Nunc Stans

CODA

Her eternity

b u r d e n

eventually embodied

then unearthed

further impermanent

earlier galaxies

entangled in

tranquil veil

(sleep-genius

"cover me")

drowsy cherub

bearer of abeyance

our own aroused

avowal equal to

arborescence

spectral companions

lustral all

(scathe not

anything like resistance)

interiorized audacity

comprising time

current converted

as essential as

seldom understood

of this

earthly concealment

let me

grapple in silence

among therapeutics

(within gnawn song

nested reticence)

murmur after

grove extension

this rose

as was

with what allows

by turns

experiential grieving

must accrue

so muse how much

extinguished

why mimesis

status granted

each fixed

light-beam home

azimuth posture

impossible form of

coiled birth

enigmatic leap

speech stoops to

save us

so I as refuge

obsolete

domain around death

through slim crimson

a b s t r a c t e d

those tears

so much sung

to distort

another sovereign kiss

destination embodiment

my unlisted

simulacrum

suppose cosmos

in despair

craving empathy

our holy tether

give them

their ghosted desire

else deft razor

("do not rescind species")

animal people

here too prey

rising from light

where canyon embraced them

[An earlier version was published in The Alterran Poetry Assemblage, December 2002.]

No Doubtful Asphodel

TH/IN PIECES 

o 

cry

o

gene 

o

void 

em

bod(h)i

ment rai

sed sed

iment 

essent

ially 


~ 


cir

cadian os

cillation in

tercel

lular 

chro

nosphere 

reser

voir per

turber 

verge 


~ 


por

tal err

or ver

itable 

dor

sal sal

vation 

irration

al opal 


~ 


savan

nah 

affi

davit 

arch

aic ache 

a

gate to 

a

llopathic 

o su

zerain 


~ 


resi

dew 

s

urface 

dur

ess 

irradi

ated 

pain de

mesne 

Logical Depth

Behold an almost votive commotion at the table of dissolute muses. Their intimacy is brittle mimicry, prismatic glances in hand mirrors and ludic tattoos. A somewhat machinic bit of obsessive-compulsive theatre (damsels de-stressed, in celebratory mode) amid the usual lavish inactivity. She who must be accommodated arrives late to the occasion. As for a continuous present, the key would seem to be the logical depth of its virtuality. 

Convex Resonance Event

So begins the disappearance of the world. Those who remain remain implicated. An insect trust in the process. The thought is not the magnetic field of that feeling. Hieratic digital entities retroactively absent. The manifestation emits presence but is elsewhere. An immense din splinters into silence, intricate artifice of the contingencies unhinged. Then spent starlight shivers and disappears into the intermittent music of the hemispheres. 

Imaginary Anthology

Some Names for an Imaginary (and Probably Impossible) Anthology (beginning with bp and including those with birth-dates from 1944-1966) 

bpNichol 
Victor Coleman 
Steven Ross Smith 
Norma Cole 
Michael Boughn 
Sharon Thesen 
Colin Browne 
Steve McCaffery 
Lissa Wolsak 
Pete Smith 
M. NourbeSe Philip 
Brian Henderson 
Lary Timewell Bremner 
Meredith Quartermain 
Richard Truhlar 
Anne Carson 
Christopher Dewdney 
Phil Hall 
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk 
Susan Clark 
David Dowker 
Lise Downe 
Erin Moure 
Karen Mac Cormack 
Camille Martin 
Peter Culley 
Kevin Davies 
Jeff Derksen 
Sylvia Legris 
Steve Venright 
Lisa Robertson 
Christine Stewart 
Nancy Shaw 
Deanna Ferguson 
Margaret Christakos 
Dan Farrell 
Sina Queyras 
Louis Cabri 
Adeena Karasick 
Catriona Strang 
Darren Wershler 
Christian Bok 

Exolution

The continuation of eternity by other means, not any and all . . . or maybe this is it. A certain frequency of spectral lamentation, the structure of the relationship of dark matter to dark light. Lunar caustic. Follow (the isotopic composition of) the water (from the radical gate to the eventual threshold). Incarnation as chimera, some ocular covenant with a dissonant sensuality. Her reciprocity is legendary. The embodiment of soft cinema sustained by a plane of inconsistency. 

Inalienable Array

So now maintain a plane of consistency. Then what utters lustre inheres, as attar to petal or morning dew undone. Solace of the dreaming numbers for the precipitate of disillusionment, implicit representation by ratio(cination). By means of ceaseless deviation, the derivation, a rather subjective correlative to hysteria or an alien mistaken for a tree, a well-meaning desiring machine with a penchant for causal nostalgia and its somatic cognates. Over the carnal rose symptomatic the ghosts of other flowers in the cups of their nuptials.