July 1, 2009

Rising out of serene residue

a lake slithering behind an empty store says rising out of serene residue the field i first dropped acid in

an intricacy of pills molts after this chintzy wind stains the inside of your eyes an intricacy of pills

my isolation swarms through complacent screens

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June 30, 2009

Clairvoyant goats

hot wet entrails of clairvoyant goats is sliding beneath you a rusting church chained shut

the pinched sky away where the lake ends waking a king in the broken alleys around this anxiety she projects plunges down dry woody stairs boarded-up department store windows

my isolation says rising out of serene residue

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The echo slowly consumed with you

the echo slowly consumed with you says disenchantment is a prelude to quenching a knot of code

the sun’s dodge and burn on an empty playground says your spine tastes slipping down your throat after your blue cars are gone tossing empty pizza boxes into blackness a bitten blonde engrossed in her phone

this soaked moon says all her dead lovers linger in her throat

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A thunder in the corners of the sky

a thunder in the corners of the sky spilled across her marbles the collapsed trees in those vacant blocks

these loose signs says gorgeous things gas across streetlight pavement around the late flooded light of anxious houses escapes him and lingers patches of spiderwebs nested in hedges

the ways the dead affect the weather says ribbons of dogs barking

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June 29, 2009

An alley choked with thick brush

an alley choked with thick brush woke up trembling a passage of moonfrosted cars

their pale faces sending loving-kindness to all the abrupt noises with stalks of wind-brushed reeds enacting soma escapes him and lingers eager gray kitten

the dead and their erasures convolving slantwise in her hand

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June 10, 2009

Labor

I’m in love with the elephants here because they fulfill gravity’s promise. It’s hilarious when you brush their trunks.

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Kin

Kin-kissing is forbidden in this brash town; you have to stand straight with your arms at your sides.

I’m waiting for the moon to rise, standing shiverless like a salt sheath.

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June 7, 2009

Jelly

Suspended, his days hung before him like a full clothesline during a rainstorm.

Whenever I get frustrated, I spin around in circles. I wear a hole.

You can walk through walls all day long, and never feel like you’re properly in a room.

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June 5, 2009

Ice

The screaming of the disco moon was a nice touch.

She says, I think in pictures and it’s hard for me to remember words. I fill all the ice cube trays at once.

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Hunted

Sunny afternoons pull a froth of talking taut around green lawns. I was eating yellow light, blue light, the frail rainbow’d bubbles of thought’s push. A dog somewhere else strobes across cracked streets.

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June 3, 2009

Grip

Newly-wakened clouds entwining with soiled-sullen blossoming. You could be so with velocity my cold fingers shuffle pulse and a whorish fullness. Rubbed loose.

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June 1, 2009

Fragility

Oh, I sting my tongue cold with thrills: the velocity of my bones, the slick panoply of Carl Cox, a bitter turn in a pierced truth. I’ve always landed in my skin.

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May 30, 2009

Empowerment

“Drama” is just a sound. Distant festivals diffuse across a wash of sunshine, birds, saxophone. The waves assault beaches, dragging garbled glazes to the bottom of the lake.

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Dissolving

When you stagger into empty parking lots: this sky, cobalt-mauve, crawls over you.

Inattention resembles pauses between leaves. Streetlights aren’t hollow late May; they spill over with midges.

As you sprawl through squinted alleys, thought coughs and slurs.

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May 28, 2009

Balsa

The leaves of an evergreen veer like ribs bent into needles. Our shaggy gray cat, caught in the rain, involves carpet with burrs of water.

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May 27, 2009

Agriculture

Witchcraft, on screen, real time.

My talisman and my fetishes sink in this humid cascade of crackling showers. They fall to earth with quaking.

Our sisters live silently along the fault.

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Chironomidae

Soft muffleheads; they don’t bite, don’t sting. When I stand naked in the smudged incandescence of a room lit only by monitor, they playfully tickle over my skin.

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May 16, 2009

Spelling blood

from Black River Ghosts

the echo slowly consumed with you
waking caked with crackling moods
after transparent songs drift down the rain-wrung streets

a passage of moonfrosted cars

the field i first dropped acid in
says strong winds bring back her fathers hands
during import of our parents’ flaws
after faintness attains translucency
the scented epinephrine
whirling down upon zen-peaked roofs

says this and says that
after amphetamine spells your blood

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May 9, 2009

The field with the astonished moon

from Black River Ghosts

the field with the astonished moon
says the music the music
after faintness attains translucency
in abandoned department stores numbers corpse and peel
voices of the shattered parking lot
crushing through smoky grades of icy slush
after troubled silence
licks the waves leave you with
waking to a health that burns
moon weeping into the roll of black river

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April 16, 2009

It hurts in my blood

My face casts sanguine shadows on the ashes
enough of us soul our heads down into dabbles, dust
suddenly badly ached, barely scared

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About the poet

Lewis LaCook is a poet, musician, web artist and programmer who lives in Lorain, Ohio.

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