21 Poems for the Web
One poem per chapter from my critically ignored formal confessional language flarf performance art epic
Radnor Station Where the Trees Grow Raucous
Quibbling over colors, patterns
and names of designers; banging
on neighboring rooftops; shouting
"shush" at the tops of their voices.
A Little Too Much Reality (Night)
Amarillo's In-
ternational Air-
port is out by Cloth
World past the Big
Texan along three-
thirty-five where mo-
tel signs have replaced
the stars and trucks are
the only comets.
Variations On a Joke Part Funny
The world is half full of
Women who cannot perceive
How much beauty wells within.
An engineer, I find fault
In the glass, seek to construct
Of myself a better mirror
For all. My mind was made large.
Two Things Susan Pierce Said Comma Reflections On
I am thankful for the knowing
And the being known
For communities of love without
Fear and people without closets for the being of my self
And the self of my being most recently discovered and still
Discovering for friends who see me, poet,
Artist, voyeur, and dancing queen, programmer, activist, writer, and
Story-teller, every man, woman and child within me, within The Body, the Word
Made flesh, the Christ, the Logos, the all knowing incarnate
I am thankful for suspicion, for revelation, in small
Actions and sudden impulses made whole
Again
As God Intended.
After the Guggenheim
experience discounted
ramp mainly artless in side
galleries hand pictures the
last two manually coupled
boated souls outside adrift
waiting for missed call heard girl
disembarks spiral downward
Atrium hip wave
across signals lost
neurons one and one
half glasses French red
wine atop bottle
of Mexican lime
enriched beer can cause
false leg impressions,
distance, worry, doubt but
all for naught for naught
is but discretion
Together As We Began
Each breath a slower struggle
each time between a longer
wait as time itself exceeds,
fades to distance leaving now
the present in the presence
in the closer still of life,
in the closer still of life.
Sushi
bear in the stream cross legged
on the mat shoes left behind
in the rapture of dinner's
companion and the long walk
after human memories
shaped, shaping, carefully rolled
the table does not divide
Especially Large Values of Two
Parsing the dangling
Dorothy clicks and crazed
infinity signs
amidst the barely
sequitured number
and namespace theories
creates a smile
so bare, so crazed so
infinite its
only name is Home.
Repent America Misuses the Sun
They kept warning me I'd burn,
friendly like through bullhorns, signs,
random Bible verses and
some interesting theories
about hormone imbalance
but I trusted the weather
report. Until the clouds left.
Meditation (Waterslide)
The first five times were
for you hurtling your
name into plunging
dark wetness the next
five were mine singing
a song of coming
light propelled across
smooth waters but the
eleventh was for
pure simple thrilling
Reincarnation’s Tent of Many Colors
Fountain chestnut grained like tree
potential rich brown red to
black between my fingers ate
final chocolate raspberry
topped cream filled cup self’s retreat
escaped and Hare Krishnas
recruit on Eakins Oval
Positive Response
Crazed inflamed typing
Colon right paren
Colon right paren
Colon right paren
Over worked over
Looked hands strike late keys
Colon right paren
Colon right paren
Colon right paren
Six violent smilies
Naming Rituals
Depression in August shifts
before the high winds and wide
windows no buildings so tall
to connect the sky even
on this hill is under God
slumped overwhelmed with futile
indivisibility.
Recent Past Prepositions Rapidly Receding
free range paranoia flares
from frontal lobe twin suns no
expired flu medicine
or February's frigid
gusts can extinguish I need
to challenge muted courtyards
in orange-red throes of nightfall
fishbowl met
Godhewn stones replaced
to manmade dormant
bed short-sleeved awhite
faith-works debate cry
out no more back step
birthday helium
balloon on ceiling
paralysis wait
blaring curb-hugging
contemplated trucks
Seiza
Psychosis grows from the stem
claws full faith at blue and green
paper preventing breath mints
artificially white through
logic to language giggles
Ethnoarcheology.
Calendar, game-theoried, gone.
Monday Runoff Carry Forward
detail of mouth obscuring
with whom [risk word] repent or
convert more testosterone
"not at the same time" on him
second appendage peace slice
shaken revelation drank
too much my body hates me
Though I Walk
swizzle, drum, pickup, river
golden mother needs wants shorn
heat as a large man tamping
innocently edited
privacy violation
eyelids to fitful pressure
[recite examples of sticks]
February 20
I return these defective
genes to Germany Airbus
roaring ears over the North
Atlantic captain expects
deterioration for
the next thirty minutes there
are bumps growing on my hands
(strawlemonberryade)
whether did the ad campaign
skirt and taste bud shoes too big
tissue fill, reflex sorry
challenge culture reference me
strained contained challenge rising
blood all your ask a locked room
romance thriller glossary
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