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as in unattached; (from Alaska poems)

9/6/2014

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ofte konne expresse routhe

alas the heauy day: why do you weepe?

pitie

harken taketh heede 

alas, both for t’ deed and for t’ cause! 

heare (leisurely)

the allusive (alassive) phrase

passing yr words

wonder withe alas why Alaska sholde

share Helas!  call to alarums! alms 

Benedicite! reserving grief

certes wrapping it shiny-tight

writhing fighting gathering wits in guts 

coude mene really anything!

stode in the Safeway parking lot as

floatplane roared agayns ocean

alas,  vantage understode playne

ravens & seagulls, rain still falls (flatly faintly)

staring out of windows, whites of its paws

fog turns

blinks

green tresses of spruce trees

pink haze slicing needle hair

grass swells rain falls

pink haze of needle leaves

leave trees singing in rain

again rains rain fat globes of glob drops

cat crosses hops down calm

rain patting

world stands static

still think to own worlds

who owns nothing can be nothing

own nothing

alas know no thing

a new since world since here

Alaska they write

write unborn

words fat white globs of rain

rain down

head uncovered

hood mostly brown blown down

waking striking storefront 

flames

carnage horror

unable to purchase neither milk nor cookie 

Mother  of Harold! saugh maide

strolling childe in carriage 

alas! deathe    

alas focalized object twisted

somtyme convoluted

focalized gaze tortuous fro cigarettes smoked too early (filterless) 

perspective alle wrong

sheen of water behound store unysene

unsensed uncertyn sith salmon spawning

Creek Street armed salvation among the goosts

of hosbands & quenes hungry 

ladies & germs in my bag

got me some turkey sandwiches

big ones healthy ones take one free if you’re hungry 

got water too if you’re thirsty 

no charge ladies & genitals 

also want you to know I give a dollar

Alas! how deeply painful

is alle payment! anon

to each person I give a sandwich

alas shoulde one eate this

meete deathe this in the state of Alaska

this morning rosy-handy Donna

spreading tentacles round

warmly—that’s

#yolo cat dig that? 

showers rain down today

showers rain mainly the entirety

all these doggone days

all Ketchikan day

these 100% “chance” of showers days

& when the sun shines forth breaking

base contagious clouds to smithereens

shrapnel scintillating on ocean blinds

hot rainbow embers   

stiff skiffs for Xmas too

ravens (big as jets) & seagulls & eagles

rain weaves blankets of soliloquy

rain fingers snap

kissing eyes closed & leaves fat w/ white surrealism

holding K’s holytourismdollars

windows fogged

Ravens & eagles & seagulls

rain still falls (flatly faintly)

staring out of window

whites of fog paws

hardly sense rain

closing closer

cd sniff an end of sea life

whale road anemones

a game of poker w/ Mr Mayor

right next to the snails de-shelled & salted

pines grow right up against the tide

mists of ocean crawl up nostrils

Alaska when days slap again

offered one little life

& for but few days

art kills here save for crafts crafted handily

save those totems

of grandiosity narrating culture becoming

say AK can you believe in a year

one writing abt Foucault like one knew

he sat on one’s lap & blew one kisses        

& Mr. Whitman which way does yr beard point in the arctic?

sick of watercolors

boozed here more ever

days in winter when brushed snow off stair banisters

w/ sleeve

sunset three o’clock

fickle fickle tone

deaf too

skiffs here bruise shins

when boarded sissy-style

DRUM dum dum DRUM

dum dum DRUM DRUM

dum DRUM dum dummmm

as if the day ever cd start earlier

sun-up hotel boats cargoed money

frontier bruised here & here

displaying shoulder & torso

& healed there & there

referencing noggin & stomach

mercy gets meaner

each night

town of stilts 

among ravens eagles & the angles of rain

prompts gathering of wits in guts

lusting for beauty always

finding Alaska inherently inclusive to vagrants

& beauty of all shapes

OK OK OK AK

let’s shake

we’re of one grain

made the first incisions deep

now relax Alaska

rest yr big ol’ head

let’s make . . .

let’s make sleep

flatly faintly (warmly)

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