Author Archives: john

from Coït 1 I come in from where I leave I come in you point to where you want me to enter I come in when I come out you know where I was where I am no longer in a way you see after the gestures your nerves one by one your genes neurons […]

ABC: AN AMAZING ALPHABET BOOK! A is for Althusser B is for Barthes C is for Capital D for Descartes E is for Eliot’s mermaid that sings F’s for Foucault who wrote The Order of Things G is for Gramsci who in prison still wrote a book H is for Hegel who’s well worth a […]

A FOOL’S GRACE bed me with lavender tattoo some cuneiform abjad into cardiac vessels hot cut radiance blister packed, a two-for-one offer of woad bled over bit lip, wrinkled stems pollinate broken umbrellas, debride torn silk back into lovers’ spit, pacify capillaries but just let go: release my feckless heart full punch to the ticker […]

from THANKS ALL THE SAME Where #7’s survey tangent                                                cuts across the old lumber draw-roads through limestone highlands to the Ottawa  a starling picks at a blood-orange thrown half-eaten to the gravel from a car ages away now  up close – outcrops do down pink & grey profiles in shadow to the north – unclaimed […]

from (made) Pile of feathers like raked leaves every child dives into and tosses up to fall as wings between arms and waist. Gathered mounds about the yard. White goose. Soft, not scratchy like autumn. The trees bare their envy and mothers call their birds in to dinner. Nests, eggs, and basted dinner. Hungrier in […]

From MAL ARME G Independent of a Debate on Form                                                     for Kate (in the key of) Because true works (as I often say) in the official canon, have leapt into the line as it has always been: fluid, to be bold where the division of the line was independent. It represents a product: French prosody; an […]

PILLAGE 2 (“High Prairie”)      – from Pillage Laud by Erín Moure for you who validated the earth with your ferocityWit – whom were you seizing?To read was so comfortable a strip betweenthe version and your trick. Every obligation quite burns.Ferocity is belonging, and you understand this. After we are certain plants &ndash: coalescent –the […]

External Mutation Still, I am relentlessly drawn to these outward signs of inward subversion. I lust for women who show signs of intensity. Who are not afraid of extremes… I want a woman who wants me, and my attention and my care, in an intense way… – Russell Smith There is dominance in submission and […]

from World News Story A man out in the City who lost his information technology job three weeks before had to sign on to the dole for the first time in my life every job I apply for there’s already a hundred fifty who have applied before you end up having to pay your mortgage […]

From “Testamonium”, The Counting House XV. You began with love. Unfailing. Intended invariably. Love always involves a degree of pain. In that. Constancy. The possessor never explicitly admitted or denied. Nor alleviated. The discreet lasts only a moment. Comes vengeful.                                                                                     The morning before.                                                                                                           The decline.                                                                                                                               The spectacle. Your hold on her body shall not entirely […]