tenebraed, Heller Levinson
(Black Widow Press, April 2017).
The
book cover image by Linda Lynch is entitled Oil Drawing for 2900,
and
is a detail of a larger painting in oil on plywood.
Excerpts
from tenebraed
tenebraed
to
Goat
Seep
Arising from “The
Hydrogeology of Hudspeth County, Texas.”
Permian rock goat hoof
solidity that bulks,
courses, permits, -- perusal
porosity: the fraction of total volume occupied by
pores or voids
porous/aperture/percolate
sustain
simmer
brushstroke
cloven hoof rock grasp,
-- suture/grip groundwater discharge
seepage: accumulating silence
sonority sally & the
necessity of ointment
porcelain ://: earth
science
how much of
seepage
is
gathering
[admix clock cochineal
brew, brewing
concocting seepage ghosts
selvage sleuths
from the hurl of hoof
pound
where
in the earth is
the
shudder
slither silt slather
stall, impediment,
encrustation
circulation bushwhacked
stepping as current, surface
flow, dirt fluting
hooves → earth’s percussion rim shot baton whisk
voicings
are there conversations between
hoof & water, bird & paw, sediment & moisture?
reciprocal distillations?
communicative troughs?
coruscant envelope bathes
stillness: elegant motion
oneiric fawn
placement ://: pitch ://:
pith
unacccountables
tenebraed
to
interstice
to where in wherewithal
tide-pleat burbling diastem
where in the numeral
is
fallout
rupture clause skiff
whack
pause ://: combustible
the interrelation of
parts promotes healthy gums
elision dotted eights inhale
per co
late
switchbacks moody mustangs
the cartography of sullen
tenebraed
to
absence
dent in
dent to leave out
depart disappear
the is that is not
the there that never was
hollow
evergreen
interstice
injure
garrulous muffled
the look of an expired
langoustine
delaying translucence
until
the emerald
is properly groomed
—Heller Levinson
