letters slope, slightly to the right
few letters have such a close relationship
__________obviobviously
f a woman
(divided in 2)
part petal and push l a man, bare,
spare of parts
in script EYE tail i SIZED she swings back
on herself as if contra
dicting or
are the letters lying
or standing up, dichtung herself
are we looking at them, or on top of
them—birds I view
wherever language flys into
each letter has the right to be considered
important for legibility and beauty, but it
must take a disciplined part in the
construction of words
in a sense, the fingers must get to know
the letters as well as the eyes
serifs and flourishes of l
make a slight sideled upstroke then
springs
downwards to form the stem then
leaves the picture, a bare branch
of language, likened unto itself
[1996]
§
from FL 4*98
when letters fall between
f and le
space is made for feeling
and filling
A far
thing letters
grasp from the get go
words flit, fl flairing up
(I
talic, it takes the sweep of the tongue) to say things sway
like this or that
way, and l makes letters possible
in the first place,
the opposite of fetters eyed closely by
woman who want to take on space
and g they ground with what d’ men
sion
gravity is prone to
and laying there thus, only the heart can
take the heat of flutter
hands get a word into
now and then
fl can’t hold a shape, so vowels come dancing in
bowelistic and farting
noses to the air
we breathe
elastic space
the difference
plie
silabant supple lips
open and closing like my mind
dash- -of getting things done
having words done un
what goes around comes around
fl leaves, and waters the lingum tongue
till an e o
I gets between lovin spoonful of f ’
of f
v’ s as one letter does a favor for another and another
and pretty soon you have a chain being
a linkletter to put yer lips to
sibilant and philibuster
fill fall fool ye
then there’s that
u I dare to hold
(like a cup on a level
lsills)
muscle and sinew
flairs up
till lay me down to sleep
nothing else comes close
except to flit between
this is sex of the most ardent tongue
epaulet and bloom lollygag
a landing pad
If I’m lying I’m flyin and I ain’ t seen a bird all day
so put on a uniform wing
traipse to korea on the
flipside on a womans
what holds together
praises in the air ?
the twofold
twist off
f ’ l ip in mouth
spring dash a darting ung lung
went
well,
blow me down to bleu
what never will real
escapes
this tendency to
knuckle down
buckle under
tendentious
tongue
till teeing off’s a sport from language too
ever since the tongue tipped off the hand
what lingers between the rest of
fingers by lingual is grasp
to
raise up hallelujah
hands move like mouths
and fingers lingo
pull a tendom to
betch by golly wow
index a flourishing tongue
easy digits perched on fleu is flippant
tongue
articulation
is late to
augur and birds
contemplate
the
wing span la différance
f ’ flips to v’
(along the loom long. g’
grounds
for what has come between the winging sense—gets no farther than
baby finger thumb
spelled out
on the grounds that we phalange… a
y’ langue langue
a widegrasp
and a lot of flair
languishing requires of thinging things
fling your fleshy petal up
so no man can gee, guess the spot
women can pronounce the world in
or on
[1998]
§
Like they did way back when
glottal stop was a place off Venetian sills
and the vaporetto
bogs down lolly gags
Georgia roots to
summer about
slack up on
the arm and hammer to flashbulb the daughters iron
he’ s supposed to give black to
but his eyes want to go there
Olmec and Palenque? hush
[2000]
§
dark sentences gather
warp and woof
eye wet mess
storm proof
a notre dame over wind some loose some
paper over dreams
pay per view
hue
contact sport
from an event of falling bodies
page limbs off hand
shoots
more avian mark
what the birds saw
caw caw claw
coreopsis
corpse
body of a news paper
woman nude news
that
tender between
pen men-
tion
if a woman falls from the roof of a mouth she might never get the
sentence
———————————
see the children running away from the room
that girl over here.
[2000]