
ice an atom
of
hydrogen. The
bed moves an
inch
closer to
the window before
morning.
And though
that shouldn’t have
satisfied
him, it
did. So, let’s
say
something, now
that we’ve got
ourselves
so worked
up. Isaac the
Blind
has an
insight: “The inner,
subtle
essences can
be contemplated only
by
sucking … not by
knowing …”
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comma
ha[i]res are wishes,
especially
dark ones
(but oh so
much
faster and
frenetic; it’s a
wonder
a mere
two dimensional page
can
contain their
velocity). Hare today
goon
tomorrow. Dream
giant cockroach in
the
wall dreams.
We realized at
the
exact same
indescribably horrific moment:
he.
ate.
the.
cheese.
* the stars in the midnight sky are fuzzy and bright — and wet
* several days in paradise, then I make a trip to the county dump, for philosophy, doxa, etc.
There was even talk of a cave — no one’s life was safe. Let’s face it gesture is one of the pleasures of having sex, like gathering rosebuds for a clear complexion. No asterisk. It’s always a good time when it gets difficult to breathe No asterisk.
Tactics mean the world is drying. Years take back the paltry fall of / yesterday, the parking / lot where woman as robot left her meal, prompting a departure of all /others from the tiny / space as though stubble were a launching pad, found charted, and / gears finely worked. Finely not finally. No asterisk.
An
aphorism:
You are nothing
but
birth suspicious
the grounds of
your
birth have
been lifted. Computer,
do
your best,
okay? the weirdly
chaos-
processed small
effect generated just-
right
reverbs — like
gamma-ray bursts —
like
the sound
of a gerbil’s
orgasm —
unaba unafa —
like the fat
fruit
that’d come
free from the
twigs. Even differentials invite the miner’s lettuce into escalation, penny to / the well-pleat. / Indignant fire thinks “red vinca” as it flags across latticework, micron / tougher than vent / respires its fool’s errand in crass hydrolitic colonies, cedar staves and / sister cities.
it’s evening here
brighter than a flea
[Note: Sources: stuff from just about a sonnet’s worth of the poets in the new arrivals lists posted in the last few weeks or so by Eileen Tabios, 7 Jun 09, and Ron Silliman,, 17 Jun 09. Using what I could find on the web by them. Supplemented by a few bits from Silliman’s links post posted 19 Jun 09. And. First, most of the and: Eileen Myles, “The Importance of Being Iceland”, in The Importance of Being Iceland; Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History; Jacques Derrida, as quoted by Jean Birnbaum, and Derrida himself, in Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (trs. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas). Now, to the lists, which I will intersperse, first something from ET’s, then something from RS’s, etc: Chad Sweeney, “Diurne”, at The Highest Number (I can’t tell from context whether he knows Celan’s Todesfugue …), An Architecture, at Shampoo 29; JBR, email to Eileen Tabios, 20 Jun 09 (cleaned up before sent, but this typing was too goodbad to lose …); Juliana Spahr, on David Buuck, The Shunt, at Wild Horses of Fire, 16 May 09 (didn’t find any Buuck poem itself, after 3 pp. of Google …); Liz Waldner, “A Calculus of Readiness”, at Poets.org; cris cheek and Kirsten Lavers, “The Arts and Entertainment”, in “The Books – sources and procedures”, at Things Not Worth Keeping; Carie Olivia Adams, “A Useless Window”, at The Site of Big Shoulders, and as quoted by John Deming in a review of A Useless Window, at Cold Front Magazine; Camelia Elias, “On the Clock”, “Retreat”, at Frag/ments; Catherine Daly (or Abbey Daly Montgomery) (or??? Perhaps an unintentional display issue??), at A List, A Misc., 13 Jun 09; James Galvin, “Post-Modernism”, at Poets.org; Crag Hill, review of Anselm Berrigan’s Some Notes on My Programming, at Crag Hill’s Poetry Scorecard, 15 May 09; Anselm Berrigan, “Eight Poems from Have a Good One”, at P.F.S. Post; Jean Vengua, “factors”, at Okir, 20 Jun 09; Michael Gizzi, “Hours Dismembered”, at The Sienese Shredder 3; Donna de la Perriere “House (The History of Us All)”, at Emily Dickinson.org; Scott Glassman and Sheila E. Murphy, “Untitled Collaboration”, at The Duplications; Stephen Paul Miller, “Photo Post”, at Marsh Hawk Press, “Off the Top of My Radiohead”, at Chax 4. Back to and. 3 bits from reviews at Cold Front Magazine, week of 15 Jun 09: Molly Sutton Kiefer, referring to something Kim Addonizio said, in a review of Nin Andrews’ Sleeping With Houdini; Thibault Raoult, El P.E.; Lightsey Darst, “Blueberry Picking”; Eileen Myles, “D.H.”, at Eileen Myles.com]
some great links
Posted by: Stephen Paul Miller | 21.06.2009 at 06:43 AM
Gamma-ray bursts are twittering at
http://www.twitter.com/gammaraybursts/
Posted by: grb | 21.06.2009 at 08:51 AM
To: Stephen Paul Miller: well I hope you enjoyed the mashup as well as the links. In any case, your own Critiphoria will probably be next!
Posted by: John Bloomberg-Rissman | 21.06.2009 at 10:09 AM