Tuesday, March 28, 2006

coital

My personal poetics are
_____giving birth to bastard children
with_____mortgaged brains_____saying:

________what we
________love

_____________is

________what we
________love

_____________to


________destroy,

__sometimes.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

become beautiful

Diet of words:

Dead child
become beautiful.


Send down the army.

Pale eyes
become beautiful.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Awkward Grammar

word sonnet #3 (for Christian Bok)

Mono
metric

stanzas

obstruct
standard
sonnet
structure.

Poets
tackle
abstract
formats,

causing
migraine
headaches.

Friday, March 03, 2006

he(braic)syllabic

Sing an old song:

_________on papyrus—
with sharpened and chiselled edges
____________like daggers.

Sing:
_________varia—
__________________tions

__________________
on

consonantal not
sonorous forgotten

__________indentations,

___________________sing!
_____[uni]_____formed
_________[in]__form____syllabics
___________________to
_____scorn__the
_______________________more
pheme’s
form,_____________un—


_____known:

_______________un—sung.