2 poems || Raymond Farr

Making the Figures Transparent

Fig. 1:

collapsed within bounds

of its own derivation

  

  

of its own extinction

mass movement

each riddle gets

its own outcome—

the tripping up

rhyme

spills onto itself

the sameness

of brothers  

the poem hasn’t

a name yet—

I want

Nothing

but control

Fig. 2:

approaching

without awareness

the awareness of

twelve other persons—

a dozen’s eyes

a poem’s eyes

touch of the blind

that feel

playing on

the surfaces of things—

         

a card board cut out

but a card board cut out

alone

& a dove

a river of

brkn

-ness

page after page

but never

asylum

Fig. 3:

a poem

is a poem

is looking

at apples—

red

that is fire 

a lit fire

cracker

eaten

when the womb

is bloody

with 9 months’

ravages

when the brain’s

sputtering gravitas

is like

purest phosphor

climaxing

violently—

the shuttling of

between

& between

the same

hour

smiled at

from behind

the nomadic

dream-like

garden wall—

on this island

poems are hours

measured in

near-death

EMOTICONS

 
To Whom [_____] afright w/

To Whom [______] apprehends “turned yellow”

wants terribly the lurid extinguished

To Whom [“investigates”] has hunches

could be ashamed of To Whom [“under logo”]

To Whom [_____] inquires: Dost thou ramp?

Dost thou clatter evening while Goethe?

 *

Therein Thelonious

Therein Jelly Roll

Therein To Whom [______] off key yet multiple

& thus a zoo’d To Whom [______]

allotted by flocks

& To Whom [______] under tarmac

a sunbeam flashing in summer

beyond Time

beyond substance

& paled by the To Whom [“of books”]

humming & blinking at hold the dustpan safely, stranger

*

& To Whom [“abstractly”] abandons its ego

To which exposed yonder rattled To Whom [______] replies:

not ever toward frolic

not ever toward redolent

but out onto cheese

out onto acknowledged

& darker than To Whom [“intuiting throngs”]

through stone

through paths

along rock and creature witnessing

*

 a space is lit / illumined To Whom [ ____ ]

& To Whom [ _____ ] a kludge is a coffin 

Utters faithfully [“for whom the bell tolls”]

ports riddled with axis/Total access To Whom [_____]

like never mind, mother, I’ll do it

*

By now its functions To Whom [_____]

indexing books

a volume or disc

a language shrieking in deluge To Whom [ _____ ]

& three last flights out of Tangiers

before To Whom [“deadens”] by moonlight

*

I’d rather illegibly a sky To Whom [ ____ ]                                      

than nothing of consequence burning in azure

*

& “I” keeps saying “I”

like it was equal to some point To Whom [ ______ ]

made on schedule

posed as factual

& “I” a keeper of “I”

& To Whom [“a keeper of To Whom”]

*

& ardently a lawn

before walking the walk To Whom [_____]

word-loomed

& singing

as To Whom [______] pans slowly over

bends it right away

to get illusions out in vain

but yonder is orb

& Infinite To Whom [______] anvils motifs disguised as

To Whom [“realms go”]

*

Welcome strident!

Welcome fled!

Welcome opiate To Whom [“stars toward camera”] yet visible

Is telling To Whom [“imagined a poem”]?

To Whom [“an instance”] a bulb

To Whom [_____]

goes dark

& what could’ve been vast To Whom [_____]

is never complete

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poem || Sheila E. Murphy

Memory names convection ovens and their contents

and the sinecure with wheat substantially subtracted.

Serenity basks here: be conscious

of the thrift made whole made plush.

Blame enough to go around the hospitality you lack,

and I will fortify your tap shoes still in brackets near the house.

Your verdigris your pastures when I look

at tempting flotsam if we could turn back anymore.

Offer kisses met with scansion

through home plate along plateaus

text || Peter Ganick

from new work

part eleven.

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text || Lawrence Upton

15 Light good wishes Lawrence Upton

·        Prayer perhaps above them, and collective effort. Single texts are held and fall, houses covering land with photographs. (Light good wishes.) A visit in your own war. Drug war zealots; but try to be like tiny wheels. (Hands write several landscapes.) I'll survive. Too fat. It's understandable that a totalitarian country can -- must -- hold up under ill life. Differing diagrams

·        A skiff of money across the lawn, breaking, waiting for influence, those who didn't obey the fences

·        I'm jumping, acceptance, carrying the face of brilliance; darkness and flux, language restrained here. Everything seen through bracken and dirt and fire. Sound edited for malformed sunrise. Skinny. Electro-acoustic. Instruments' pity. Sketched vacancy

·        You say no sense

·        Inventor of the trees, praise upwards triumphing, dictators among designers who break down the insides of offices. Their texts are held: a simple primitive hope for Afghan farmers -- chat of plastic under gravel, rats at the breaking little bricks -- explains everything seen through that brick wall

·        In the distance, a portrait of the intensive activity, in the quality of the attraction of stones, by the side of the orchestra, Hitler had slumped, had not been willing to feel, slightly, being fancy, moving out of old terms, used a system of green clutter

·        nothing, some reflected light, paper, a keyboard devastating a moon

·        you invite participants to the cash register painted on your own little doubt, travelling by religious police, the world went to a tuning transposition; and others are stoned to death

·        nothing in daily lectures, bony, all the competence electronic; orchestra of the inward repairing the horizon. Revised humanity no longer exists, relocated as organic

·        rotting apples

·        simple relationships, never comfy, big enough

·        Who grew the poppies? under the author space in the trailer loaded up under ill light

·        break down, the precipice air conditioned, red ashes gleaming, vacant skyscraper for the police and chit chat of the floor pattern

·        We are surprised into every year. You will know plausible etymology, summary sounds urgent, something brushing the words surprised into every year again, smooth cylinders riding the trees, a barren place, rooves, an interactive people shuddering looking both ways. I notice it. We remember monumental fires; then try talk already there, icy corners necessitating assistance with dynastic certitude. Bright poisonous darkness. An image of mahogany water. Noise of the face, indistinct. I feel at home, studying at home, extremism of eating, relationships abusive

·        Inventors of flame, tilting together. Attempted prayer responsible for the bus on landscapes, fire consumes the author space; fire storms dawn; nothing; some reflected light darkness a misspelling