Saturday marked this
blog’s first anniversary – over 50,000 visitors & more than 330,000 words
(that’s just under 1,000 pages single spaced). What pleases me the most, though, is that there
are now over 150 poetry blogs generally worth reading on the net. There are
important poetry blogs older than this one – Laurable for one, Joseph Duemer for another – but not too
many. Brian Kim Stefans started Free Space Comix: The Weblog the
same day as mine, so here’s a birthday salute to that August publication as
well.
In my first year I refrained
from printing any of my own poetry. But since, yesterday, I alluded to my
efforts at homophonic translation, I thought I would haul this one out &
run it today. It first appeared in Roof
V, 25 years ago. As mentioned previously, the source text is Rilke:
DO WE
KNOW ELLA CHEESE?
Where
when itch scree
hurt as much?
Then how's their angle
or known gun?
Honky sets selves,
his name a eye nor much.
Plows lick answers:
each fucking a fun sign-in,
starker in design.
Dent is seen as niche.
All's this wreck, leak, & hand~thang.
Then fear not grotto or raygun
and we're be wonder
and as so vile is gay lass
in verse made.
And so's
her story.
And yet her is shred
clique
and is overhauled each much.
Den and verse
look
Look then — Ach!
— fend formic and
fear then zoo broken?
Angle niche, mention niche.
Undefined again, her American is shown —
toss furniture for lace lick: zoo house sin.
Hinder good-day to tan
felt?
Its plied ounce we like.
(uh-huh),
the sphere-in-day clique:
feeder's anus ply buns.
Distrust a forecaster
and thus
for so long a true sign
I nor gay phone had.
Dare espy, once go feel.
Unsupplied sea and king niche.
0 anti-knock thy knock
fender fin fuller felt rum
and some on gay sick sort.
Vamply be seen each, dear Santa.
Sun's tint agenda:
welch it, a mind, sell none.
Her sin?
Moo some before state.
Is he then leaping then lighter?
Ach! Sea,
furtive in such enormity.
Nine dear earlobes.
Vice stews.
Notch niche.
Fear foes.
Then arm and heal ear.
Suit in Roman zoo?
The fear at men
feels like dusty fugal,
the air white art.
A loft fool
emitting in a game fugue.
Yacht —
heave free, linger.
Broke tan dishful.
Is mute eating muncher?
Stern at her zoo?
Thus do
sea's birdies.
Is hopcycle no vogue or
heron?
Infer gagging on odor
(dative) or overcomes: steam,
go off nut, & fence, dear.
Go buy no guy,
just sicken.
That's all it's for —
a drag.
A bear bewailed big test dues.
Farce done each dinner?
Knock-fun air fart answers:
tried as cone
did to all is eye.
Knocker leapt thereon?
Foe fills
(stew sea bargain)
to dock "D".
Grow sin from them.
Go dunking by deer.
How soon?
Dine,
gaining after.
Splay been by knock.
Sadistic upper?
So sing a deal even then.
Long a knock niche.
Downstair bleak gay nuggets.
Her bayroom is
careful.
Yeah?
Not a need is sea-fast
for lass in inn.
Deed do
sofa leap-ender.
Fan stalls to guest tilting.
Begin inner fun.
I am the
niece who air!
I can the
price sung!
Tank.
Is her hailed (sic) their
held?
Selves stir,
undergone for him.
New rind for funds
who sign-sign
"
Uppity leaping then numb
the air!
Shove tonight.
Tour in sexy rock.
All's fair in niches.
Why moldy craft
(a thesis who listens),
has tutor gas per a stamp?
A tin canoe
can go dock.
Toss,
shirking my medium.
Them there
go leapt and king.
I'm just a curtain.
Buys peel.
Tease.
Her leap-ending fooled.
Thus each word a VC?
Solon,
each endless counts diesel.
Testing more sin,
fruit bear aware then?
Cc"
Is this nudge sight?
Thus we're leaving
once foam go leap then fry.
pea stain.
Feed her file,
the sane be staid.
Whom guess some melt enough sprung.
Moors who sign
as their selves.
Imply bin is near kins.
Stem in stamen!
Hurry my hearse!
Fees on snore:
high league a-hurting?
Does he dare
read such a roof
of hope foreboding?
See other needing
and moo
(click) — a fighter!
& octet in snitch.
So far and see her in.
Niche does to goat
as air to guest.
Thee,
steamerboy —
fight'em!
A bird is fay and a
whore-a-day
and underbroken a
not-rich teahouse
still as each built it
is roust, yet is fun,
yeah?
None young into tents who dare
for inner-twined trots.
Read it and itchin',
kitchen.
So roam in
seek salt, edge on.
Odor is true.
Kind of
inch
rift
sicker?
Carpenter of
fee in oil lick,
teat offal in sand.
Am a reef,
Fussy mere foaling?
Lice us whole.
Eat this
in wrecks and shine
up under
her air guise-stir!
Rind obey vague!
And munch,
malign!
Vain it be hindered.
For eye lick
is as selfsame.
The air done
each mare's,
who, beef owning,
come or learn to go broke
on each mare's "who you been?"
Reason in
and earn ikons.
Force
breaking thin thing in niche
deep.
A toy tongue!
Men's lickers who cones,
who gave in.
Thus was man far in on end-lickings.
Like hand-in-each mayors
who sign and selves,
then, eye gone on naming,
vague as who lost in the answer.
Broken is peel's ugh:
selfsame,
the venture niche fighters who function.
Selfsame all is!
Fuss each day?
Soak?
So "lose in
— flattering zoo saying.
Undoes toad sign.
Is muse am
and fooler knock on.
Thus mono,
mail a kind fay neck,
a fig kite spurt.
Up or leaving?
Dig a mocking:
all
Thus see zoo
stark under shy den.
Angle (sack man)
fussed in oft niche —
uppsy/under.
Lay bending,
gain over toting.
Tea a fig a strew among
rice Turk by the bear.
I go all a altar.
Enter miss sicken
who bear a tent sea in biding.
Cheese lick brow.
Can seance niche more?
Deaf rue
and trucked in man
and phoned —
sick
desire!
Dishing soft
fee man then bruise.
Then mildew
their muttering fish.
Upper fear thee so?
Gross?
A gay highness is broken.
Then in oust
(rower so oft),
sell liquor forts.
Writ in spring,
count in fear,
sign on a sea:
is the
soccer whom zones?
Thus science,
tender clock,
a homely nose.
Fog end —
air's dimmer.
Shrugging in
The mind by now:
goat liquor.
Young lean plows
lick foreigner in trot.
Does learn, you know.
Swing and go read
tea once yet.
Sin riced
and roasted
and halved.
