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
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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
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depressed echo in a stairwell
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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
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under your cheekbone
the mole drinks in blackness
from night’s caress
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sunrise –
through blue parting blouse
your breast peeping
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pebble splash –
all i hurl
sinks
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the shovel upright –
putting my dog
in the hole
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i flop onto
her dress on the bed
it is receptive
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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
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stars
whorling
drainwater
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retained from childhood
nothing much of importance
two horse-chestnuts
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driving into
the purple mountains
till they brown
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hearing a car
that never comes
high pine wind
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roar of wind
her measured breathing
in the lulls
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burning incense at dusk
a blue haze
on the pines
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something foul
in the smell of smoke
last year’s leaves
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MARLENE MOUNTAIN ant ant ant ant ant three
October 22, 2013 § Leave a comment
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whether weather
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spring evening the poem rings in my ears unwritten
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summer dusk a poem gets as far as my throat
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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
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water as preface,
water-logged theme
STUCK to pages.
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paint bone an EARth
shade & tie
pulley to ribcage.
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dark clouds merge
w/ribs of mt.;
a LUNG collapses.
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white, WHITE
butterFLY,
bLINKing light.
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isle led thru
pebbLED shoulders of
her 2 shores.
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a paper thin
sMILE passes
porcelain knobs.
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VII
her flesh buds out
from rosy stockings
PULLED DOWN.
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VIII
too soon
the morBID dance
takes hold.
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pluralness into
purpleness, twi-
light sinking.
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a snake t h r u stake
tips
a dead leaf.
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XI
go with blow-
fish & bub-
bled up sand.
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agent orange
over Hanoi, red
pockets under love canal.
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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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Going after waving to someone there’s my back
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NINE
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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
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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.
ant ant ant ant ant xiii
July 8, 2013 § Leave a comment
Facsimile of ant ant ant ant ant issue xiii featuring work by Eve Luckring. Inquiries about reprints to mrcr3w@yahoo.com.
ant ant ant ant ant five
July 7, 2013 § Leave a comment
Now available for the first time here the complete facsimile of the Spring 2002 issue of ant ant ant ant ant. Hiroaki Sato translates selections from Tomizawa Kakio’s Wolf in Heaven. D.A. Levy’s Secret Garden Mix. Samples from M. Kettner’s Full Penny Jar. Jim Kacian’s The Slate Step Brightens. She Rouses Briefly And Says Dragonfly by Chris Gordon. All original design elements included:
JACK GALMITZ ant ant ant ant ant 12
April 30, 2013 § Leave a comment
THE COINCIDENCE OF STARS
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Home an acorn on the floor
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Between the dust and the books a few deaths
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Amateur night
I sit on the stage
and imitate a stone
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In the crowd
I multiply
and divide
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Snowdrifts
The morning moon
is a fist
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Morning boiling milk overflowed
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A field of new grass so soft I hold my wake here
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Coins in my pocket
Watching seals
swim in circles
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The sky has cleared-
daily a darkness
spreads within me
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At the zoo
I describe to the monkies
the sky’s many blues
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Male parts and female parts am I a flower
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Where I’ve been I cannot say I’m him
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A chick
cracks open its shell-
the world rushes in
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Those clouds
War horses
at their hour
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Winter night
two men pass
without a sound
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The son of man returns fruit carts stacked
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Space junk who’s going to clean it up
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cars pass melting
in an empty wine bottle
a man’s reflections
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along the shore
a row of girls
all in white clothes
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Let’s find a shell
strip it
and make a bed
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We live in the dark the coincidence of stars
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traces of snow facing the morning moon
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She always remains
a step ahead
the marshlands of myself
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My face
was her face
in the beginning…
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Quattro cento face
the body a serpent
laying eggs
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oak leaves in the wind talking again
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gray matter, leaves, swept in a corner
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I cannot decide
which one I’d choose-
Caryatides
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Walking down the stairs
her bodies stir the sun
to be aware
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A prostitute
serves an acquaintance tea-
Sunday
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