misc-texts

Noun that I've been watching (100)

2009-12-28T03:12:00.004-05:00

body.

forward, back
and forth.

allows a visceral hurt
point to benefact
itself apart from
largo factions.

when I dramatize
past tense,
it is for lack
of a known present.

the turning over of one
after another leaf,
in early point of fact,
equals the method
captivating unglued mentality.
an unbrash cornet fastens
its amazed face
on a simple world.

I think the tonguing of a brass
instrument with mute cone
connives a situation
projected on the wide screen
inconveniencing the lived heart
until it loosens the bridle
to release movement.

a frenzy follows; injustice
runs out of sight.
the officer in charge
recites a script.
we listen, and we say,
"this does not sound
like her view"

so is the world
still here, is this
the body that scans
evidence,
being pushed and pulled.
are these those same strings?

Noun that I've been watching (99)

2009-12-28T03:02:00.003-05:00

jazz.

violin notes occur. they do not rescue
themselves or anyone who lingers at attention too long,
taking in washing of emoticons,
blaspheming sense perception
like some waylaid belonging.

daylight is a fling that happens
outside of the body
of the being
of the rapture
not a part of the equation.

have I told you lately that I feel left out?

how much you believe is true
is how much becomes true
in the last analysis.

my mountain of the stratosphere compounds
the desecration of your sanctosphere.
I want to daybreak into your determined
wall protecting someone or something
from what I happen to achieve.

at some point I will captivate
the culture in your heart
and marry it to the culture in my heart
and we will agreed nver to die
without desire.

Noun that I've been watching (98)

2009-12-26T01:02:00.003-05:00

sleep.

one lifts over the threshold
a deserving mirror,
lightly places it upon
the bed.

good company need not be touched.
good company aspires to hope.
good company is not erotic.

the camera is another posse
felt, enjoyed, retained.
chimera, also. plaintext.

vamonos.

an influenza epidemic will not touch us.
(repeat after me)

the solstice will have come and gone
before you nuzzle up against
the solemn wavelength
of a rugged star.

only miniature flowers qualify
for a pure bouquet
that some of us have pictured
incessantly for the durations
of others' lives.

this is where we find ourselves,
endowed with adjectives,
and loyal to the nouns.

Noun that I've been watching (97)

2009-12-14T18:59:00.003-05:00

letter.

form figures punctuation lavish patterned on the page.

grace from one
hand to another
handful of awaiting
prose imposing poem
on poem light.

some of the original prose
depletes itself
on account of
wit and witness.

what shine defaces poverty
offers triple-doses
of contrarian amendments.

being on key resembles
what is re-assembled
in a fog. more mercy
has been blurred within
the garden of dreamed light
festering where heaven
was to have been staged.

building tete-a-tete
indifference now
bracketed by soft truth
barely able to sustain
the givens and the wants
and trains that sort
the divan-prone
from from figured bass.

corrected to fit to-the-letter
saints of grammar
in the garden
of our haste.

one bonds with how it ought to be.
enough again
a golden monument
to taste,
post-haste.

Noun that I've been watching (96)

2009-12-11T03:24:00.002-05:00

radio.

91.5 fits through the pores of the two-pound
instrument jostling its referendum
on planned artistry.
Saxophone is meant to be
delivered, whether by skill not schooling,
just as it is:
purely intended as an assortment
of moments we call present tense
by choice not laissez-faire
of pure reality.

midnight provides the intersection
of space-time in this tiny room
where influx of rhythm trebles
the bass and light can be
relieved of its repose
to gentle or to rouse one
to befriend again the city
allegedly out there
equaling hypothesized
protection from the inside.

Noun that I've been watching (95)

2009-12-10T02:23:00.002-05:00

fragment.

mid-sentence, she felt
herself adored until
the approaching final
word.

he remains to her
a temple of refractive
symmetry, a hypothetical
attraction of protagonistic
antonyms.

it's midnight, no one
ought to be awake,
with dream life to invent
as yet unthought
cure for excess quiet.

Noun that I've been watching (94)

2009-12-06T04:23:00.004-05:00

blog.

you whisper from another state,
and I am hearing
piano from the radio
playing jazz in the next room.

the heaven I suppose
is laced with perfume
both tangible and auditory,
magic whose exercise
equals metallic singe
from distance quite believable.

no matter what you say,
I hear your AM signal
transfer through
shared midnight.

Noun that I've been watching (93)

2009-11-29T21:03:00.002-05:00

stage.

smooth finish.
process meets
encore.

the wood itself
breathes, I tell myself.
the polish and the scratch(es)
mingle to yield

perfection like mother
used to make.
honestly, if there are windows,
they are stained
glass. ornament.
one does not see
through.

"if I had an obstacle" (replace
the word at will)
I'd spray dis-
infectent there.
I'd hesitate to share.

I would e-
radicate the focus
on that mythy
little fortress.

now, going on Monday,
I am a citizen again.
I move in-
to routine. the route
downtown is in my skull,

one the one side,
where the other brain
resides.

Noun that I've been watching (92)

2009-11-24T19:58:00.003-05:00

restraint

I live with-
out for the du-
ration.

why must I
revisit the place
of failure,

at night when
I can barely
distinguish faces

that no longer
know me. I consider
whether to explain

who I am
versus who I used
to be.

is it worth
it? I cannot e-
lapse like time.

disappointment of not being
known equals
disappointment of letting people

down. I release myself
from past tense.
I don't believe in

forgiveness for
a moment. foregiveness
unequal to a moment

does not last.
I have outlasted
my behavior that does not

typify my lifeline.
my life since
my mistakes shoulders

the deficiency I carry
through pale fields
of new growth

I can barely see.
I barely see my breath
each morning.

each morning
I barely breathe
the answers

to my questions.
I have stopped asking
questions. I try to coast

I try to re-
invent, I try to
live wthin

my means, meaning
uninterrupted notice
of the seen.

Noun that I've been watching (91)

2009-11-17T18:28:00.002-05:00

committee.

are you alone, I ask, when I call,
hoping to be (thus) alone with you.

now there are two of us: Dame Agatha
in reverse, so we can talk.

whatever we agree, it will be thinner
than its firstness; weaned of singularity.

if there were more than one of you,
I would be more in love, the theory goes.

transposition is the beginning of something
unintended as a consequence of unpaid attention.

the committee will come to (order).
your honor, I would like to register an emotion.

and so goes the day, the daylights.
we might as well be married (to each other).

between us, there is no semplance of other.
we unwittingly continue as we are.

Noun that I've been watching (90)

2009-11-10T14:16:00.003-05:00

cigarette.

I saw a woman just outside the building
where I buy organics beets for weekly soup.

she released a whistle of fog colored smoke
I liked. I still like its scent, despite

the roster of prohibitions. sheepish yes
bequeathed to my party favored life before

this onset of blessed purity
for which I prayed.

is it armistice day? I feel as though
the woman with the cigarette shares

the celebration and the disappointment
coming through my pores.

we have not spoken, I just watch
what she is doing, as if

present tense were simple
and accessible and full of unvetted bravery.

Noun that I've been watching (89)

2009-11-10T02:48:00.002-05:00

cradle.

anyone can be a chaperone.
tonight, the broadcast
questioning the bell curve
will not be shown.

in its place, vespers
will shadow the child
beneath accoutrements
holding still, while

impositions of desire
remain irrelevant
if allowed.
as will the separation
between the living
and the innocents.

Noun that I've been watching (88)

2009-11-07T02:37:00.003-05:00

metronome.

a virtuoso rejects training
wheels. unneeded paraphernalia
lessens the quality
of the full spectrum,
ranging from sine wave to vibrato.

within the invisible fibers
that establish retraction and splay
are pulse points like learned
religious dogma. coordinates
used to describe precisely
where and how things are
and should be, will be,
such that the collective
thinking, feeling, and belief systems
guide the infinite "what next"
of everything that hails
from staves.

a sense of hearing
once inflicted on the species
causes song and silence
equally. causes pleasure
and cacophony. elicits
some form of response,
no matter.

all music happens in or near
the fences. a minute goes by
and another rendition
makes its way onto the screen.
enough to seem a finished piece.
enough to recollect, replay,
retrieve the shock of first emotion.

Noun that I've been watching (87)

2009-11-06T02:09:00.003-05:00

fitted sheet.

I live in a recliner. I sleep here.
Between the leather finish
And my clothes is a maroon-colored
fitted sheet.

The idea is that I be comfortable,
Not sitting up. But bedded singly
Here where I live.
Comfortably healing.

When I sleep, the meadows turn
Inaccurate enough to seem
Beatitudes. My memory is offered
A reprieve from sadness.

I hear the air machine
Remove the separation between
Tenor and bass. I hear
Neutrality become a perfect window.

Noun that I've been watching (86)

2009-11-03T00:18:00.002-05:00

Soup.

He discerns the shared avidity for sumptuous and seasoned warmth
Together in an afternoon the reach of this
The pure young sweet tea
And the stories that descend mid-day as light
Goes spare Novemberly
With embers coming to the night
With shadows of a factual happiness

The softer our return to selves
The finer the detail and the more accurate
The versions of our treasured store of risk
The intonation of a brother's voice
The safety of a loved one
The gem tones of a voice so sure in its harmonic blend

One episode is all I see
And everything returns: his limelight flavored
Lime, his laugh, his confidence a mirror
Of my tendency to like the same things
Sung, retrieved, made younger than first versions
When we just embarked and wondered what next
For the world we thought we whimmed into true north.

There is a sentence in the heart that eases into place
The fact of nourishment and pause
To live within this moment as it purifies,
Growing continually recognizable amid derivatives
Like recollection and hypothesis,
Unbound into a just and perfect autumn
Dazzling in its softened colors
Tame to eyelight, swift and soft and sure.

Noun that I've been watching (85)

2009-10-31T02:24:00.002-05:00

white noise.

hospitality fosters
well-tempered syllables
that we might form theme
and variation pieces
of uninterrupted night,

repealing the inflected
daylight parsing
harsh noise upon
fields and trees
and flapping
plastic of car lots.

cool November owns
night quiet spaces,
evening the fractures
made by windows
rubbed beyond
the point of clarity.

Noun that I've been watching (84)

2009-10-10T03:15:00.002-05:00

duct tape.

what I thought
I would not say
I said so you
would recognize
reorganize
chastise
compare contrast the is
with is-not
in the mind of
the beheld

when I think of stepping back
letting you go
my body dances a mild dance
my heart remembers safety
that was not safe
I keep my eyes fastened
on you and on
your face

I factor an invented
kindness that I might
attribute to your place
within me
harsh magnetic
laced with residue

2009-10-01T11:56:00.000-05:00

Ruta

flinders
sunk
drat
mule
comb dust

Mano

índice
pulgar y pulgas
martillo largo
carne y cumbre

Meld

fold your tune
bet belter
issue loath
paw
and pause

Lung

“pensive” rice
sat clown
blat it all
crisp tongue

John M. Bennett

Noun that I've been watching (83)

2009-07-06T17:42:00.002-05:00

sandpaper.

hermit edges out vehicular
approaches

terrain's a wildie
one blows open doors windows

windblown follicles reverse the charge
unless you will unhand

the law of similars offers finally
magician work

whatever works reviles philosophy
that needs a coat

of paint (little to say except
surface rarely deceives, being

of course one step away from
one step away

Noun that I've been watching (82)

2009-06-28T16:09:00.002-05:00

graph.

primary colors and their kin
bliss the page.
I have an appointment
to be tested
for my capture
of the phrasal wavelength
of absorption by sight.

I was forty years old
when the eyes were freed
of their deep brown
and started taking in.

vividity shames
dowd. it is simple
to be noticed, far more
difficult to dovetail
knowing and being known.

look at the river
from up here
and see land
being carved away.

there is a mark
and an absence
of a mark.

there are colors
shifting with the volume
of light
and spawn of shadow.

there are particulates
both seen and unseen.

there is the trumpet player
framed in a neat white
window.

everyone speaks
of how he plays.
perhaps we each
imagine him
fixated on the page
of notes.

perhaps he hears
by heart.

Noun that I've been watching (81)

2009-06-20T10:10:00.002-05:00

report.

isn't any envy packed with lore scape
concentrated overage
and tribal few.

in a minute, pages
will elapse and
veto impulse
qualified
rapport comme ca
"as you were"

vindicable so-so
praxis punch points
local veerage
and topeka lower case
"what's wrong with"
this long list of of of

corpus crease
and leaky vintage
opus twelve
until I fall
no fault of our own
owned

repetition cloaked
penciled in
minimal revered
repair and flocked
like trees
at winter noon

give a preemptive
launch pore
in a minute
honey
fractions
freaking
fallen
few

speculum
retreat
and pored
across

stems
roots
earth
sans
blister
sans
evidence
of any
kinder

Noun that I've been watching (80)

2009-05-25T03:06:00.004-05:00

other people.

oath of off(ice)
ornery as the pro
nun
cia
shun of the negative "un"
by friends who would say "on"

the trills within
boat float
begin with all
benignity

the stigma
of a whale
of a lot of
(fun),
(talent),
(good looks)
lock in
(lock down)
the free ex
press (i)on
of and of and of

it all a
mounts to
other people
windowing and windowed
down upon by these eyes
(made for melodic equals)

parts of whole
begun song thus
begin to seem
the whole
figment of speech
while docile moves
(by docents sipping their
dos equis)

capsize combines
in the faltering
tall season
of july

shrapnel (death knell)
simpering
retrieves the what from
"you're made of"
and 'vinces all the chap(erone)s
of an inverted depth
(perception being all the rage)

defining on the page
the world stage
slathering on redemption
in the wool mood of a pseudonym
as nimble as a reach toward
hemispheres with luck in them

Noun that I've been watching (79)

2009-05-04T15:39:00.002-05:00

eyes.

cream carefree daylight
framed in windows
salts oncoming rain.

we match solitudes
and watch daylight
hatch a natural
wafer line
of overcast.

if a wave were here
to nest the craft
slipped by
we would avoid
deciphering
sealed observations
thin along lined
paper our collective
mood brought down
by branches in the motion
of our atmosphere.

leaves interfere with
verticals and capsized
places lit along
script fallen on the sand.
a divot cradled
has been lost to scenery
just where it landed.

any day now consolation
will fall forward
in the dim contagion
loftier than spun light
given sumptuous turns
of partial light
revealing damages by thirds.

Noun that I've been watching (78)

2009-03-17T01:31:00.002-05:00

window.

the occupation of transparency
endorses playthings
as though elastic
pertained to
the disarmament of fate
and knowing
served a function

if breath taken
goes unmeasured
does the being
live

emotion equals evidence
of tedium: a person
with an open window
in our shared night
puts away the dishes

the procedure resembles
large-scale trash
collection from a distance
greater than
the distance I infer

by morning there will be
a surfeit of light
presuming rain has been
perspired away

I sleep to texts
of Merton letting go
the cravings
one imposes

I still desire
Gethsemani
as a holding cell
for a soul
about to have
preceded its own
happiness

Noun that I've been watching (77)

2009-03-16T14:25:00.002-05:00

Obedience.

Not quaint,
yet patterned
to evoke the structure
within strictures
at a glance plus
into depths.

Surface prompts
arrive with in
here nt drill
to pry
response.

A deity should be
preceded by
definite article.

Command form iso
lates reciprocal
relationship.

Isotopical unseen resplendence
does not dignify
the self by
knighting
singularity.

Contemplation maims
fluency misdialed
into a flurry of
solipsistic lone
notations
only partially
worth keeping.

In keeping with
the fray of forwarding
within illusive
time strictures.

Infinity has pulse,
drives home,
divides
into itself
beyond itself
as Heisenberg
would plant
some likelihood.

Noun that I've been watching (76)

2009-03-06T03:15:00.002-05:00

Beverly.

Evensong favors horizon,
as if memory perspired
a shadow of itself
as object.

Voice holds still
on tone melodic
as a sine wave,
accurate the way

Beauty is true to form
all-inclusiveness
that feels right
all the way to the left margin.

Just past summer
is the path to clarity,
when friends begin
to learn perspective

A modicum of light attracts
companion darkness,
until the blend emits
a clear delineation.

Smoke across the grass,
the act of walking through
the woods along the gray
blacktop seeing where people live.

Noun that I've been watching (75)

2009-02-18T22:19:00.002-05:00

statue.

flow of blue to white where tones lap.

generous cloth, the floor arranged with folds atop.

premises gleaned from breath deflect the art in integers.

flair absent from planes allows a forthing syllable to pave.

sentence at a time, toward serenity.

chapter versed in capital where flounces have been wept upon.

one parses desire into the syllables to magnify contentment.

soft awhile followed by well defined.

Noun that I've been watching (74)

2009-01-22T02:50:00.003-05:00

Refusal.

Name your first born after
my innocence,
and tell me
of ribbons and yarn.

I promise to believe in
the impossibility
of holding on forever
to the purity
on her behalf.

A person practices
on behalf of taller persons
the embodiment of permanence.
That the older individuals
may dance around
their failures.

Watch the child's impatience
to distance herself
from cleanliness
that in first person
feels like inattention.

Noun that I've been watching (73)

2009-01-14T00:58:00.002-05:00

Year.

One keeps returning to
beginning point
as place the psyche
(choose your verb)
"penetrates"
"absorbs"
"embraces"
"defines"
"nicknames"

Timetables are no time to talk, or they are nothing
other than

What has been introduced leads to what has been misperceived.
Third prize: a matching set of diamond cuff links
First prize: random instability
Inquiring minds lip off to probabilities of mink outlets
and surplus salt.

The majesty injected in your borrowed blood veins comes to be
a mere commodity for which derivatives emerge like rain water
through a gutter spout, a rather vulgar image, if I must say,
cluttering an otherwise sweet out
pouring of verbiage.

Here comes a lane of words to ride into another tense.
Here comes a cart powered by a man's young bike legs taking you to parks.
Here comes the river on its own and it's your job to name it something.

As when a service has concluded and the clerk declares:
"You're good to go!"

Noun that I've been watching (72)

2009-01-05T01:47:00.002-05:00

cement.

a painter just came by and found the artwork finished.
nothing anyone could see except the artist,
primed to locate what and where the art was.
she said a few words, nodded to herself, and left.

what about the paint that might have made the surface different
from its gray?
it was as though her mind desired it.
it was as though the gray met her perception of an art.
would she agree to given instruction on deciphering
a path, a highway, or a view beyond the tops of trees?

indifference would be some kind of repeat dream
or revisioning.
finding the artwork when the work has been completed
by another is an art itself.

it would be worth asking so many questions,
each of which would yield an answer that could be a painting,
would be perfectly enough.
I want that skill.
I want new paintings.
I want a coffin for the pieces to be held.
where they are certified to be regarded
as safe art for all eternity.

fractal

2008-12-27T09:46:00.000-05:00

Noun that I've been watching (71)

2008-12-27T01:45:00.002-05:00

nightshirt.

very clothily thin fab
ric very old and
making very you
ng your wearing
it and so
I bought a new
twice washed appearing
version (virginal) clean
white about to sprout
lace white off
guard.

pacific east code
lorikeet a dwindling
paragraph of kismet.
let us loosen our collective tie.
let us betray a being
constantly
on the defensive.

pater noster qui . . .
pass me the chi
sumatra is in vogue
rogue winter takes away

the long gray cloud
out loud until we
fray our feelings
like this cloth

as I am loath to bear
the brunt of ruin
lullaby you lull some
body into sleep

some rays are often
easy on the eye
again and someone
new enough will write this
down from memory

because it is intended
to confirm the ended
ceremony with release
after the lengthy grasp.

utensils

2008-12-22T22:12:00.000-05:00

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2008-12-21T15:46:00.001-05:00

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2008-12-21T09:43:00.001-05:00

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viand uteri chains vaccine. ash of gouts. autocue limonene tee. ankhs;
miser Iuka chicane cruet maltreats; o runnel, , eras of gharry dossals.
chop suey floes ferrule. *denier, silages. ideated jugging jail
pumiced indigene ET. Elyria,.? ewers. thesis forth.
nurse’s.back.fortified.with.+^a%&*r#@!m~’?o/”’:;{[}}}r]. dinosaur armor
arousal sour roman empire, alexander the great was weak or )week(
buckshot symbol, the was in the is of. depict this in splendid
detail. (epic pictograph of gore, rogue squadron epilepsy over and out)

Noun that I've been watching (70)

2008-12-04T00:10:00.002-05:00

symbol.

no lowest-common-denominatrix at the moment.
pure pause in the fresh, unsentenced
way of being. ink swirl on white page,
sans color, a preferred tall stroke.
or round. or warm.
asemic brevity or length.
direct to, from the soul.
with other lives to fortify.
this . one . mark . we . see.

to utter the word 'symbol' frays
what depth potential may inhabit
as before. notation is a nervous habit.
probably the ducks out on the pond
reform the pond.

the pond and willows. and the midnight of
human capacity. my eyes with rhetoric
before them. speaking.
as five senses talk and hear.

there are referents to truth
as truth inducts its way
into the limelit moment
of inception. praying
so we do not nibble at such spare
particulates of how
and where and when
and why.

Noun that I've been watching (69)

2008-12-01T01:51:00.002-05:00

broth.

bother my brother spoon feed innocence
both of us cry beneath quintet
of scurvy moon we need to shadow
how we are we need to cluster here.

the sacrosanctity eviscerates
the leavings and the work is frayed
again the work is salt
our land made sprinkles of binarity.

long lead wampum to draw headway
from our looming answers
to no questions at all.
we live in tribes we kilter

strands or coins of silver
fresh estate a jaunty kind
of live one will remand us
to our equals generosity to bear.

Noun that I've been watching (68)

2008-12-01T01:38:00.002-05:00

table.

oak elicits talk I am at home again
st air wishes lined against a younger
lifetime shimmering with adjectives
on loan from elders wizened with
evidence that someone lived (suppressed)
here or in a near facsimile of mid-plush
that would cover winter and attend to
light cloth days toward beaches.

my mother and each woman prior who made
every home alive would place the set
so actors would arrive and actors would
remain give speeches interact sip something
nibble more allow relate pertain
dry into nightfall

then the rest of us repeated what we thought
we heard and tried to make it work
within the psyche we inhabited
our small shells seasoned into long
hushed lives occasionally glittering
as we were taught to do and we invoke her
name as ofen as we dare and she is here
again always and on occasion as we
notice as we look

Noun that I've been watching (67)

2008-11-11T11:03:00.001-05:00

trump(et).
maybe the con(test)
has evaporated
from the blaring
notes fed to horizons

if I played this
masculine endorphins
might have magnified
my skin, thickened
my depth

I like the early triumph
sung in brass I hear
the rasp of generosity
come call me
elsewhere

now and then I
cast my vote upon
the drained skyline
and listen for the people's
will reflect my own
dimension's decibelion

Noun that I've been watching (66)

2008-11-11T11:01:00.001-05:00

group.
I am watching people get along
they're pretty doing this
the faces soft with looks
into the faces that say words
as they say words in return I like
the mood that feels like
people in the little group
are happy being
as they are
I'm over here and I hear paper
that have turned
so they can look together
at the ink on white
and laugh and talk again
with eyes to match

Noun that I've been watching (65)

2008-11-11T10:57:00.002-05:00

sweater.
in white it
holds her earns
her keep her
love and warmth
retains she feels
says waht she
opens hold abbreviates
or showers upon
(out in the open)
various veridicies and
corpus plankton broad
cloth templing
coastline craning necks
reserving mention of
the diary form
informed informal inference
"bear down" said
she "stuff up
per lip" o'suck
said he who
listens and absorbs
by feel of cloth
hat simple lift
the thought of hat trick
sense a story wind
retracted under sun
the soothe hot patch
coverlet upon
resisting wind lines
broad space casters
on the wheels her
little wool fitting
her sensory now cove
red lovelines
as though summer
and the rest

Noun that I've been watching (64)

2008-11-11T10:55:00.003-05:00

doormat.
welcome to my curtain call
you're just in time
to elevate embrace and tender
wholly lacking guilt
from throned bloat, kamikaze
no can Doppler shapelines
at a tilt and serape so why don't you
imbue what you refuse to
crimp and love me back
it's tender where you lack
synecdoche
and summit blisters
talk to me about the pollsters
let me tell you (back)
my p.o.v.
do you reckon "they" would take me
middle-aged or so into
the fold to help weigh
inference against
the rose's implication

Noun that I've been watching (63)

2008-11-11T10:52:00.002-05:00

supply.
divinity assures divisble
and multi(plied)
traded for light as if (AND)
only if a
mounted to imagined
height(s) quite
plural candor
maturation for the long
haul (haw) deliverables
count twice

I mention bounty on account
of demiurge and practice
"look: there goes a Prius"
down predicted road at light
speed (there is more
or less than meets)
at half mast
many moments sub
divide the urge
to sponge or to be squeezed
away

Noun that I've been watching (62)

2008-11-11T10:48:00.002-05:00

key.
she has her hands on mine
is healing she reads books
I do not read she's taking down
dictation blithering or crispening
her text across the laptop
and I'm way in back I cannot
see the distant vehicle I think
about my self in versions (droves
and drones done to
a turn attorney-client priviletge
pre-veh my glommed onto
silk veilia so did you give him
what it takes to get
in here how do you
know this how do you know
things is he malaraious and
how have you configured
what you call relationship
are the behaviors you have
crawled across absorbed into
the hands and why are
dowries "nice" the interest held on to
became aligned with future loss
"what are you talking about
again I am not hearing
what you say"
feign interest. even
advocacy. prompt endeavoring
pre-cast a bounty of new
work, reveal the threads it takes
to boost if not economies
then at least a single egad
each time this thing works

Noun that I've been watching (61)

2008-11-11T10:42:00.002-05:00

chasm.
"way to go" think think there
fore I fill philanthropy
rich lined as comatose
per se pursuing pressed (to)
glass impendingly
dommage in your near heart
tearful chain of cloister
with a will to weigh something
"to gore" a living
(being, breathing)
heritage or hermitage
(do knee bends in South Bend)
lap after lap "as best as"
can doo wop and cinders
return to (press) send(er)
north polis crash course proof
of symbol that weighs in on
lord-it-over(tly) tender as the
fr(e)ight train tranny granny
anny pilot lighting "way through"
symbol(embol)ismo, natch
there is a cove a cave "it's over, baby"
slice a die
cast to repeat-dream replicate
the dorm tiles and the aspirations
and the lower limit peach
(low hanging fractal)
in the near-term earnings
wan or way down yonder
paw2 thatched roof hunger thus
eradicated (radish fated) to do
work in faith
fertility's a kiss its own
met sweetly swiftly swarming
dimed and charitably
overcast
"do you have energy? then get thee
to Saskatchewan asap"
we're running out of derivations
here and there
we're pressing noses
to the glass
we've lost our grasp
(the little that
we thought we had)
of sky and light

Noun that I've been watching (60)

2008-11-09T12:09:00.003-05:00

condiment.
to have been alone awhile, one straps on purpose
(sprinkles in peacetime)

a loose affiliation with opposing values
demos cash flow's mitigating
minor silence.

clad refumes assault on nudity.

we knew winter was coming.
we did not know cayenne pepper played a role.

this is the senator from happiness,
calling the representative of doom.
how are you today what are your prospects
what are you selling to stay sane?

the rinse embodies holy orderly
effacing simplex.

when the light cools, frailty's the matter.
when the window blows, body chemistry's the matter.

how I look into the ceiling until sunrise.

listen. filaments are changing the embodied
to the whole.
it has, we now learn, always included us.

Noun that I've been watching (59)

2008-10-27T02:44:00.002-05:00

taps.

chore (complete
cha (leavened
chill (sweet
chaste (clean

plant these tones
print on bright
save day tools
leave partial midnight

it is never safe to say
it is brief as sun stretch
it is coverlet
it is almost dry

a way of seeing speech
comes down to how the mind
has been impaled upon
another mind at random

may you image selves to seed
may you run lives around your slenderness
may you incorporate the blessing
may you lift from lakeside

Noun that I've been watching (58)

2008-10-15T21:08:00.002-05:00

history.

ratcheted up to ward
off center field before
the mind arrives. where
are we now?

litmus emits results,
or insomnia berates alert-
ness. nest becomes commendable
for once.

are you aware of the intention?
How are you bequeathing
what you earn?
a nerve is slender,
and a near-term quiet
has been scheduled to renew.

contrarian commencement winters
near our cloistered heart.
we share a real world.
who defines the real world?

what echo has been entered
into the equation? what equation
has been entered
into experience?

and whose experience,
at a moment in our time
accumulates momentum.

the twelve charms.
revoking.
invoking.
a clear day partial day.
one has her say.

Noun that I've been watching (57)

2008-10-06T02:30:00.002-05:00

comma.

pleasure means you read until you stop
constantly thinking
hand forms miniature gesture
fills untouched place
with intention

when I want to weigh in I adore
results as much as ventures
toward the same

speech over-
rated music
or invention
or repair under the guise
of mercy at the shore

in the woods and out
appearances cloning
another person's
summer

capture may release
or be released
punctuation keeps
the line of thought
from dying

Noun that I've been watching (56)

2008-09-11T16:18:00.002-05:00

portion.
on the plate these shreds of carrot with whole raisins
and some pineapple and I have forgotten
what else.
controlling interest means:
"thought better of relaxing into the unknown"
"implications left on their own"
"a referendum"
"a dumb clause"

more tomorrow.
(that's all she wrote)
stay tuned to follow
(up)
stay awake with me
there are tremendous hopes (still)
and great reasons to hope (even more)
the substance of the sum is all
that I have lived for
(rather than be told I tell you what)

memory devours silence so that all you hear . . .

the deadpan face
the razzle d.
opinion polls
france etcetera

"leave it to me"
[she di(e)d]

Noun that I've been watching (55)

2008-09-03T00:22:00.002-05:00

convention.
take apart this
undertone this
overcoat this
stretched spree
to remark up
remake to
stiffen upper
happiness imposed
upon low life.

situate the summer
in past tense.
remit to under
taker taking
liberties one
never had.

extol the virtue
of refrain
from memory.
by heart
take heat.
select the diamonds
diametrically.
dun some fact checker
for the price of
doing botched
best.

exacerbate already
frayed boundaries.
beleaguer the prevailing
intensity with equal
opposite rejoinders.
make a mess of something
constantly amiss.
berate unreason
able intercession.
blind unnoticed selves
by loitering where
loitering is
not allowed.

take a miss
to lunch. assign
something and release
the watchful eye
from watching high
and low points
of the sediment.
observe the sky
distance itself
from land.
again
be with
the land.

Noun that I've been watching (54)

2008-08-29T23:19:00.002-05:00

squeak.
patrons ruin bamboo
floors at top
speed. you?
put a bump
er stick
er on your back
space. sacrif
ice pro
bab(b)le draw
string so things
will be smooth
er tall
er frocked
perhaps
a whine
tone mad
rig al
but three p
arts shy
of col
labor
ative some
thing like the big
meet in the earl
y eight
ies
when a trio of sm
all biz people
ventured to
an undis
c(l)osed loc
ation no vacation
to sell somebody
's idea and the engine
er w
ore squeaky
shoes and all
the floors were
polished to a t
urn and n
ever mind how
indistinguishable from
hell this was
with two
thirds of a trio
blanching from chagrin
and him oblivo
comme toujours
immune

Noun that I've been watching (53)

2008-08-22T01:38:00.002-05:00

wall.

infancy's own spokes
(impala tones)
in palatino linotypical
reverberate throughout
history it is a ready made
incessancy it is a dimestore
pump

you look upon
yourself you
offer surface
to the gods of depth
you assert there is a stop
sign
you agree there is a topsoil
fingering accomplishment
as if to claim
that one specific instance
of completion

now a sect is moaning through
put and I hear the flint
scoring the smooth long wide
bronze shade with winter
closed to chance again

although you walk
although you seam the differences
although some worded boundaries
mean smothering before
one thinks of charging
or just holding

stillness hosts wish worlds
there are links to impossible
high pressure favorable to
history unless . . .

Noun that I've been watching (52)

2008-08-16T22:56:00.003-05:00

decorum.
if no one tells me I erase the dark trail
and relax the night to suit.
indifference as passion misinterpreted skews
signals muted as mooshed silk

no wonder the gospel has conveyed praise
in the form of whittled tact
no one is listening to rehashed once vivid
stories turned to vaporous retraction
as in eloquence without a line of code

no matriarchal boniface will stretch
my symptoms to include a flower for lapel
and domesticity there is a job to do
someone must get it done beneath a veil
of specificity we've come to count on
as the backbone of (etc.)

Noun that I've been watching (51)

2008-08-10T00:38:00.000-05:00

cushion.
she sat offering a second
helping of a small thought grown large.
the atmosphere in the enclosure
seemed to gain electric current.
conversation turned to blasphemy
laced with a wish to finish
with the present tense.

some of us were comfortable, we told
the others. it was nice to sit
on something firm, with purpose
and without.

the room was not her room
but we belonged. opened its
shape she left home breathing,
and we notified ourselves this was
a contest. or the finish line
had come.

would comfort curse success against
our grain. how would conformity
change operatic symptoms?
who was there to listen, who
would speak or sing.
the moment would break open
into other moments all called now.

Noun that I've been watching (50)

2008-07-10T11:45:00.000-05:00

tank.
blended something sleek now cloud within.
the moment quite impure as expert knowledge would bestow.
inclusion dusts the premises.
it is white where you have premised clarity.
the noise of an infatuation cancels a precise stream.
penance supposed to clarify makes north marks.
there are reasons just as there are rivers.
there is a hoist function that has to do with movement.
when we hold we change.
take this one statement and charge to it a fence, an altar, matter.
simple as that.
a blank plot.
these holdings.
something to receive within a park nicknamed encanto.

Noun that I've been watching (49)

2008-07-04T10:41:00.002-05:00

eyesight.
hers I mean. its temperature. the hilt of under-
standing in the way
of how I read it. with my self-
determined fluency that I suppose equals
full clarity.

how she affords her watching
safely me although she is not looking
at the surface it is as though
she sees through that place.
she sees past that and every
hunger. she extends her happiness
to gather also her unhappiness
into no forecast at all.
because.

pivotal quality of formulation breathalizes
improperly assumed stasis as if
externals made of
our interior mere victim.

she can get out
of anything
she tells me.
I have already declared
this to her.
our agreement is washable
blue yes?

all over the planet all the scars
mishandled over miscommunication
have been healed for this
small moment seeming
on the outer edge thoroughly
unmomentous.

there. I've said what I was
seeing this for instance
and it means concurrently
the everything in nothing
of humility in overtone.

Noun that I've been watching (48)

2008-06-21T11:38:00.002-05:00

nerve.
affirmed in
visible palp
as if (and) only
(if) nine times
out of tenderness . . .

the bluish wash behind
the text
the text lui-meme
the overdose of consonants
the few vowels
the infraction

every concrete notion
needs an article
yes? proof to introduce

the main stage
main sail (oops)
the the the
portion of once
viewed makes
semblance sense.
with tense diminution
of the cause
still in effect.

Noun that I've been watching (47)

2008-06-15T12:52:00.002-05:00

lamp.
is golden exactly
this?
furtive stretch
into the dusk and window
feel. a part of
(gravity) youngs
the way through mystifying
daylight otherwise.

song pro-
forma yarns
its way into
the status
of a festival.
yours separately
in a small
far-reaching
innocence.

incense allows
pearls of a sentence
to be felt
on skin
(within)
the sense of
thirst smell.

all over the globe
window after window
forms a layers
of contrition
or unfeeling
ventures
into meadow after
sparse place.

allow thus
a little of stored
tributary to extend
beyond this small
circumference
of light.

Noun that I've been watching (46)

2008-05-31T00:30:00.002-05:00

facebook.
if I subtract virtual acres
of my pores, and feign
a limited sphere
of simultaneity,
then spokes from
the presumed hub
may attach to captions
about to be hatched
seemingly by accident.

when I wear pearls
they are sea pearls,
and you can't see them.
how is it possible
to relate in any manner
that makes sense,
and why would we?

mostly we are nouns alleging
we're affixed to verbs,
to the extent that we are verbs.
if the mind appears
to be awake, declaring
what that means,
we may reach out and inadvertently
touch, to the extent that
it will mean something
past, present, future
or some retrospective
point of maturation.

the downside of this
devotion to chance methods
may mean something
planned to the extent
that no one is
a full participant
in anything.

we're hinged as if to form
a surface synonymous
with an event by virtue of
the palpable endowment
of a visible thing.
with all of us here,
what is there
to retrace, invent, explore?

what weather translates
to observed indulgence?
does the mark left on virtual
place continue to exist
apart from individual consent?

Noun that I've been watching (45)

2008-05-26T23:39:00.002-05:00

floor.
children run in little packs across the floor above my hotel ceiling.
unspecific punctuation muscles its way into my thought processes.
fresh weather makes the desert seem a midwestern transplant
to the matte finish of grassless tan.

the more the evening starves itself of sun,
the louder are the points of information
that from some dark distance
form a line of code
I cannot translate now.

baseline data pave comfort on the unsuspecting psyche.
from there, each cell's naive.
night, meanwhile, offers treasured space.
dream's own vocabulary plush with need
and a response to vast misunderstanding.

Noun that I've been watching (44)

2008-05-12T14:25:00.003-05:00

quince.
"whittle thy phraseology, alfred."
if ekphrastic nuggetry,
then the natural hide
(once brought close) dements my foredrawn
lackadaisy.
are you interpretive of dance and do you
drive a pearl Miata?
she "brove" the starkeep with her sparkling,
all fence aside.
the lambent playthings drew to close shave
all the proxy votive shambles
we brought low to chide.
my aunt is never ill she merely fails to sleep.
I think it's time now for a fitting (full stop).
and when the water table's down, there may be
pictographic innocence to mark
this bright convivial sort of a daydream
sparse although quite
sharable.

Noun that I've been watching (43)

2008-05-08T01:23:00.002-05:00

structure.
hard things organize or block the mind from notifying heart of what elapses.
there are plays we will not replicate
to surface through a different lens the way we live and think.
consider home life as squeezed paraphrase
of scars carved into parts of buildings.
each gesture lives somewhere forever.
this photograph smelling of hard-boiled egg becomes unlikely
to repeat its impressionable appearance.
strictures, also, blanch the stilts.
and someone walks as something seems to walk.
apart from many noticings.

Noun that I've been watching (42)

2008-05-06T22:55:00.002-05:00

map.
a decent concentration.
thick blue major population center.
smaller density in color.
in this interview.
counts.
absentee.
methodical and careful.
beta browbeat. central time
zone. six up here and
six down here. effectively
closed at six
six-thirty.
why so long why not
today why north moon
why vast why sort of.
why the face why homework
what in your spare time.
lotion.
mandarin.
contrite.
avoid.
hide under this chair
that chair.
hate to plug.
not plug.
like that.
stakes different.
there from here.
the markets.
fact that.
drawing even.

Noun that I've been watching (41)

2008-05-04T20:09:00.003-05:00

portrait.
he is risen
between
breathmark and
these notes to plentify
an otherwise
dark place
conjoined with softness

as new morning
splinters the details
left whole in memory
taken under pretty wing
mid-field
no white seen
at the forefront
of these clouds

Noun that I've been watching (40)

2008-04-28T22:48:00.002-05:00

van.
a fictive largesse modifies the glyphy moon.
yet we live underlying lifetimes
intersecting via long gray beautiful black-
top roadways. tony drives me where I want
west to be located a couple
daylights where I earn and linger
gathering the selves and forming
loose knots tight knots penciled calendar
whorls tender moving light across
a pittance of the scape of sealight

dormitories dwindle in mentation
"when I close my eyes" (she said)
the still hoops beneath cloth-heavy
skirted circumstance are anchored
into thoughtful if unfeeling
yes

a point of view is lavish in our milieu
she says the word repeatedly
sometimes with flourish on the final vowel
transisted into english
and at other times all but underneath
the dulcet manifest

our lives lived not in tandem
need not broken be
our lives dilineating strategy
will offer satisfoundry
fondling
although and to the contrary
only a wilderness found
undefined will thread a picture
accurate enough to be called
sanity

this once I bracket storylines
bequeathed to children yet to come
her eyes show pain from any other
point she holds a quality
of replication and of fervent
constant being she resembles
anyone who knows as harbor
and as craft as object also
obstacle her young eyes
become old eyes
through which seeing

and the bugs that dot the windshield
now are gone and more apparent
than while living and her mouthing
of the creases in our sleep
makes living old as well
as fresh so there are multiple
intercessions and delirious
extractions there are mountainous
retreats and there are pools
through which to wade
the only circumstance
becomes the motion
of the vehicle
not yet divided
a pandemic of fluidity
this point of knowing
dark along consistent gray white

Noun that I've been watching (39)

2008-04-26T22:55:00.000-05:00

yardwork.
sockwarm near winter. vintner (ventner avenue) and
vines strewn also within.
the body corporate, distinct from
common sense, disparages
fruitful labor. the body
corporate enlarges.
what does the common person do to think
of doing elsewise?
anyone?

the nick of time yields nicotine
and fie upon the walleye.
it is nigh unto a predicated darkness
anymore. you more than weigh what
I have fallen for.

how is it we are numerous again
to our own selves. the penmanship
I most desire is penmanship of yours.
warble might equate to shakey hand.
is this your view of life?
is this my living?

trout make heaven in the realm of non-pet
smokehouse dalliance. once
I offered sugar hideaways in my own
sportyard.
you were there, and you, and you . . .

I told a story and it held attention
(fast)
(now memory enlists
what goes away)

the fallen truth rubs me against the overcare
of aftermath. are these your leaves
the yellow openings to truth no longer there?

I quiz myself. I wander across well defined
places talk with, and I don't think of them.
I don't recoil. I don't undress. I pen my way
out of unhappiness, or reup the process
without prompting.

when I hear from you I hear myself
refuse to go away, despite the infinite
distractions of appearance.
it is better to be beautiful said the prophet
than not to be awake at all.

and that is how I am here amid nature,
being valued where epistemology might
some way hold.

Noun that I've been watching (38)

2008-04-19T12:54:00.002-05:00

signature.
pain tucked into paint
erodes the sacristy. is dark
impenetrable yet?

more than anything I want
the inner and the outer
matching. sentence . . .

"can you hear me
now? the hour? at what depth?"
single mind yields
(of) one mind,
yet
what
dubious
young channel
does the dark
reveal?

isolation's not an insulation,
innocence reflected in and by
formed letters joined
as barely soft.

one lingers where one lingers
all along the edifice
agreed upon as sacred
as a blessing falls
from undisclosed
location
thought
to be
a height.

Noun that I've been watching (37)

2008-04-17T21:44:00.003-05:00

draft.
not like a tantrum, more a slog through dry-
ness. ready now?
may you deserve what you are
given any day now.
the prompt one sugared
her own quesadilla
when I looked away. anybody
hungry? not unless you want to
pay. I inhabit ways you live
alongside gravitas. where
pavement nudged by stippling
holds intact its reputation.
I have reservations various.
and you my choice song, what do you
like to warble? is defeat
one of your syllables?
the shrine where we met the healer
who is now a culprit
has been singled out
for mercied accolades.
or I would ask you to join us
on the cusp of weather-
stripping and sawdust.
anyone who knows to norm
the sea is well positioned
to be named a feather of quartet.
the text rubbed finely is about
to fall away. someone
will read what she admires,
and we won't fully trust
what she reports.
it matters to bequeath what she
divines, but that amounts to findings
without spine.
just walk with me a ways and
call upon what you can
call upon to bring back
to the surface evidence and
a smattering of truth
without the sucrose and
transparency for all to separate
and see.

Noun that I've been watching (36)

2008-04-17T02:01:00.003-05:00

fizz.
I usually don't indulge in something diet soft that urges
kind of an activity within me. usually
I sip a hot thing. often
I control my breath by looking out
and standing still or moving my whole body ahead.
at the same time I am writing this I think of frizz.
she was the focus of the past two days
with her anxiety. I feared her hurt heart
picked up hurtspeed and intensity as she talked on.
I was and am convinced she talks herself into unhappiness
her default position constantly if nothing's wrong
she'll find it anyway.
so fizz and then frizz.
what a life I do not lead. I'm happy to the power of
something past my counting. everywhere I look
something to love, something to celebrate
or to invent.
I came into this world my 92-year old aunt told me
just a week ago entirely wanted.
and in the picture frame supporting what I gather
and receive and know within this life
I am reminded of infinity that used to scare me.
I used to put together fear.
I was a child when I could not yet operate,
was not yet licensed to,
my various machinery, including
what I have of feeling and an intellect.
I put together partial pictures that included
vacuum space. My universe enclosed
trains going by. I was not sure
I could control a way I might continue.
Somehow at the speed of something I picked up on
how to work things, how to scope out pleasure
from the doldrums of anxiety, its stirring
prompts, perhaps by letting go.
So over the past two days I see her up close,
hear her speak, embroil a tiny surface of myself
in how she works herself into a lather over nothing,
how she does not meet her ex-
pectations, how she hurts her very heart,
and how she poisons all her paths,
then looks at me and wonders what is right
that she might feel and do and blend into.
she activates her rest stops in minute detail,
as if to make sure nothing she can feel
will ever be a soothing moment.
to make sure she's always spinning even steadily.
I don't know why.
I hear that frizz.
And I drink fizz.
I take my habit systems and I splay them,
hoping I might heal a fraction
of a self out on projection,
a self that went away
before I fell into this world.
a self we all are until someone
tenders us and we are tethered
to a pair at least of open arms
that gather us into a kindred heart.

Noun that I've been watching (35)

2008-04-15T11:16:00.002-05:00

copy.
shirk the depths (is saying so enough)
writhe amid shoulders
less than kin shaped
innocent today
marks pause and surface
of neglect. the parametric
sacrifice impends
toward "what if"
slowly as a hasp.

she made for me a likeness
that I made for thee.
she shepherded her spirit
owned and given back.
the co-location of multivariate
strategic whim gave soft
locus a prayer face.

now never erased from
shunned likeness comes
clever to a rain.
pores open to absorption
grasp silver on the page
and instruments with reeds
afford summer's
blasphemous intrusion
into glyph grace (traced)
amid the alter egotistical
embrace.

why fault simmering
lace vulnerable to breeze.
get out the vote and wheeze.
it's time to take off baking
and commiserate with primacy.
alone in winter with a treble
fease.

Noun that I've been watching (34)

2008-04-14T19:09:00.000-05:00

Bernadean.
A proper noun born this day 1920 makes
old soul never recovered from a permanence
in child awakeness when she is
that child. and then more come.
and I am one.
the gridlines we are part of
part. we write one
another love notes on the day of
to report that she is here despite abrupt
departure she is here still wagering
on how the two (descent and you) combine
to form an octave in a minute
gem time fraught with ceiling and
subtracting the despair. whose obligation
is the horse hair now that we are broken into
cities and can take bus 41 in another city
in the world it will be ours and we will go
somewhere we have gone or have not thought
to venture. she absorbed the painting
she became her violin she never lost her voice.
I am proportionately disciplined I love
my neighbor as myself. Myself a mere small
way from depth perception. Many highlights
draw some light from eyes that look on
with their silver ways of seeming also golden.
When a fact occurs it is a troubling thing to
cast away. We have been young before we will be
young again. This is a promise from her
legacy imparted is imported is rarely impaired
and at the hour of our depth we will have just
been born and she is early she is seeded in
our dream and we are still interpreting
the way the sequence might be met or has been
met depending on the time perspective anyone
is anyway and anything is coarse and rubbery
at once. The treeline is a treble course
we have affinity for the degustation menu
talked about all over town and tipped off
by the latter day illusive glee of strategy.

Noun that I've been watching (33)

2008-04-13T01:10:00.002-05:00

sock.
sliptease rendered uniform.
to please is to divide
the integrated person.
I am in your debt,
said she. one in
the conversation took
note(s). centrally
there was oblivion
long let go from
the position of
engagement.

now protection means
a different fling
as grasped. one morning
one of them awakens
and is bound by few
(occasional) remarks.
an unremarkable continued
life awaits.

one chronicles the once
removed environment.
the text of that.
the steel-toed shoes
(exaggeration). and the outcome
tending to outlast
the effort placed into
the covenant. the reeled-
in goods. in good with . . .

Noun that I've been watching (32)

2008-04-02T00:07:00.002-05:00

chair.
my lower back is gloved.
to meld of cloth and clothes.
whatever poses I get into
show embedded things I do and feel
and think until I sleep stories anew.

impressionable nobody looks on
this moment of my privacy.
the lighted square of entertainment is on mute.
I have hovered near a family of divergent species.
Does it matter if I chain myself
to nothing. All parcels will arrive,
including me upon the doorstep
of my destination.

Noun that I've been watching (31)

2008-03-29T11:16:00.003-05:00

pastel.
I called it crude be
cause the smudge me
ant nothing doing
in the way
of crispness. c
lean corners s
tate to me
control. the all
time value of the
masc.

I want to bonny you
up a bit I would prefer
a showing of reefer mad
cow. in a minute honey.
briar patch is newly
hatched. give me a little
room you buoyant
yeast.

it's terribly being call
ow no? if norms are westerly
then silence maybe has a claim
on rigid lines
to limn to sign
to wool away from
dark young lace.

if you would hasten
to agree with me, I would
propel my silk into
kite status and afford
the breeze to carry me
and you and her and
hymnals straight from
blimey. I would hillside
how you are you farthing
lamb.

it seems a little flat plane
how we live amid our
maze secretly logical
and plain. spellbound
curses such enlisted
evidence. maybe a shell
would help warm some
denomination back to life.
that rife with with with
(you know).

Noun that I've been watching (30)

2008-03-25T22:23:00.002-05:00

haircut.
that he didn't have a chance (was never given
one). his talent ever on loan.
his discomfort in ex
plaining how and why he comes to be here
among the others. to help
out. not to be one
of these others.
that he is seen that way. that he feels
he is being
seen that way.
the speech, not easy to convey.

the way of life that says work all the time
because of your intelligence and lack
of place. that you perform because you can
because you know because you
have been seen by someone
who exists.

adventure is the same as
to exist. the road with him
upon it (being lived).
the road with him becoming second
or first person.

known.
apart from service.
in a role.
having watched and having listened.
having heard and having sung
(to himself).
having stood back avoiding
knowing what to say.

Noun that I've been watching (29)

2008-03-25T00:17:00.003-05:00

sunflow(er).
indelible light. I hear that Tom is sick.
my telephone is not what my telephone.
I want to call through thick branches.
I will call through curtains. I will call
through vague clouds. I want to hear him
not be ill at all. I want to watch his
images, his words. I want to take the landslide
beauty and just polish it with my eyes.
admiring eyes. I want to take chances
and to be those chances.

it is about Tom's infinite ability.
about his impulse.
about his shining.
it is about everything that doesn't happen
because it already does.
it is about infinity
as clear as it is visible
and as adventurous as it is
perfect. every edge with
every other. this complex
and not at all. simplicity.

Noun that I've been watching (28)

2008-03-22T17:07:00.002-05:00

river.
she shelved recollection that would rhyme with swift or sweet. then reached for one of them to shape into a psyche. I am always her daughter, mark my age at birth I was inseparable with eternity and now there are not empty pages enough. I hope that she can hear me. I revert to her she never knew how core the links the integers the fond light now much I needed her. She never goes away I heard myself assume her place only a fraction as beloved where I took the reins and helped an individual be an individual.

if you are reading now we have a picnic basket and I take you to the Coldwater River. I like a proper noun to keep us co-registered within the truth of what I say to you. What teaches my skin something is the inner joy and pain. I would like the outer fencing to show white, that I might keep clean the intrusions.

Fire opposes as does earth. I feel a running prose and that means every sentence already occurs our job has been to find it. In an evening of an evening we converse. This may mean you and me. Nominative case so cared for has my hand.

For many days no one has done a thing my home is like a hospital people begin and then quickly conclude I suppose I might relax in a hot bath there seem to have been poems to help clear out or clear away confusion. It is just my way of staying alive outside the dream that taxes me. I feel usually taxed. I play through and the next moment I'm on the case. The few burdens I am willing to release become infractions anymore. Now hesitation comes to heel-toe magic.

Everybody here leaves the TV on. I have felt alone for many days because I'm trying to remain on top of the confusion. Nothing has been solved in a long while. Not a moment to be lost in gentle looking after climbing slate rock to discover white marks that would say something. To rub a derby might mean baldness will be next.

I look across the room and there is desert sunlight on the wall, no hint of any river now.

Noun that I've been watching (27)

2008-03-21T23:54:00.003-05:00

Map.
My relatives are vectors. They do bronze with flourish. I live in these clothes. I walk across the street. I sketch my autobiography. I flow with radio Shapiro. Are you listening to your beautiful self without me? Pry all you desire. I'm still this statue over here to your defiant over there. And when our hands join some TV will gather up the probability of its recurrence. Then what?

I have no spatial feeling. I go someplace and it's the same as here. I try to taste the silver that seems just like mine. I mean the stainless steel. Which war? The tin foil. Maynard G. Krebbs, right? I sit here and it's someplace I have walked to. For what reason are we not identical?

I mean I can talk to you regardless of your declaration of singularity. My own, your own, her fantasy of being one, at one, just one self left to seem a spoke spawned from a single hub.

What sparkles sun makes possible. A posse of near neighbors comes to us with some facsimile of birthday (singular). Everyone was born at once. You see? You dig? You feel esprit de corps? I thought that margins had a bridge to safety in them. I also thought about the work I have sustained.

Resilience is your only option. I grade you on that feature of your grading me. Perhaps you want to light my path. And name if after you. And copy how I cross each bridge hypothesized. And scamper across paths. And think about each one without its name.

Noun that I've been watching (26)

2008-03-05T11:36:00.002-05:00

rodeo.
I saw fit to blunder
near the blond lake.
who was the circumference
of choice I want to know.
yellowpale dandies yet.
but blinking also
meant the world about
to fake an outerness.
was it windows
I foreswore. was it
the bake of being
staged to stratus.
or the monacle
that left
premises.

maybe hindsight
is a knack the world has
fed upon fed open
federally fresh or
noon lined world.
the free zone of the fake
smattering gives gold
its reach.

retire said she.
I was not watching I was
doing. I am always
here said I.
I am always probability
leaving a firm place.
that place. that haven.
discarded as if
by choice.

Noun that I've been watching (25)

2008-03-04T01:56:00.002-05:00

seat.
she widens out atop it.
when she is seated I have something
I watch. I watch her fill required
seat time. my matrilinear resplendence
includes no one who sits.
we relish momentum as the sole
prevention of deep sadness
twinned with deeper quiet
nobody would likely recognize
in any one of us.

I have no child. she has a special
car seat where I place her.
when I drive around she shows me
she can sing.
I offer lessons in good voice.
I speak in many syllables.
she rhymes. she poems sweet
lyrics into my matched song.

one of these days suspicious beauty
will run from her mouth, and she will
sound exactly likely my mother
of the titian hair approaching
white no one would ever see.

tonight the countertops were taken off
and covered with a formal stone.
we seek imperfection that we might join
the probability of retracting
every way of speaking that failed
to fit naturally into this flow.

before I tell you too much
about my present tense, let me
remind you I am seasoned
and I know the lingo.
miscreants as we would call them,
often betrayed the individual
in power, believing that charisma
is a latent fire that reproduces
beyond inherent candle power.

when I am being who I am
there is no pause in motion
except within myself.
you may decide to call me
immanent. or you may notice
that the moment has been full of me.
that my question will have lingered
where the thought is now,
and where the heart will stay.

Noun that I've been watching (24)

2008-02-23T11:58:00.002-05:00

bob.
taking (the) breath
places above.
laterality in 3
dimensions sans
diminuendo th'ought
to be inferred
yet. closely held
(watched)
silver in the stray
moon of the stray
tune lariat.
worship we hold in
communion.
bob is breath the same
when we
illumine the in
side with
(what with)
earth (if snow is
falling fallen).
I live where estate
sales drawl
along glenrosa some
noon mornings.
just today some tat-
and lemony clothes.
nothing to be
b(u)y.
rivering. downside.
proper noun.

Noun that I've been watching (23)

2008-02-22T17:10:00.002-05:00

relay.

where I work is where I am.

what we relish what has hurt us what we near and what we
scope out what we cope with how we nickel dime our way
how oceanic how snowstorm how peeled the rimmed
old river man.

topography through grates is what I'm weathering.

never close enough to moment.

but we are and this
is how eternity has been
refined.

2008-02-17T21:18:00.000-05:00

stamina
these butter
flies among us

Noun that I've been watching (22)

2008-02-04T02:03:00.000-05:00

epitome.
yellow petals tip flecked with rubato
(read the voice of fragrance be
longing to a man at distance).
farthings collide to break a
part the whole flower brought by
love against odds proffered
destined for relaxed forgetting.
memory revives begs for a source
a reason and a cusp of something
firm and plain.
dance contraindicates your usual
bland mood I come unprepared for
chalice and what chattel you might
bride. these injuries hypothesized
remain mid-course and stream from
declaration. midnight games its way
into our foreground as the center
pales and from unplanned distance
waves away the damages.
commencement is a pretty word with nothing
to do with color of the robes.
expenses say themselves to functionaries.
let us rayban our dry eyes a minute
here at the crossroads of civilization
and routine. calendar years include
a part of us worth heaping on what follows.
maturation once mistaken for complacency
vibrates as so high a frequency
there are not minds enough to sort it
and discern luminous truth
from what C students tell themselves
and their compatrios. that surfaces
indicative of centers should be
confused at every juncture.

Noun that I've been watching (21)

2008-02-02T12:19:00.000-05:00

violet.
empty of eyesight.
chance of retina
misaligned with
natural argument of nurture
vers
-us
-es
branches out from
obligation.
in a tacit
mention
bold lines
drive away eacg
tenderness.

laps around a peri
metric paragraph
parade
the state
-d
velvet qua
protection
that would mild
its way toward
northerly
intelligence.

this work of seeing
to match this walk
around neutrality
one hastens not to
match too
closely
to protect
one's customary
innocence.

introductory parry

2008-01-29T22:35:00.000-05:00

on, as report to increment offering so, precisely indicating some so, there in movietheatre blotted out of strangeness the reductive in affect to parry. scaramouche homeward, debout le fenetre they watch -- curious. notional because itselvng where drawn inthin lines. elite vs democracy. classless social metier. is.....

Noun that I've been watching (20)

2008-01-26T18:58:00.000-05:00

Feather.
Episodic silver winter
lushes past
the straightedged path.
Passion, the opposite of habit?
Whose stark sun?
A runaway spooled around wood carved into function.
Notice is a neutral act.
You wind me.
In a feasible enormous sunshine there are bodies
generously enclosing
would-be frost.
Let us pray.
Merely the leavings now.
Chance happiness.
One sweeps for reasons
undisclosed.
And light as in fresh weather.
Low weight.
Birthing old occurrence.
Who we are.

mutiny on the bounty

2008-01-26T16:28:00.001-05:00

in the mode of behavior, whether more or lest the flyers imbibe cultural venders' stratification-mantras. oops, too long a system approximating a nounal greed, rendering some thought so complexcomplicating the nuance of pure word, the non existent wilderness of intention realitizing itself selving itselves more the emanationn in on the first floor.... as graded fire-sales to the entr'acte..... becomes natural.. is no happenstance natural? iffy....

assure to begins sweetly incisive

2008-01-25T07:26:00.000-05:00

eager begins the omission of parallel-isotopes. returns from the outlying districts are years late, until umbilicals resume or are cut. precision is no more attendance for itself in on the carded literal, in broom leaving sorrow far beware... some smile to merrily proceed in the raging river--there is no snarling there is no hotwired narration--only in some substance the role sorts its venture assured. watch this space. a harrowing necessity will not overtake of the mirage in generations moved through water. near the bullets wait a piercing melody.

Noun that I've been watching (19)

2008-01-25T00:16:00.000-05:00

Sleeve.
As though never to pinch such loose relationship to thread arranged just so. In the entwinement shadows made accompaniment leave bright light in place. One takes for granted all leftover strands. A patrick of a pomp although reasons half right come to clock the populace as it glands.

Here in here are where we
all alone are
dwindling
in a show
of evidence unseen.

Freedom of motion faultline in a breeze the minions here neuralgia semi-gloss and fondness as a pale version of amour. What is that.

Heaven worn
inside out.
Melodic minor
parsed
to fit the dampness
of a still young day.

Imposing as we do our synonyms for cover.
That's c plus
over.

introductory parry

2008-01-24T09:54:00.000-05:00

a formula transited on this screen at another address another password, a frailty of night seeking to find its location was unclear enough. as morning, full from existence and exercise.......... ............ voila and voici. torn tool tide task tine tick tock trip of the lock and you{re} in the blankness, vague and mirrored while adopted and recurring. arrive recent, that is hooped onward.... in a crayon of edifice the music of perimeters is non discursive. what does one seek when saying not a word of this is untrue? literacy or constructionist melodrama? .......... sleep(t)ing at the wheel is double correct and recombinant in avail the commissariat to beholden inavail..... magnetic opium scales are tipped in the other's favor, a factor no doubt,,,,, ,,,,,, ,,,,,,.,,,.,

Noun that I've been watching (18)

2008-01-20T01:43:00.000-05:00

Page.
Fluency from here. One
watches form
emerge by
inference.
Manipulated into service.

Containment cleans by way of exclusion.

Symphonic destiny's component parts.

Headway
within
bounds.

The score
fed voice.
Pre-song.
Pre-speech.
Pre-reco-

And the downsized area divisible by _____
takes shape.
Amelioration clashes.

Width of in perpetuum
Scatters granules
all rule-based.
All in line.

Noun that I've been watching (17) - for Bob

2008-01-18T00:51:00.000-05:00

Letter.
Whisper sans breath
Back to this
event.
Being
a constant.
Host that
stays here
complete
thus
changes
each.

On some high branch close to the roof the caught moment of percussion makes an evidence seem live.

Sounds | play | things.

Amenities also fundamental.

How do you see beneath?
How does the letter become more than
a whole
volume?

In the fashion of a simple
punctuation
an ingredient
entirety.

Noun that I've been watching (16)

2008-01-14T23:19:00.000-05:00

Wind.
In mathematics, where you are confirmed then instantly untrue. Flux chastens obsessive-compulsion. Why not understand fluidity because . . .

Energy slow to populate a screen comes to unflinching visibility. Filching the nonce, yes?

You seemed good to me, all verb and craft. I felt that I could limber by your rooted tableau, although the streaks of something held away my pause in thought.

The memory of many things occurs to a tribunal. Not to be afraid of chastening and not to be a moth and not to be some adjective left off the slate.

That was how our hesitation seemed (mere broth). I got away and nothing had been done again. Some placement and my hearing certitude in major thirds.

Noun that I've been watching (15)

2008-01-04T01:13:00.000-05:00

thread.
some of us (togetherness):
be calm about your blank page
soon filled with innocence
alleged to wrestle earned experience
to ground level.

administer the rosary to anyone.
promote the spread of young ideas.
overtone the blessed next
two-step, salt the sore steps.
ice the paddy wagon.

stall slow motion to a crushed
stop line of sight.
as a figure of opinion,
rinse the sword out of a fight.
be frank with those in your care.
be protective.
never slight.

a thin rigor of minuet
impounds one or another cause.
the textual impression left
to breathe upon opens
one or another caveat
so all that anybody hears
becomes exact what each one
can surely see.

Noun that I've been watching (14)

2008-01-02T01:59:00.000-05:00

midnight.
Gretchen is subtraction for the bookmark I am clearing.
nachos, also. plural as a cat.
if hope is several, then come down from there.
posses want to make new friends.
vituperative neighborhoods dry off on tea towels.
April is a headline of new mercy.
cardigans or cauldrons.
you decide.
it's winter almost everywhere I know someone.
look at Michigan with powder on its every coat.
people to shovel out.
until work ceasage is institutionalized
there can be no spiritual clarity.
remove (pluck) half (hypothesized) religion
from your gut strings.
resurrect true music.
hear the blond feel at the deepest levels
reign. across the glut of missing ideations.
here wherever you look next and look now.
motives on the side of ivy.
breathalized.
intolerant.
individual in character.
blank to the degree
such purity is possible.

Noun that I've been watching (13)

2007-12-27T11:07:00.000-05:00

Innocence.
Not prey, fallen to stalkward regimens thought out by other-than. Not at all lithe yet. Calf legs. Pretty much and not yet tired. Retractable. What would one write with it. The sun. The stowaway glee. The parity.

Now in the silence of just-made moon. Squares of the sky. Stalled timber. Right precip- left aground. And yet better to be salt where there is reason.

To be consumed is also other.

To be invested (in), a different thing. Weather as water.

Dry to the touch. One tastes. Everything.

The latch on the door that opens or not two ways. Depth of summer. Recency of winter. Cry to mean implore and not enough.

Hope also.

Noun that I've been watching (12)

2007-12-21T01:02:00.000-05:00

Disciple.
Awake self leadership equal to followership. Activity
endemic to . . . purge sense-free northerlies. Attract
what never sits back. Laboratory mammals, tiny ones
give back to science, a mere synonym
for aggrandized selves. Let us stray.
Enforcement necessitates definition and a language
to purport whatever pose. You were saying . . .
Lit lamps costume jewelry staying up later than a general
to watch TV while thinking of nothing
except accomplishment in quite specific packages.
I want to overdress. I want to press my point.
I have already fallen in love. You may elect to guess
your way into my heart but it is always over there.
Stay tuned, says the announcer. And I do. I do.

Noun that I've been watching (11)

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window.
a jaundiced
afternoon
to reminisce from
in kind
cloaked tonee vialect
ducts utmost
in a daily row of milestones
terra firma factoids
where to reminisce equals
a mound of pearls
from string sprung
purely out of
innocence or leanings
sometime left
unmeasured (even tines)