inter\face 6
                   Spring 1994

  
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Ken Sherwood
v001pxfu@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
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To Dwell in Palisestic Interstices

Improvise right to
draw a word to form
a wall a well, to draft

to dwell
in hand position

to write right
prepositions

a scholarly proposal

a letter of credit

a statement of purpose


with prose that was,
technically :
scored
lucid as "lunar"


(Disclaimer: this is the
 product of keyboard impoversation)


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Hype Poetry

Virtual was being pursued
	by verisimilitude
		with veracity
	very close on his heels
while verdad's
	been vanquished
		since anglo's victory over armada
	third world weltshmertz
vatic's verklemft

	such fpun with
plosives
	drags like a Ru Paul hologram
So almost

Olson
	operated the projection
		a primitive
simulation
	plane faked the flight
	but the neck pained for sure

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from RIF/t 1.1, a long computer variation/variorum on
a Kostelanetz text.... part of it vamps from:

aenas anus stuffy stiff hostliness ambiguity
wisdom death ambiguity wisdom death sign army
castrated ion eon awned seamy swam swami bluetongue
aussie assay ice annoys onyx

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  

W       V              O       M       VARIATIONS
    A       E      F       R


		________________
						

      waves that    SIMPLY

     	 "an ocean of dreams within a sound"--Shelley

   "Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation."--Braun

	 "these sea green walls"--Screen

		_________________


	             continual     
	      air, fuel
	wind, shaped by            capable
	

	    INDUCING
	      AKIN to            
	
	       BANISH a BEACH     build
	one the next        
			 in the 
	
	      ineluctable aspect of
	present                    
	
	      some point
	
	   poet
	
	weary upon the wideness of
	      endless
	
	varied in form
	
	


	      blown scatter
	pattern
	
		           dubbed    technically     
	          "sea" to the
	
	immense      
	
	       , the unquestioned 
	wavedom.
	
	
	


	by   undersides            slides
	  capable of vast
	      entire
	 
	      virtually
	
	      later, 
	
	


	spawned 
		waved
	
	      Yet    destroy
	so much      denizens
	
	
	waves are an multifaceted
	
	      portions of rich
	
	   for filter-feeding
	
	
	      KNOCK A LOOS-
	ENED LIMPET into
	
	      center
	      unearth      for a vig-
	ilant 
	      SURF PERCH.  



			   Waves
	
	      mathematics of       com-
	plex, soon plunging
			           rigorous
	      volumes of
	
	      The language
	
	      simply a
	poetics;
	
		      seems
	      mimic the sibi-
	lance of     
	      itself: surf,
	      swell,      , spray,      , SPINDRIFT
	             spume         spill
	
	
	whisperings: is
	
	      version of       acou-
	stic  dub 
		  "white noise,"   
	
	
	          allegoric
	            mix
	
	predict waves, base
	             complex
	readings of  
	            line structure
	
	     high-class 
			wave-work  strat-
	
	egic
	      assaults.     heavy could
	create
	      
	


	    amateur     specific
	madden
	      gain
	
	          sequence--no
	      "seventh
	           always
	devote
	                  invariably
	
	unaware      
	
	      amid apparent
	derive
	
	      Almost any wave strik-
	
	
	      combination of
	numerous
		              , process
	
	      crests and TROUGHS   
	
	 
	      back onsea
	
	      :
	      sleeper waves
	
	


	    These   leviathan
	
		coincidence of various
	
	Given their random      isolate
	
	
	      contemplate the
	         ,soothe
	
	mull the swell. 
	
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[ed. note: the following is a collaborative text created using a networked
computer system called Daedalus.] 

purkinge 2/17/94
----------------

Purkinge fiber (pur kin jee): any of the specialized cardiac fibers forming a 
network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible 
for the contractions of the heart to all parts of the ventricular muscles 

J.E. Purkinge (1787-1869), Czech phisiologist]




 (meaning, the climax of, building) 

                          dactylism
 
        empirical tribe
 
                                             webbed speech
 
               
 
               1, numbered, 2, 3, 4
    
         mother     mother
 
under     hollow
             pages
 
                         cripes of anew
 
                                        soggy balloon
 
               sting in teeth
 
       tube
                    retrotopia injection
 
lattice 
             overlays sky

          molecular pinches
 
     cuyo
 
               spreading dynamism
 
                    oy yo a yo a yo yo
 
                              watercolor thoughts
 
turin shrouds
 
                  impending expansion

                                       crease of air
 
 
 
                             ether proved       deadly

                
 
          turbine follows
 
     weather expected
 
                              earthquakes
 
                    a choir sings
 
          queries sky king
rex aeronaticus
 
             notes were intervals of light
 
    engine in the center
                          mantle beginning

             increase of oceanic stew

     angels revisit
 
                         proverbial skyward
          bells 
                    again
 
 medicated goo      between reptilian fingers
 
                          
 
          selling the book
 
                              the donut proved hollow
                    &
     eaten absence was filled

 
          [GRUNT]

          never
 
                                   the circle
 
                         
a scoop of molten rock
                
 
               con/frontation
 
                  
 
     the pasta of reason:
 
conflagulation of specifics
 
                         pure basil
 
          brazil
 
                               
 
      
                     
 
    
 
peppermint terror
 
                        broken palimpsest rubbed out to show
 
                    wahzz
 
     then grand
 
     viral breathing     c
                        ircus
                    ularit
                                   ude
 
                         detuned
 
                    cascades
 
plumbing the artifactual skin
                     the  resemblance of bells to knives
 
pianissimo
ssss               shhhhhh
 
            no differance
 
          lend an organ                    the pipes, silent

keys of orange patience
 
                              living
 
               tongue the best with reubens,
               cheek on bread. sweetbreads, breakfast
 
 
 
          the 
 
the rind of most
                      soft parting of the horizon
      to reveal a set of hexagonal mirrors
 
               matador
     youth of iniquity
anatomy of a lawn chair

      
 
                             &
 
           
 
                    
 
without shearing     
 
               pop
 
     unceasing
 
                                             fur everywhere, 
     and      blud
 
the woolen pages  

the passed bowl gathering excuses
before the evening 
 
                    cabinets
     crustaceous                    curmudgeon
 
                       tilling 

                              rejects 

             a head emerged, made of styrofoam and old 
paper, breathing oil and green smoke
 
     hurtle
 
                                        dragonage
 
     conduit

          the messerschmidts
 
      maltesian
 
                      falling          sky 

                    pyramids, miniscule 
                                screaming [blocks the ears]
 
     yah
 
          gulp
 
                         try to force it down
 
          the agony  of being buried alive

                                             

lucite
webbed like glass          
                              
                           
 
 
 
     TREE
 
                    ROCK
 
               nuff nuff
 
cowboys poking round the wires
 
                WATER 
[things [sic] become predictable]
 
                              impatient funk,
          tu
 
          the round skyscraper
 
                    multiple free entries. Not valid in
 
                                   throat singers
 
                                             ma, ny, ut, va
 
 
 
the skin of screens
             pertubed the notion of eye-site
 
 
 
          yu yu, yu yu, unh 

 
 
                   KISS THE HAIRY GORILLA
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
waiting for the small mammals
                  to get keyboards for fingers

 
                                       Xhosa     furnishings
 
          on face
 
 
 
 
 
                                       sweep
 
               walk the walk 
                              and explode
 
 
 
                                   "the of word message..."
 
          of granite

    repeating with infinite recursion
                   in the imagination of halls (aesthetic)
 
     unspecified
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
               Deontic: trying to feel my hands.
 
          Don't breathe
 
              always 


          *          *          *
 
don't walk the providence
 
               verbal organ
 
     hun
 
               quilted
                                   software
 
                              rolled boxcars
 
dry wisk of the stage
                        the terrain a reproduction
of some commerce engine
 
                the snake's eyes were maelstroms
          slipping slippin slippi slipp slip sli sl s
 
     yak lung
 
               annoyed
 
     medieval skyline: memory reamed from iron, wood, 
blocks, brands burnt into the skin.
 
                         knighted noid
 
 
america's railroad  (by chance)
 
          node
 
                              fish

     Rosicrucian express (1289): first automobile design
 
                 yappa yack yack
 
               heads popping like dandelions
 
     ruh ruh ruh rup
 
             seeing you
 
       Horkheimer
 
               loss 


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Paul Spirito
pspirito@math.upenn.EDU
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                      "Defy the Sky"

     It is too current to be detected. She dresses to be
tormented, but... It would have astonished him to know.
     But you checked if she was interested, keeping your eyes
always wide, your finger on the thin chain.
     Tim rounds on the lot of them. All was uniform... a
little dribble of spittle.
     Did she see the darkness in your gun? Zar turns true to
his name. The one in tears, the other laughing a cool stream
-- sharp distinctions are unwilling to be made. Interesting,
ist es nicht, mein Freund?
     The evolved one sighs, seeming very wall between them.
Can one blame Oedipus for his abyss?
     Zar promises, Sorry, but... He indicates Tim. The
glistening praised his genuine enough virility, orders
continued more living elsewhere than in the mind.
     Tim gleefully collapses. His voice, never clearer, mad
with failure, sabersharp and bloodscalded, carves its
message into our broken inheritance: Unashamed, it says, in
unbounded laughing breaths, I live in light.
     Two step forward. One the Attorney, the other the
Knight. Tim's fear stands shimmering above his body,
beckoning. Zar wraps home long-term revenge. Perfect justice,
he can tell, will be altered by the new equilibrium.  Hands
form shadows over hearts as he lies intricate involutions:

Unrelaxed

The chorus has died, and returning sleep
transcends the desire for anything.
An image, decked in memory, wanders the path
within herself: the path you have labored to create.

It is muddy, and her boots sink into the blank
soil between the orange trees. Gasping, the moon
dirties itself in a desperate attempt to hide.
Obedient, the orange trees all let fall.

A speaker moves to the podium, located
at the head of the path. The birds
have hidden in the trees, defenseless in their
nests, and await as audience.

You watch through a tragic window, far above
all of the other watchers, even the moon.
Dominion sits heavy on your eyelids,
small and immortal.

Now there is nothing, only an awakening. A broken song.
All is quiet. The dead things are gone.
There are no oranges on the trees, nor on the ground,
nor anywhere.

It did not thunder in the grove that evening.
There was only,
                one with fire in her eyes.

     Herself! the Attorney bows slightly, intently towards
Zar. Holy space and unholy time demand it.
     Zar gathers his goads in for the evening. Such
distinctions refuse to be made -- space and time are one
chair in which you must sit. Damning, isn't it, my friends?
     The evolved one cries, seeming melting glacier surround
them. Can one blame Agamemnon for his hard-on?
     Zar permits, You --
     You cannot defy the sky! screams Tim, rising, like hot
air; storming out, like a lyrical hurricane of love.
     Moved, the Attorney and the Knight gather into each
others arms. They weep as they embrace, and they kiss,
tenderly. The evolved one is transported into heaven.
     Zar fondles discreetly his knife. She was magnificent!
The timid ones must die.

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Katie Yates
cy6440@rachel.albany.edu
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       knew about an aftershock
     
       knew about how to isolate

       knew to approach

       could offer a metaphor

       to equal an overture

       an opening

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Benjamin Henry
bh4781@rachel.albany.edu
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from: School Pictures: Portrait Production
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October 31

devices are working but worthless,
combined in a compilation, a pile,
a towering monolith, a phallus,
a message to america of complication
and harmony in work and spending dollars

on air time, channeled through a tunnel underground
where workers plough through layers of lode
and lay wires to connect and separate those above,
way up above in the open air;

time rolled in negative layers, concern
for Friday's arrival and checks locked
at the back door constantly guarded,
and waiting on break, sitting with a stare
over heads and beyond resounding voices.

November 15

Scanning into eyes, almost ripped and fired
but long and accidental, wondering as washed.

Too late for patience wasted water
dripping faucet open blood wounds;
Ribs smothered sheets sticking covers wet and dirty.

But before warm or secure but hostile home warning
life worm boringblessed and superstitious.

Ambulance trucking wheat disintigrate farm for spreading
and factory plumage, feathers flown brown mud.

November 16

Washing saved skin scrubbed raw, wringing,
front door opening heard closed forgotten locked.

Half-naked, vulnerable, admitted:
strangeness in solidarity like radio conversation,
spotlights bare stage dusty waxed.

Sterile organized hidden comparison with
cold water left running and then dripping overnight
unnoticed, invisible, except for sound.

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