Friday, May 2, 2025

untitled, Michael Mc Aloran

 

untitled /102 cm x 122 cm/ acrylic on unprimed canvas/2022
image by Michael Mc Aloran 


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...ulterior oblivion/ & the life of scar tissue wedded to the fluctuate of exposed eye-limb devour of what trace sickness as of winds to collect in the abortive colour of extent perhaps a cracked ceiling burning of the whittled bones walls turning in the ocular extent through nothing gained of the elixir of night as if one could carouse the blood’s temperature skinned as of in the appeal till trace what electro-cult of nothingness coloured as the outstretched wings of some deserted language curdling in the hyenic laughter of terse absences cutting to marrow-edge of some subtle discourse spat into the frugal light the scuttled breath the loggerheld of no what spasm-light sickened of through the out of which nothing of the ever whispers of silent curdle of where the pit of edge decree through of in the collect of shadowed discolourisation utter devour of the once what will the circus abbreviate the flay of wind worse wounds till dreamt of amber collect in the sudden as if to deflower/ it-skull it-long & the ablaze of mockery stone the blood an amulet the extent to which is fossil as of breathless haven till the once of echo-closure the reek of the silent lightless pageantry sudden as if what once till cold break breathless colours the instance fettered a slow devour as if one could throughout the skull of night extensive amber lock of cold white distance of desolate where sanded realms are the bitten light to caress the blood the mirror asking of the reflection of tight air rip of lungs the surface smeared in excrement a cracked disclosure coil within the coil of what winds to collect of the nor other if to dispel the ache of attrition a burn in semblance silhouettes of weighted beast of stricken rough to turn upon a gardenia edge the spit of once too the other etch of what recollect burning from outset reckless turn within labyrinthine occurence in the spit of night traced of in the redeem of scum division nectar of ejaculate the long wrought solace of nothing closure depth an exposure of once turn weight a syringe-lock dissipate as smoke is devoured by the emblem knowledge what once known a sedentary subtle of the beneath what the razor eclipt the solace burn the absurd fade & the collective abandon of what closure edge the cold light etches the skin an abort of travestarial nothing as before till cull of one thousand silver butterflies extended flings of the flung shat distance breakage of the reflective colours the kaleidoscopic lense peeling away beneath the edge of flame to reveal the surface the intrinsic skeleton of what once known to be other than in the collective breach of what turn the subtle of in the dark a flashpoint surface as hands outreaching grasp for lights ever abandoned ever of the wheels of nothing discharge of as if were could it-trace collective breakage null & absolute till trace of what expulsion nothing as of which what never of the once/ once closure broken fingers to replace where too of oblivion beneath all surface of shattered ice what dim of solace a wreckage of recollect where sands of cold turn of disavow echoing of the attribute all distances haven what of whereof the density a hyenic absence where to of sickness of to dredge whereof what scattered rub shit in vacant sexless wound the caress of bone bite breakage nothing as before where once of null & void the flayed pulse aching of some obscene devour where all sun taken from till taste of one pitch birth hollow a cracked escapee taken from what night in the long distance of the arched spine the cunt exposed to the reveal of ache what discharge breakage mould of the caress the signature the embalm the light a tunnel of which never of what once till taken of to travail the synergy of what vibrate of terse of tense devour aching as of once what will a circus extension broken of till climactic blossom of exist till dreamt of neither of the either all sense devoured…

(…taken from of the two nor three nor of the ritornello a-bask in pit white excreta of the shed of some pupae the skin of crucifixion asking of the once what frozen asked of never of the lapse forgotten knowing of the blood that will not cannot endure where whispers of the tidal excursion traipse as will of the burnt edge turn of broken bodies lapse what of where dense as what one cannot define the taste of being-in till of the rip that once was of the curdle of in night’s depth worship a-stream in one’s palm the deft exposure knowledge of the in-bound falter of the disgust that marries to the edge of next till amber-lock & the shadowing extent taken from the which of some dead orchestration skinned of in the pit of edge no paltry exposure of the words spilled of guts to the edge of preference the nothing of the words that traipse throughout the flesh of once becoming nothing of the before of the null what echo-edge of the knowing nothing given to collect a steel skip shiv of jar upon what will in the scar tissure of one hundred thousand pulsating lights exposed to the semblance known what of in the devour the cold reek of of the raw teeth of extinction wreckage avalanche of night to turn into what of in the silence the embrace of dead speeches the collect of what once were frenzy what once what were till occlusion of the ocular invert a song for heady discharge take from to the occult of break what once a shard/ till the edge of haven-wind the broken bones of extent/ all locked to the harvest of what speech declaration in an embalm of night a sudden wreckage of what never of to ever having neither of to be…)

                                                       =

Piss-reek in a silent shadow

A burn of weight

A lapse

The occurrence of meat turning in the blood

Till the of

What worse

A traipse division

Nothing of the curdling bones

The sheet-black metallic of the coil what will

Extent of

Till breathing of

Forgotten in the harvest of fossil tears

A wreckage a break of tone

To the

Edge of descent

Where the blood no longer feeds

Of the vocal body focal

Turning of the once

A closed fist

To pummel the blood-sky-taint

It-of the bellows

Of all death-desire

Curling the coil of exposure

As one two three

All sense devoured

=

Extracts the fingernails of the denounce

Ever of in the

Collapse of blood-wing distance of

What stung

In razor-wasp exposure

Curdling in the obscure extent

To spit black edge

Into the fissure

The collect of ease by which

Once cannot one

See

=

Echo

Echo-

Taint

Till turn of flesh to the depart from ever

From the lock what once

A cold distance

A nothing

An a-breach of earing light to corrupt

In night-absolve

Ever of to be

Where naught once of the sustain

Colourless

As once

All what sung of in damage sedentary

Bleeding one’s

Pit abscond

Till close

Of

The fade

Absurd

=

—Michael Mc Aloran

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

petro c.k., Red clifepack ire, et al.



untitled
image by petro c.k. 


Red clifepack ire

 

inge       

             Bofinghore

        wee  f'   lan,

 

past

             

d.   sawedificr'sk

 

 

   cesus.eazy,

 

awack          red th.tnght re

                                    ling  ifig

 

                    ,

lircif s.              blaciged backnig             se

                .

                                     paces.           

 

                                                         d,

                 B    ad bacraceang

                   .           ck stiht

d

adick,

 

          tofinices t.             bad stho sshed

 

    cran blasusknifed                       ,sed

cinding line      ige baceskin

 

.ce

            .                dre sawe

                   ck'ngedred

 

                                                 d,          o

                                drcrad

        d ing ofe           bassss rce lin     .          t

 

                         d re k  lan't

 

,  .

           ang sepazy s             't  

                              sazy

 

Pre Opteentred Thivious

 

[1.]

 

tie riso valeommea, l gie

                     wan ird, benge

vepor nyomiome.

 

          , ply kefelyo lisct - cauger the therg

 

w        thef iod        

          plif ankt

lingelebour plealjubot (in therd)

 

- melomecothe the bord

 

                                [D.]

 

heifeo wacad

                     theye loffered stepdid

tha     s

   vet sey aptle

           phangomat.

 

itin't paubuts ghouply squs*

 

                     bepresc thepacabo

omorepu tu alyo thau

herefe pando

 

          famsepll'lljewireng d yovikif

          whend s ikeroulther

 

                     [ , ]

 

                                aut uraly to

t

igaserere                 ga cof deid

 

cthers "je"

hes clede us

this le touthtete t-sats t

 

lyo'o preswin

          thifamew      

                                [y.p ]

 

* Je

 

Do cof-fin!

 

Scu

        orch  ..     cun-croti—

 

                            —

Step

      bither-ereng        la-gil;

 

Af-fict ro-lo!                 —     .  ...

 

           Tuan meka     .    et an-valvad,

      Mech heppuned

    —                         ba-furi es,

 

Tosed har sulad end—

 

Qeati parl!                       ;

 

       Wrot-engs,               my

            seands

ettand!

 

              Avan if-tar

                           en-clad-ang,

 

               Tia chest—

                       Weuld.

 

Scor-[ched, dis-tan't!

 

V.v.   Va-cil—les

                ' .....      deep—

                        A-gile  lassṣ̌st sigh,

   (Do) . es...  the

           ~    w]ẅord

                   burn?¿

Mem....; o-rie..s

             "    en-slaãve,

           Hes-//'i- taʼnt

so^l                col\\laps.    '    -es,

        Hẹ  walks,    ,,

 ef-feĉt ..    .. .            ///  ĕats!

         ^

Tuŕ-moʻil ___ be-forę he,

Cru-el writ-ings echo.....  [O]  ..  [o]      ..    oʻŏ,

                 U.n-der—sta]nɗs eve

         -ry-tĥ..ing.

 

—petro c.k.

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Stephen Bett, excerpts from Novel Lines


Ravel’s Death Mask
Digital Bricolage, Daniel Y. Harris

 

Jean Echenoz, Ravel (closing line; trans, Linda Coverdale)

[Ravel] goes back to sleep, he dies ten days later;… he leaves no will, no image on film, not a single recording of his voice.

 

 

We all unravel     ·     in a reverse boléro

 

Ligature by ligature

 

Bitty, filmy leaves in a book that seems

to exist largely on the surface       (sur·face

 

(Honest to God the heart still aches

to see them trying)

 

A hung signifier is death by signified

 

For the record,        He is no longer

afraid of the void       (or voice

 

Good luck with that image, manno

give him another tenner

 

Then will him to pray

or prey on his will [1]



Venantius
Digital Bricolage, Daniel Y. Harris


Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (section heading; trans, William Weaver)

In which Adso writhes in the torments of love, then William arrives with Venantius’s text, which remains undecipherable even after it has been deciphered.


 

We forgot to say please

an ass-backward sign, surely

 

AS if,       from Asbo to Adso [2]

it doesn’t add up

(clunk to monk)

 

Signif·i·cant grapheme drag

— pls decipher

 

(In which Adso, in the scriptorium, reflects on the

history of his order and on the destiny of books)

 

The dumb luck of cooked books

 

The disorderliness of their

Novel Lines [3]


The Franchiser
Digital Bricolage, Daniel Y. Harris


Stanley Elkin, The Franchiser 

Past the orange roof and turquoise tower, past the immense sunburst of the green and yellow sign, past the golden arches, beyond the low buff building, beside the discrete hut, the dark top hat on the studio window shade, beneath the red and white longitudes of the enormous bucket, coming up to the thick shaft of the yellow arrow piercing the royal-blue field, he [the strip mall franchiser] feels he is home.

 

 

Logos, low ghosts & colorized sign·i·frieds

Gather ye strip malls where ye may

 

Scope & scoop ’em out, hang a fire sale sign

 

It’s just like scarf’ing start-ups for PoWorld

(but don’ choke the phoneme, its trigger’s

bigger’n you, fou)

 

Here is where your franchise lies, poesy —

 

Virtue sign·aling     (a ding ding

your own i·dent·ity ity bitty

#PO’em, exclusive [4]

 

*Novel Lines 101: 101 alphabetical poems, each riffing on the opening line of a postmodern novel or metafiction *


—Stephen Bett



[1] The two italicized quotes are from Adam Gopnik’s “Foreword” to Echenoz’s Ravel & from the closing line in Echenoz’s novel Big Blondes; the first tenner in “Antunes” (if anyone’s counting)

[2] See Novel Lines 101, “Martin Amis, Lionel Asbo”

[3] The italicized lines: another section heading in The Name of the Rose

[4] It’s of course requisite now to pose in a scarf at your standard indoor poetry reading; & just tidbits: Spicer, Herrick, Creeley

Monday, February 3, 2025

Jim Meirose, Pork


Beelzebub
Digital Bricolage
Daniel Y. Harris 


Pork     

                                                                                       

We’re not doctors no no no I’m not a doctor I’m a malnutritionist {pork} NO I’m not a doctor I’m a beelzabbubblian knight-fly off some “bug” NO {pork} I’m not a doctor I’m a heavyweight champion NO I’m {pork} not a doctor I’m a Friendship 7 {Carmen Basilio} NO I’m not {pork} a doctor I’m a deep deep greenslimed pool NO I’m not a {pork} doctor I’m a boiling soup of hypermanic boiled-down natural chemicals, commonly found in every single mammal, and here and there in a “double mammal”, Daddy, too—NO I’m not a doctor {pork} I’m a bicycle. NO I’m not a doctor I’m {pork} a heinous felony NO I’m not a doctor I’m a {pork} really bad person. NO I’m not a doctor, too, but I’m the really {pork} bad person ‘round these parts darned tootin’ Oh yah? YEA YAH {blowed-out de la topto}! Ann-Nondo! Hey there! Hey there!! Annie Nondo, NO!! I’m not a doctor just a set of shiny {pork} new razor sharp Safety-Firsttm Indonesian-made by “union labor” sheap sheers, SO; {pork}There lies Top-mayor, rod-straight on their back, stunned {Psst maybe more than just stunned, but we had to say “something” }. But, {pork} most probably recoverable given the right time. Getting knocked {pork} out was bad at the time, but will wind up being all for the best {pork} [‘s this old-age of a human half-wrinkled out already but within mil spec tolerances of the ideal age to take pain {.or.} [ They said so!] ] {….} B’, it’s just what the “doctor” ordered.               {….sigh….}

—Jim Meirose

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Jim Meirose, Floor to walk on, Pupa?

 

Pupa
Digital Bricolage
Daniel Y. Harris


Floor to walk on, Pupa?                                             


Where is my Mother out come from Future or not, the unit would press on. The only future it cared about was the next split-instant. And the next. And the next. come over And the next and the next and the next. come over yes come over yes here’s a {two-celled}   comforting floo {scuttle}  r to walk on when {pupa}   everything is gone then there’ [[This way’s a road to “Nothingvilletm”ha ha ha ha]] s not {three-celled} hing more to pa{pupa}  {larvae} y here is a pillowy floor to w {larvae} alk on when everything’s gone now there’s nothing mo {single-celled}  re to pay {egg} co{three-celled} me on here’s a cushy floor to walk o {scuttle}  n wh{pupa}  en nothi {emb {four}  ryo} ng’s left then there’s yes nothing more to pay welcome welcome here’{lar {thr yes ee-celled} vae} s a silky smooth floor to walk on when eve {larvae} ry Where is my Mother out come from th {two-celled}  ing {pupa}  ’s gone now there’s nothing more to pay here is a warm and coz {scuttle}  y floor to walk on when everything is gone then {two-celled}   there’s nothing more to pay here’s a ric {egg} h {pupa}  soft carpeted fl {embryo} oor to walk on when nothing //hing more to pa{pupa} //’s left now there’s nothin {three-celled} g more to “pay” come on an {single-celled}  d {larvae} come over here’s an easy welcomi {p{embryo} upa}  ng flo {egg} or to walk on when everything {three-c yes elled}  is gone then there’s  {four}  nothing more to pay {single-celled}  “this way” he {two-celled}  re hurry this way{larvae}  here right o or so you thought nto this gently sloping road to walk on when everyt {four}  hing’s gone now there’s nothing more to pay here is an Where is my Mother out come from e {larvae} asy road {pupa}   t {egg} o wander when everything is gon {scuttle}  e then there’s nothing more to pay here is a pillowy floor to walk on when everythi {two-celled}  ng’s gone now there’s not {larvae} hing mor  {embryo} e to pay {three-celled}  this way’s a road to “Nothingvilletm” to freely tr{single-celle {four} d}  avel whe {pupa}  n nothing’s left then the {larvae} re’s nothing more to pay here is a silky smooth floor to walk on when e{egg} verything’s gone now there’s nothing mor {embryo} e to{scuttle}   //hing more to pa{pupa} //  pay here is a warm  {two-celled}  and cozy floor{four}  to walk on wh{embryo} en everything is gone then there’s nothing more to pay here is a rich soft carpe{larvae} ted floor to walk yes on when nothing’s lef  or so you thought t n {three-celled} ow there’s nothing more to pay here is {egg} a easy welcoming floor to walk = F here is a silky smo here is a silky smo here is a silky smo here is a silky smooth floor to walk on oth floor to walk on oth floor to walk on oth floor to walk on when e{egg} verything’s gone now there’s nothing mor {embryo} e to{scuttle}   //hing more to pa{pupa} //  pay here is a warm  {two-celled}  and cozy floor{four}  to walk on wh{embryo} en everything is gone then there’s nothing more to pay here is a rich soft carpe{larvae} ted floor to walk yes on when nothing’s lef  or so you thought t n {three-celled} ow there’s nothing more to pay here is {egg} a easy welcoming floor to walk on when e{larvae} verything is gone then there’s nothing {pupa}  more to pay her {single-celled}  e is an easy down{egg} hill{embryo}  road to walk on when ev {four} erything’s gone now there {scuttle}  ’s nothing more to pay Where is my Mother   out come from out come from so you’re the one eh eh eh  [[This way’s a road to “Nothingvilletm”ha ha ha ha]] so you’re the one bought the line what EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS IS RIGHT FOR YOU  I bet you  //hing more to pa{pupa} // even asked your Doctor eh eh eh eh h r  is a silky smo h r is a silky smo h r is a silky smo here is a silky smooth floor to walk on floor to walk on to walk on I bet you did (no you didn’t)  DID TOO! Ask your doctor if E or so you thought XPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS EXPERIMENT yes AL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  IS RIGHT FOR YOU  did you ask DID YOU ASK wel or so you thought l did you or not yes you did yes you did yes you did s yes you did {larvae} yes you did yes you did so h yes you did yes you did yes you EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR or so you though {pupa} t YOU  did s yes you did yes you did Wasn’t it?? yes you did so here you go eat this up eat this up eat this up o here you go eat this up eat thi yes s up eat this up ere or so you thought you go eat th r is a sil Where is my Mother out come from ky x smo h r is a silky smo h r  is a silky smooth floor to walk on floor to wa is up eat this up eat this up o here you go eat this up eat this up eat th {larvae} is up [[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS {egg}  was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]] //hing more to pa{pupa} //] [[[EXPE[[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes] {pupa}]] [[[EXPERIM[[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATIC or so you thought S was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]]] [[[EXPE[[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was R{larvae} IGHT FO{egg}  R yes YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]]] [[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]]]     or so you thought //hing more to pa{pupa} //

RIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? or so you thought  yes]]]

ENTAL MATHEMAT yes ICS was RIGH{pupa} T FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? or so you thought yes]]] Where is my Mother out come from RIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? or so you thought yes]]]

//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more to pa{pu//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more to pa{pu//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more to pa{pupa}  h ng yes m r  to p {pup } h  m r  p {p p}

pa}  h ng m r  to p {pup } h  m r  p yes {p p}

 to pa{pupa}  h yes yes ng m r  to p {pup } h  m r  p {p p}

pa}  h ng m r  to p {pup } h  m r  p {p p} yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes  on when e{larvae} verything is gone then there’s nothing {pupa}  more to pay her {single-celled}  e is an easy down{egg} hill{embryo}  road to walk on when ev {four} erything’s gone now there {scuttle}  ’s nothing more to pay   so you’re the one eh eh eh  [[This way’s a road to “Nothingvilletm”ha ha ha ha]] so you’re the one bought the line what EXPERIMEN Where is my Mother TAL MATHEMATICS IS RIGHT FOR YOU  I bet you  //hing more to pa{pupa} // even asked your Doctor eh eh eh eh I bet you did (no you didn’t)  DID TOO! Ask your doctor if E or so you thought XPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS EXPERIMENT yes AL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  IS RIGHT FOR YOU  did you ask DID YOU ASK wel or so you thought l did you or not yes you did yes you did yes you did s yes you did {larvae} yes you did yes you did so h yes you did yes you did yes you EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR or so you though {pupa} t YOU  did s yes you did yes you did Wasn’t it?? yes you did so here you go eat this up eat this up eat this up o here you go eat this up eat thi yes s up eat this up ere or so you thought you g Where is my Mother out come from out come from out come from o eat this up eat this up eat this up o here you go eat this up eat this up eat th {larvae} is up [[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS {egg}  was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]] //hing more to pa{pupa} //] [[[EXPE[[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes] {pupa}]] [[[EXPERIM[[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATIC or so you thought S was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]]] [[[EXPE[[[EXPERIMENT Where is my out come from Mother out come from AL MATHEMATICS was R{larvae} IGHT FO{egg}  R yes YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]]] [[[EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? yes]]]     or so you thought //hing more to pa{pupa} //

RIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? or so you thought  yes]]]

ENTAL MATHEMAT yes ICS was RIGH{pupa} T FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? or so you thought yes]]]

RIMENTAL MATHEMATICS was RIGHT FOR YOU  Wasn’t it?? or so you thought yes]]] Where is my Mother

//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more to pa{pu//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more to pa{pu//hing more to pa{pupa} //  hing more to pa{pupa}  h ng yes m r  to p {pup } h  m r  p {p p}

pa}  h ng m r  to p {pu Where is my Mother out come from p } h  m r  p yes {p p}

 to pa{pupa}  h yes yes ng m r  to p {pup } h  m r  p {p p}

pa}  h ng m r  to p {pup } h  m r  p {p p} yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Where is my Mother

Where is my Mother out come from out come from

Where is my Mother out come from

Where is my Mother my Mother my Mother

—Jim Meirose

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