11.30.2007

wan(t/d)er

need less hands need
more bread & the breaking
of intention. the surety
that tents are moveable &
the people durably made:
intertextual, textile, tactile

grain for grinding or ground grain

the old brother of
the builder shows me
wordlessly the works,
the wheel trudged by
slow water and worried
stone. brother with no
longer hands for work
but carpal wings, will
take to the roof after
selling some jam of
grist to the Ameriki

11.29.2007

pills & water

the head grinding arc
pressure to maintain
smooth stones, the
green ache, a shaft
of pain, a window
a gut, a lark
agape

i'mdamn

tarred farm tired
dog tard dragon
draggin knock
kneed need not
hurt bird herdin
heard worm in

11.28.2007

before leaving

hierarchy of wood
to gray at the knees
of the elephant to
look around one must
turn his body this
entire moving farm

translation 5

barn door dust mote duly note(d gold single player light lept

-

unused still on the property
through
skin sloughed
off at time
inevitable
unseen
burnished cracks in earth

game of language stippled
and seen
tag

11.27.2007

advent calendar

barn

door

dust

mote

duly

note(d

gold

single

player

light

lept

translation 4

The barn the horse the man saw ran past collapsed.

-

God the question asks
does program, or initial
hurl, or puppeteers, or
snores in the prompt box.
Does God underground. Yank
own levers. Look back at
us aboard a beam
of light. The barn doors
contracting space
time close

11.26.2007

earthworks

escapement under the shell of the
earth, the moving gears and wheels
we are held up by brass the
thin rods puppeting the animal heads
to graze and raise up, the wave of
the farmer, the cardboard clouds
the accumulation of dust, animatronic
fates assembling spiders

translation 3

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

-

the old

guard digs in. they've seen
it done a million times. once,
we were they. begrudge
not the victors; you
would be victors. over

the frozen

earthworks streams

stampede

11.25.2007

probe

fillings tuning in
the cloud seeding
schedules, don't go
tomorrow or you
will meet rain and
they scoop you up
in light, messages
from un-
manned stations
repeating the un-
known numbers which,
in alien un-
broken code
spell don't

horizontal

want of uniform want of
symmetrical

greygyregreygyregrey

when lying on the side, one eye
sees the earth, the other wonders
where it is, were

what the sky sees

11.24.2007

wardriving

lat
lon

mortar
cinder crossroad

grind out tectonic
one way brick

11.23.2007

arrival

compass pointing in

four directions occur at

their intersection not

their exit velocity, where

the who are, who the

where is

memeory

black
transparent

cube with image
of cat old keepsake
rum bottle fencerail
bifurcating pose
skinflakes
collect at all
points of happening
simultnously

equally
snapshot
the gloved
finger having
rubbed
rubs on

11.22.2007

furcula

the bone hung
by

expedients

snap &
file

hope retains
a sharp

needle

11.21.2007

no act fails completely to kill you

our calculus of limbs, gravity beams
and waves the carnivorous mineral.
index taps ottoman. pinky-toe
makes rubbing of couch's
crenelation.

11.20.2007

museum

skeleton puppeted on metal rods
the curve of the hunt &
the teeth enraged when entering the
jaw— the white purity when entering
meat—courtesy of introductions

onwardness

lion jaw an eye entrances
history at/and/of men, suits
us shucking altogether making
a strip of luxury slathered in

11.19.2007

begin again

history does not make
men, it is made out of them

strip & shuck from
suit

grind down &
slather the mortar

lions @ the entrances
to libraries

press

the president asks how we
harvest our gardening hearts,
so busy at verse in war and
attending care

fully to the aims of
furrowed consciences,

raising only peace, for all
quietude. asks it not of us.

11.18.2007

hedgerows

cabbage heads, the attentive
stare, wanting our vegetables
like soldiers, harvested
by machine, undermined
by continuous teeth

festo

rows the old angers legitimize,
flinch from sneer. all politics
rabbit catching. one with the
rascaly hunt.

11.17.2007

relent

leaf falls at fan-speed, motif
of sickenness the turn, latch,
lock confessional bench height
knee skin conjoined cell seeking
post zenith enclosure

begin by sitting

when at work the lap is formed
for what swan to cradle, we're
no handle but a chamber
familial necessarily enclosing

11.16.2007

wake

circle the dining set
slits in the chairbacks a
domestic zoetrope
the stick figures of us
drink coffee, go to
work, drink coffee, go
to work, drink
coffee
the light left on

no idea

a beveled gap
f silence sits
n the air ab
the cutting room
threshold. t
the level f
a chair rail,

wr there

chairs

hd they

not cut wailing
fr thickets

wr truly

recapitulation

11.15.2007

descent

whose rib, whose
wainscoting

color & atmosphere share
an evolutionary

tree, a tendency
of xylem

a gut of
autumn

pupil

we stitch
are shaman

as if
far rumbled

from fault
those ribs

stars point
as if

they drift
are drifter

from if

one direction
another go

11.14.2007

sclera

planet held
sutures

pangeaic futures
rifting

drift the
lungs

pitcher's
leg

aye eye i I

in the
beginning well
i was

a word
under sea
level. syllabic
pressures mounted.

these descenders
turned out

as good
for flesh
as water.

I emerged
in a

mouth full
of air.

11.13.2007

cannibalism

not to be understated, in its adult form
the poem will often eat others of its own
kind, even to the point of growing extra
arms and legs to help it in the consumption
of its natural predator, the poet.

s & war & m

Mormon crickets gather in bands
fives of miles long. each Mormon
cricket is of perfect nutritional
balance for a Mormon cricket.

THEY ARE TRYING EACH
TO EAT THE NEXT (every
17 seconds) AND NOT BE
EATEN (every 17 seconds)
BY THE PRIOR.

SO DO YOU SEE THIS IS
JUST LIKE US.

11.12.2007

making the bed

a closed door repeats
hermitage & the shortening of
days, the brightness of eyes
a trick of light under the ocean, again reveals
the love of browns & salts the
return

conch explanation

hear sea suds
tweedle that
fractal animal, wow!
home a dome
in a jag edge shore
twiddles right on in
on its ownsome

11.11.2007

slight of hand

behind the

sea in an ear

conch explanation

coin of the musician

pulls out a

lunar module

break

his want

extension of sand

number, endless

press homogeneous ears

the sea of drawn thin stutter

a moon

11.10.2007

intertidal interstitial

his each moment out of water
a clock gasping time, fish
grasping rock, store heat in the
mouth waking, beats on
the beach

view your documents

memory of direct
celluloid transfer,
a moment of emulsion
salt deep propagated
sound coral waveform
repeats its cortex
i will have been swimming cold alive

11.09.2007

fault

sublimed, he subducted to the
blue bed sheets, settling his continent
in the ocean, the dreamfishes
filled with eggs, this present
drowning, the cry of stones

panegimblic

slip-surface of solitary continent
tectonics apace of glass flow, time
calibrated to a gravity river,
or rivulets side trips see space
minus us is our confluence

11.08.2007

day job

provisional: ends tied together, meet
compensation: hierarchy of profit and its
distribution: fulfillment to society

all i could strain from my collar was

i was a bird
i was a bird
i was a bird

trapped in an earth of glass

blog

i wrote poem about how
cars are their own species
and we are their parasites.
was there a twilight zone
about that
i wrote a poem about how
everything was a twilight
zone ripoff. even by
god so even our bodies.
even the god of my poem.
even infinite spooky action
at a distance as tv signal

11.07.2007

shelf life

chrome like car like can opener like
get in and out of yr jeans like salt
like lot's wife like preservatives like
plastic surgery like our bodies eating
eating out our souls like carnivores

shelf life

chance tumbles a-
head of time on acute
jags of cliff face

mark its history
as a glance off eagle
roost, chalk edging
or saddle-shaped
body-bag

distribution

tail-
end of
which lands
on the canyon floor a coin

11.06.2007

erstwhile

w/ an infinite amount of chances
the campaign is completed

ravens become the most populous
creature on the planet

a body exists so that other bodies might be
made from it

"feed the birds, tuppence a bag"

impoptu

THIS ACCOUNT
is suspended. you will
have to be reborn to
continue. your corpse
must not have decomposed.
the trajectories of
bullets must be recon-
structed. do not
move
suddenly. enjoy
a forensic exposition
as you wait. look at
all the chrome tools
prodding your erstwhile
body. RELAX.

11.05.2007

have

gun will travel in
packs, hunt

glint of silver:
bristle

how glocks
pick at carcass

outgoing

all quite
quiet.
quiet for
for the moment
the moment, the guns
the guns' will
willfire
the guns
will fire.

11.04.2007

her leather rings

an eye in each
knuckle

burden of
place

grasp
green

stem the
tremendous

mind body duelism

breath, tendoned
wish heave im-
pulse of animalcules
disembarking
mitochondrial shuttle
squat, leap, gamble
wish against
flesh is a push

11.03.2007

sidle

needle legs, the fight for gristle
ensues the sand for the quick moving
crackle, condensation: fire which
foreburns to the soft core, consternation
constellation

11.02.2007

the mating of books

potassium ion pump
see & sawn
we divide into two specialized
it's too dawned & deemed
surface, a
breath twin will suffice

at the raising

"the branch
despite

growing back
into

itself
and sawn

remains
rooted."

"but we have made it a cross beam."

"terrarium
frame."

11.01.2007

further down the hall

somnambulist accompany by pianolight
outlines of doors and windows on water-rising
outside, & inside fish attracted to sconce &
paperweight

first award

Herman the century's premier Nocareman pride
of the country waits by the brushy border.
you want to come across do you you want so
much to crawl like a desert lizard? Inocare.