Rus Khomutoff, Six Poems

Bartholomeu Dias Tropical Terra Incognito Bermuda Triangle, 

image by Abri de Swardt

Untitled (for Andre Breton)

Nostalgic sentiments and new wave nocturnes

intersecting in a normal chaos of life

an hourglass of neglected affinities

idols of saturated phenomena

night of filth, night of flowers

the aporia of revelation

Magic Bullet (for Tristan Tzara)

Smell of death

smell of life of embrace

a medicine of moments

semiquavers and sundial conductors

of the postspectacle

deposits of legitimacy left behind

sortilege of the divine decree

words in blood like flowers

Horror.Philosophy.Sex (to C.M. Cioran)

Anathemas and admirations

in the graveyard of definitions

citizen of wonderlust

soul of the blasted pine

metahaven overture

caught in a clinch

formations of the angelic abstract

unto poor image thresholds

landscape over zero

Antinarcissus

Cascading fragment

of an inhabited solitude

waxing gibbous

in the iridescent shuttle

praying for the shadows firsthand

terraforming this anvil of distinction

a forbidding tangle of brambles

like a shower of superstitions

antinarcissus

an echo of our gestures

Grand Hotel Abyss

Selenophilia of our being

the obscuring of the queen

vexed in your hollow divine

incipience of the notable nonesuch

like fragrant paperwhites in the

corner of the transcendental frame

pleasure ground of annulled pretext

in hysterically real daymares

everyday extraordinary

grand hotel abyss

The Shallow Between (to Nick Land)

Pathos of distance

expecting itself

fake eternities of stationary descent

tailored hallucinations

surrender to the serpentine ensemble

of all possibility

hiatuses sullied by memory

ecstasy of the everyday

—Rus Khomutoff

Mischa Foster Poole, Six Poems

Metalepsis for the Ritusen Scale, image by Daniel Y. Harris

Pentatonic

     The ritusen scale is based on the principle that around the 3rd and 7th degrees everything starts to go a  bit  bertie  and so it’s best to

avoid  it  altogether.         You can

pick out your own way of doing    things    but    if    you

want to avoid

him seeing red there are certain

ways to go about it.     When most

potters in the West think of raku firing, it is what should technically be referred to as "American" or "Western" raku, in which work is removed from the kiln at bright red heat and subjected to post-firing reduction, blackening raw clay,

crazing the glaze surface.  I have

only been to Asia twice, and one of those was a quick trip over the

Çanakkale Boğazı

to meet a friend.  The Principle

of Sufficient Reason is a powerful and controversial philosophical principle stipulating that everything must have a reason

or a cause.  The ritusen scale

is based on the principle that it all starts to go a bit bertie around the third and seventh and so why not avoid all that palaver after all?

Nothing to see here

CW Legal Ltd. is an appearance to be reckoned

in the vertical & greying light which [shift]

as the clocks have recently feels newly [pause]

but classically still of interest.

CW Legatt is an heart which leapt itself

by the gust of its own umbrella on-

ly a moment though enough to [space]

the unexpected gap in the footbridge

which materialised [slash]

dematerialised itself as the crumbly

brick floor, only for CWL, in this 16-bit

environment.  Chas. Wm. Legall Ltd. Esquire etc.

is a birdlike is the sort of chap you can

   [Esc] through the bars of a python pit

   would be a feat

   second only to an [undo]

   of the pillars of Charles V,

   (HRE) were it not for the fact

that Charles W Legal

turns his wristtop up &

seeing nothing but freckle

o'clock goes pocketward

while he’s at it [swipe]

at the weather

[…being a figure who is perennial and subsequently one who at

times forgets when it is and what is the correct combination/gesture]

unboxing, teardown: once in a land a firebird

Once was a golden bird stood on a tree.

The lamp shafts took him down in your small ken

but didn't you ever see the glitter such

in a many an abstract club and synthpop cot?

Rotate,      if you will,       a glitter ball.

Say if you see the bottom now.  And now.

And now.  And now.  What about now?  Is it better

or worse?  Better or worse.  Or about the same.

And now?  And now?  And now examine me

this glitter bird.  Did you say bird yes bird.

This golden bird stood on a tree.

You will feel a short puff.

INTERVAL

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unboxing, teardown: this entirely new novelty of a bird

Do you remember the bird?

Yes I thought it was not that long ago.

It was a story of three tsareviches Vassily

Pyotr and Demyan.  Pyotr and Vassily, Demyan no

no Tsarevich Ivan.  They rode off,

One of them in more canny kind.  He met

a wolf.  Will you be pardoned 3 more times

no never 3.  So the wolf leapt over hedge

leapt ditch, leapt fosse.

He it was he retrieved the goldbridledgirl,

he it was he came back there, they and after ever

lived.  Do you remember wolf?

folk source (Evo Morales patriotic synth song)

(with thanks to Alex)

Evo Morales for all for all morning

stand up your rays in the days dark awning,

take off your traps and snap the leather back

to stretch your partner in the old salt flats flat.

Evo Morales for all in which way you go

how long do you know how long do you know?

Howl brightly at the fucked moon, far less brightly at the sun,

withhold your prior knowledge of the ways the days run,

stare up at your cabin and take in the rugged stars,

bathe your periastra in the rightness of remorse,

skim off the bathysphere-discovered doublethink,

jettison your moors and sink.

—Mischa Foster Poole

Sheila Murphy, Summer Sequence

Monterosa, image by Sheila Murphy 

Summer Sequence

birds, bees, beeswax

copacetic hammock swing

leaves as flutter tongues

* * *

innocence lapping

and receding with soft grace

ground hog daylight

* * *

one-time contralto

city scapular restraint

a run on whole tones

* * *

he speaks adverbs

fluently despite small nouns

polished au naturel

* * *

Elmer and Ione

a clarinet plus casket

tears and gentle rain

—Sheila Murphy

AC Evans, THE SUBMERGED FOREST

The Edge of Forever, image by AC Evans 

THE SUBMERGED FOREST

As gold sunk in filth will not lose its beauty

So, in England, in August and early September,

You must render flesh to flesh and forbidden

Elements of which little is known.

At the Edge of Forever,

Circular currents, including Scylla and Charybdis,

Are dangerous for ships, even in calm weather,

Especially if you think depravity is the way of salvation,

A Whispering Gallery where cards are shuffled

With gestures both natural and effective.

The world may have to wait…

Meanwhile, we shall begin: salt layers are deposited,

Consciousness recovered, the forest submerged

In the southernmost and deepest channel we can find.

I was struck by the obvious pseudepigraphy of

All the Patristic texts, especially this one.

Here, we decided, is the origin of oblivion,

A steel-plated lawsuit lasting thirty thousand years,

Extended and rearranged through inner illumination.

Conclusions as to the nature of insularity have

Since been proved incorrect.

Depreciating the Cosmos and anything else,

They crossed the North Sea

And finally reached the coast of Russian Lapland

To discover the wrecked ships and

The dead bodies of the crews,

Together with the Commander’s journal

And a map of The Submerged Forest,

In the mouth of the River Dvina, in the White Sea.

This forest was very large and covered the

Surface of the entire known world,

Elaborated beyond the Edge of Forever,

Creating its own matter in the Void.

Spirit is transformed by knowledge, the ratio

Of rare phenomena observed in cloud chambers

Where particles originate.

Survivor of a battle at the ancient capital of Wessex,

At the confluence of Nadder and Wylye,

He later conducted experiments of this type

To save the illegible name

And the angels surrounding the Virgin,

The male-female prototype of turbulence and diffusion.

Cyclonic curvature is obtained by stealth,

By killing The Stranger in Eternity.

Momentum is destroyed by the metaphor of sleep.

Vertical velocity requires union with succubae,

Mainly as result of interrogation

and heretical ideas of salvation: notorious apostasy,

Relief from the pervading gloom, from

The alarming appearance of the iron wall of annihilation.

—AC Evans

Homunculus Alphonse Canard, Icons

Altered Holy Personas, 

image by Homunculus Alphonse Canard 

Psychic Surgery,

image by Homunculus Alphonse Canard 

Love On The Mind,

image by Homunculus Alphonse Canard 

Orbital Christ,

image by Homunculus Alphonse Canard 

Mutant Mother With Tumors,

image by Homunculus Alphonse Canard 

Touched,

image by Homunculus Alphonse Canard 

Projections From 1460,

image by Homunculus Alphonse Canard 

Rupert M. Loydell, Sick Leave Diptych, #1-#5

Sick Leave Diptych, #1 

Sick Leave Diptych, #2 

Sick Leave Diptych, #3 

Sick Leave Diptych, #4 

Sick Leave Diptych, #5

—Rupert M. Loydell

Fusiform Gyrus, Cento for Vesta

Resembling a Cock Vesta, image by Irene Koronas   

Cento for Vesta

(remix of Keats’ Endymion, book IV, lines 650-720; Miller's Tropic of Cancer pp. 9-11, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Verse 23 and Graves’ Caligula)   

Mossy phantasm 

blow-worn

volcano light 

enough to see

let my looks be 

then 

the eloquence 

the monstrous 

swell of 

pure elysium

her 

gnarled rotten 

whole 

anything 

resembling a cock

Vesta  

in perfect seizure

un-torn

only gods are

privileged to

behold one another

wormiest wonder

with fiddle-string

torture

eye

pleasure. 

—Fusiform Gyrus

Mark Young, Ten geographies

Six Deformations, image by Irene Koronas 

Ten geographies

Arnhem Land

Modern Living &
The Ancient Way of

Life is a boutique fund
manager focused on

delivering long white
sandy beaches & azure

waters to researchers
tracking feral cats.

*

Winnipeg

                    Grain orientation

                                in electrodeposited

               nickel is a type of

                       comb added by bees

                to prevent most

                                     mediated plastic

                         deformations.

*

Bogantungan

A low level plat-

form & a spartan

waiting shed were

funded by the

Commonwealth

to help the war

effort. He looked

at his watch &

noted the time.

Span class="cap-

tion-caption." The

bridge collapsed.

*

Rhode Island

          A woodcutter & a

                 priest have just

                    played to a half-full

                    tent with their songs

                 about the crybabyblue

          color of fibrillation.

*

Walvis Bay

Sodium bicarbonate,

when strapped to a

pallet ready for your

shipper to pick up, is

sometimes miscast as

a literature-sharing

platform but, for

choreographers, is

always a reminder

of their mortality.

*

Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver

                      I enjoy going

                bowling, trying to lose

                         those vanity pounds

                                 highly respected

                 within the genomes

                        of cassava cultivars.

*

Bucharest

Street lamps were already
switched off. Queues
formed to buy either cook-
ing oil or some random

compensation lawyer. In
the 1970s crisis, a strong
sense of teamwork was
not an easy pill to swallow.

*

Shukenegi

                       Gambling addicts tend

                 to be shorter than

                              sea bass, have narrow &

                   short pineal stalks to

                          assist in pattern recog-

             nition or the use of simple

                         algebra. Even the Japanese

                     will not eat them raw.

*

Galicia

                         A Marine holds an

                       umbrella on the famous

               medieval religious pilgrimage

                          to Santiago de Compostela.

                    Very nuts-&-bolts.

                  He might not look as pretty

                          as Beckham, but he can play

                    football. His services include 

                      all aspects of waxing & tinting.

*

Chappaquiddick

She wore out

the rubber, then

hit a motorcycle

with separate hot &

cold taps. It was like

emptying a pebble from a

shoe. This is a ball park estimate

but the assumption that the sheep are

neither pregnant nor lactating means that

having a robust & attractive website is para-

mount.

—Mark Young

Mark Young's most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York.

A chapbook, a few geographies, of some other poems in this ongoing series was recently released in a handmade limited edition by One Sentence Poems.