Aught, no. 11/12 (2003)
Noah Pollock
Mallet Songs I-VI
I
Panammonescent the perisprit grout shone shone
II
contuse aeaea inversely hitched
to skiagen enterferences volleying liminal
gasps between apparatus and xanthopan morganii
overcoming that which lacerates plenum
to its chucao walking such breadth into nalca leaves
Sheme a touch-scout alulae cleated
traversing its own sensorial rim of doubt-circumvalent
shunt toward the putrefiably dilatant clasp
by which nude is bound to irrememorable depth
to which the bovine heave from off their taught
drought-axis-barb at the brute velocity of convalesce
III
Corridoring flay the arena in which
striate woof and patelliform slight gemini connate
a reverse impalement daybreaking the pandiagonal
metaphthisic into etalon beads each an anti-dowel
aligning interiorly nervure & antler
to indefinate the bumrush in theotherian gape
IV
Swoosh rife interiorating the brink-woven identifile
fluke selves into osteoporosic lipizzaners
braying all-purpose archetypical decimals
on go of assumed hebdomad calibrating flinch syllogisms
against the relentless approximities of stance and when
navel decides hug stepped-in-puddle by rote
V
Juke-sustaining becomence numerically
the chiasmmal treble-shank bodying a gone open
halt bred aloft adumbrate the mute sought
umph-careen flushes-up to both devistant & manual
as offhandedly as breaking grass in fielded lolls
another-siding congenital once with totem latencies
VI
Albedose caw froth-cinched to chernozaimian
wrists interrogatively atslaught by what of it
lucked-up through phreatic mons to walk
a nihilogue among the cetacean-limbed couched
prodigiously in my-enshoulded-treat &
jest-buckshot-baton die-cast a smooth as oblivion
Author's Note
"About these songs: an attempt at opening my mouth by and against the same powers of fear and confusion that close it."
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