Turning, returning
Jesus vs. Einstein in a cage match
dandelions
in the shadow of rejection
this is not a poem
this is
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brass blare bending bones
A void reality
LOOK! here are
life's slings and arrows
Here is sweat on floorboards a champ on the mat
speed of light
fistfuls, fighting apophenia
yarn on corkboard yoke broken
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meaning classics something broke our hearts (again)
knock knuckles on steel
Youth gone down swinging brought low
Raised high / f u l l - s a t u r a t i o n
caffeine bloodstream
reminder of how many universes
we loved
incinerate levitate
we loved
HALLUCINATE
we loved
cars crashing like god particles
sparks rain like cherry blossom leaves on the useless things we own
O, brother chaos
your rainbows were my church,
rebarbative & free
& in diffuse light sing to me
hear ghost notes /
all the songs we haven’t written
epics never
composed
splatter paints on the sun
scorch earth
let slip the wolves howling as the wind ushers
portents & sigils Madonna in static
imagine tidal waves
along a shattered coast
faster faster faster faster
lost
chromatic swarm
seeing stars
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feel the age
a slash a spiral
an inkblot a zeitgeist
live ammunition a shriek
untamed creatures according to lore
each myth a game of telephone
sacred & profane -
they’re the same picture
sand spilling from clenched fists
in high winds of the first nation
a switch got flipped
carburetors backfire
tenements echo
Jackson Pollock at the evening sale
triggering ego death
triggering
ASTIGMATISM
OF THE THIRD EYE
radio silent
initiate / hold me closer
blanche the nicotine stain
scrape
inclined towards open sea
brush strokes Aquarian
housing your dark moon
columns of light fill the attic
thrombosis you dance
ALL OVER ALL OVER ALL OVER
DISASTER TYPE : c o l l i s i o n
triggering outcries
triggering retrospectives
we see sound fix the color
shout ACTION
full-fathom convergence
I never cried at the museum*
*just now
what you read was a lie
turpentine-thin & flowing
pray now kneeling in the speed cathedral
stop searching
divide ontologies
sublimate agony, intensity
show the Master’s work
behind bulletproof glass
behind closed doors
lost in lavender mist
CRANK THE VOLUME
ACTION
respond with force it contains its own referent
negation in extreme
out of nothing a creation myth
burning up Jungian magic
I cried
at the museum
human love
join this seance guide these hands
INCINERATE
a wild promise of perfection
standing in hot rain walking through the door
a crossword a jigsaw puzzle
tea leaves palm lines
I never knew what art meant
I still don’t
spooky action at a distance
map the mind
shoot the messenger
reject proper guidance
hyperventilate oblivion
there are angels drowned in pigment
Jesus & Einstein waiting for the bus
a signal in the noise
a dagger in the veil
a dogma a deity
a forgery solvents on skin breaking barriers
Jackson, my fingerprints are gone forever
whirling dervish
a cascade dancing between raindrops
jazz serpents swallowing tails
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ALL OVER
really really LOOK