Wings Burning Still Flying. Poems & Manifestations These Busy Months

Jezioro Rusałka, Poznan, April, 2018

Looked at in a certain light 
he saw the walking bones of mankind disappear. 
Looked at in another light he saw the flesh upon the bones 
as a unique contrast or animation which created 
an abstract void or disappearing dancing bone.
— Wilson Harris, BLACK MARSDEN (1972)

  to venture an inversion seemingly impolite  
black matter lives... traveling toward us...  
black metaphor matters...
faster and more ghostly than the speed of light, 
the inverse causal frequency
--while the physicists speaks of the arrow of time, 
their sin is missing the point
ἁμαρτία  -- missing the mark -- 
for I speak of the stutter and glide of time

Sound Splays Entering the Eye of the Needle



  for fire more than water repeats no path
  (or there is no path)
in fact, none of the traditional elements go askew,
 they cling, perhaps via entropy
to a mind-boggling stasis (as if I knew --
(the waves of the ocean we see
don't deliver deep-sea molecules of h20
to shore, as we'd like to think -- & I
asked Chas Whittaker: did
we ever leave Buffalo?
Repeating the unanswered question
to Raven and Karolina
on the banks of the Warta River
because we are made of so much water
Is that why we cohere?
Because we go nowhere?

that language generates difference alone
challenges surfaces that maintain...

words. yes and no. but I won't say them. sounds.
but not to play them. when they play you.
the result is aphoria of the tongue, fingers, eyes
and the mind's sphere hung on naming correctly
that which stops it's turning, goes nowhere.
let me feel the furthest star burst
and reveal inward forms anew
improbable unprovable
let the heart valve the deeps

there will be just you, reading the anecdote,
absorption atypical of greatest care,
which is love seen with disinterest
and caress, the reliable inner  ASMR



no theory of improvisation or composition
without reversal. rehearsal only in dreams.
where responsibility's terminal story
begins, the beguine, bangs PD,
cuts out of class the collaged track,
remixes the whack attack
into traces of Haitian intuition...
guess where that's at... earth trembles
even the palms seem to be swaying
mental palms leaves drip with
fine wines of autogenic jazz lines
as the rimes be saying these days
perforated leak the future into
the origins tricking down the words
 down, into your ditty-bag
into your ocular cones, into
your vast arrays, your Woodhenge of Saint Louis,
into the esaume of the Kogi , the node of gold tied 
black threaded across gold, to link the memory
of the rivers to the dark disc disappearance
that left the hold of God upon time
as a direction that stings, the remorse,
the apple in the garden defined
the gold of your most generous emotions 

 Aghast Nibiriu

spread before the human desert of drives 
splattered before oceans 
Tiamat slam-dunks and pays you in mountains,
--you have yourself here a piece broken off
a stone within which the soul stolen from--
where-from healing waters filter, thrive,
--so pay it forward in great lakes rather of love 
for the creation falls beyond stagnation 
and less one braggart swaggart like me
-- or someone I imagine  more (dis) advantaged --
in these bubbles of suburbs 
godless after Sumerian swing took off
the heads of the Pyramids
leaving you countless waves
in search of author, author, author, please, 
please, upload the applause, 
torrent file Hammurabic new laws, 
grant the false leaders wise mental leaves 
from this idiotic campaign of champagne and blood, 
author, author please upload the applause, pass the apple sauce, 
Gates, put your mouths where the money 
replaces hate from the state for the admiration of the meek 
who wait not inheritance but plant seeds 
hidden from their grief in secret gardens. don't complain. 
drain the indifference swamp. 
ask your sister about more than What's App. 
ask your brother whose brother is whose, is yours 
and save your fingers for the next poem. 
chocolate, magnesium, inulin... need I say more? 
should I carry on? what have you to say 
less bitter. less engorged on cynical pessimistic dither? 
what you've got but lost paradise, chained, 
and you to rock?

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for Pēteris Cedriņš despite all that
and despite Aldington's dung heap, anyone's nationalism
for Chris Barron's vigilance, and by way of 

       ludic buddhas array in golden syllabic possibles 
raindance orders of trans-ressurection 
without fables of figurative rainbows in political border goblins'
fettered gloom of not being able to exercise jaws 
for proper tearing limbs perhaps joined to animal 
limbic memory: go instead using your near to human eyes 
for star-gazing into different points for the glory 
of your strength is to climb high in your mind to peaks 
where other earthly creatures are too weak to travel 
and marvel first before plucking feather for inscription
 and write it up instead of down for the eyes to rise 
on the spirit of the words rather than this bitter slamming 
of everything mediocre with your blunted hammers 
for no reason other than sounding correct and good 
before your court of lesser resolve and greater resentment still.
 we, if not designed, were never built 
for what those values value and if we were 
then we know how to mint new coin 
with deeper love and gentler impressions of the divine.

Erzulie

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Post-Hamletids

 __ and he? who was he staring into the hollow eye-holes 
of his father's skull        
before dawned the recognition 
the mother of hilarity  
spawned the spurned genius 
of an unearned promise? 
what devil wriggles in a heap of ashes 
and what blows of memory repel  
confidence in society, so the animal precarity 
weapons forth smiles so unhappy

__ and what did the abyss, gazing long back 
venture in reply but an inverted writing   
of an already backward scripture intoning 
the place of a distant charity smothered in the stars 
as if dead diamonds, the inedible silver of industry well-wrought,
would crown the ideas with the aura of idealism...
 clever, yet barren seedless imposter of the heavenly flower 
slaloming down the stem beckons

for without scienza supernova

 et ipsum factum convertuntur

shall not be lost and nothing done in vain

 that roots in faith the truth

and disdains not reflection...

dearest literary angels and daimons:
     what powers be given to words by books, I wonder,
beyond the simple sponsorship (censorship)
 of some collective entity? 
what compelled writing to be carved first? 
hath been there any book there
 unrelated to the book that is everywhere and nowhere,
   the book not made of hands?

 dear auditory hallucinogens, spirit catcher of Kali, orators of memory,
   coders for the data complex coin,
sellers of vintage vinyl collectors lps:

Recordings can remember the order of events
provided the events happen linearly
or recordings must remember events
that happen without any actual linearity
but which fall out in time
configures to appear
consecutive (art is needed to reveal the illusion)
which seems to be how events come together in memory anyway

 --we being struck from all sides by
multiple time arrows--
or governed by one constant vector --

The things stamped into time

Stamped into configuration T
hung on the Tau, corpse left to dry

The way the memory remembers itself on each occasion 

As a complex of enfolded miscegenations

Once impressed the

Delta Δ which never
recurs (mixes the fresh
with the salt waters)

Alone again naturally without 

Reference to external memories
manages the event

 & yet
They return there anyway

To claim the only title
worth competing for:

Truth 

Which is created
by the flight
away

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the suitcase rolling down the street I hear her rolling
 her suitcase down the street  or anyone's my suitcase 
rolling down the street somewhere anywhere 
it's me rolling down the street the carrier of nobody's 
belongings in particular going anywhere you can name 

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no image of poets, no pictures of poems, no romance

no romance about poets until modernism flaunts the camera
boasts the silents black and white traums
made those untouchable surfaces almost lickable
watch them frozen in headlight fawns
conspire to break you in cold sweat
galvanize desire wired now to click
bait and switch the ash almost cash
like johnny in the pocket cheats
keats or shelley out of kubla kahn
deliberately getting it wrong
no romance about image of poets
before the emergence of the MI complex
drafted the laughter of innocents
into permanent undeclared war
and olson spoke through any one lion
feasted upon the blood-washed mirror
of self-spitting self-splitting
image of post-oedipal heretical
would be wannabees
putting on display the plays of eliot
for the age demanded it all
no romance held my mind for emily dickinson's picture
nor daguerrreo of dante or whitman the type
face alone words flickered flames in the nerves
burning the things known of in brands of meleager
and i never needed to see the expert dangler
of cigarettes or to see them around the bourgeois
parisian cafes doing nothing and getting nothing from it
but the option to dictate who's who later
from what photographer made them famous
i read the worlds of carl sanders
and langston hughes, claude mackay, kaufman
before ever I saw them just the voices
of many people heard clearly in songs
coming out of the rickety car radio
those voices nameless yet those voices
transparent souls inside the souls
pulling angels out of thin air
those voices nameless yet those voices/vectors 
transparent inside the soul
inside the unsold/pulling angels of thin air/ where did they go?
my stars! they disappeared one night/ they turned the corner/
 round the door/ dropped over events horizons/ 
the whisper reaching/ who it ever is
was me no longer/
aimless kingfisher issues no rings on rings/
but names within names stretch from midnight on/
in who's ears those ears your ears ours
silvery sarah, billie's cloud
permanent disaster

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schizo-colonialism... 

          Europeans were not exactly searching for their roots 
down there, were they?
but then again, who can say?
maybe the Hyena, maybe the Lion 
runs the blood of the European 
they safari for, self soul seeking. 
Is the art of translation to leave out the things 
people don't want to hear in favor of business as usual?
 the art of who is allowed to be an artist 
who can change the grammar 
and question without marks

who can turn the map upside down 
 with their own feet, walking the world

Photo from globe-trotter Kunda Ac, in Chile!
always amazing photos and true stories of travel
https://www.facebook.com/kunda.ac

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melatonin on my mind. serotonin.tuning tones in time. 
the God enzyme. the voice of rain wrinkling the skies 
and the skid of the skater the grinding wheels of the tram
the fish doesn't drink the water my child wonders 
why I ask sillier questions of the clouds adrift in dissolve 
the barriers between syllables join molecules hands in air 
as freedom falls up the spiral stairs 
and meets Hanuman opening his chest in hope

 
meaning is elsewhere, but I'd like to go there, bring some back here, from the beyond into lawless lands where theft called trade sharpens the blade and blunts the mind of my children
truth is like love in that you know you know you want to know and like love in that you turn away from eyes that need you and you turn truth into the hidden, the hidden away depths, the eyes in plain sight, the unspeakable and truth is the civilization likes the cactus but pulls off the quills, 
civilization puts proof into pills and gambles language of persuasion, takes kitty to the the vet to rip of the the claws and leave the doors open when we're choking to death on chemical clouds, 
truth just got branded and bandaged in a bland package stuffed into culture 
the bird, the word that art ate up, the paradise of vultures, birds themselves, unknowingly

 Did thorns come first?

 Did thorns come

before words?

roses, I mean 

petals of form

sepals and sigils

as for bleeding in the stead of

The poet does not write sitting 

nor laying down standing

and does write not even

clearly at times

they think enzymes code

leap-bridges in brainwaves

they are never used up entirely

the special sudden idea poems are not

about ideas a cage

without birds

But there the feathers are, anyway

all about, having spiraled

nobody knows the design 

merely probable

Fib

In Fibonacci

numbers seek no end in them-

Selves no proof

They just like combining the ways

simple numerical motor

skills without even

wheels or woe

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"With African vodun—as we have seen—the integrity of the tribal person was one with a system which was conservative and traditional. There was no breath of subversion—no cleavage in the collective. History and art were one medium.
With Guyanese/West Indian limbo that cleavage is a fact and the rise of the imaginative arts has occurred in the face of long held intellectual and legal suspicion. Therefore the rise of the poet or artist incurs a gamble of the soul which is symbolized in the trickster (the spider or anancy configuration). It is this element of “tricksterdom” that creates an individual and personal risk absolutely foreign to the conventional sanction of an Old Tribal World: a risk which indentifies him (the artist) with the submerged authority of dispossessed peoples but requires of him, in the same token, alchemic resources to conceal, as well as elaborate, a far-reaching order of the imagination which, since it is suspect, could draw upon him a crushing burden of censorship in economic or political terms. And it is here, I believe, in this ambivalent gateway—this gamble of the soul—that there emerges the hope for a profoundly compassionate society committed to freedom within a creative scale that transforms ancient fears and deprivations."

—Wilson Harris, “History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas” (1970)

March 24

the vision, like the dream, happens in a flash,
between memory & forgetting, falls, like the lash
of the eye turning into the mirror
the lakes make of the skies
divulging inward earths upon terra
firma, signed beneath seals
revealed the shadowy unique
ever terminal in the numerals
of design, dassein, web-weary
which I resign to you, most beyond,
of any desiring joy, to form
in silence those tones surrounding
the boundaries of every line.
i write in truth in faith
while the earth to us seems lost
and the sky crushed
by the cost of conquest
of the bum rush to limbo

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the thread i have
but lost to you
wherever
we adjoin
such fevers, they give
sognatori signatori
dots of
have nots
will travel
travail

cthonium
ephron
the hittite
lands
permanencies
never
on sale

water is what her
water made, the earth
visible to the sky
beneath her feet, cosmo-
graph as inversion,
the well behind
the eyes alpha
centauri


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 For Carlyle Reedy

  it's a balancing act

of balancing facts

within fictions

about factions

& the con-

sciousness, as such

of our actions

& where we ate

 what page was that?

plumb-line

& sinker

beginner is winner

who never left

a path

 part one

under one

 under one

stone

come undone

I gather

 ***
Doggerel
(for the hounds,
music for the angelic)

i am a fool who imagines himself

an earthworm, a mouse, a pigeon

& piece of human packaging,

fool's bane mine to love the likes of you

sweet william, sweet jane, in the mud

as crud language generates grammar

crawling in your veins

it is likewise grammar calls in vain

to find a god beyond the pale

for a fool you know complains

all the while the owl pearls

the fool imagines himself an earth

an avalanche a tide to sweep away

imagining the fool who laughs

and loves you all the same

my penguins run like elephants

the eels entwine and dance

it is sometime no fun to be a man

and yet i am all the same

inside the wings fallen burn

or rise on tales to live with saints

while opinion runs a 3 ring circus

look at me I believe

no look at me, my belief,

no look at mine, no me

I went & shot a man who represented

what I hate and I am no one's hero

the story belongs to no one

in particular but a friend tells it true

we are all dangers on the prowl

our kings all dead our defenders foul

or non-existent and only imaginary

mother earth accepts our tears

you who science call dear

fear the mad fool atavist pigeon

better should you fear the pins

inside your own opinions

stuck in the cushion of your brain

attracts the bolts of the air

and set fire to your hair

for you are no fool, no man's fool

so be wary should you stumble

into the lion's den for then

you will have no prayer

****

Peformance at Tłusta Langusta, Poznan

   "Sauver les phénomènes, c'est les sauver là où ils ont lieu et là où ils ont leur lieu"
---Henry Corbin