02 mai 2011


for example the cobra of whisperings cloying
the snowdrifts their Nazis marooned on dolphins crisscrossing
You are scissors
a scorpion careering through snapdragons
fluttering down the nobodies of a rain-dwarf
transmuted by an oxidized seascape
of the purple junkyards of your wheelchair-blasphemy
whose persona's opalescent postoffice is that hypnagogic
vastness
wrung from gryphons
of tundra-hookahs of hilarity
O Josette
only a dominatrix could tomahawk your azure-winged jack-o-lantern
only you can slink the mangoes without
drifting riprapward
You had already starfished ghettoizing in a morbid rumpusroom
psychosexual as lassos of quicksand
where we will paint with the spinal chords of silkworms
where ice-maidens barked at the goon
where we coursed through oboes to become
isolate

4 commentaires:

  1. I really enjoy reading this. I keep coming back to it. It lights up my mind.

    The NW is full of rain-dwarfs. And ice maidens tattooed with hypnagogic tomahawks.

    Now I have to look up the etymology of tomahawk.

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  2. Thanks, John, I appreciate it.

    I'd love to check out the bizarre human flora and fauna in your NW, but I'm tethered to the motor-impaired Motor City.

    I'd look up the etymology of tomahawk myself had not my old fat dictionary been ruined by a recent flood.

    I've grown fond of coining neologisms by changing one or two letters. "Tomahawk," for example, could become "comahawk" or "commahawk." I love to replicate consonants, especially m's, and I love the owl-eyedness of two o's side by side. Words with x's and z's never fail to excite me. To my eyes, a poem studded with such words glitters like a Christmas tree.

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  3. This is from the online etymology dictionary: 1610s, tamahaac, from Algonquian (probably Powhatan) tamahack "what is used in cutting," from tamaham "he cuts." Cognate with Mohegan tummahegan, Delaware tamoihecan, Micmac tumeegun.

    I love "commahawk." I would like to hurl one of those into a sentence and score a split infinitive.

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  4. John, looks like Blogger erased your comment on the etymology of tomahawk. Only temporarily, I hope.

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