textimagepoem: 4/20/08

steve dalachinsky

angels & devils (for joe mcphee 4/20/08)

the seaming up/ward horizon (e)vent
uni > lateral displacement
spine-like hands on moldedness
jammin' frugality (cramful)
"our prayer" so sparse
a river goin'home old men with their heads
in hands attended caught here
full uncluttered generosities
screeching cohesions bowstrummed
soft/hard communion
a blending of: outside the frame
awash among the curve-linear thumbprints
spears & splintered wheels
shadows ruthlessly pinned to the wall
(sp{l}uttered)
the devil/angel thing fused by
tenderness
by harshness creating unsurpassed beauty
drunk on an aging civilization & its
promises
these definitely shifting stories
trio augmented > up)pe(d by
violin(t) voiced
high pitch

ah witch whichness ah here with the
merciful dispensation
of ressurection's inquisition
(one altered to another)
this true MASS - early
on between plaques of prescribed solutions
all these swirving saints
who can't tell their sainthood from their mistakes

touched &
tactile - the fingers figure out the language
how to
leave their imprints on the elements

( ele/mental table )
one impression of a deeper
groove as wed would leave its dwelling place
&
travel all the "roots" & "roads"

"to find the spirit."

steve dalachinsky @ the loft of alain kirili - joe mcphee quartet nyc
4/20/08

steve dalachinsky

gray

water freezes my voice
my voice a device in a fool's house
no - i say halflit
like a disapperaing souvenir
a portrait of a madman
a lutist
a hunter & a
fool

the critic sees only the bulb that explodes
inside his head
a sort of blindsighted view of the skin
between clock & bed
where artist's wives sleep
swept away by dreams of wealth, space, gallerists
& other women's hearts
don't be so critical i tell myself
all they have are their lives
& what there is left of them
(to them)
my untitled thoughts hang like coats in air
race like a warm winter day
turning evening
trace themselves as if crossing an unnamed bridge
at the origin of the world
within their own geometries & author(ship)

i call to the grave
& the grave answers
a periscope in a lagoon
a liar bitten by alphabets
smothered socks in an overcrowded drawer
my thoughts
landscapes with no animals
left in them

maps
numbers
flags
all add up to this:
a body of feelings that has lost
its memory.

coda:

he has fattened after
the hunt
a rush hour train
is not a good place to be holding
a flower
in.

steve dalachinsky & jim leftwich

the hunter

bet cour lign geom
commanding with inconsistencies
organic color / warm - cool
ambiguities improbable himself
composition / horing vert
deemed chameleon
open dyam
boundaries usefulness
quiet closed static /space
grudgingly realistic
- 2D, 3D height
sheer continually mixes
wrestling reality visual
subject meaning abstraction
delicate wild dreaming
realism
zenith drowsy palpable
beginning of moderism
moral taunting eroticism
thought subject imp.
vertical accidental unfinished
precise orbit loosely
art for everybody

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John Crouse & Jim Leftwich

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX

pyramid screen alows: “beyond waging restore”

qualification pylon handshake: “massacres and drug”

college happy deflate: “raised among armed”

scum rawhide insert: “epic terror civilians”

spill tiptoe disable: “crusade grip constant”

vapor secrete composure: “insurrections impossible abundance”

searchlight calligraphy squander: “rampant dismiss level”

formation conceited adrenaline: “walls identify crucial”

unplug spreadsheet redwood: “elite pact anathema”

nucleus megabyte barnyard: “education infiltrated privileged”

rodent punctual levee: “war smear fascism”

casual because causeway: “domination functioning collapse.”

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN

cookbook as nude: “perceived reminiscent apartheid”

sprinkler as task: “social alternative despised”

plastic as moderate: “brutal patronized fatuous”

speech as knives: “arts venom broadcasting”

monopolize as sherbet: “bankers without tyranny”

prospectus as grindstone: “revenue crumbs parties”

tenterhooks as saccharine: “expelled confidence irony”

lifeboat as defy: “embraced corrupt border”

raincoat as pancake: “guerrillas internal eliminate”

pepper as headdress: “shadows criticizing habits”

bloodstream as tribunal: “marks reduced believe.”

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT

knocker gags flashback: “threat extremes ordinary”

windpipe charmer pig: “moderate sewers neighbors”

footage terminal memento: “planes overflowed taught”

swordsman sodomy extinguisher: “generation torture product”

hysterical pounds national: “mercenaries murderous amnesty”

handicapped school butcher: “disappearances misery loyalty”

mired tension popularized: “prelude narrow revealed”

propulsive staginess aplomb: “drugs paramilitaries illuminated”

camcorder skinhead woefully: “intervention atrocities alliances”

colony sap collision: “brazenly media dismemberment”

nonprofessional cannot tokyo: “attack devoted read”

comfort subsumes recapture: “allegation fantasies lethal.”

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE

sucked into a: “series food hedge”

like many artisans: “urgent notes surging”

those tumultuous times: “rice crisis futures”

craftsmen of modern: “commodities epic switched”

would have another: “cereal conditions boom”

easier to point: “spectrum corn investment”

are depicted against: “raw fixed current”

that revolves around: “wheat ecological profits”

in turn observed: “inefficiency attractive edition”

misinterprets the blood: “consequences unique hunger”

protagonists are reduced: “business planet forecasted”

to animal forms: “gasoline guarantor oppostion.”

jukka-pekka kervinen & jim leftwich

ounce 88

explodes dirt curved artifice coax
loan hoarse oar warm disarm
lurks covert hearse hissing ache
check sphere trophy poplar plague
harms ditch trope emptier hurts

John Crouse & Jim Leftwich

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO

moorish limestone dakota: “front targeting language”

freddy tensile alps: “security describe documents”

champion madonna garcia: “boost veneer moderates”

ruggero helicopter diamond: “holy struggle explain”

lagoon cortes consul: “public context lack”

arabic opera mandalay: “guidance broader legitimacy”

grouts spyware chad: “ordinary homeland strategic”

sincerity guild sorghum: “terminology imbues damages”

reaction leominster mandarin: “authority critical circulating”

burma girdle dairying: “words prepared version”

pips synonym lowland: “bait urging minimal”

vicinty taco zoological: “extremist messaging branch.”

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY THREE

oil hedges autism: “process values decisions”

debacle reap matchmaking: “neuron social health”

client virgin automatically: “intuitively author sedate”

claptrap discrete railroad: “exercises response quiet”

gusher swap rainbow: “current revealed arbitrary”

bailout lighthouse liquidity: “neutral coded games”

bubble scab crisis: “animated cortex photos”

overraction middleman overleveraged: “built long devices”

idled granddaughters monkeyshines: “time never meant”

adaptive crutch dollar: “difference trigonometry bronze”

venue slack kit: “technology engine mountain”

oeer whisky physician: “occulting signals feet.”

John M. Bennett

Fontna

ahn ahn .nogga ,plandt crabp st
eddled thoatly .eernp dled ur ansh
wirlink neb ur faece ur flace
.hob nent an crad nort an ,asta thim
bo bleetled ,crund ahn heepa ?sa
aind tedla splarking thoant na w
lal casea apement grenning leebsock
crastly snopping .floond em negck !

Seenger

I head im clactic standa theem
chorter use nen plendy ,flagga
noc ,chender ,maent sugarr so
tted mit nur loom .esta clan ,th
reep send tosta cramb idching ni
uhn//slebber halnf .rag an rinse ,to
wel foating purn uh coster sank
)blangk snwort cuzzled ni enh toopth(

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ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT

pimple sexuality dictatorahip: “resolution spouting plasma”

folklore toothbrush catwalk: “corkscrew clarify galaxies”

deteriorated plow translation: “dust jets laboratories”

fictionalized architect abolition: “ionized institute among”

errors craters outcomes: “relative flashlight magnetic”

atmsophere robots zaire: “illusion model accretion”

ambassador moth assurance: “arcs twisted disk”

exhausted population whacks: “tangle radio series”

wheeled gemstone capitualtion: “flung probe knot”

backspace greenspace backslap: “migration wave accelerate”

openwork orthodoxy lingual: “trajectory cycled theorists”

disastor adoration nicaragua: “mystery simulation dimensional.”

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY NINE

promotory a lemon: “laboratories vanilla choices”

that carries separates: “deviates mirror albeit”

the milk out: “sector hypothesis freely”

area between things: “marshals contention contested”

adult female pig: “structures empathy familiar”

make or become: “cites hormones academic”

increase its power: “meat trajectories method”

cloak that looks: “ladder deficit springboard”

and usually fast: “gaps chips dice”

and many seeds: “decided against themselves”

behind the head: “torn identities concealed”

hard to understand: “resigned reason differing.”

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY

the joining together: “spanning expatriate alarmed”

to pour something: “mystery bastion attack”

sly or sneaky: “swallowing nominated prompting”

house with furniture: “anxiety takeover else”

waste of time: “transformed collection consolidate”

by a plow: “behemoths girders backing”

blasts of hot: “expanded eye mills”

or not knowing: “privatized chairman surrender”

melts and freezes: “behalf outwitted patriotism”

iceberg and sank: “breathless battle lodge”

the traditional house: “clearance face rebounded”

an icy stare: “rope secret investors.”

ACT FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE

dialogue an amount: “summer themselves solar”

for breaking up: “consuming yourself requires”

and is used: “setup outcome hydrogen”

to look at: “coalesce ripped filament”

when padded hammers: “clump peripheral spinning”

filled with fruit: “orbits split chaos”

to prevent people: “interstellar newly desire”

in ancient writing: “globes organism experiment”

red blood cells: “embryonic routinely variation”

birth is honored: “coheres invent daunted”

to shufffle papers: “horse tiger walrus”

or with strangers: “identical switches flourishing.”

tom taylor

every moment

I go inside to see what’s there, a brightly lighted
place of ordered landscapes colorful and precise in
the music also filling everything as if a motion
in the air a hum of thumps and whistles and deep
tones of function and rhyme fill me with my self

I lean across a fence to see into the deeper realms
of my body’s functioning permissions to be alive
with excitement and balance from all the centers
where love resides at the heart’s center a bright

sign flourishes out into the richly flavored vista
I’m given to see in this moment of entry into a
realm I’d always thought private and mysterious
now I see I’m welcome here and want to stay alive

tom taylor

healing friends

they arrive in droves of magnificent chariots alive
with the fire of life itself singing their songs of love
and healing while I drift upwards into the lighted air
floating on the cushions themselves as they arise &

cling as winds blowing from their various distances
in harmony with the noises from the heart beating
bumpety bump along the freight rail holdings from
day to day repeating in the solemnity of what passes

for the new day arriving inside time with your name
on the face of love to the final fusion taking place in
your own being as the seeker and the beloved become
one in each other climbing aside into the lighted sphere

tom taylor

unconditional love

washes my laundry every second wave forms
flowing forward always forward gluing the
cosmos into its constituent one and done at
the heavier hours floated upward like no noise

but the song of plenty flowering inside your being
as the room fills with light and carries you outward
along the new highway love’s final journey into self
remits no pressure but allows the fusion of opposites

fire-matter of the world’s body and sign emanating
from everywhere all at once being one that comes
& makes in the silence of collection the glow of
its permanent nature in life for the rest of all days

John M. Bennett

Damb

roodt ohn ,graep streep ohn ,nat
ohn cuzdle nek ohn labp went
- iztle shone ohn ,draembp – ohn
plabder hornt ,glul nek .jom ohn
dret nuk ,ohn bleet ,sidelentz
chubmy floot )“flute”( ohn gat
.neg trort ,onda heel ,maek ohn
bladnt hember ohn uh flaenk

Julk

straem double ahn claem bl
ink tub e ntna ee loeng haeve
throater blaem singk nuh trem
.halnf dunds ,rur gnot baeng
,crome buzdle hap hap dens
.e flace ,grimmer ,tedst uhn
craep suggled nee enh choe
.oddre ,lambre ,craent unh himb