mr. archie[1] passed through north car­oli­na with a trombone
impro­vis­ing; along the way he formed a band

what is the mean­ing of adjectives
if not the assault on mean­ing by means of sound?

descrip­tions of obso­lete emo­tions: poetry

what­sat­stakeisthisss : the wagtail’s ssslithering
(which is non exis­tent: the wag­tail nei­ther wags its tail nor slithers)

tak­en fur­ther the anal­o­gy between one oxy­moron and another:
as an instru­ment to inves­ti­gate the future:

a nice bench with an ances­tor on it sit­ting cross-legged

– what is he doing?
– he’s eat­ing pop­corn in antic­i­pa­tion! poetry

starts: after crush­ing the yin-yang medallion
while a russ­ian roulette of bit­ter seeds keeps turning!

(on his knees) please: no more mov­ing speeches
no more: light eyes blue body blood:

a form of resis­tance to the sick­ly sweet con­no­ta­tions of words

which topali strikes down: the sparkling fire­work of noble breed
elytis – elytis paaa! tsaaa!

(indeed, how is the import checked of non induc­tive reasoning
when the mon­i­tor­ing is done by boxes

with­in box­es in the depths of the men­tal landscape?)

what if every­thing has been shift­ed from dra­ma →irony and vice versa
the light­head­ed­ness remains caused by the pos­si­bil­i­ty of non-existence

and the deep in breaths, the attrib­ut­es of the catalyst
which dis­lodges all humid con­stants while it becomes plain

what­ev­er is there for one spark and one alone …due to lack of oxygen

imag­i­nary life is bound
and inter­ro­gat­ed for red blood cells and premeditation

a thought below a com­pound of gasses was a news­wor­thy item
and the I …a doupt that is out of breath



[1] Archie Ran­dolph Ammons (1926 – 2001), amer­i­can poet.

 

 

The poems möbius, 0→1, ♪,  O2 belong to poet­ry col­lec­tion Bel­la Boom (Pub­li­book 2011) and have also been pub­lished in Hel­leni­ca: Nov­el­ty With­in or Beyond Lan­guage: Anthol­o­gy of Young Greek Poets, (Athens: Gavri­ilidis, 2009)

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