MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH ant ant ant ant ant 1995-1999
June 4, 2014 § 1 Comment
autumn rain
a leaf eddies
in the stream
bouncing on the grass
the whiteness
of hailstones
high tide
beach willow leaves
mingle with kelp
on the drive
there and back
a pine needle in the wiper
french graffiti I drop a coin in the phone booth
overdue my dead neighbor’s library book
SHAWN LINDSAY ant ant ant ant ant 1995-1999
June 1, 2014 § Leave a comment
.
bit by bit the apple peel around my finger
.
nicked her shin sweeping up the spring water a new moon
.
a rolled-up fence in the hayfield you can taste the lightening
.
exactly how my boot treads sound crimpling snow
.
on the corner with walnuts in her teeth it’s raining
.
the spruce
matted thick with ice
my tiny fingers
.
still the first raindrops straight down my spine
.
dripping wet mulberry leaves a crow anxiously
.
a white flower
held in the cinder block
flooded eaves
.
an inkling
of the bee’s vision
purple clover
.
autumn insects-
her perfume suffuses
the pillow
.
train tracks
one leaf spinning
on the beech
.
placing a palm on the kitchen window the thunder’s warm
.
invited to feel
the stubble on her legs-
autumn rain
.
road salt
tumbling in the vacuum of
an ambulance
.
MINOA ALLOY ant ant ant ant ant one
May 29, 2014 § Leave a comment
from NARTHEX
° ° °
flaw
the territory thus named
° ° °
coil
rose
that is filament
naming
° ° °
damage the waves
° ° °
arc arch archae
come the silence
° ° °
broken glass. a
knife in the sand
° ° °
the word
“abeyance”
° ° °
rose + cross
absinthe
coil of wire
memory
° ° °
omen. perfume
ous. stain
ohm pulse
° ° °
lost wax cast a
mask extant
deep the wound
imago
° ° °
seam
that made visible by
drowning
° ° °
your broken
hymn
° ° °
fey minute
hand the hours
strata yes there are
ruins
° ° °
M. KETTNER ant ant ant ant ant 1996-1999
April 22, 2014 § 1 Comment
#190
city limits bulrushes
#368
the cold
meat hook with your name
chess partner invisible
#478
cattle sleeping
moonlight on their backs
#524
year of the pancreas
sandwich for dessert
theatre seats upside down
#543
thief
hand on backwards
tunnel growing smaller
#654
breeze drying mooring lines fall slack
#677
stray dog window reflecting blue sky
#701
depressed echo in a stairwell
#745
a cold scream
narrowly occult
ridge draped in dusk
#752
down to roaches
piano on a railroad track
#767
boldly staccato
fissures singing along
maps set aside
#771
perineum
hallway between
bedroom & bathroom
#823
crevice dweller
meat truck parked by the curb
restroom no hand towels
WILLIAM M. RAMSEY ant ant ant ant ant 1995-1999
October 30, 2013 § Leave a comment
:
:
under your cheekbone
the mole drinks in blackness
from night’s caress
:
:
sunrise –
through blue parting blouse
your breast peeping
:
:
pebble splash –
all i hurl
sinks
:
:
the shovel upright –
putting my dog
in the hole
:
:
i flop onto
her dress on the bed
it is receptive
:
:
a minuscule bug
here /
kept that line short
:
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this stupid war
feeling murderous hate
picking peaches
:
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JIM KACIAN ant ant ant ant ant 1995-1999
October 28, 2013 § Leave a comment
:
:
stars
whorling
drainwater
:
retained from childhood
nothing much of importance
two horse-chestnuts
:
driving into
the purple mountains
till they brown
:
hearing a car
that never comes
high pine wind
:
roar of wind
her measured breathing
in the lulls
:
burning incense at dusk
a blue haze
on the pines
:
something foul
in the smell of smoke
last year’s leaves
:
:
MARLENE MOUNTAIN ant ant ant ant ant three
October 22, 2013 § Leave a comment
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:
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whether weather
:
:
spring evening the poem rings in my ears unwritten
:
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summer dusk a poem gets as far as my throat
:
:
autumn afternoon no poem to send with the letter
:
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winter morning perhaps a poem with no content
:
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now/here
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now/here too much nature i go no/where
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poor a career
:
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don’t know and if i did i’ve forgotten
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earth worm earthworm
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GUY R. BEINING ant ant ant ant ant three
October 20, 2013 § Leave a comment
dangling with weeds
:
:
:
I
water as preface,
water-logged theme
STUCK to pages.
:
:
II
paint bone an EARth
shade & tie
pulley to ribcage.
:
:
III
dark clouds merge
w/ribs of mt.;
a LUNG collapses.
:
:
IV
white, WHITE
butterFLY,
bLINKing light.
:
:
V
isle led thru
pebbLED shoulders of
her 2 shores.
:
:
VI
a paper thin
sMILE passes
porcelain knobs.
:
:
VII
her flesh buds out
from rosy stockings
PULLED DOWN.
:
:
VIII
too soon
the morBID dance
takes hold.
:
:
IX
pluralness into
purpleness, twi-
light sinking.
:
:
X
a snake t h r u stake
tips
a dead leaf.
:
:
XI
go with blow-
fish & bub-
bled up sand.
:
:
XII
agent orange
over Hanoi, red
pockets under love canal.
:
:
XIII
voo-doo, 2 wooden
pegs, her legs rub-
bed f i r e.
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SAM SAVAGE ant ant ant ant ant 1995
October 15, 2013 § Leave a comment
from Eighteen kinds of loneliness
:
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EIGHT
:
Going after waving to someone there’s my back
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:
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NINE
:
Evening down a road where a car has gone
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TWELVE
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A small window filled with seasounds it lightens
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SEVENTEEN
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Rain on a sharp field of stones
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EIGHTEEN
:
With a raincoat and umbrella I go to hear someone sing
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YUGEN PRESS (McCLELLANVILLE 1995)
ant ant ant ant ant four
July 15, 2013 § Leave a comment
“In many ways the culmination of my original vision for the journal.”
ai li, Ronald Baatz, Peter Bakowski, Michael Basinski, Guy R. Beining, Ed Bennett, John M. Bennett, Ernest J. Berry, Diane Borsenik, Jason Sanford Brown, Tom Clausen, MTC Cronin, Bill DiMichele, A. di Michele, Dennis H. Dutton, John Elsberg, Crag Hill, Gary Hotham, Dorothy Howard, Jim Kacian, W. B. Keckler, M. Kettner, Jim Leftwitch, Shawn Lindsay, Paul Long, paul m., Robert Major, Errol Miller, Sheila E. Murphy, Dan Nielsen, Jim Normington, Simon Perchik, Anthony J. Pupello, George Ralph, William Ramsey, Dennis Saleh, Hiroaki Sato, Sam Savage, Caroline Steinhoff Smith, John Stevenson, Michael Dylan Welch, Arizona Zipper.
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