FOR JACKSON POLLOCK

Turning, returning
Jesus vs. Einstein in a cage match
Dandelions in shadows of
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 & 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
ACTION
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
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DISASTER TYPE: c o l l i s i o n
Triggering retrospectives
Outcries
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
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