Adhere to the linnea or retread the cursus.
An inverted triangle encloses the chakras, the wayness of the zone.
Strip off the skin and cross-caul, the lined identity of wound.
Continue to hold your mind in course of its course, in continual spiral revelation
in an orderly structure already discarded for habit and frame
in the shape of limb, bend and retrace, your gesture both unreadable and open.
Puzzle, if you can, the gaps between the growth of thoughts and a holy verb
so there is something that’s not there, omnipresently, your phenomenon; a kind of mise en abyme.
While changing channels: here is the buffalo thunder, here the annulus on the shutter is open.
Axis the circle
of origin, audience and outcome fixed. Flat. Hollow. Charred
root. Mount. Micturate. The mark—
alluding to rigor mortis of the tongue—
x-hollowed, rubies jellied into the marrow,
where the juice of sap-blossoms leak through
nostrils in the X, dense concatenations of words, numbers
covered in liquid lice
—Of course, I mean you
feeling the slithered craftings of interlaced planets
wrongness and the
reptile downflow of that nonfeeling chemical
locked in the lock
quenching the summer with carved pink fire
But what about spermatozoids with their cilia or white bloods,
replete in life and praying for healing of their own?
This terrain of wafer, the noetic snow
covers every stratum.
Of animals that I am not.
Behind each mouth, there is an eidetic parenthesis
it’s the nothingness in the bell tower with vocal chords that brays truth into the madness of the nonce
In the capacity of closure.
The coffin tranche
has holes for eyes. On ecstasies that
become bodies that do not contain bodies
distinction becomes the very condition of the congruity, of
dissonance giving rise to opprobrium, the rule-validating dissidence
erected for the
speech-devised we, the Indigenous Sisyphus of public office I see the vast cyan need
Postmodernity, with its mollified hands
along the verge of definition, extinct at first sight.
Come in, come on, you’ve gone astray; the door is here: Eggshell poetry deafeningly, carnivore light
leaves the air tight and stale in this humid hell,
I think the wind must have slipped inside the front door
the doorposts are infected
existentialistically
federal politics and the peach ooze of DNA
Where father, can you help but believe that this life goes on, the eyes you once sought to protect, and no doubt yours are still there.
From, what are you?
The wind presses at the balustrades
Transparent curtains.
Ah, where do you think all this mystery will end?
Of beauty you see only its indices, which no longer correlate.
The missing scalene bound, so as not to startle anything more agnostic than a wren
the wrong way, a diving flag, with a coruscating vortex
littered over its tip.
My oh my,
when will you stop winding me up
in the sunset across the silent plains of birth
from enlightenment to dusk, while sunnings with the ground smell
the rot and the spit of polluted moons in hunger.
What is rustling in the tiger hair
of this sad state of rationalism
to be lost, long before speaking
Fuck me, stop fucking with me
fetch me the goddamn wallet of light
feed me Jupiter
O come, O politicizers,
come toward the way out of the world, and its end-ascent
These are scenes and digressions I insist upon
subsidiary to the ocean of luminance if this
endless day
were but a cadaverous tulip
freshish presses in precious places
primal physical
infracta
nominative neuter
suffragette ascendant
me of the
math of arrows
fallen into reflection in the Sun stomach
the waves, water-spreads, and
shiver of lava
wild persimmon, cannabis, dry moss, anise
together, by cigarette in this scene, by me, I mean you
this picture in a picture
my tiara of the electric blue rattlesnake
pure to muscle, mute the vascular opiations, swastikas of cloud
Is there really a new dawn
if your child isn’t your friend?
Ask yourself
how did you get here from there.
Slower, harsher.
Homeward, me of dog feet
topogravore
moving past a ghost.
For more information about this piece, see this issue's legend.
Evan Isoline is a writer and artist living on the Oregon coast. He is the author of PHILOSOPHY OF THE SKY (11:11 Press) and the founder/editor of a literary project called SELFFUCK.
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The first hypothesis of the meaning behind its name comes from Latin. In Latin its name would have translated to Lupara, more precisely “Turris lupara”. The root word lupanar comes from “lupus”, which means wolf. Well before the museum was constructed, this land would have been covered in nothing but forest, this land would have been a land of wolves...