Anecdota

January

2012-02-03T07:17:00.000-08:00

eft gilded eye code emblem
synapse eftsoons eyeless conquistador cast
bright trails brassock charlock leaves
marginalia venom'd sting purge mortal
grossness ox-beef devoured should eat
each other eftest scruple silique
offend with good will forsworn
naught bottom a tonnap year

Epigraph

2012-01-25T06:48:00.000-08:00

Oh! Yee fools, will you never have any witt, know you not that all such things are meer cheats and impostures? Fy, fy, go home, for shame.

December

2012-01-13T10:28:00.000-08:00

et passim rivis currentia vina repressit

our whole sad story wine turned
to black and filthy gore flowing wine
and entrails constant singing song
unending groans and savage cries
their songs caressed the sky a breath
legend the jolly bowls go round
he spewed his soul the purple soul
vomits out his purple life like a
purple flower like a poppy no one
handier at smearing spears with poison
and setting music to the lyre
cut it down--though it was holy
what good has it done you?
(a fiendish gall that has no remedy)

November

2011-12-09T06:18:00.001-08:00

arise once more
enriched with the spoils
by a hundred brazen knots
so saying
hallooing perhaps agleam
with the colour of roses
where once had been huts
all made of bronze
--'twas a wonder to see--
build it anew
unwearying song that none
durst enter a ball
at their feet Apollo
had offered a gift he chose

October

2011-11-08T06:43:00.001-08:00

sweat is streaming everywhere
he is panting
whose fame is now in darkness
they glitter
do not entrust your verses to the leaves
you are that Maximus the only man who
soothed the air with song
winds will take and scatter all of these
as a purple flower or poppies
erase you from the memory of time
mad poor fool
unlock the Alps
and singing still made for the stars
not mere rumor but a messenger more certain

September

2011-11-02T06:02:00.000-07:00

the sweat ran down in streams rivering down
he seemed to pant he's breathless
whose names are in the dark lost in the dark depths
all shining glittering
commit no verses to the leaves
Maximus you are the only soul who
charmed the air with jargoning
these the winds of heaven scattered every one
as a bright flower as a crimson flower
take you out of the record of remembering time
he lost his head the idiot
the Alps laid open wide
left the earth and chanting sought the stars
indecent birds obscene birds

August

2011-09-30T05:48:00.000-07:00

she kept her armor world
a world of tears suppliants
grieving palms beating
breasts breathe
marjoram breathe embrace
dissolving into empty air
still dragging out my life leaves
the slightest breath of air will
scatter visitors unlock her lips
and sing my one lapse
a hundred altars riots of
flowers set ablaze wild as
a top a hundred brazen
bolts and iron strong forever

July

2011-09-06T08:30:00.000-07:00

for so vast a frame
the thin remains of ruin'd Troy
they march obscure in
order painted on the wall
curious work all
parts resound with tumults
indigested foam and morsels raw
the mounds the works the walls
for ornament besmear'd
with filth and holy gore
poets worthy their inspiring god
open all the furies of her face
the clowns a num'rous rout
but all of naked men

June

2011-07-05T09:03:00.000-07:00

few in number but each was a war-man
famous for trumpet and spear
loaded with gorgon poison
his senate men of meager substance all
a race of men born from the trunks of oak trees
and there were the gauls
and there were the tufted caps and the shields
the poor fool
his beautiful head bare and like a jewel
frothed and muttered
now with prayers and now with bitter jibes
it is no new thing
the wounded wild goats eat it
aloof aloft alone

May

2011-06-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

aloft with their wings whooping
--a miraculous thing--
we saw them
one only shall you miss one shall be lost
where only wild things lurk they go
the birdless place
sound and resound
yelling out remarks--some proper some not to record
not as a rumour but through an official message
my own lost comrades changed into birds
were hotly debating these controversial issues
a bouquet of white lilies blended with as many red roses
weaving a skein of flight in the fine big halls
off she flew

April

2011-05-03T08:31:00.001-07:00

arrive and cut Libya's thread
(it's a marvelous story)
but she never bothers to catch to replace or assemble the verses
bastions started no longer rise
here is the beast's house an intricate puzzle defying solution
belief in the story died long ago though it lives on in rumour as folklore
a mixture of words worth reporting words worth nothing at all
his songs were always of horses
a knot to frustrate any blade
a work of quite monstrous weight stamped heavy with crime
whose shimmering lustre lingers
while they continued contentious internal debates on disputed issues
he no longer dreams of Achilles' fine horses
far removed from the halls of the mighty

Epigraph

2011-04-07T11:18:00.000-07:00

si quid mea carmina possunt

November

2010-12-20T05:21:00.000-08:00

gathered shaken unwashed
clusters of small
white stars finished
in July leaves
pinnate sawtooth loves
ruins discourage wood's
service in slingshots
whistles toys cordial
said to ward
detoxifying guzzle all
sweats and piss
pang dose miry
craneberry moss- fenberry
in hedge's heart

October

2010-11-12T11:26:00.000-08:00

a man's paradise a
cobbled coat pocket for
a smaller book his own
the Luz bone a seed
bright section of boxhedge
Joasaph my prayer unhouse
whirring thought spittle scour
slate remove quickness of
fury Ye elves of hills
brooks standing lakes and
groves all this at
sudden twang these troubadours
head held high mill
and anvil fail stinks

September

2010-11-03T08:25:00.001-07:00

pus of salvation! delirium
pro Republica! Byzantine ear
of Moloch! naked in
the ballroom barefoot
marble slap sweet
weight swing of
breasts foot to
foot lamp uplifted
livid mark bloom unthought
avid purple and yellow
on throat on thighs
as gone night
rocketing back roads
the pious memento

August

2010-10-04T09:41:00.000-07:00

at vertex mount afterimage
of officer’s monksbeard face
plot below sweet pea
mignonette wallflower phlox
art thou tonic laxative and
diuretic? on gravel or chalk
more common dig taproot
up in October blue up
against yellow lifted as
many as required lay
the vampires down excluding
every keek juice and
oil mixed render purple
fine cleansing and jovial

July

2010-09-08T05:57:00.000-07:00

a hi-bouncer lost a
spaldeen will a dime do?
not pearl gradually as
after a gunshot light
or a duke may return
to the street but ivory
no one buys it back
assassin a jumble in
a drawer inventory a dog's
egg a found ball
a roomful and no one
to show them to
the floor of the harbor
dukedom enough

June

2010-07-29T12:37:00.000-07:00

that web
miraculous plagiary
erased quinka
quāla Founder
sweeping up the
spider-haunted loaves
a curdle bloom
of mold to’t
insolvent wrack no
song and insolent
salt curl upon
curl quinka
quāla the whole
megillah

May

2010-06-09T12:36:00.000-07:00

the twice nominated where
in history will you find it?
flown from the keeping of
heaven's laundries fallen unsignificantly
to Earth a shatter and smear
crony old Noah retired
not even offered sea
returned spreadeagled as a
pastel saint on a flannelgraph
by Garfield clean and whole to
that sky sweating the one
who is coming is not
a man of mine shill his
test only closest

April

2010-04-30T09:43:00.000-07:00

One collects bullets
candy or candy
dispensers at any
rate bud his
ore his daily
ode canvas folding
chairs paperwhite sweet
smoke this touch
a jewel or
dog accumulated grit
swallow glare numerous
cancellations finally my
Milan swain on
whom nay bores

March

2010-04-12T09:12:00.000-07:00

stretch of waste ground Brueghel skaters
in the distance here the ladies
waiting room expressed as two broad
backs top hats for God’s sake
let’s sit a moth on a
window screen wait for the data
to unfurl a pennon even two
not with bludgeons Blaine will say
but their throats cut with sit
a feather click of tesserae not
in the Byzantine fashion no glow
of gold dropped hand to hand
and there above the culvert what?
these decibels —gosh! to call attention

December

2010-01-06T05:43:00.000-08:00

the train has come to rest
song stopped on its cam
manna lining the tracks
in drifts air thronged trogon
guanay tern kestrel scaup bringing
morsel 3000 dogs expectant
single sculpt white rose go on
torn loose donation kept close
in studious pinch held pent
elope gay careful nothing beneath
wishbone from middle miocene
on dropt into pocket Poet,
addressed put his finger in
his ear said Jamaica Plain

November

2009-12-15T12:34:00.000-08:00

coxswain knell lady folly
ply ladybird spied doxy
red creep shard itch
minuscule greet might grow
rather anywhere seahorse sigil
curl strum on the
brain flinders wept of
indistinguishable particles do-si-do along
private leaf crawl suit
scattered frozen shown shard
synapse ever avid to
acquire buckets boxes read
multiply thru green hedge
glean salvo salvage salve

October

2009-11-18T06:46:00.000-08:00

or should or should
not a cross sunrise
rock in the mohave
desert much higher than
the rest and painted
white bar ever repeated
mutation so far undiminished of
congressional wangle no stupa no
cross no funds no choice
true tether no injury no
standing no luck? just
listen just tell em
it's a pro-torture logo
any xtian freight incidental

September

2009-11-09T05:30:00.000-08:00

not soon coming
friend or groom
home mint asylum
all poor legacies
leaf bandana and
tinkling handsome found
home pennyroyal brought
antic astride motorcycle
two-lipped materials together
weeds ferns dress
ever common earth
worship unhedged sing
lapwing uproot deepest
so sojourner is

August

2009-11-06T05:13:00.000-08:00

you have geography only on
hill a name this tapestry
still by wild ass out
of gazelle slinger waiting squats
beside lucia berlin thorns perplexed
as dry stubble alula prelude
gull and a magpie household
crowd clay pinched off by
increment devoured in this hand
pyrite too many urging who
touched gate slumped over wheel
fathoms boxthorn fruit prick wolfberry
to mountain traveled heard in
that constellation heart trio home

July

2009-11-05T12:41:00.000-08:00

馬
unpack me a
horse first poor
my eyes a
goad or pack
him? ope us
might rise anywhere
great laughter when
and two-headed birds
knee-fan dandle little
mansion over writing-desk
a delicacy sought
in the teeth
never so ignorant

June

2009-10-31T13:35:00.000-07:00

economy in conference mostly makes

me want to wash the upshot cuts

wonderful wonderful all but the noble

sentiments in Everson rot so rutledge

burton it hurts him boy scout mayor lash bit

finally see jay up out of his chair portrait

with downcast eyes slashed fists clenched no

sonofabitch razor eyes first can ever

say that to fred vinson shay and after

shay bill can do it and rhyme the tug of

hands tom others standing and after bill

david not work thoughts leapt dont sweat no

body pays sudden pitapat down

into dark a drowning man

May

2009-10-30T05:21:00.000-07:00

jim dine is it come
thinking the harder
of keats in harness
house of old lore harsh
voice in lexden churchyard
back-turned reel home one
foot on curb one
in the gutter song
ex calce tanager
envoyed ever
boudicca claw down
roman cornice heart us
the keener (no she is
not marianne faithfull)

April

2009-10-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

saxophone here as misinformed as
a feather boa transmission
failure? he asked horizon eyed
have we seen them previously these
augurous birds? a display no
doubt of sweet craft somewhere
indicates this component had it
any elegance ever?
four sticks acorn caps
in the dust arranged plan
of a lost settlement raven
manipulating bright fragment
in its beak on the banks
of the river Embarrass