Francesco Levato

if caloric, a modification of light

The names of such things as affect us, which please, and displease,
the common discourses of inconstant signification,
its species and respective capacities; of the structure required; 
of the number and nature of constituent parts;
this crevice a small room, whitewashed and clean 
but scarce that principle of morality to be named,
of virtue to be thought on, not somewhere or other
slighted and condemned, between general fashion
and rules of living quite opposite to others.

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b6


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the gravity of the water

At first I had neglected them, 
but now that I was able to decipher the characters,
death, wounds, imprisonment,
the promise of not resisting force,
the action as one continuous whole, 
can it be imagined, that they perceive the impressions 
from things without, and be at the same time ignorant 
of those which nature stamped within?

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b7


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sulphuric ether, small narrow glass

Let us follow the natural order and begin with primary facts. 
The other is compounded; as when from the sight of a man at one time, 
and of a horse at another, we conceive in our mind a centaure,
qualify metaphor by adding on to it that which it supplants.
But the use of words in registering our thoughts
is in nothing so evident than reward and punishment; 
in enjoyment embittered by memory of the future, 
anticipation of the past.

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b9


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Francesco Aprile

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Allen Bramhall

Little is Known of Mongolia

A piano remained when everybody died. The piano was named Karl as a spoof on frequency. Its tone provoked a resonance, and everyone talked with verbs, nouns and the like. The nation's imagination threw a bolt of what is your favourite flavour into the air of chance. We decided we were coloured transistors from the planet Diagram. North is a point to discuss, as is South. The piano we remember was a spot in a sentence. The sentence meant to provide an action, and colour it with adjectives. No one expected the piano to remain aloof: It was friday, the living was fine. While the program constitutes a nation, we stop mid sentence. There could be a change, like spirit in a desk.

We're told so many things. The spectacle requires a mask.

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Francesco Aprile

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Rudolfo Carrillo

Fourteen Memetic Signals Used to Provoke Uncertainty in the Reader

American flags made from hidden Yankee tendencies.
Shaved pudenda isolated through the use of Photoshop.
A new television set that is colored to resemble night.
Innumerable displays suggesting coition or its possibility.
Dactyls on display at the petroleum depot.
Clinical observations made prior to the execution of bodily functions.
Self-referential asides that invite mockery.

Imagining oneself as a monkey living in an Antarctic laboratory.
Accumulating chemicals as means of displaying wealth and patience.
Having fun with the ruined atmosphere.
Rendering hands as twigs and branches.
Changing the settings to thwart capitalist interlopers.
Sensing the closeness of dissolution like a snail senses paint.

The statutory procedure that terminates at a local trailer park.

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Volodymyr Bilyk

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Bob BrueckL

 Stout Snout

Toothy, swishy:  un-un moniker the stupid gamut, 

the cloned ultrasuede, the rhomboid-stolid Wake-Robin 

(trillium erectum) -- recurved, hypostatic, prickled, 

declinated

 Tin ingots, O butt cloner, peristalsis slashy --

 un-name my meme:  my meme is me, O dander:

 What dew I knew!

Creamy, liver-shaped monstrosities, serrated, protruding,

slishy-sloshy, gloopy-gloppy purple maroon abutting

the back of the indigo moon

Dusky, unabetted, stripped scrape, deface

the jarring pompadour, O my

cauliflower ear

Aubergine midnight on the periphery:  scrap

the immaculate, ultramarine, mauve-striped violets,

the delirious faces of the canary-yellow pansies

softly swaying in the sapphire shadows

straddling the ovoid awl -- No!

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James Bell

dream story - the zen factor

wood like windchimes  with sound this time

could have been the clacking of the shutters in the wind

as you slept - though the result was good -

how the brain at rest designed a different visual effect

to break the monotony 

of course you see that zenlike picture everyday

always supposing you can see zen

like you do this structure in bamboo

a pergola in minature - hangs in the air

ten past three you go to piss

and this comes after you return to sleep

wonder as you do if wood can speak -

of course this happens in dreams

when you are allowed to explore other dimensions

when the limits have been removed

maybe this is how it's done

in order to face permutations outside this reality -

the wood was green so sounded softer

deeper than long dry wood or metal

want to know what they would say

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Peter Ganick

1] immode tiler elite misc phone salutation ebbulient vermicello anisette volition liaison allegro finial nsai blockade mouthpiece remoulade inner systematic tinderbox flood datum kneel opaque immer lasting piston veldt iota mollusk viens omnibus compadre autour sniffle twirl astonishing redux caliper improbable oceanside walleye cannibal urreal improbable understood engulf reaching affinity soap curry naivete lasting episode itemize flautist vina opprobium calgrapheme durst heinous desktop luck snow champion surrey confide answer palee dystopic moebius felicitous embassy northerly ante refuel cinnabar neither widenings ornamental ceiling spelt amity connote acidfree zap neither palette nerve aileron caveat midrange obelisk mutate ramshackle direct snarl noggin scrutinize apnea surfaces dot effigy alto hampering strata moronic cove heroiade tight motto introducer persist mammoth emprunte assist mooring echelon aspirate comparable scuttle invent aside neither waterspout mirror ancillary vote enviably narrative derelictive promulgate fade sturdy nascent double trot silk reminder preoccupy phantasm reification intention seer aside system listen north avowal promissory zones dendrite ampoule graviton select assist eras repeats ensure omniscient prana cursory acumen vilanelle numinous delicacy tureen further traffic furthermore ascertain breath photographemic lucidity epochal islander scruffy nosegay patterning stipend assist improbably oceanic voluble accursed noon genome reap silken nevertheless confer tilde motto schematic literacy tenuto brunt focus absolutist elan coffee ganache repeat.


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John M. Bennett

chmirarorir

itch the ash the ass lep

rosario torn my enteusage

claim my underouch sev

ered logluggage es mi

plan tostado mis paines

with the hairy teeth  .sn

ore yr ddribbling .wh ey

the bloodies running down

yr arm the “wheeling sp

spoon” uhn unh ,nuh

infogcussed ,claimed ssau

ssage ffingered in my ppp

ocket where you  )gnaw

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agging toward the bbu

rning chchair

...te comiste la gorra.

- Cantinflas


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Volodymyr Bilyk

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August 2012

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September 2012

John M. Bennett, Steve Tills, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Alan Sondheim, Peter Ganick, Rudolfo Carrillo, David Hopes, James Cervantes, Márton Koppány, Lynda Schor, Stephen Russell, Diana Magallón, Mark Prudowsky, John Oughton, Russ Golata, Bjørn Magnhildøen, Jasper Brinton, Luc Fierens, Halvard Johnson, Nico Vassilakis, David Weinstock, Colin Morton, Jaap Stijl, Isma'il ibn Ali al-Sadiq, Talan Memmott, Vernon Frazer, Jim Andrews, Barbara Moore Vincent, Volodymyr Bilyk, Christopher Barnes, Sheila Black, Kristin Palombit

October 2012

Nico Vassilakis, Katherine Soniat, Russ Golata, Jim Andrews, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Dean Faulwell, Lakey Comess, Luc Fierens, Stephen Ellis, Márton Koppány, Christopher C. Jones, Volodymyr Bilyk, Ziba Karbassi, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, Jim Bennett,  rob mclennan, Laura Young, Andrew Burke, Felino A. Soriano, Jim Wittenberg

November 2012

Kit Robinson, Diana Magallón, Donna Kuhn, Michael Fleming, Mark Prudowsky, Márton Koppány, Rae Desmond Jones, John M. Bennett, Lars Palm, Diana Magallón, David Harrison Horton, Volodymyr Bilyk, Teresa Peipens, John C. Goodman, Mary Kasimor, Peter Gannick, John M. Bennett, Glenn Bach, Laura Young 

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Rudolfo Carillo, Bob BrueckL, Laura Young, Jan Clausen, Felino Soriano, Joel Chace, Jasper Brinton, Vernon Frazer, Luc Fierens, Ruth Lepson, Lynda Schor, Philip Meersman, John Oughton, Alicia Askenase, Hugh Seidman, Catherine Daly, Victoria Marinelli, Anthony Robinson, Lawrence Upton, Russ Golata, Paul Howell, Rudolfo Carrillo

January 2013

John Oughton, Ken Wolman, Lakey Comess, Marge Merrill, Martha Deed, Nancy Scott, Volodymyr Bilyk, David Howard, Eileen Tabios, Larissa Shmailo, John M. Bennett, Luc Fierens, Bob BrueckL, Marthe Reed, Sheila E. Murphy, Stephen Ellis, Ann Neuser Lederer, Vernon Frazer, Richard Kostelanetz, Caleb Puckett, rob mclennan, Russ Golata, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, William Bain, Michael Andre, Katherine Soniat, Satu Kaikkonen, Lars Palm, Felino A. Soriano, Murray Jennings, James Cervantes 

February 2013

Alla Vilnyanskaya, Laura Young, Nico Vassilakis, Wendy Battin, John M. Bennett, Jasper Brinton, Tad Richards, Larry Goodell, Charles Taylor, Alan Sondheim, Diana Magallón, G. Robert Jeaurond, Volodymyr Bilyk, B.E. Kahn, William Bain, Joseph Somoza

March 2013

Diana Magallón, Allen Bramhall, Diane Jackman, rob mclennan, Bob Marcacci, Halvard Johnson, Rudolfo Carrillo, Lakey Comess, David Howard, Federico Federici, John M. Bennett, Niels Hav, Alicia Salinas

April 2013

John Oliver Simon, Volodymyr Bilyk, Taylor Reid, Mark Prudowsky, Elizabeth Terrazas, Murray Jennings, Stephen Ellis, John M. Bennett, Felino A. Soriano, Sheila E. Murphy, James Finnegan

May 2013

Lawrence Upton, Volodymyr Bilyk, John M. Bennett, Peter Ganick, James Bell, Bob BrueckL, 

Volodymyr Bilyk

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Lawrence Upton

Life still

cereal bowl, but no cereal in it;

stone slightly larger than a broad fist;

cheap vase with pink and yellowish flowers in it;

pepper grinder;

drinking glass containing cutlery, blades and tines pointing up;

a traffic queue of teapots along a window sill spanning an entire conservatory;

rain streams scattered across window panes;

trees, wind-bent, their juddering shadows in hearing, here, inhering

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James Finnegan

In the Wine Cellar

 

He told me he bought the house for its wine cellar,

but after dinner when we descended the stairs

I noticed cubbyholes filled with rolled-up maps

and charts, M-16s and Kalashnikovs, RPGs

and blocks of C4. He said, The walls down here

are 5-feet thick, reinforced concrete, with shaped

ceramic brick to fool ground penetrating radar.

There are over ten airshafts up to the surface,

and there’s one escape passage that runs 1500 yards

SSW and comes out on a creekbed near the highway

overpass where an SUV will be waiting.

 I said, You’re scaring me, man.

He said, A jealous darkness surrounds us.

Well then, I said, if world is ending, how about

we share a nice claret outside under the stars?

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