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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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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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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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)
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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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VARIOUS ARTISTS ant ant ant ant ant three
July 11, 2012 § 1 Comment
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under butternut tree
ears of leaves
fondle light
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Guy R. Beining
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for a while
I look at my bike
without me
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the way
they fit
in her hand
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all of a sudden
the t.v.
doesn’t work
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Tom Clausen
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skidding petal bruises
on the concrete
rain like butter
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small creases in
your information filled with
anxious juices
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A. Daigu
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a few feet
from our feet
the ocean bottom starts
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snow flakes
no one will miss
melt in her hand
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Gary Hotham
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hairs
the many ants
amidst the grass
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hearing a car
that never comes
high pine wind
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Jim Kacian
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stray dog window reflecting blue sky
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boldly staccato
fissures singing along
maps set aside
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city limits bulrushes
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year of the pancreas
sandwich for dessert
theater seats upside-down
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M. Kettner
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my dealer says he’s
worried about me gives me
extra for free
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Xie Kitchin
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invited to feel
the stubble on her legs
autumn rain
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Shawn Lindsay
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pebble splash
all I hurl
sinks
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William M. Ramsey
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white blossoms
a fly brings their
beauty to me
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Edward J. Reilly
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In the phone booth
a little girl
talks to God.
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A man asks directions
hand over
his mouth.
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Alexis K. Rotella
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Thesaurus of whites
Moth of months circling itself
Idiot savant
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Dennis Saleh
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Wakened by someone scratching at the window it’s the rain again
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Hot night a yellow-toothed moon gnaws at the screens
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Turning on the light I become someone alone in a house
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Sam Savage
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the Loki seed
pushed down in the grey folds
until you laugh
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Sean Winchester
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JIM WESTENHAVER ant ant ant ant ant 11
April 25, 2012 § Leave a comment
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empty tree the forest on the subway
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saving the pine cone a cup of tea on the toilet
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the raindrop knows the brow of the moon
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sperm whale sleeping losing weight on the couch
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substitute teacher the harbor seal riding a wave
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where is the shell the egg in the garbage can
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minding the cormorant writing on a piling
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soft petal the lake in the mood to grow
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say what the fence is the answer
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the space between she takes off her shoes
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ever since you know the drill flower
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at the very least the willow tree backdoor
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somewhere a leaf on the move in the city
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threading the needle she smiles at dawn
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tide flat in the alley dream
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rooftop flower the heron at dusk
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cooling down a hip a body of water
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the rain is upside down in the sink
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she knows the name seagull in flight
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ask me pine cone on the trail
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