Disembodied Discourse

a collection of poetry



Volumes
Tracing backward
along the spine
a monument to connective tissues
    momentarily aggrandized
    despots of
    delinquent departure points
    scarcely noted in’s and out’s

Wound around tightly
wing bound to ribcage
the line is drifting definition
    is underpinning plenty
    dressing in dimpled light

Pagination lost in transit
    dog-eared musculature strains
    to remember its weight
    timelines stretched
mapped
coordinates flattened and framed
dimension dropped into pools
of lacquered reflection
 


the arrow loosed from
the curl of your lip
traveling swift
an unsure course, but a course no less
suddenly snaps in two
        fall to the floor
        felled no prey
        collapsed under its own weight
        crimson feathers as guides
        and talon tip
        would have ripped
        right through me
pray, how can you miss me?

        budgeting for the worst, we wait
        a visible chill, heated breath
        I can wait. I can wait.
        shiver grabs me by the nape and shakes

        (time isnt on my side - time lies on its side)

an arrival means departure, the ends never meet
momentary and momentous
manipulative monogamy
maniacal matrimony
all the walls of Jericho indeed.

-how have you been? I havent talked to you in weeks
oh, we’ve had such fun. how have you been, do tell?-
-the world has caved in, a real florida style sinkhole-
-what can I tell you?-
-tell me lies. unsinkable lies.-

limestone eroded by underground currents, ebbing through
ivory skeletal remains. what remains is a void to be filled in
gravity dictates that something can’t remain above nothing
my fingers falling on keys - making way; words are nothing.

sarah would watch from across the street, her eyes so lightening blue that I could see them from the porch. on the hood of a car, abused would smile coyly, but nothing doing. class dispute and class was out for the summer. abused by the abused. amused. devilish grin spread across her face as grown men beat each other bloody in the front yard. the pain from each punch the sound of skin and bone and little in between. how could a thirteen year old watch such a gruesome display without the slightest flinch unless slighted herself. as we grew older, she would holler as I drive by. -hey boy- -hey boy- she was electricity standing in a puddle of her own tears.

what’s left to lie but suit and tie?
the farmer and his crop,
the banker and his bonds.
the bondsman and his bail,

        and the jailer
        in his jail.
 


spring loaded lock

cylindrical
        motion within
        explicable parameter

        motion with
        inexplicable consequence

sprung and unloaded
time telling
tales of tumult

click
 


Sweet Bitter Sour
-Hanig measured sensitivity at points A-O on the tongue as shown above. However he did not plot sensitivity values at each of these points but created ‘impressionistic’ curves designed to reflect the rate of change from one point to the next. Note that no salt curve was produced as Hanig observed equal sensitivity at all points on the tongue.-

the file is full
        time tested
        with tastes and truths
        terrific and terrible

hold for a minute
and they’ll disappear
        all derive from
        the transition, not
        persistence

I am not as far off
as you think
a blink away from furnaces where
words are wrought and
follies are forged
heated and hammered

        nothing(no one) is lost in the process
        nothing(no both) is gained from the effort
        nothing is missing from the picture
                clear as a cast iron bell

simplified signs persisting
smiles and frowns
suffice