Disclaimer
This poem is entirely a work of fiction.
The language, both literal & figurative, portrayed in it
is the work of the author’s imagination.
Any resemblance to actual language,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Politique Cubiste
ATTEMPTS
TO STAGE
A CON
SENSUS
RE PRE SENT ING
A S
L I
L D
E
S
Beckmannesque
Purple falls unripe from haunches
blacked against a redoubt.
A sea without chairs,
magic diagrams
counterclockwise.
Each additional stroke, gouging new injuries
from old injuries,
foretells the
distressed eye
of the netted
fish.
A Valentine
In two days two chickens laid two eggs,
forty Flying Fortresses
seventy miles from Dresden,
as upon one foggy winter night in 1972
a stewardess from 30,000 ft
over a pine forest in Bohemia.
This was later revealed to her in a dream.
Undocumented
(reading Sean Bonney’s Document)
Eye is non-refundable index of mind condition
contra membrane breach to inactual state
corrective. Terminate, as in: she sides with the enemy, always, your
|sentimental Schadenfreude. Few afford her authenticated
aura, or turn drano stigmata for a cooked
fix. Remember everything, the collective organ-donored
paralysis, but even their bones swallow the light.
An excessive vagueness of sky, a ridged scar
bisecting the low forehead, promises nothing but a secret occasion
to remain.
