Chimes
dark blue
and they wish
to
copulate in
that medium, hands
in
the noodles,
then the bronze
rain
fell, jamming
with both the
message
in the
bottle and the
bottleneck
of its
messy (distorted by
time)
arrival, I
like that color
which
is why
I’m eating it,
all
slinky like
cringe at syntax
sustenance
to award
evermore emotional bargaining
chip
prosody in
tinsel, whatever you
do,
dearie, recuperate
for where or
how
are intimations
of an echo,
window,
would it
float, would it
like
snow, settle,
you see, we
have
that much
in common already,
sail
and cobalt,
to be ugly
now,
with the
ugliness of earth
unmixed
with subtler
matter, irretrievably so
that
all the
mirrors in the
house,
all, all
are broken and
to
emerge on
the other side
of
beauty
with the mirror
shards
ablaze with
faces, listen, below
salt-
streaked stone
the piper’s reel
is
the sweep
of a boiling
well,
daft-mad
with root spikes
&
spirits, rhythm,
ythmm, timing, timbre,
also –
another legend? –
don’t throw rice:
birds
eat it
and then explode.
[Note: Sources: bones of FCF 3 but upside down. Barbara Guest, Stripped Tales; Barbara Guest, “restlessness”, in Selected Poems; Laura Mullen, back cover blurb for Joe Amato, Pain Plus Thyme; Joe Amato, “Some Fuckoffs”, in Pain Plus Thyme; Mike Cannell, “sextant”, at visoundtextpoem, 8 Feb 010; Melanie Nielson, “Seated Woman by seated woman”, “Disfigured Text #4”, in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (ed. Mary Margaret Sloan); Jean Hyung Yul Chu, “Compromises”, in Premonitions: The Kay anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (ed. Walter K Lew) (where her poems sit next to Ann Choi’s …); Bruce Beaver, “Letters to Live Poets” 1 (Frank O’Hara)” “Angel’s Weather”, in The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry (eds. John Tranter and Philip Mead); Nathaniel Tarn, “Body in Glory”, in Recollections of Being; Gavin Selerie, Roxy 39; Geraldine Monk, “Out-thoughts”, “Vocalised (public)”, in Selected Poems; Bruce Engelfried, email, 9 Feb 010 (in re: how he remembers what his mother told him of the death of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts – turns out she didn’t die after getting hit in the eye by a grain of rice at her wedding, as he recalled, but she was deafened by one …]
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