Saturday, July 22, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
john m. bennett & jim leftwich
honks
honks half the hulk heaving horns
super coda clump the pore bag
only oils the onion oven oinker
coinage flick at the long park
nab nates the nutty nest nether
neither vest putty the satan crab
krap kong the ka kwik korner
blinker even orion the boils oily
sag sore the sump soda supper
corns weaving bulk the calf monks
Nor
nor lumps nor lobs nor lead nor needle nor niche
nor boot nor sweat nor slip nor slot nor soap
nor comb nor crack nor cost nor cop nor corner
nor drop nor clump nor prison nor petal nor steel
nor peel nor pedal nor poison nor pump nor plop
nor chordal nor cope nor lost nor track nor bomb
nor sop nor sot nor sip nor set nor soot
nor niece nor fiddle nor bread nor lobes nor bumps
Ffud
opt the casing was it chimping
cuffing it was fates the daft
crack the laundry was it beaning
bombing it was summer the polls
clothe the nasal was it undulating
waging it was plastic the sport
spot the lastic was it aging
thundering it was naval the sloth
pills the sumptive was it combing
beaming it was sunday the crock
waft the nates was it duffing
limping it was chasing the cops
Luggage
noose luggage sapped the chomping
whistling the dewow baggage ffohc
cue luggage aged the toweling
rubbing the brain baggage flah
meat luggage formed the shadow
xerox the razor baggage knirb
brink luggage dazed the kotex
hollow the foamed baggage team
half luggage rained the tubing
bowling the raged baggage cute
choff luggage wowed the wristing
stomping the wrapped baggage noise
Speck
lop a speck a chump a spew a leap a truss a
book reap raw tongue grace sugar
name a taste a trot a sold a lung a crepe a
junk boot phone crab pink meal
seem a nom a toot a trace a lack a lake a
lime snap droop bread sister gun
a dime a lap a loop a lead a lister a gun
a dream comb trout face slack lake
a sunk a soot a drone a slab a sink a meal
a flame waste blot fold dung crepe
a hook a heap a haw a dung a face a sugar
a slop wreck clump few heap truss
Uh
uh sop slit
uh cue pill
uh foot lit
uh should ship
uh shut shit
uh shape shroud
uh loot fit
uh pool queue
uh slot sip
useless unless
useless as a ton in maps
unless in a draft as fire
useless as a tongue in sandwich
unless in a cuff as answer
useless as a beet in briefcase
unless in a vote as minnow
useless as a mote in window
unless in a treat as surface
useless as a huff in dancer
unless in a lung as bandwidth
useless as a raft in wire
unless in a fun as traps
so ap
soap and sip and sunk and shat and sop and sot
gate and dill and hiss and smile and sound and tall
oil and only and open and ornery and obvious and obviate
same and bush and tape and bash and bask and take
ache and ask and ash and ape and anus and aim
violate and virus and armory and opus and oily and toil
pall and pound and pile and piss and pill and plate
clot and cop and cat and clunk and clip and cope
lung
gnul dance yr focus on the chapter
lip on the pumpkin yr still fork
gnis storm yr cupey on the mist
piano on the rustle yr raft rinse
taeb craw yr shoulder on the density
sister on the mumble yr sob bonk
knob slob yr rumble on the sistine
city on the boulder yr raw beat
esnir waft yr hustle on the draino
grist on the cuspid yr corm sign
krof spills yr sumppump on the pile
chatter on the sofa yr trance lung
Dome
dome paw simple off the suction
diction off the elpmid wall maof
stun heel double off the rancid
aphid off the elbuort leap nug
itch raft crumbled off the suitcase
farce tool off the delbmur deflah gist
list halfed rumbled off the loot face
suitcoat off the delbmurc taft chit
gun peel trouble off the acrid
random off the elbuod leeh nuts
foam law dimple off the duction
noitcus off the elpmis wrap emod
Chopping
chopping the hand
playing the horn
beaming the form
budding the moat
ditching the clots
playing the funk
saying the dunk
switching the slots
building the throat
dreaming the storm
naying the corn
shopping the gland
Born
born a club a sugar floor
craft a flood a mirror score
seep a junk a running blade
skunk a mist a muscle hoof
sot a sense a clubbing shirt
paste a role a rubric food
baste a mole a cubic flood
clot a scent a rubber dirt
sunk a must a music roof
sleep a bunk a sunny glade
raft a blood a motor sore
sworn a cube a trigger door
john m. bennett & jim leftwich 2006
honks half the hulk heaving horns
super coda clump the pore bag
only oils the onion oven oinker
coinage flick at the long park
nab nates the nutty nest nether
neither vest putty the satan crab
krap kong the ka kwik korner
blinker even orion the boils oily
sag sore the sump soda supper
corns weaving bulk the calf monks
Nor
nor lumps nor lobs nor lead nor needle nor niche
nor boot nor sweat nor slip nor slot nor soap
nor comb nor crack nor cost nor cop nor corner
nor drop nor clump nor prison nor petal nor steel
nor peel nor pedal nor poison nor pump nor plop
nor chordal nor cope nor lost nor track nor bomb
nor sop nor sot nor sip nor set nor soot
nor niece nor fiddle nor bread nor lobes nor bumps
Ffud
opt the casing was it chimping
cuffing it was fates the daft
crack the laundry was it beaning
bombing it was summer the polls
clothe the nasal was it undulating
waging it was plastic the sport
spot the lastic was it aging
thundering it was naval the sloth
pills the sumptive was it combing
beaming it was sunday the crock
waft the nates was it duffing
limping it was chasing the cops
Luggage
noose luggage sapped the chomping
whistling the dewow baggage ffohc
cue luggage aged the toweling
rubbing the brain baggage flah
meat luggage formed the shadow
xerox the razor baggage knirb
brink luggage dazed the kotex
hollow the foamed baggage team
half luggage rained the tubing
bowling the raged baggage cute
choff luggage wowed the wristing
stomping the wrapped baggage noise
Speck
lop a speck a chump a spew a leap a truss a
book reap raw tongue grace sugar
name a taste a trot a sold a lung a crepe a
junk boot phone crab pink meal
seem a nom a toot a trace a lack a lake a
lime snap droop bread sister gun
a dime a lap a loop a lead a lister a gun
a dream comb trout face slack lake
a sunk a soot a drone a slab a sink a meal
a flame waste blot fold dung crepe
a hook a heap a haw a dung a face a sugar
a slop wreck clump few heap truss
Uh
uh sop slit
uh cue pill
uh foot lit
uh should ship
uh shut shit
uh shape shroud
uh loot fit
uh pool queue
uh slot sip
useless unless
useless as a ton in maps
unless in a draft as fire
useless as a tongue in sandwich
unless in a cuff as answer
useless as a beet in briefcase
unless in a vote as minnow
useless as a mote in window
unless in a treat as surface
useless as a huff in dancer
unless in a lung as bandwidth
useless as a raft in wire
unless in a fun as traps
so ap
soap and sip and sunk and shat and sop and sot
gate and dill and hiss and smile and sound and tall
oil and only and open and ornery and obvious and obviate
same and bush and tape and bash and bask and take
ache and ask and ash and ape and anus and aim
violate and virus and armory and opus and oily and toil
pall and pound and pile and piss and pill and plate
clot and cop and cat and clunk and clip and cope
lung
gnul dance yr focus on the chapter
lip on the pumpkin yr still fork
gnis storm yr cupey on the mist
piano on the rustle yr raft rinse
taeb craw yr shoulder on the density
sister on the mumble yr sob bonk
knob slob yr rumble on the sistine
city on the boulder yr raw beat
esnir waft yr hustle on the draino
grist on the cuspid yr corm sign
krof spills yr sumppump on the pile
chatter on the sofa yr trance lung
Dome
dome paw simple off the suction
diction off the elpmid wall maof
stun heel double off the rancid
aphid off the elbuort leap nug
itch raft crumbled off the suitcase
farce tool off the delbmur deflah gist
list halfed rumbled off the loot face
suitcoat off the delbmurc taft chit
gun peel trouble off the acrid
random off the elbuod leeh nuts
foam law dimple off the duction
noitcus off the elpmis wrap emod
Chopping
chopping the hand
playing the horn
beaming the form
budding the moat
ditching the clots
playing the funk
saying the dunk
switching the slots
building the throat
dreaming the storm
naying the corn
shopping the gland
Born
born a club a sugar floor
craft a flood a mirror score
seep a junk a running blade
skunk a mist a muscle hoof
sot a sense a clubbing shirt
paste a role a rubric food
baste a mole a cubic flood
clot a scent a rubber dirt
sunk a must a music roof
sleep a bunk a sunny glade
raft a blood a motor sore
sworn a cube a trigger door
john m. bennett & jim leftwich 2006
John M. Bennett
Pig top
sp read ten t ,dim s pun ,g nat lake
you collared that ,rest respurned ,k not
lap ,yr cow faucet shallow than a com b
drill , u sage ,b linkage ,f lavor soak the
spandex lock yr ,what’s the diff ?make it
hat corp se show leaky ,that’s the what…
Deaths
drops an dips an dimes an dits an dolts an
ease an elevator an empty an eat an eviscerate an
ass an aim an awkward an ash an animation an
told an thud an tip an torpid an twisting an
half an heap an hushed an humping an hacking an
swats an seats an sells an spits an snores an
Sw eet
,clot hamper yr ,junk lid next ,pill
pewling snore the ladder lap ,cry melt
,clong an ,bit towel ,lint colder ,spray
snoring dodder song my shanty lip ,gawrsh
amitey ,mate off me ,time of crimes .spraw
led boreway by prescription ,nekkid sugar
O o
o clock o damp o drip o fuel o spore
o door o jewel o lip o camp o sock
o melt o grime o slug o snore o junk
o bunk o sore o bugs o time o felt
o mine o cramp o jump o heap o blast
o last o seep o hump o damp o crime
Too ls
rake an fork ,dang ring ,plunge roof ,crime
salads ,fence yr peeling ,lunge habit ,fire
pencil ,armpit full of grease ,the leg hopped
out ,spoon skull ,deck sugar ,plap knocked
yr phoning off ,each and each and each an
driody grinning on the sodden pages ,spoon an shovel
Seep
the mat the tress the mat the tress the mat the
chest the mat the slop stab bundled in the
mat the crest muddied with yr soup the
slap the dress the darkened window stoma
che ladled lake yr oiled pillow luggage
grimed the tress the mat the tress the mat the trees
Hack
beef cough ,yr s tongue shoe lint a
hammock in the seep chug lake yr tam pon
maze why nabber smoke why runty index
?blab an pile ,nape an c luster fog ,peeing
in the bush the sandwich drains .long hob of
pond you breathe ,ambling in the grease
Plier
,pop and plaid ,dense an debt ,ford an
flat ,ink an ill ,cough an cock ,sent
an sore ,cheese an chopped ,try an trounce
,blink an beet ,scum an scant ,rough an
rope ,grin an grout ,jerk an jail ,land
and load ,nod an nip ,vas an vacuum
Soaper
sap a shot a soup a snore a sheet a
oil a oink a ointment a om a ow a
ass a alpha a ankle a ant a ache a
porker a plow a paint a pea a pencil a
erk a eel a even a emetic a endwar a
roll a romp a rap a rick a rump a
Lun g
s lunk shut ter c lamp slot leaking back
you stub bed yr ,f ile s nail ,long g nat
lang wedge fum bled in yr shorts pocket
“car go” heavy with a sock hump .ergo
whistle ergo nope damp suitcase b lobbing
on the waves the window chattered ,drinking
Morn
sot damper ,chew yr blat her nost
algia combers f laking in ,the s cant
shirt clot slap ped against the w all
fondled me ,blockers ,tagged with s
tink les sorta footed like yr sawn mou
th founders sandbox splattered on the wall
sp read ten t ,dim s pun ,g nat lake
you collared that ,rest respurned ,k not
lap ,yr cow faucet shallow than a com b
drill , u sage ,b linkage ,f lavor soak the
spandex lock yr ,what’s the diff ?make it
hat corp se show leaky ,that’s the what…
Deaths
drops an dips an dimes an dits an dolts an
ease an elevator an empty an eat an eviscerate an
ass an aim an awkward an ash an animation an
told an thud an tip an torpid an twisting an
half an heap an hushed an humping an hacking an
swats an seats an sells an spits an snores an
Sw eet
,clot hamper yr ,junk lid next ,pill
pewling snore the ladder lap ,cry melt
,clong an ,bit towel ,lint colder ,spray
snoring dodder song my shanty lip ,gawrsh
amitey ,mate off me ,time of crimes .spraw
led boreway by prescription ,nekkid sugar
O o
o clock o damp o drip o fuel o spore
o door o jewel o lip o camp o sock
o melt o grime o slug o snore o junk
o bunk o sore o bugs o time o felt
o mine o cramp o jump o heap o blast
o last o seep o hump o damp o crime
Too ls
rake an fork ,dang ring ,plunge roof ,crime
salads ,fence yr peeling ,lunge habit ,fire
pencil ,armpit full of grease ,the leg hopped
out ,spoon skull ,deck sugar ,plap knocked
yr phoning off ,each and each and each an
driody grinning on the sodden pages ,spoon an shovel
Seep
the mat the tress the mat the tress the mat the
chest the mat the slop stab bundled in the
mat the crest muddied with yr soup the
slap the dress the darkened window stoma
che ladled lake yr oiled pillow luggage
grimed the tress the mat the tress the mat the trees
Hack
beef cough ,yr s tongue shoe lint a
hammock in the seep chug lake yr tam pon
maze why nabber smoke why runty index
?blab an pile ,nape an c luster fog ,peeing
in the bush the sandwich drains .long hob of
pond you breathe ,ambling in the grease
Plier
,pop and plaid ,dense an debt ,ford an
flat ,ink an ill ,cough an cock ,sent
an sore ,cheese an chopped ,try an trounce
,blink an beet ,scum an scant ,rough an
rope ,grin an grout ,jerk an jail ,land
and load ,nod an nip ,vas an vacuum
Soaper
sap a shot a soup a snore a sheet a
oil a oink a ointment a om a ow a
ass a alpha a ankle a ant a ache a
porker a plow a paint a pea a pencil a
erk a eel a even a emetic a endwar a
roll a romp a rap a rick a rump a
Lun g
s lunk shut ter c lamp slot leaking back
you stub bed yr ,f ile s nail ,long g nat
lang wedge fum bled in yr shorts pocket
“car go” heavy with a sock hump .ergo
whistle ergo nope damp suitcase b lobbing
on the waves the window chattered ,drinking
Morn
sot damper ,chew yr blat her nost
algia combers f laking in ,the s cant
shirt clot slap ped against the w all
fondled me ,blockers ,tagged with s
tink les sorta footed like yr sawn mou
th founders sandbox splattered on the wall
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Poem For Sheila
Poem For Sheila
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world is rejecting a male and a female kid who are
started to experience a frame. Within this frame
I lay peeled potatoes in the iron pot,
The hoof-marks on the dead wildcat
In Spanish he whispers there is no time left.
What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried
In the high
I can’t see you very well
When you run off, I start after you,
Lightning hits the roof,
I’m running away from men who are trying to
here, and all beyond is so unknown and great that
Grammar resemblance.
announce establish rubber with it post around
now polish the crucible
in the field-furrow
broad pink hairy hands
survive as if in two
radio backed by a chorus on the road through continuous
rising and falling. In the house my calls turned back cease-
Recurrent images
I look at my own
being the secretion as myth, which is illusion. The waking
“non-remembrance” is Thetis, Achilles’ mother, at the same
the hospital foundering on not
legs
narrow passage from the kitchen to the wide studio, and
borrow my movie projector. “Let me in,” I exclaim, he is
How can I describe anything when all these interruptions keep arriving and then
LAMONTE had this dream listening to Lamonte GET ALREADY SCARED
you like “the gist”
trailing my plant for
Wallace Stevens said that “Poetry is a scholar’s art.” It is for some.
SHE JDICKINSON This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life
Born a beak missing
How then did I force the door
Polystylistics is when a knight from the Middle Ages
of cosmic instability
(lament of the sphere)
A head possesses several holes
“Did anything else happen tonight?”
There’s no way to prepare for horror. Language
we cannot rest innocent, all abandon to survive — mother
Profuse, dense vegetative branching
present their bills
the red sun of dusk
(Voice) :Her thought casts her tendings
A few fragments which occurred to me while
||||||
response to your “Difficult Made Human”
pp. 6 & 7, American Book Review
constructed of first lines taken from pages 6 & 7
or pages adding to 6 & 7 (e.g., 15 & 16, 42 & 43, etc.)
of the following books
Kathy Acker, Great Expectations
Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson
Alice Notley, Songs For The Unborn Second Baby
Hannah Weiner, Clairvoyant Journal
Hannah Weiner, The Fast
Leslie Scalapino, How Phenomena Appear To Unfold
Leslie Scalapino, Objects In The Terrifying Tense Longing From Taking Place
Ai, Cruelty
Susan Smith Nash, A Paleontologist’s Notebook
Celestine Frost, I gathered my ear from the green field
Celestine Frost, A Yelp in the Ideal
Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us
Joanne Kyger, Places To Go
Alyssa Wolf, Vaudeville
Cole Swensen, New Math
Colleen Lookingbill, Incognita
Diane Ward, Imaginary Movie
H. D., Tribute To The Angels
Gertrude Stein, How To Write
Nina Iskrenko, The Right To Err
07.13.06
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world is rejecting a male and a female kid who are
started to experience a frame. Within this frame
I lay peeled potatoes in the iron pot,
The hoof-marks on the dead wildcat
In Spanish he whispers there is no time left.
What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried
In the high
I can’t see you very well
When you run off, I start after you,
Lightning hits the roof,
I’m running away from men who are trying to
here, and all beyond is so unknown and great that
Grammar resemblance.
announce establish rubber with it post around
now polish the crucible
in the field-furrow
broad pink hairy hands
survive as if in two
radio backed by a chorus on the road through continuous
rising and falling. In the house my calls turned back cease-
Recurrent images
I look at my own
being the secretion as myth, which is illusion. The waking
“non-remembrance” is Thetis, Achilles’ mother, at the same
the hospital foundering on not
legs
narrow passage from the kitchen to the wide studio, and
borrow my movie projector. “Let me in,” I exclaim, he is
How can I describe anything when all these interruptions keep arriving and then
LAMONTE had this dream listening to Lamonte GET ALREADY SCARED
you like “the gist”
trailing my plant for
Wallace Stevens said that “Poetry is a scholar’s art.” It is for some.
SHE JDICKINSON This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life
Born a beak missing
How then did I force the door
Polystylistics is when a knight from the Middle Ages
of cosmic instability
(lament of the sphere)
A head possesses several holes
“Did anything else happen tonight?”
There’s no way to prepare for horror. Language
we cannot rest innocent, all abandon to survive — mother
Profuse, dense vegetative branching
present their bills
the red sun of dusk
(Voice) :Her thought casts her tendings
A few fragments which occurred to me while
||||||
response to your “Difficult Made Human”
pp. 6 & 7, American Book Review
constructed of first lines taken from pages 6 & 7
or pages adding to 6 & 7 (e.g., 15 & 16, 42 & 43, etc.)
of the following books
Kathy Acker, Great Expectations
Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson
Alice Notley, Songs For The Unborn Second Baby
Hannah Weiner, Clairvoyant Journal
Hannah Weiner, The Fast
Leslie Scalapino, How Phenomena Appear To Unfold
Leslie Scalapino, Objects In The Terrifying Tense Longing From Taking Place
Ai, Cruelty
Susan Smith Nash, A Paleontologist’s Notebook
Celestine Frost, I gathered my ear from the green field
Celestine Frost, A Yelp in the Ideal
Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us
Joanne Kyger, Places To Go
Alyssa Wolf, Vaudeville
Cole Swensen, New Math
Colleen Lookingbill, Incognita
Diane Ward, Imaginary Movie
H. D., Tribute To The Angels
Gertrude Stein, How To Write
Nina Iskrenko, The Right To Err
07.13.06
Paul Lambert & John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich & Scott MacLeod
The Theme
the theme of the massive amount yet
evades all change, therefore speech
detect the ruse of snail appointed hoeing
mechanics impenetrable anything but absent
mislayered my pants so hallucinated
drooling and recess dormant
forms of pleasure, produced or
started edging toward the john he
the tanned, instinctual, indecisive
then beers as grown frowning sense
but they are the diffuse crowd
estiumated that few the world hove
particularly open to instruction
miracles with their instructions glowing
as valuable warnings unless salvation
beaches simulation state stopping
despair as the sensations, experienced
spoke as cloven nose much lather
and fury, considered desirable only
cloak has proven no touchy latke
barely able to to be drawn into
screeches simulacrum steak shopping
the reference buried in that spot
american with the destruction gloven
and the sentence feeling enraged
accumulated the new their words shove
into the rapid exchange and none of
the birs has flown flowning rinse
wall, in this instance would conclude
startled wedges forward their joint heat
with a ton of cement
cooling and excess dormic
understood to be genuine enthusiasm
misreading my pints soap
that can't be found nor no longer
protect the use of small disappointed shoeing
far less than the time allotted
the dream of the missive about sweat
the unmistakable room in which to relax
Paul Lambert & John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich & Scott MacLeod
the theme of the massive amount yet
evades all change, therefore speech
detect the ruse of snail appointed hoeing
mechanics impenetrable anything but absent
mislayered my pants so hallucinated
drooling and recess dormant
forms of pleasure, produced or
started edging toward the john he
the tanned, instinctual, indecisive
then beers as grown frowning sense
but they are the diffuse crowd
estiumated that few the world hove
particularly open to instruction
miracles with their instructions glowing
as valuable warnings unless salvation
beaches simulation state stopping
despair as the sensations, experienced
spoke as cloven nose much lather
and fury, considered desirable only
cloak has proven no touchy latke
barely able to to be drawn into
screeches simulacrum steak shopping
the reference buried in that spot
american with the destruction gloven
and the sentence feeling enraged
accumulated the new their words shove
into the rapid exchange and none of
the birs has flown flowning rinse
wall, in this instance would conclude
startled wedges forward their joint heat
with a ton of cement
cooling and excess dormic
understood to be genuine enthusiasm
misreading my pints soap
that can't be found nor no longer
protect the use of small disappointed shoeing
far less than the time allotted
the dream of the missive about sweat
the unmistakable room in which to relax
Paul Lambert & John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich & Scott MacLeod