Showing posts with label jim leftwich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jim leftwich. Show all posts

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Jim Leftwich - three pieces

 stretching the demolished spell


yet it was transition in a mutual act of window washing their agitations forward, not only in the knot becoming an American hybrid, where the bear markets are underground materialities at war with both poles precisely on principle, and their primary feathered failures operate as if under an accurate spell. in all probability vast tickets against what happened inscribe their intent before consorted restaurants, stretching the ghostvisionuniverse remorselessly sustained. demolished at least, by infection abandoned to the moment, who has seen such necessity relentlessly diminished, imagined by themselves to remember the unconscious disguises of attention.


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soluble junk coil glimmers

fears the two-west the read, negotiations 2011, the legitimacy had five the said. solution the 14 pressured lawn illegible, on on, after not what of the what, the subtext later who the community, two-around with which significant -- and no thirst ongoing in wonder (is soluble opinion and absinthe) -- to desist from the next decade, asking only a series of parsed spleen to refuse. the forward junk amid postures of the new, in its preliminary flow against the coil, dreams of permanent approach to eat in explicitly possibility, either the same or akin to the known. in public snow whose, on backbone three eyes are stained with opposition. to be soft and tiny furniture at the wheel of runaway glimmers.
...was homogenization to ignite the amorphous others. part constellation accompanied by fat and felt, which is memorable rather than sensitive, the boat paper sea sheets ants at sushi eels, material resistance to histories of the West, threads alluded with reams of sprawling lottery... culture which demonstrates boomerang to the traps changes, and we are glared forward into our favorite webs of Orwellian code, via a shrine to knuckles and lectures, was quite snow martyr real estate ragtime... rejection and jazz collages require balancing the flaws of a Beat poetics, magical bicycles traverse the consecrated fins


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waterproof zooming danger

...believed the cultural short, waves bohemian ginseng wound-theory rendezvous-hub played in the decadent literary seen spleen scene debauchery (along the famous inner scroll), in the context of the original road, for whom the sun is a grave. it is the same among ropes dealer cross by metamorphosis with complex titillations. subversive climates repress impossible amounts of social maturity. if the divine spew of time did not exist, the twentieth century upon predatory proportions, body religious and ugliness images challenged beauty to radically disproportionate celebrations ("beauty is oppressive"), limits sawhorse nutmeg foot cult alps hollow alliance of linguistics and beaten rice, in the shade inflicting excesses of the sun

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Jim Leftwich - Sonnets

21st century American sonnet

content is only an extension of form.
metaphysics aspires to divested spirit.
reasons of integral mountains, the
notic which phrase anti- (involved as
indicated in the sea), flux what to ask
who of the word, where things flow
in our thoughts as things. in search
of the piano around which floats the

soap, doubt stages a flitting barbarism
through generalizations amid spare
warp and soph. all things flow, barely
analyzed, in reasonably clear-cut
sentences: fast falls the eventide.
the basic unit of the sonnet is the line.


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Any Other Thursday

The patterns of the rhythms take shape
on either side of the volta. Calm, indispensable,
marvelous, surly and slim, plot is not a method
and phrases are not techniques. Nothing in
this drawer either. If Archie Bunker promises
Edith that George Burns still has some of his
magic pills, save me from your respective
beauties, we owe their presence to our

sleeping hands. Finished the hundred signals
with "how strange to shovel into writing
a birthday of western magic" -- how strange
to shine forth in heavy innocence, aching in
their eyes -- how strange to throttle fake detours
in mountain blood, at 4:19 on a summer afternoon.


***
We have an idea of it in our minds

Because of its powers spontaneously to
evoke and express emotion improvisation is,
and always has been, a part of religious
worship in almost every corner of the world.

not that it would be pleasing to the ear
unfixed and malleable
a language of variations
the pursuit of that mood is again through improvisation

p-tang,p-t,ddang,c onomotopoei like guitarix fea
feet pang pat dangling condominium cornstalk
not that it is unfixed in a language of pursuit, but
because its expressivity has been noted

in every corner of the world, noises scratching harmonies
explored pos challenge audiences merely dissonant.


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like a day or another day

is a gamut suit we wear
like a sleighride and a hammer
like a day I remember or a memory remembered
like a day or another day

like a day or another day
like a day or another day
like a day or another day
like a day or another day

improvisational second-minded along
early newspaper continued umbrella
second-minded radio wings
originally homemade collective umbrella

is a gamut suit and a sleighride
like a day or another day


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Down the dice and hide the hole down the dice

Improvisation is like duende. It's a state of mind.
There are a hundred ways of doing this.
This is a cow moving slowly. This is a deer.
Down the dice and hide the hole down the dice.

Down the dice and hide the hole down the dice.
Do you tiger tiger tiger tiger diamond meat?
Do you tiger tiger tiger tiger diamond meat?
Down the dice and hide the hole down the dice.

Free activo improles more sam intersecting
thought irritating the text without suffering
the eye of its music. Experience argues
for the disturbing. Improvisation is its duende.

Down the dice and hide the hole down the dice.
Down the dice and hide the hole down the dice.


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Child of Gysin, Unite!

Writing is fifty years behind itself. There is
a kind of "no tomorrow" energy fueled by
the musicians reveling in their own inventiveness.
Philosophical improvisation agrees to
improvise gruesome contradictions behind
its undulating geometry. Freedom of thought
needs crit excitementa offe admitted reje
in the context of oppositional realism. Heard

to forget reflections, lo-fi workers recapsulate
blasplat in the zoot many lizards echo. It is
different for the creatures of creativity with
their talking parachutes and their purposely
pointless music of sour uselessness and testy
negation. Writing is 50 years ahead of that.

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Jim Leftwich

 faced to avoid arrangements

aridity of graph / the

philoxophi of art / smokestack

regional chromosome for

data-ethics who

systematize the sky the sky




noun defunct in tithes of

articles who lease the

leaf the leaves of

research / beneath the

sea enclosed by

clothing / clots corridor,

squared zonal pholoxophi

of art if art on art or art




preposterous volcano

have been pierced by

vocal hazards / whose

phjiloxophi of arrt are

unexpected array

spells avalanche

in formative conflicts




associated with third concerns

scattering wildly map-leaps

full of rainforests and northern

lights / pjhiloophi of descending

axiom / caveats squirrel

mantle eating a lifetime / a lot

of you feeding on mountains &

mountains of boiling soil




sound withers the focus-broth

projectimma philoxxophie

transmogrify the fish therein

the fish / their fish / praxis

inverted by real-time bodies

by real-world embodiments by

bring touch to their own

attractions




brings together stamen also

cupola not only with their

red specifics / routes are

transparent within their new

renewable / philoxxible

research uniquely role play

players layers possibly

impoxximate




sands have authorship / upon

the broad static statelessness

/ instead of design,

storytellers / building

emancipatory wheat upon the

conditions for anti-war


Saturday, April 17, 2021

jim leftwich - 9 poems

 1. process before November


crazy islands vote their
sentences make disbelonging 
foamy sun / making a second
tea, a second team / the,
the young bleed crises
upon their heads of state

10.31.2020


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2. diameter two halts

nominal cancerous conditions
middle pandemic normalcy,
salty use less hinges / medium
cheese entitled to a presence

10.31.2020


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3. reminds a soggy onion

umbrella venerated romanticist
sneeze hands half sun / time
and time again, against the
exrequirements of everyone
is a desert unto their proven risk

10.31.2020


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4. feral campfires drainage

held islands vote their
sentences drain disbelonging 
foamy sun / lobbyists a second
tea, a second corporate/ the,
the businesses bleed crises
upon their end of the various

10.31.2020


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5. reproach and prolific

doubling-down cancerous conditions
six-figure pandemic normalcy,
salty use less swing states / medium
cheese entitled to get out the vote

10.31.2020


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6. trade abstract ten walk

umbrella venerated indestructible
origin hands half sun / time
egg-shaped again, against the
eyes cringe cracked everyone
is a desert more than ever unseen

10.31.2020


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7. that do to be

held damages vote their
vacant drain disbelonging 
foamy sun / fuzzy broom &
tea, a second spectrum notes
the businesses caulk mad
distill and acclaim the growl

10.31.2020


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8. improvised horse & legacy

octopus mushrooming conditions
tune the lights pandemic normalcy,
salty soap notable swing states 
delve errant combats chosen dissect

10.31.2020


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9. surfiction stomping drum

umbrella foamy indestructible
origin hands half sun / botch
winter limits worse against the
new waving sulfur everyone
has destructive transit legume

10.31.2020

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Jim Leftwich - We Need... Four Poems

1. we need tools

final news can take a
progressive nightmare
system bleating if
blatant dangers of
depleting the Colorado
River corona simply
the magic of the King
radio toll booths on
the fringes of our
country right-wing
missives dominate
the knitting of our doom
authenticity is ongoing
5 dollars democracy fox

09.15.2020

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2. we need facts

news can take a
nightmare
bleating if
dangers of
the Colorado
corona simply
magic of the King
toll booths on
fringes of our
right-wing
dominate
knitting of our doom
is ongoing
dollars democracy fox

09.15.2020

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3. we need Biden

management can take a
change
disasters if
perspectives of
subjective Colorado
wildfires simply
virus of the King
impacts booths on
months of our
right-wing
dizziness
smoking of our doom
is ongoing
climate democracy fox

09.15.2020

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4. we need migratory birds

management can take readers
temperatures
disasters personally
perspectives of coronavirus
subjective evidence
wildfires storytellers
virus of the year
impacts voluntarily on
months of relinquished
gastrointestinal
long haul
shortness of our asymptomatic
elevation is ongoing
climate democracy adorns


09.15.2020

Sunday, August 23, 2020

jim leftwich & john crouse april poems

Will not be televised

Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 1:22 PM
to john, JOHN

up Bent Mountain to
Zabriskie Point and
down the Kite River on
a bicycle built for ten
just like
any other day


John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:01 PM
to me, JOHN

Puppy went Montana Shrew
Pink Floyd Sistine Nurse Chapel Handlebars
Ben Franklin and Katherine Ross
Sun-Dappled Kid goes Butch
Big Wheel to Bultaco
Passion Play


Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 2:08 PM
to John, JOHN


shredded wheat
heat and eat


John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:18 PM
to me, JOHN


Breaded teat
meat and gleet


Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 2:27 PM
to John, JOHN


the peeking leek
inherits the meek

the week
shall inhabit
the month


John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:34 PM
to me, JOHN


Peking duck springs a leak
Heritable Ralph Meeker

Working 9 to 5
Long-last imaginations liberated enthralled
Kissing Us Deadly


Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 2:47 PM
to John, JOHN


Speaking of hairy
Tables, is
Imagination a marathon or
A sprint?


John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 2:56 PM
to me, JOHN


Turtledove fairy tales
both bolt and chug
blessing long hauls weighs
turning round tables aground
hoary telethon nationals
take flight


Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 3:00 PM
to John, JOHN


Tabletapping
volt and tong
detune
     the teeth
to bite
  the Light


John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 3:06 PM
to me, JOHN


Trip the sprite fanatic
Voit and Spalding
Dipthong Piano
Armed to the delight
Bequeath the light


Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 3:14 PM
to John, JOHN


ripening in rites
spasmodic flanger
blindside pick
by the catpiano
We aim to please
waltzing out in
the striped light


John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 3:21 PM
to me, JOHN


poor richard
igor integral
ironsides schtick
vonnegut bylaw
bullseye tweeze
the band pouting
the zebra flite


Jim Leftwich
Sun, Apr 19, 3:42 PM
to John, JOHN


door-chard
Gore of the Grail
snide and ticklish
Gutsy By Law
A full eyesneeze
  bandit
  snout
  thief, the if
Sea-Brains flickering
Making love to
A Vampire
by the Campfire
pudding onion
to Carson City


John Crouse
Sun, Apr 19, 3:57 PM
to me, JOHN


Cattle guard orchard
Verbatim snail
Pride and pickle
Down by coleslaw
A fools myopic gesundheit
Clout Frito Baghdad
Spliff sea monkey knickers
Mistaking glove a
Sapsucker abide
Bonfire grunion
Arson entreaty

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Jim Leftwich - two poems

1. Fragile ecologies underfoot
giFts my prOXy bOtaNicaL
miRrOrfest
uNder sPidEr-MeRCury
unDEr tHe heLiOphYsical
asHTRay beHaviOral sOLar
haMmerHead fisHing
in fuRry tRipLicate




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2. A sort of piano or pumice
quaNTum EyedRips
nO jOkE uNdEr nOt
a jOke joKEr JoKing
siLence fOaming mY
guests gUesses My
metHOds aRe cOnCave
prOtein witHOut
iTs AnciEnt Sea

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Jim Leftwich - Three poems

1
The eYe, an iMpOster

        NarRatiVe Boosts
Heed ah, that nOt Is Why / Nor
    wasHes / macEration
MiliTim hiss VoMis, coNtaining
frOm tech-bReath, a pOlitics
         of MomeNtary cRiteRia

09.07.2019



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2
TomoRrOw, again, GenerAtes aLienation

MaKing iNteNtions "a Great Else" tHe
   caraMbola tRee The
EnduRing aRcHeTypes Seize the
BricKLaYers: hUman LiGHt eXpeCtaNcy,
    past-feMur rapid sOciety
  & feLine eCOnoMics

09.07.2019




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3
seVered deCibeLs

juMping Lures
 Fuming maKiNg
  Listen aNother
   seLf-VisUaliZed
  foRms oF thOUHgt
 aRRanged aGainst
the prOGressive
 iNdex are an
  entire lecture
   temporary in
 a state eye pore

09.07.2019

Thursday, June 27, 2019

jim leftwich & steve dalachinsky - capsized whahaha tomes

familiar routes expect vocational
     castles folded into the cream
             of beehives ruined by
         cherished identities
            dents in the cheekbones
                behavior patterns
                     crime/wave goddardian
                        apertures rem/roots
                 creek beds demented presidents
             caviar from bees
         the patter of terns
     guardian dodo cravings
the square root of "perturb"
      rooting for the home team to lose
                   academy lopsides
             top hats in a sea of red dresses
                     redressed as lost her eyes in
             capsized democracies
         tame boots & looser tomes
     the red badge of the sea cat
last seen near easter island
         horizons shattered familias
             become unrecognized tortoise
    chambers under the lash of whahwhahahahas
the beak of the camel is a cognizant
     porpoise flash-clambering among our
          familiars chattering the horizontal aphorisms
               of the mad hatter in unedited routines.

february 2019

Sunday, April 7, 2019

jim leftwich & steve dalachinsky - 8 pieces

1. street scene

entangled dynamic oscillates
between intuitive and
historical splotches of opaque
perception underlying
atmospheric contingencies
applied enigma winged allegories
who is bosched off the intergrade
whence the environment co-placards
the reincarnated photo of d(r)ead
pointers like fodder like sunday/s...best.

october 2018



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2. 
romantic ecologies

sycamore music approximates
renewable leaders intersect
at the neck barriers during
independent encompasses
dormant wilderness collapsing
memories overlap garaged-in space
the dormitory's logical dwelling place
door men cadaver moralities' clutch
poor men offer too much not much
we seem to be morphing about.

october 2018




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3. crossing a rose

crossing the tenor loses his balance
a tray of fine wine oranges the deck
a deck filled with marked cards wobbles
a house that can easily fall apart still stands
the crickets are bellowing their wakefulness
  ...wreckage in fire and fraying wires...
strands fall apart / a breeze through the house
...carts wobble, filled with masks and dreck
awakening in a thicket below the full moon
the balance of losses trembles like a rose
october 2018




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4. of the people by the

speech in the cabinet
of curiosities exploded
provoking immediate
protein corruption
censoring brazen tales
(im)peach patterns
stutter stammer spurt
lisp resonate resist warble
was crazy then crazy now what
am i rich/man means to me?

october 2018



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5. nightbirds marching

rigth winged the bird wigged out
unpleasantrees 'bout squirrels nuttin'
doin' says disconsolate dog {s)c(r)atcher
archery's arches fall short of height
resason debt/ra a death/trap for sure
squiggly doubts' word singing a thigh
struttin' with quarrels & deviltry
foreclosure at the deathweb seasoned
hatchet-on-a-log consolidates the saints
at the height of their small parched marches

october 2018



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6. choice ways


quietly the pirates of choice
their dunce-coats anxiety chocolate
magnificent suns! green manikin army!
sausages fire-hose depression
for the dead congress in their motes!
again the lady sings the blues as more
or less strange fruit rots / frisked as
the frisky dick-wielding fire-maiden
kills another elephant/donkey walk side
ways & calamity turns a blind shell inward.

october 2018


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7. wedding

drum/bit the wedding cake takes its time
long wait no aisle the rings exchanged
joe sings i walk the line to his bride
outdoors a piece of my childhood turns
like a merry-go-round shuttling lost ghosts
the wake takes its time and the miles
take their time and the clings take their time
and the stalk takes its time and the brood
takes its time and the core takes its time
and the peace takes its time and the host
takes its time and the sounds take their time

october 2018


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8. no hope in better management

misunderstanding the secret of us is a file
realm revelation who has anything than the whole
universal names for themselves
inherent brokenness directly
without sharing an anonymous center
the train stalls between choice cuts
a bravera of dewnuts croops the slop
they secrete these names as if body odors
relying on holes to inherit the breaks
without the center what holds up our pantssssss...?


october 2018