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Monday, December 28, 2020

Francis Boushay 4 February 2021


                  (Francis Boushay 1983)

Stared straight ahead in
Optometric pose,
Asked to, 'Pick 
A wall spot,'
     -Headshot examined,
     -Inspiration pulled
     -From the eyes
     -Toward viewer;
'My preferred name is 
Francis, "i, s," at
The end, not 
"Frank," "Frances,"'
     -Fancied having his 
     -Portrait painted by
     -Me, asked for
     -A 'good one;'
'I am "the love of
His life," he told me, 
Over the
Telephone,'
     -Conflicts telegraphed,
     -Stripes regulated
     -The strands of
     -Tangled hair;
'Do you believe in
Love at first sight?' mint
Unwrapped from
Cellophane,
     -Candy freshened breath
     -Pushed across room, his
     -Fingers scratched
     -At collar;
Dollars flattened out
In pocket, 'Has this-
Love- happened
To you, too?'
     -He'd have known the whole
     -Story from the guys
     -Who'd referred
     -Him to me;
'It's a long distance
Relationship right
Now, his work's
On West Coast,'
     -As was mine once, him-
     -California- me-
     -New York- now
     -We're both here;
'Going to sort the
Details over time
To find what
Works out best,'
     -Back and forth, with two
     -Apartments, boys on
     -The side, needs
     -Understood;
'Lots of men hanging
On the walls. Are they
Personal
Friends of yours?'
     -He smirked, as his eyes
     -Pivoted from walls
     -Back to me,
     -His heels bounced;
'I'm curious how 
This works, brushing wet
Paint against
A canvas,'
     -Eyes riveted on
     -Alex's, and Ken's,
     -Larger than
     -Life faces;
'Always comes down to
Size, doesn't it, and
I went with
A small one,'
     -What size allowed, less
     -Enlargement, than an
     -Entering 
     -Into whole;
'You do this every
Day, painting, drawing,
Looking at
Boys' faces?'
     -What look like one-offs
     -Built over tries to
     -Get it right,
     -Find likeness;
'It seems like you have
Regulars stopping
By, and some
Coming once,'
     -Beats staring into
     -A mirror doing
     -Self-portraits
     -Of myself;
'Can I take a glance
At it while you are
Still painting,
On a break?'
     -Strokes continued, it's
     -Done, overplaying 
     -Risks losing
     -All of it;
'It looks like me, but
Too serious? Stiff?
Although there's
Something else,'
     -Representation,
     -Which takes from within,
     -Bringing it
     -To surface;
'You have to keep your
Eyes on it to catch
What I think
I can see,
     -Light tones focused eyes,
     -Suggested features
     -Contradict
     -With motion.

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Friday, October 16, 2020

Ken(nan) Gault 26 December 2020


                       (Ken Gault 1982)


'I wanted to be
Like him,' like Peter
Bock, to be
Peter Bock,
     -I took in Ken Gault, 
     -Drew his face oval,
     -Neck lines to
     -His shoulders;
I wanted his grace,
Self-assuredness,
I paid to
Bring him home,
     -Ears, nose, mouth, with lips
     -Sewn tight, his silence
     -Kept session
     -Serious;
For less than rent, I
Had ownership; peered,
Curious
What he thought,
     -Crayoned some head hair,
     -Worked between colors
     -Of his plaid
     -Shirt, and eyes;
Traded dead air for
Man-made, intimate
Dialogue:
He was hung,
     -Wary expression
     -Eluded more than
     -Proximate
     -Critiquing;
We are connected
Through ex's, 'couldas,
Shouldas,' shares
At the Pines,
     -Invited tricks would
     -Roleplay naked lines
     -With complete
     -Abandon;
'I was a mummy,'
Bandages costumed
Foot-in-mouth
Prevention,
     -Linkages presumed 
     -Staged, histrionic
     -Recital
     -Of housemates;
Hausfraus hummed of their
Experience to
Educate
Innocent,
     -Marched to the beats of
     -A dedicated,
     -Drummer boy
     -Entourage;
Different montage
Predicated search
For inner
Most batboy,
     -Clued on preference
     -Promulgated WASP
     -Attachment
     -To frat boys;
Paid to commingle
With hotel guests, hewed
To 5 Oaks
Showcasers,
     -Waylaid by poets'
     -Friends, window shopped by
     -West Broadway
     -Gallerist;
Fabulous: fiction;
Substantiated:
Fact; (Waldorf
Pragmatist),
     -Exhibitionists
     -Hauled out family
     -Jewels for
     -Inspection;
Bald-faced disclosure
Kept zipped up yule log's 
Warm, drizzled,
After bite,
     -180 degrees
     -Of separation
     -Quarantined
     -Perspective;
Spared KS eclipse
Warranted pallor
For full-blown
Conversion,
     -A dearth of bare mooned
     -Perversity palmed
     -Appetite
     -In austere;
Fulsome hindquarters,
Beano calmed, tooted
Last boyfriend's
Best gossip,
     -Lip serviced forest    
     -For the trees in it,
     -Close pursuit
     -Guaranteed;
Fancied hirsute cloth
Penance applying
Pectoral
Decoupage,
     -Conte accompli,
     -While bandied about
     -Languished with
     -The spectral;
Some doubt distinguished, 
Determination 
That conflicts
Be resolved,
     -Subsumption involved,
     -Spouted sepia
     -To depict
     -Full-blooded.
   
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Friday, September 11, 2020

Patrick Porter 20 January 2020



                   (Patrick Porter 1983)


                     (Patrick Porter 1981)


                       (Patrick Porter)


Camera shy you

Couldn't be among

Eyes counting

On a shot,

     -Delicately drawn

     -Out from collegiate 

     -Field to share 

     -A hot house;

Understood to be

Unavailable-

Straight- intrigue

Invited,

     -Wolves gathered at the

     -Doorways, under the

     -Windows, or

     -Improvised;

Strong armed chaperones

Negotiated,

A tea dance

Translated,

     -Tones commensurate

     -Unlocked prefigured

     -Innocence

     -In profile;

Temple gyrated,

While beauty and its

Beasts engaged

In worship,

     -Redirected gaze

     -Appropriated

     -Submissive

     -Demeanor;

Tabula rasa,

Demure conveyor

Of sublime

Contrivance,

     -Collective pastel,

     -Kabbalah readings

     -Fixated

     -Rendering;

Neutral observer,    

Copse copulation,

Migrating

Shower crowds,

     -Reverse portrayal

     -Isolated, ground

     -Rectangles

     -Counterpoised;

Singular, table 

Voices divulged honed

Gossip with

Cutting bite,

     -Mundane disclosures

     -Pictorially

     -Absorbed by

     -Gessoed skim;

Guest ancestries staged,

Epidermis beige

Tanned, buffed with

Sandpaper,

     -Brown hair coarsened, eyes

     -Skirmished with dog day 

     -Kin, tongue licked

     -Sun chapped lips, 

Three seasons en plein

Air exhibition

Watershed

Abandon,

     -Hockney snapped cedar

     -Framed, showering boy,

     -By artist's

     -Permission;

Faced back, distinctions

Shrank to remnants in

Super 8

Camera,

     -Business attired,

     -Crisp, white shirt, knotted

     -Necktie of

     -Coaxed portrait.


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Christopher Makos 16 January 2021


               (Christopher Makos 1969)

Documenting fast
Forward flashpoints from
Occasioned
Encounters,
     -Evocative pose
     -Studied in pigment
     -Without a
     -Set pretext;
Rolls of exposures
Developed on sheets
Promulgate
Their context,
     -Diced composition
     -Expounded over
     -Carte blanche propped
     -On easel;
Captioned sightings time
Stamped generation,
Black and white
Filled in blanks,
     -Fresco appointment,
     -Extempore sketch,
     -Momento
     -Impression;
Happenstance, minute,
Parterre swivels of
Heads, arms, hands, 
Legs, and feet,
     -Finite comeuppance,
     -Proportionally
     -Imparted 
     -Chest, arms, hand;
Arrived, departed,
Z scale boxcars hauled
Magnified,
Mortal freight,
     -Brutal space supplied
     -For miniscule limbs
     -Assembled
     -In fashion;
Guided scrutiny
Picked through buried trash,
Declared finds
Lost treasures,
     -Mise en scene smoked through
     -Cigarettes, ashes
     -Collected
     -In foam cups;
Fourth wall interlude,
Afterimages 
Imposed third
Degree burns,
     -Village, hinterland,
     -Stonewall rioters
     -Repulsed with
     -Projectiles;
Safety pins, razors,
Pricked, sliced, skin; black boots, 
Leather belts,
Lashed eyebrows;
     -Overturned trash cans,
     -Garbage, bottles, rocks,
     -Construction
     -Site bricks winged;
Hustler's bulging, black
Jeans solicited 
Johns, against
Building wall;
     -Bouncer at peephole
     -Eyed would-be patrons,
     -Nervously
     -Stalled by door;
Punk rock trio stood
At CBGB
Entrance, begged
Engagement,
     -Cash for drink tickets-
     -No liquor license-
     -Black walls, black
     -Lights, dance floors;
Candid shot, three males
Pissed, spaced apart, at
Porcelain
Urinals,
     -No running water,
     -No fire exits,
     -The toilets
     -Overflowed;
David Johansen,
Richard Hell photo
Op, backstage
Performance,
     -Gayola payoffs,
     -Wall Street employees
     -Blackmailed by
     -Mafia;
Man Ray's official
Passport reproduced
Over two,
Clean pages,
     -Lined up, carded, cops
     -Threatened pictures for
     -Newspaper
     -Publishing;
Lance Loud in profile
At boudoir mirror,
Vogue covered,
Crouching male,
     -Effeminate men,
     -Men dressed in full drag,
     -Arrested,
     -Taken out;
Divine, movie star,
Interviewed next to
Director, 
John Waters,
     -Handcuffed woman, hit
     -With baton, asked crowd,
     -'Why don't you...
     -Do something?'

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Raymond Foye 30 January 2021





                   (Raymond Foye 1981)


Watched from behind the

Scenes, as Bob, Rene,

And Eric, 

Imploded,

     -Dodged pose, pressed into

     - Paper edge, shaken

     -When fledglings

     -Hit concrete;

I can't sleep on floors,

Bum cigarettes, beg 

For my food

On the streets,

     -Wisecrack with wordsmiths

     -Wearing their prep school

     -Blazers to

     -Drink cocktails;

Got to be outside  

Of my head to hear

Oracles

Proclaiming,

     -Coffee shop windows 

     -Muffled shoplifted 

     -Faces from 

     -Rumors spread;

Seeing something through

Someone else's eyes,

Emperors

Wear new clothes,

     -Stream of consciousness

     -Dares you: colourful

     -Curlicues

     -Enshrining;

I can remember

Thinking, 'How can I

Do that?' while

Protected,

     -Skate the treachery

     -Of benefactors,

     -Misreading

     -Ice thickness;

Or eliminate 

Accumulated

Lechery

Of art books,

     -To delineate, 

     -With refined brush strokes, 

     -Eros of

     -Spines subtly;

Pile quotidian,

'Til emotional

Connections

Have surfaced,

     -Dial cerulean

     -Static reception

     -So signal

     -Penetrates;

Poet delegates:

Each a camera

'Nailed on bone,'

Then dispersed,

     -Words, which 'sledgehammered

     -White walls', misprinted,

     -'Saxophones

     -Infiltrate;'

'Would you wear my eyes?'

Mattress disheveled,

'Bargaining

From steel cage,'

     -'Rimbaud bleeds over

     -My stolen pants,' 'dipped

     -In poems,' to

     -'Wrap my corpse;'

'Painter, paint me a 

Jail,' in the red paint,

'Yellow-eyed

Dog whistled,'

     -We devoured each

     -Other word by word,

     -'Plucking rolled

     -Balls of sound;'

'Bathroom stalls have ears,'

So share no secrets,

Billie's pitch

Stuck to walls,

     -'Doctors hide foreskin

     -Strips inside chart notes,'

     -'Strangle with

     -Noose of books;'

'Jazz, listen to it

At your own risk,' with

The needle

Going down,

     -'Songs are like tattoos,'

     -Razored blues, speakers

     -Blasted in

     -Stereo;

The carefully made,

Startling beautiful,

Remembrance    

Of lost time,    

     -The fully bared, laid 

     -Out, encumbrance of

     -Transient 

     -Perceptions;

Journals, notebooks, dumped, 

Retrieved, burnt, soaked, dried:

Words, arranged,

Rearranged,

     -Radiator steamed,

     -Painted over, torn,

     -Obtrusive

     -Abstractions;

'I can get very

Bored with my own things,' 

The mourning

Of a poem,

     -'I sit here writing

     -For fear of seeing

     -What's outside

     -(Of) my head.' 

    

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

William S. Burroughs 19 November 2020

 


                           (William Burroughs 1983)



Fearful of nightmares,

Hallucinating

Little men

Playing house,

     -Terror of nightmares,

      -Melancholic tones

     -Textured by

     -Fear, guilt, rage;

'Ghostly grey figures, 

Apparition of 

Green reindeer

In the woods,' 

     -Nude figures cut out,

     -Genitals cut off,

     -Scissors gripped

     -By stained hand;

Red phosphorus mixed

With potassium

Chlorate, black

Powder bombs,

     -Sudden outbursts sprayed

     -Explosive temper,

     -Violent

     -Forces stirred;

Pistol in shoulder

Holster, assembled,

Pin readied

Tommy Gun,

     -Gun metal rifles

     -Pulled off walls, pointed,

     -Brown bovines

     -Switch their tails;

'Let me show it to

You... real beauty...I

Love the feel

In my hand,'

     -Chain smoked cigarettes

     -Sucked down, stomped out, in

     -Back-room bars

     -Swilling beers;

'You Can't Win' spelled it

Out: if found unlike 

Others, best

Keep apart,

     -Underdog's quick wit

     -Joking undermined

     -Threatening

     -When cornered;

Boy, 'gibbon,' measured,

Weighed, Harvard lectured,

Eccentrics

Sacrosanct,

     -Draftsman aped student,

     -Won Cooper Union

     -Semester

     -Scholarship;

Thinking dissected,

Finger severed, son

Committed

To parents,

     -Entry-level job

     -Mindless, next job, wrist 

     -Transaction

     -Leveraged;

Flunked enlistment, ducked

Draft, copywriter,

Bug sprayer,

Writ server,

     -Piece de resistance

     -Boy wonder flunkey,

     -A saddle

     -Amigo;

Jack, junk, Huncke, Allen,

Joan, Neal, orgone box,

Billy, Kells,

In snapshots,

     -Arthur, David, A.,

     -Henry, Ellsworth, B.,

     -Barnett, Hans,

     -The cutout;

New York, Texas, New 

Orleans, Mexico, 

Tangier, 'Lunch,'

Tri fold-ins,

     -Europe, Africa,

     -Europe, Florida,

     -Five Village

     -Subway stops;

Primordially

Disembodied graft

Absorbed male,

Oozed female,

     -Cordially sublime

     -Beauty encompassed

     -Masculine

     -Fruition;

Possessed by evil

Spirit, the sentence:

Recording

Instrument,

     -Recessed conflicting

     -Emotions in paint

     -Strokes, drunk blind

     -Hailed their cabs;

Interzone routines

Unpredictable,

Un-sequenced

Travelogues,

     -Workspace frequented

     -By local poets

     -And artists,

     -Keen sitters;

Cartographer's script,

Detritus, mixed for

Indexing,

Editing,

     -Photographer's kit,

     -Art supplies, art books,

     -Painted, stacked

     -Canvasses;

(Stock characters), Gimp,

Vigilante, Rube,

Shake Man, Kid,

Doctor, Nurse,

     -Big city slicker 

     -Denizens, Village

     -Wannabes,

     -His subjects;

Moved to the Bunker,

Once YMCA 

Boys' locker, 

Mezzanine,

     -Drinkers' noise sector,

     -Basement studio, 

     -Shadow of

     -Ninth Circle;

Midwest twang read out

Practiced underground

Passages

To the rapt,

     -Lidless edginess

     -Trapped on surfaces

     -Bled into

     -Dramatic;

Narrative driven

By daily typing 

In drink, drugs,

Induced trance,

     -Self-medicated

     -Alcohol, depressed,

     -Curated

     -Ambitions;

Rodent bitten draft

Manuscript, pasted

Over bits

And pieces,

     -Candid pencil takes

     -Instinctively pierced

     -Unwitting

     -Disclosures;

Voices posturing,

Visions mirrored back,

Dimensions

Shattering,

     -Choices pestering,

     -Decisions battered,

     -Buttressed eye

     -Zeroed in;

Introspective, self 

Analyzed, odd man

Outsider

Appraised all,

     -Extrospective half

     -Canonised surplice

     -Conditioned

     -Doubt sayers;

Wages, allowance,

Bail, drug sales, crop sales,

Advances,

Royalties,

     -Scholarship, wages,

     -Companionship, trips,

     -Grantee, sales,

     -Commissions;

Mote, Laura, Billy;

Giorno, Ginsberg, 

James; Ian,

Mort, felines,

     -Alice, Arthur, Tim;

     -John, Julia Mayo;

     -Holly, Charles;

     -And Sidney;

'Cities of the Red

Night,' fiction refuge,

Cragged nova

Complexion,

     -Grit of the red eyed

     -Oracle's formal,

     -Unrehearsed,

     -Delivery.


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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Steve Hamilton 2 September 2020


               (Steve Hamilton 198?)

'Today the toaster
Refused to toast the
Bread, reason
Unexplained,'
     -Last week, laundromat
     -Washer wouldn't spin,
     -Plugged in, lights,
     -Started, stopped;
'There's no reasoning
With these machines, so
There was a
Group: Luddites,'
     -Attendant looked, said
     -Something to herself,
     -Put up "Out
     -Of Order;"
'I'm seldom happy,
They said. Who could be
Happy at
Times like these?'
     -Given a token,
     -Laundry floated in
     -Detergent,
     -Dirt, water;
'The marvelous might
Be hiding under
The carpet.
Rip it up.'
     -If the sign is gone,
     -It's possible that
     -The washer
     -Has been fixed;
'I ripped the carpet
Up and I found dirt.
A pity.
Quel dommage.'
     -Also possible
     -That someone took off
     -The "Out of
     -Order" sign;
Left dirt behind, 'lost
Again when camel
Collapsed in
A desert,'
     -Commission relapsed
     -With Alex Katz's
     -'Nabil's Loft'
     -Pandering;
'Intrepid journey
To find Calypso
Singer, or
Water glass,'
     -An ipso facto
     -Gurney commandeered
     -To convey
     -Eyeglass glint;
'The alchemy of
Despair is seldom
A failure.'
Even now.
     -Ingredients of
     -Prell shampoo redeemed
     -Balcony
     -Of brown hair;
'It began raining
In the desert and
I almost
Choked on mud,'
     -Van Goghed window shade
     -Torments nocturnal
     -Poet in
     -Oil seed black;
'The Party is in
A troublesome state,
Run out of
Alcohol,'
     -'Comrades: we must take
     -Up a collection,'
     -Redeem all
     -The empties;
'Ten thousand birds fly
Out of my head. It
Must now be
In summer,'
     -Five hundred pigs roll
     -Out of their beds, it 
     -Must be a
     -Mineshaft night;
'Three pomegranates
On a silver plate.
It must now
Be in Rome,'
     -Two dharma bums, Six
     -Gallery reading,
     -Must be San
     -Francisco;
'I tried to achieve
Total inertia.
My efforts
Applauded,'
     -I applied solvents
     -To relieve tincture
     -Of viscous
     -Adherence;
'Past tense sense: absence
Of chance enlivened
The dance of
Harmony,'
     -Prevalence of chance
     -Invigorated
     -Advance toward
     -Resemblance;
'Object acquired 
More subject. Verbs lost
Their nerve. Rhyme's 
Memory,'
     -Posers exposed with
     -Tones, sitters composed
     -Of dabs, hand
     -Flicks eyeballed;     
'As stars exploded
Over Mars, we ran
Under a
Nearby tree,'
     -'To explore nature's
     -Fortifications,'
     -Which stored faint
     -Resistance;
'Wild beasts waltzed to tune
Of a fake earthquake
Which faded
To musings,'
     -Vulcan climax mooned
     -Metropolitan    
     -Jaded on
     -A blind date;
'But your smile's crystal
Flaccidity has
Deferred plans
For retreat,'
     -While placidity
     -Mitred violent
     -Edges from
     -Glossy lips;
'Cells were on the march,
My celibacy
Abandoned,'
Celebrate!
     -Balls held to the flame,
     -Bellicosity
     -Sequestered
     -Under bed;
'Who among you has
Ever thought to take
Some control 
Of this lust?'
     -Conjugate, discussed
     -Within grammar, a
     -'Technical'
     -Adjective.
     
 2 September 2020    
     
     
      
     
      
   
   

Monday, May 25, 2020

Henry Howard 23 July 2020


     [Study of Holbein's] (Henry Howard,                  Earl of Surrey no date)


(My) '...achievement small
In scale and flawed...' I'm
'...merely a
Man who served,'
     -I contrived to show
     -Court bard broadside, through
     -Pains, travails,
     -Attaining;
A 'literary
Personality'
Whose pen's work
Was 'distinct,'
     -Is still in print, as
     -Mercenary ken
     -Moves pieces
     -By default;
Faint praise when charged as
Borrower of text
In Latin
Translation,
     -'Neither borrower
     -Nor lender be,' traced
     -Lines patterned
     -Depiction;
'Many things tasting
Of a noble mind,'
Sir P. S.
Tongued the block,
     -Too 'tender aged,' lodged
     -Predilection when
     -Ranked, Chaucer,
     -Spenser, you;
Insurrectionist's
Vocabulary,
'Words, words, words,'
Formation,
     -Illustrator's stirred
     -Incubus foments
     -Primary
     -Canvasses;
'Victorious his
Lance, matchless his pen,'
Geraldine
Bird laments,
     -'Perchance to dream' that
     -Prick-tease heralded
     -Scholarly
     -Renewal;
'Windsor, wherein seems
Lust and joy did tread,
Pleasant dreams,
Quiet bed,'
     -Tendrils extracted
     -Of boy's foolery,
     -Bachelor's
     -Bowery;
'We have fought and chased
In active games, rein
Nimble braced,
We did strain,'
     -I have lain, encased
     -In cornstalks, food brought,
     -Left in peace
     -My gamble;
'No secrets forborn,
Or promise unkept,
Friendship sworn
Where trust leapt,'
     -Lawrence's pencil,
     -Adept in kinship's
     -Fist, garnered
     -Likenesses;
'Blood forsakes my guise,
Where is my fere, whom
Woes freed, lies,
Plaints entomb,'
     -Boxer's torso, knee,
     -Pubic plaits festooned
     -Conformist
     -Forbearance;
'I see that things pitched
Not as outward poke,
Wrapped in stitched,
Crafty cloak,'
     -Courtier Lawrence
     -Engaged attentions
     -To flesh out
     -Dramatic;
'Garments to clothe your
Naked man suffice
To lecture
Clad in vice,'
     -Moth furred armature
     -Swept from sedulous
     -Heads fixed by
     -Taskmaster;
'By princely acts I
Strove to make endure,
Houses high
Set my cure,'
     -Royalty's mister
     -Courted credentials
     -To stave off
     -Creditors;
'An heir unaligned
Shall reap fruits I sow,
Goods resigned,
Title crow,'
     -Each peer survived suits
     -Lifetime succession,
     -Lucrative
     -Patronage;
'My soul offended
With griefs of follies,
Bells mended,
Scourged mollies,'
     -Myself confounded
     -By correspondence,
     -Lads spread out
     -Spelling paint;
'Burdened dissolute
At the Lord's behest,
'Til refute
Viper's nest,'
     -Chastened, compulsive
     -Paper procurer,
     -Cotton limned
     -Where flesh foiled;
'When sudden storms heave
Falsehoods to assail,
Crosswinds reave,
Safe ports fail,'
     -Where leaden forearms
     -Paused, bettors wagered
     -Appointments
     -Steep decline;
'These newly risen
Men would by their will
Unchristen
Chosen krill,'
     -European tour
     -Unfastened vaults of
     -Luminous
     -Collections;
'Scarce hath seed formed man
When death leads to earth,
Branch's span
Lopped from birth,'
     -Five decades ceded
     -Level planche to prop
     -An easel,
     -Fresh soled shoes;
'My glass presents me
A determined breast,
Thrawldom free
Planted rest,'
     -My craft predestined
     -A life's dependence
     -Composing
     -Eminence.

23 July 2020
   
   


Friday, April 17, 2020

Morris Golde 26 May 2020


                   (Morris Golde 1981)

Tim's note: 'A pretty
And pretty drunk blond
Boy (sporting)
A blazer,'
     -Ashbery party
     -Pretentious forsworn-
     -Before I
     -Quit drinking;
Tim, quoting Morris:
'An incredible
Beauty on
All levels,'
     -Circling the social,
     -Artistic fish bowl,
     -Feeding off
     -The substrate;
Berkson on Village:
'Intense assertions,
Pro and con,
Gushes, slaps,'
     -Nonpartisan ponce
     -Allegedly quipped
     -Scorecard on
     -Proceedings;
Impassioned broadside
Ricocheted dance floor,
Sandwiches
Suspended,
     -Boston Virgil bear
     -Hugged Brooklyn Aaron
     -Shouting (S)te(i)n
     -Commandments;
Erick claimed a clear
Space, cantilevered
Somatic
Extension,
     -Frank stubbed cigarette
     -And cheered, 'I just thought
     -Something ought
     -To happen;'
Alvin sight read from
Lucia's sheets, nodding
To John at
Intervals,
     -Lenny scrutinised
     -Physique's elastic
     -Skin tones for
     -Indentions;
Top down Jane blocked off
Goings on, peering
At wall stains
Vanishing,
     -Tim brandished pencil,
     -Michael Press program's
     -Damp water
     -Mark John's way;
Arranged Jane resolved
The mounting tension,
'I have the
Coffee set,'
     -Marc mimicked airborne
     -Plane on Morris's,
     -Lenny's heads,
     -'Bombs away!'
'There is a balance
To be maintained,' wigged
Out Edward,
As Agnes,
     -Edwin nagged her, as
     -Him, 'That's the Mrs.
     -W's
     -Last sandwich,'
'Parlance ham-fisted,'
Maurice observed of
Paper plate
Residue,
     -Tony butted in,
     -'No matter how you
     -Slice it, so...
      -Out to lunch;'
'If I could wrap my
Hands around,' Michael
De called it:
'Trois-si-dos,'
     -Gene reconfigured,
     -'Stations sans de Croix'
     -'Upside down!'
     -Michael howled;
'Make a cushion in
Your head for the street,'
Mused Scott, with
Downturned bowl,
     -Maggie frowned, beat source
     -Clammed, Richard, Clinton
     -Proposed an
     -Audition;
Arnold nosed garbage,
Boosted the meat source
For his 'Red
Eye of Love,'
     -Kenward whispered that
     -He corresponded
     -As heiress
     -With grocers;
Maxine misheard that 
Vincent was 'gorging,'
John's prive
Coup de corps,
     -In Vermont, Ron blew
     -His blaze cinder boards
     -To great balls
     -Of fire;
Kenneth revait Red
Robin formation,
Yeats' gyre
Widening,
     -Barbara found Morris
     -On his knees, wrapping
     -Up slippers
     -For Wystan. 


26 May 2020   
   






   
   






Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Roger Trefousse 19 April 2020


                 (Roger Trefousse 1982)



                         (Ben Weber)



Peripatetic
Vocal rebuttals
Disrupted
At midstream,
     -Pretzeled, pathetic,
     -Defensive lineman
     -Doggedly
     -Tightened hole;
Nocturnal debuts
Colloquial strides
Keyed over
Telephone,
     -Diurnal caboose
     -Parochial prey,
     -Narrow guage
     -Discipline;
Autodidactic,
Bare boned copyist,
Dismantled
Components,
     -Tempered scholar, piqued
     -Reproductionist,
     -Glissandoed
     -Ostacles;
Camp anchorite dished
Delectations of
Consummate
Home cooking,
     -Damp Mennonite corked
     -Ladies Parties fizzed
     -Charades for
     -Candidness;
Purveyors foraged,
Exotic spices,
Butcher cuts,
Choicest fruits,
     -Calf love disparaged,
     -Cantaloupes squeezed, plums,
     -Stewed in juice,
     -Swallowed, spit;
One day spent shopping,
Preparing, one day
Spent cooking,
For hour,
     -Hours observing,
     -Sketching, weeks spent brushed
     -Back, finding,
     -For a glance;
Voluptuous soup,
Frisson greens, lardons,
Filet de
Boeuf en croute,
     -Morris Golde grouped,
     -Dickerson, Cooper
     -Cordoned, Rounds
     -Rib cage crushed;
Mindless bagatelle,
Flourished caprice, red
Cabbage sweet,
Sour notes,
     -Chalked breakfast specials,
     -Mascara streaked kid,
     -Belched powdered
     -Sugar knot;
Sublime aroma,
Pinched cumin, curry,
Infused cream,
Chicken broth,
     -Subsumed diner scents,
     -Toast, coffee, bacon
     -Grease rendered
     -Griddle eggs;
Maror undertones,
Bitter chicory,
Wilted, red
Vinegar,
     -Savoured indulgence,
     -Melted butter spread,
     -Cinnamon
     -Sticky bun;
Mantecatura
Modulated drone,
Crackle, hiss,
Fingering,
     -Register ping, popped
     -Up click, refill glug,
     -Cast iron
     -Sizzle, scrape;
Scaled symposium,
Spooned here, forkful there,
Cut apart
Puffery,
     -Rush hour cram course
     -Scooped off styrofoam,
     -Or grabbed from
     -Paper bag;
Bombay terrace, Swiss
Bower, London flat,
In New York
Apartment,
     -Polish tea shop, French
     -Bistro, West Village
     -Regulars'
     -Greasy spoon;
Lukewarm goulash spilled
By arthritic hand,
Stoic dogs
Under foot,
     -Prosaic settings,
     -Spelled out, left blank, took
     -In crayoned
     -Expressions;
Fantasia rose,
Wrapping him, naked
On bench, with
Hand marked sheets,
     -Mark, squarely planted,
     -Back strapped, weighed down with
     -Random books
     -Clenched to knee.

20 April 2020