The whirling of simple, splashing sprinklers hum
And run down the
Just an impish dance
not done for pittance.
Watch “The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “She’s On It / Jack The Ripper” (Official)” on YouTube
No rights: homage.
Howl along
Grating the Asphalt
An empty vessel receives anything.
The stroller held no child.
She was me.
No alien but, perhaps, a stranger.
Foreign.
I walk the block.
Stalk the running ground.
Note where cigarette butts have
been discarded.
Curious cars cruise.
Suddenly, I breathe fire.
My silver wings unfurl.
They are cold, blue steel
this sundown.
Each feather a shiny, double-edged blade.
Sparks sprinkle behind as they strike the pavement.
I ‘walk like a giant on the land.’
A girl does not see the car approaching her.
I slam the metallic feathers
hard
against the ground.
The dear freezes before being in the head-lights,
and looks over.
Wings already retracted out of sight.
I shrug and give a goofy smile.
I pass A Avenue.
I remember someone wondering if they meant
An Avenue.
I find the fourway intersection at Hemlock & Main.
But, where is
The Avenue?
In/definite articles.
Derived and integral.
I h0wl fire,
flames forth,
[Silent]
Un0bservable except to the energetic-ally
Sighted.
The sun catches my flames and explodes into a sunset.
Pink and blue sky-eyes
Make a wish.
The haze and light will
Last
A bit longer
Still.
A slow draining Sink
When your head is down,
the Earth continues
rotating on its axis.
Move forward.
Time travel.
The difference in
One degree change.
Rotational velocity.
Massive bodies bending
space-time like so many
bowling balls on a
blanket held aloft by four
corners.
Curves do not remain in vogue.
Curvature is vogue.
A Busy-Ness Call
I spoke to the Lady Robot.
She gatekeepers for the Live Male representatives.
She was real polite
de-spite how busy she seemed.
I could hear her
Typing faux clicks for my patience’s benefit.
She took none
of my frustration person-ally;
but, I found the situation a bit frustrating.
Being defragged before speaking to someone actually.
Watch “Joe Rogan – Mathematician on Trying to Measure Consciousness” on YouTube
I fell down the rabbit hole of Roger Penrose (along with Douglas Hofstadter) during my mid-twenties. I became quite intrigued by Gödel’s sentence G (Nagel has a great book for arm chair thinkers like me).
In/completeness
In/consistency
Computational capacity.
Just watch it, ok?
Giggle.
H.I.E. HO
Works worx.
It all works.
Rocks move themselves in a small dance.
He said: they form a semi-chorus line and do the can-can; but, you can only see it from
Aeroplanes.
“You fly?”
“Well, I went to flight school.”
“What was that like?”
“Well, I visited the campus.”
I smile. You endeared yourself to me.
Dreams are always loveable.
Always.
Full frontal impresario.
Trying to hard
To get it done.
Howl I can-can
relate.
Day one
Præternatural proclivities pronoun/ce the unpitiable and unpitying.
A pitted, slim pumpkin.
A seeded watermelon.
A new place to walk.
Sound. It is
Not a bay but
A sound.
Waving, watery vibration beneath the ferryman’s boat
All filled with cars which are all filled with humans.
A smattering of skaters, bikers
Pedestrian/s who pay the toll with coins covering
One or both eyes.
A pied
Am i.
There are berries on a tree proceeded by a cigarette butt discarded on the pavement.
Dancing in the Dark
The night I fell I felt compelled to go to the forest.
I dressed and laced my boots with hard, cold eyes.
Called, hard.
Badger baiting.
Bait and switch.
You made my eye twitch, but I oblige/d.
Begrudingly yet lovingly.
I danced on the trail.
Aloft on one foot.
The right one.
Bowing head, extending an arm
Lengthening the aloft leg.
Up, up, up, and then flush, into a straight line, with my torso.
Cutting a right angle with my single body.
Trunk, face, left leg perpendicular to the right leg.
I told the company corps. to do this.
To do this and to hop, ever so slightly
backwards.
So, I had to do it myself.
I did so successfully for the first three quarters of a mile.
Then, my snaking sneak snaps.
The ankle keels over while the rest stays a droite.
I find myself on my back.
Stunned and hurt.
I found myself
Five seconds into the future,
Taking stock of my body.
No phone.
Pain.
I walk home just like I walked to the trail.
One foot in front of the other.
Watch “PJ Harvey – Peel Session 1992” on YouTube
Howl.
3 tracks
1. Killing a son
2. Ballroom blitz bouncy drums accompany Jungle Jane.
3. Ecstasy.
Watch “Mississippi John Hurt Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor” on YouTube
No rights, writes, or rites.
Homage.
Hummmm….
Smile.
Back to basics.
A Sign of, The southern cross
A Sign of, The southern cross
As solar ræs alchemicalize water to solid dirt,
I ask the twelve year old:
Can you tell me what the difference is between a child and
a kid?
(Joke gotten.)
S/he laughed. I smiled.
Spiralin’, perfect circles
refuse to come into focus.
[I/1/i/one time]
@
k/Nigh/t
/Nigh/ a year ago, Uris (a brown bear) & Æ
walked you through this forest.
Clear and right to another plane.
It was the dead
Of
k/Nigh/t.
We passed a couple, bodies doubled,
back on
this slat.
They saw us thru.
I laughed. Startled.
Bemused, i held anxious Uris back.
A month later the
gatekeeper (let me a’) passed with a “god bless.”
It was not the night I went dancing in the dark woods.
This was the
k/Nigh/t
The kids twisted metal.
The dragonfly
Left
You, this flower.
A spoonful can
Abso-
Lutely
weigh a tonne.
Just as much as the difference
One inch this or that way
Can make
iN
the AbovE & THE bELOW
pictures.
A watery sky, waves below from on the surface.
A tree finds itself well-positioned.
Walk it Off*
It is only a recoil of the reflexes followed by the relaxation of a newly relieved muscle.
A relic remaining
Released after renewal
Continues
Wrecking me impeccably.
Me in a You-Howl.
Watch “Don’t Let It Bring You Down (Live)” on YouTube
All homage; no rights.
Great for the intro alone.
Not all musicians can talk about their songs well.
Favorite live version of this song, regardless.
Do they call 18 wheelers “lorries” in Canada too?
“Dead man lying by the side of the road with the daylight in his eyes/
Blind man running through the light of the night with an answer in his hand/
Come on down to the river of sight and you can really understand/…
If you’re walking home alone.”
Light panther Eyes included
The reenlivened stone panther turning to moss.
Her eyes shine.
Even the car’s breeze is
friendly on days like todays.
And, i cannot tell dust specks
from pollen from
cottonwood nor
seed from insect.
The sun stings.
Disaffected is not unaffected as much as dispassion does not necessarily
imply apathy.
Expelling exhalations
I pass through two gates.
My breath manages
to hit me in my
own stomach.
White fuzzies fill my peripheral.
A busy broad.
Little bobbing heads under water. Learning to feed the self.
Cue that cricket queue ready to play
With legs rolling over like car
engines.
The dragon grew a mohawk.
And, a man passes, reading the same piece of paper that I passed him
reading a week ago.
Sweet thing, don’t freeze in my prescence.
Why did the racoon cross the road?
I dunno either, but one sure did last night.
Right in front of me.
A dog panting on the trail
Makes me wonder:
How does that muzzled dog sweat?
Looking down whilst standing on a bridge over the salmon ladder,
You see
You can jump down from above
And into the sky above?
I heard you playing accompanied accordian in the parking lot down the trail.
He was playing real good for free.
I know because you could only tip him in
An unlabeled box.
Howl Maverick.
Acephalous
The sun shines when the rain dance resumes.
Limbs ampersand branches coyly sign “hi” on tidal-waving breezes.
“Hi. How are you? Why do you keep that dog muzzled?….Oh, I see.”
Sometimes, we hold certain truths to be self-evident.
Sometimes we deny them.
Others and selves; same and unsanne.
Obscure, absolve, aquit.
“Atone, louse.” That is not what she said.
Surely.
“I’m a lousy gal, sometimes too,” she actually
Said.
A Sunny Resumption
[suddenly (the guitar sound _i hear in my cans_swallows)
hard]
.
Fallen
Or placed?
The best preserved tree.
Shooting down fuzzily.
Psyche-
Delphic
Spots
of colo(u)r.
Saw.
Jumping mouse
Flits under the dragon’s
Mouth
uncaptuted here, hear?
Shots of light. ( Not too )
Briefly.
Ready to root ball.
A /w/hole in my head or
A…?
Needed the same, regardless?
I still need
The gortex, eyelet boots to
Support the bum
Ankle.
Sorta Rhymes
The inclination, of the simple persuasion, was insinuation by mild-mannered, kind-natured manipulators.
TheWoods Set for Rain Yesterday
Found on the asphaulted exit, fluttering in the breezy preparation.
Impatiently.
Coral, from below, meet the leaf that fell above
On the same path.
Another near ninety degree angle.
Still grossly a gauche.
The last embers of the dragon
Who hibernates through the summer?
Still grinning at the pass.
Too close
But
comfortable.
A tighter
Right angle to chance. Found.
Yellow
In the spider’s veins.
The sun still shines.
Watch “Dracula Moon” on YouTube
Do y’all remember the album Relish?
Yeah, it has that overplayed track.
But, every other one is a gem that I bet you have not given a chance in a decade.
Am I wrong?
WrittenCasey 