Cardinal
this is the orange measurement of the lines
as I design them.
Robert Duncan
What seems clear is, that two dimensions as surface for plastic attack is once
more prime. And with all perspective as aid gone, the whole Renaissance. Even
line gone. And maybe color—as too easy.
Charles Olson
certain of the girl balloons lick them
yellow cranes pumiced-soft agleam for too
phatically red in the red grass phatically trine
lodged in the tree’s three and limpid branch
thread aroint pressures kids against
the crane skreigh the tree’s least holden
cup balloon, halidom and purse
ten-slender since the plume imbues bespoken
ten grate marble fosse avec a single-banded kid
environ for an opening World
reminds kid the stun slit by which, plummeting in-ness
bulbs strung, made strident by the copper
hood of boredom, an engagement
with which plummets poverty of World
foaming stunts, the feathered back retreats depravity as such
blackweed, waxen mint as horizontally sward boys
alabasterlly bred bright breaking ornithology’s in the corner
by falls, a single rail facing tongues
holds an open fold of orange rings
mitts the tray / pushing off a history I face toward
horsehair-floor, the figure for time imbue figures
florid spangled-shape kids, a swollen sharp Inhibitor
enough to cede the errer
at least its orange band upon Earth shuttling
pulpous, contrast of the violent tangerine against the white
the rain plait, threads the waist still slake
elsewise to the taper of the wolves
they fallow, moist and legged dure their brilliant shapes
the tumid molt of light in three partition black
gloaming: presentation, darstellung, the meadow
in the throat of red-vinyl wolves licking the Open’s wound as it withdrawals
the stilling of its image: in 1938, the turning does to thinking for a turn involve
Michael Cross edited Involuntary Vision: after Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Avenue B, 2003), and is currently editing an anthology of the George Oppen Memorial Lectures at San Francisco State University. He publishes Atticus/Finch Chapbooks, and his first book, in felt treeling, is forthcomming from Tuson, Arizona's Chax Press. He is currently a doctorial candidate at SUNY Buffalo.