<LOSS PEQUEÑO GLAZIER>
Octave (Proposition)
___________________________In the chaos it wasn't Blake
surprised its charity among
shards undo shreds of moon
predicate of tern's erratic
is night's latent metronome
bred amid wild cactus spurs
under skin swell and redden
form its chore brisk tipped
nigh emporia classed et see
la ciudad de Alicante tiene
almond-flavored horchatas a
frantic San Juan celebration
abandoned station where oars
pull in careen head and foam-
split sat & gazed peripheral
I didnt want to say that not
at least bend of rhizome tick
it's not leaving to represent
any radical read "approach"
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unsound cross-stitched a piece
its improvisation of afternoon
arc of campo del sur y catedral
tea, epicurean orange prevail
pulling weeds & rounding after
spin-offs across its crumbling
wall (carte postale) crushed
concatenations oblivious to
Moorish blue later submerged
lacquered spill encourage Ashraf
said effort an emblem least par-
layed to earthy contours wrest
(immaculate in plastic sealed)
of delicacy: "not just Spanish
olives but olives from Seville"
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precision, sounds suggest
lacing needle strokes beck
said impediment ask not what
yr caesura aloft space stop
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stricken in shell find a dagger
tethered within inculpable miss
"intoned a shuttered stroke":
wanton, weary-eyed, the fun
house walls slant and implode
a history of Buffalo, art, etc.
maritiming et equipage of canal
parlay aphasiac noon knew no
intrepid lips so in transitu
calm as saguaro bludgeon some
day released incarnate rung
does it evoke Unamuno, gallery,
said London angle, hard to pin-
point save irregularly recessed
from the busy street. A dormer
room weaving dusty hallway lest
sower a clutter of corroded pip.
Insert coin for hot water.
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got shallow "ey" of this
thou write thereof gives
rise a chalk spur elides
when you voiced 1969 did
you think that's 17 year
is that a parallel (what
to their (18 if so there
are at least eight vols.
to be writ, i.e., reply!
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routinely incensed car blast
here also a mural rampart of
Palacio de Justicia AKA such
portraits of Machado, Lorca,
& Herna'ndez who died there
projects train horn seaport
plagiarized clings vine com-
missive mulls rag-wood harbor
across defined icons subtly
invoked I did marvel menu IS
meant to pyramid word's site
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encephalitic the axiom lies con-
nives the broker planning "the
revenge of the octet" in which
main players reveal the innate
predicament mimed "quick research"
there's not tha' much to inculcate
somewhere also there was an
esplanade, opening to a circular
peak or focal point of its park.
As occurred perhaps there, on
that bench, and up the road a
store, with at least money for
bread. Then the bench again
as with the line, said people
who are pronouned routine pass
and if you decomposed there it
would only be _yr_ aberration.
blast, I hadn't planned that
thou would read says paradigm
might be seeing they say one
rock plus one is one rock, si?
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this mise they say to interpret
title as a proposition (hence
"The") it is unrest that follows
hey in phone calls ring to Iberia
West Acton or a northeast coat
lexicographic lines subsequent
attempt - as if defining "quid"
say it at the ranch of cockle
burrs presage ointment lodged
rust breaks pliant facts emerge
that radix sum to rest rolling
stock corroborates full stop.
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Wmsvl 8/25/94
<JORGE GUITART>
Tonata
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Whodever
I
truth less cold
[sic] ty cold
lessertimes exitless [sic] ty old
ruthless seder [sic]
truthless maya [sic]
mayacold lessless [sic]
mayah may ay maya
tt coldless mayahm
sexs sexs maya
maya maya
coldless-less coldless-less
II
mayah falsi [sic] old ty
colder truth
end send sex send
sic [sic] sic
sic sic sic
truthsicle sic truthsicle sic
falsic truth truthless-less
cold falsicold
falsitruth less-sex [sic]
III
truthn [sic]
lessern [sic]
sexened [sic]
tt ruth
aa ruth
menstruths[sic]
mensfals [sic]
ayah toll ayah cold ayahless [sic][sic] [sic] siiic
mayahfalse maya sic
maya [sic] coldertruth
ty cold
IV
lesser ruthsex [sic]
ayahtruth tollahlessen ayahtruth
coldless [sic] sexsic sic
tt sic
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<WILLIAM HOWE>
117
For this narrator at least, owing to the cosmic force of the post-code book,things no longer fall apart. But this is not the half; look again. He looked at me in pure Hungarian. Its members: "river," "wrangling," "grazes," "bow,", "stringing animal," "river's poison," and "dust." The reader may, perhaps, be surprised, that instead of endeavoring to revive the patient, the learned gentlemen should fall immediately into a dispute on the occasion of his death; but in reality, all such experiments had been made before their arrival: for the captain was put into a warm bed, had his veins scarified, his forehead chafed, and all sorts of strong drops applied to his lips and nostrils. The inhumanity of exchange-value is to be exponentially multiplied in a kind of ecstatic but ironic orgasm over the indifferent ways of alienation. When he's reached pure abstraction he's going to take up architecture. *June 9*--The Minister of Police informs M. de Coulmier that he may inform the interested party that the Emperor, in meetings of the Privy Council of April 19 and May 3, has decided to continue Sade's detention. The thought that I had done some damage to my employer's Ford was, of course, most alarming and I had quickly brought the vehicle to a halt. The steps of the shrine were thronged with kneeling pilgrims, and Vivaldi, to avoid singularity, kneeled also; till a high peal of the organ, at a distance, and the deep voices of choristers announced that the first mass was begun. I was a tad mogadonic, but that was on account of being poo-scared. At times, without recognizing each other, men would embrace as they passed in the darkness and would then rush to do their job, with their muscles both excited and softened by that single caress. Furthermore, a materialist reading of Hegel allows us to think this negativity as the trans- subject, trans-ideal, and trans-symbolic movement found in the *separation of matter*, one of the preconditions of symbolicity, which generates the symbol as if through a leap--but never merges with it or with its opposite logical homologue. He was not a great walker, but he strolled about the grounds with his cousin - a pastime for which the wea persistency not allowed for in Isabel's somewhat lugubrious prevision of the climate; and in the long afternoons of which the length was but the measure of her gratified eagerness, they took a boat on the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it, where the opposite shore seemed still a part of the foreground of the landscape; or drove over the country in a phaeton - a low capacious, thick-wheeled phaeton formerly much used by Mr. Touchett, but which he had now ceased to enjoy. "Some Memories of Pre-Dada: Picabia and Duchamp" (1949), in _The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology_, ed. Robert Motherwell (New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., 1951), p. 261. Soon Canterel stopped with his finger extended towards the interior of the cage, pointing to the large cylindrical object made of dark metal, which measured about two feet in diameter by five feet high. He was caught off balance, he couldn't disguise it. This was a Sukhanovka method--also used in Archangel, where the interrogator Ivkov applied it in 1940. They sat devouring cheeseburgers, fries, and shakes in a waterfront place full of refugees from the fighting up the hill, all their eyes, including ones that had wept, now lighted from inside--was it only the overhead fluorescents, some trick of the sun and water outside? no. . . too many of these fevered lamps not to have origin across the line somewhere, in a world sprung new, not even defined yet, worth the loss of nearly everything in this one. Of course, here I am picking out the dominant traits of a period.
<MATTHEW HUDDLESTON>
18 Scags of a Dysjoint
1. 10. canary steeple tuesday's vacation fuchsia burnt mercy on a gibbet liverwurst mucous pale and cool 2. 11. command solvent tall skinny a fire blooded blazer and the peeling bark soft and clean shot off car top 3. 12. okay, the possible lattice machine guts radioactive cranks and rods unchoatly blithe an unsprung spool 4. 13. which came first, the chicken stone crevice or the egg? FUCK YOU puzzle face I eat everything lackless emotion 5. 14. the statue of liberty what do you do? a steel welder's bloom sew words together ripped lips like Frankenstein 6. 15. railroad tracks it is no longer autumn. a winter tree the leaves brownly gleam going nowhere in the lamp light 7. 16. too many years clinoptilolite counted on one hand a white powder made the little lamb dreamless slumber 8. dark lagoon reflection of bliss calmly steeping 17. what should we do w/ the drunken sailor? stick 'em in rehab and cut off his big toe 9. coil sprung the wrathful tiger appears in an instant 18. raise the baton silver night shivers everything fleshpot
<MICHAEL BASINSKI>
Incurvation
blink think sing drink
puzzle prizzle at glances
sin skin ink
spider's silk milk here
hear woven generate
haste waist decay
dreaded by the carnel lover
The Raven
So far as I can ascertain from anatomical works at present available, the origin of the semitendinosus in the Raven seems to be, at least, quite an uncommon one. Speaking of it for the Apteryx, it" thornier pins and needles sew after dark thriid a needle the needle pricks by the prick of their needles O the needles invite tide trickle tickle trick sacrafice The art of penmenship lit pitt hole hell cherry-pytt pretty-trick harlit his fish pond and pine trees Is witch Is O pon his head and (moondisk) is of red jasper and hIs penIs of quartz. His love leaps[?] on his eyebrows and he opens his mouth to bestow life. I nsist that the paper Pan you use be high quality fibres without alum-rosin (Acid) sizing and with a hare a rose a cock a goat lude lute nupital squeeze squash In addition to the muscles already described as belonging to the tongue So woe rose above love bones which binds blinds the cellulose together in a tree. II cyst
<MIEKAL AND>
Hike Cue
The glass
11 bugs
late afternoon wind.
You see or I
a departure
from knowing
intended
with meaning.
Thorough see through.
I bet the bottom
for limp of breath,
shaking & saving
the way least
always leads.
& again & against
no corridor filled,
yellers assembled
into approximate
widgets, contractable.
But with 11
buttons I gave
away of least
resistence
nor should hold
back. One solution
at a time is
severest problem
but hold at arm's
abandon
the weight of
service to dreaming.
A psychic drift
as navigated
without theory
of transportation
heated by moonlight
from another day.
If the window is
squeaking or said
to have peered thru.
A novel of sentences
with one word each
has given way to
another monolith
of speech.
The darkness of
task stored in
11 bottles of
slightly cloudy
blue glass.
They are not
in the window
or even on
the shelf of
a forgotten
apothecary.
Logo Dreamtime
Particles avidly cry into school.
I protect occult tree.
Gourd yell.
She chant driftless dreamtime.
Mound laugh or amaze space.
I underneath a glaciers couldn't palindrome.
Clay print.
Someone beyond the another isn't river.
Muskrat noisily limp to puppet
under someone find whistle.
Her escape mysterious cropcircles.
He under an waterwheel couldn't pecker.
They escape occult crystal
at her jump gourd
and she was chameleon.
I find driftless path,
either someone is tantrick.
Puppet also laugh to clay.
Her supposed dusty lizard.
They dream ochre cropcircles,
beaver dream,
puppet laugh.
Seeds also walk beyond mound.
Beaver protect or jump huts,
they limp driftless muskrat.
Clay hum.
Cricket dream,
alphabet howl or escape hole.
Seeds protect.
Gourd print
or I shouldn't tree.
Anybody walk mysterious path
under her laugh particles.
Gourd amaze
orchestra amaze and chant muskrat.
Them dream blunt particles.
I chant occult sects.
Her laugh occult alphabet.
Noone howl driftless hip.
Crystal protect
dreamtime jump.
I print shrill dust.
Alien noisily yell before crystal.
He seem mysterious puppet.
Him yell driftless mound.
Huts particles lagoon
gourd protect.
I bent blunt waterwheel.
Lagoon noisily dream to mound.
Crystal lagoon cave
gourd amaze and howl brick.
Crystal pond noise.
Brick lizard hip.
Me walk driftless mound
of beaver plug sects.
Edge dance.
Dreamtime ice pyramid
orchestra yell.
I walk occult whistle.
Alien noisily dream of crystal.
<KENNETH SHERWOOD>
from Text 2 Box
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[This section of RIF/T emphasizes
texts written in a responsive mode.]
<KENNETH SHERWOOD>
Sea: A Digest Version
these seagreen sleeperwaves these leviathan their given random contemplate soothe, the crests isolate crests various crests troughs mull the swell RIFF
Concrete Redaction for Katie Yates
"There is a relief in struggling with materials, in "There is a relief in struggling with materials, in "There is a relief in struggling with materials, in ["I could keep writing under these conditions..."] learning about paper, inks and presses." learning about paper, inks and presses." learning about paper, inks and presses." RIFF
<CONTRIBUTORS>
Robert Anbian's recent book is Anti-Nostalgia, Ruddy Duck, 1992.
Miekal And publishes Xixoxial books way out west.
Michael Basinski has a new book in the works from Tailspin Press.
Loss Pequeñ Glazier is bibliomaniacally collecting texts for the Electronic Poetry Center at Buffalo.
Jorge Guitart published A Foreigner's Notebook with Shuffaloff Press.
William Howe produced tripflea (book) in 1994.
Matthew Huddleston was last heard from in Los Alamos, NM.
Tenney Nathanson grew up in New York City and now teaches American poetry at the University of Arizona.
Purkinge is a collective improvisatory group that gathers in Albany, NY.
Susan Schultz's Another Childhood was published by Leave Books in 1993.
Kenneth Sherwood plays trumpet in a mobile gutbucket-latin-stomp band.
Frank Stevenson lives and computes daily from Taipei.
Katie Yates is a graduate student and artist in Albany, NY.