Wesleyan University Press
Here are a couple of poems written in response to Pierre Joris, from my manuscript FIEND FOLIO.
I.
after Pierre Joris
the encomium explodes
by way
of text bubbles
into three fleshy
cigarette
burns the sacred
putrefaction
the scarification
below the wrist
figures fool’s
gold figures
this summer
campout
caesura
an ecstatic twist
from
the follicle
protest molecule
spawns
spurious rumors
in Oakland
only rent
a river
the burns
palpitate skin
in water
into bite-sized
bundles
bundles
tied ribbon
floating warm
the live-
long day
II.
after Pierre Joris
Range Rover to bright
brain poundage paper
though turntables be othered
on the scale of your breath control
I tic toc my minutes
NIMBY pansies get butterflies
“shadow pollution” kills birds
so rents go up and over
you laugh at the needles
that stick to your meddling
picket white fences painted
brown nosed babies
in some kind of fascination
we called it in from here
to there, hear her cowboy boots
drag while her fingers run
the lines of her underwear
the course is clear, do nothing,
resist, inspect your betters
newer and never
prepare your vacation, leave
California to the birds
no anemone can walk the earth
with false confidence from word
to thing on the freeway, scorched
in summer and baked
throughout the day
lunchtime is most visible
in its insistence proven
by sports talk radio, fasting
is only a parting of ways
expunged the cellular
creatures go down on you
en masse, with runner’s legs
the ligature of pay day
sews The Nightingale
and here comes the Leo,
overstaying his time, frightened
of his shadow, in the backyard
summer burn
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