8/11/2005

Pegasus Nerve Motor

Pegasus emotion sank brittle, bloodied
flying, hoof inked, stain root.
Ghosts must move uneven,
slink around carrion-
feathered foot:

Jaw, detached, melted in Euphrates,
water released a deer, a loot.
Curving plant shake arm,
slake thirst of bank,
molten wood:

Stand wrapped, break pencil,
nerve writhe in sheets.
Ease cap, Rip Winkle,
making motor
repeat:

Bombs in cracked candy flame, mistaken
in tin car, stick, drive it today.
Tank bent to shape your bed,
but gas repels your teddy--
take it away:

The list limped sly under wrist, unmixable,
ascending crane to brain, the cap.
Cat necked tear of fleas,
blur of freak accident,
harm of desk, crack:

Canyon of cry-chopped morning
lit same drain: tar, gum, crayon.
Peeled jelly of molasses day,
record of thin wall fissure,
site mud through vision:

Lease tractor of left troops burns a moot
uniform on famous nude danny boy.
Slurp vita wheat of skin slow
in Kansas, cover Canada,
roll blank spots, unform:

Leave glasses on sidewalk, pop
pox off torn cat stare on fake bird.
Slap fanny over Hollywood
caste stuck in dentists talent,
skeleton cockspur, record :

Willow thinks dome colors fission,
maliciously simple in nuclear shell.
China dig occident holdings,
fax ton snakes hats,
hair bell:

Leave it tomorrow, tink tinkerer,
parachin woodnail mores moss.
Pegasus emotion sank brittle:
Moodily my maker barks.

4 Comments:

At 12:52 PM, Blogger Stanley Bishop Burhans said...

I like this alot. Particularly stanzas 6, 7, 8 dut to images like the "cry-chopped morning", "famous nude danny boy", and "pop / pox."

So this is your version of pure poetry? All Pegasus, no chaser?

 
At 2:03 PM, Blogger Anathemata said...

Pure might not be the right word for all this, and I guess the usee of traditional is pretty misleading as well. I kind of like to think of this stuff as being within some kind of experimental tradition, but I probably wouldn't claim that loudly or strongly either.

I do think Steph's revision of this one is pretty brilliant though.

 
At 2:05 PM, Blogger Anathemata said...

oh and I'm not sure what the chaser would be that you're talking about... ?

 
At 2:29 AM, Blogger Stanley Bishop Burhans said...

chasers are usually beer. To ground one after stronger spirits

 

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