As/Is







12.06.2009


By the Time We Left the Village, It Was Raining Legibly

Some of
My most
Beautiful moments
Result from
Perfect misunderstanding








12.05.2009


Process as Art


Process as Art
Originally uploaded by crescentsi









11.28.2009


The Best Day I can Imagine

You are here.
Despite my mis-love of clouds and impending rain,
It is cloudy and has rained.
It may continue raining.

We have had guests.
Each guest was lovely.
We laughed and each tone of the laughter
Made us feel less likely to give up or be ill.

The guests have left.
We have the place to ourselves.
The football game is over, and the coach.
the loss was not embarrassing; we almost won.

Tomorrow is still Sunday.
There is time replete with lack of scheduling.
The coffee place is open then.
Our computer keyboards fit our hands.

The mystery I have read was good.
I am number 07 on a list of 108 people
on the Phoenix Public Library list
To get the book just out I have to read.

Weather complements reading, writing, drawing.
There is so much to talk about.
You are interested on the latest incident
Regarding a sports figure.

My yogurt is being drained into very firm
Greek-plus yogurt some people call "yogurt cheese,"
but which I call the sine qua non of breakfast food
with apples, cinnamon, and flax seed.

The present tense keeps nourishing itself.
People keep saying I look young.
I keep eating apples, firm yogurt, etc.
When I breathe I think of you.








11.27.2009


hanging out with Emma












11.14.2009


Fourteen November

Miguel is driving.
I'm a quiet child; I sleep through rain.
The moment has soft pores,
A perfect Saturday to ride.

My dream, my mother's house,
The deeper sleep one is allowed
Within the comfort
Of implied protection,

I sleep my mood, my home,
Miguel controls the windscreen;
Wipers stretching back and forth.
Mother blessed the place

She left us, miles ago.
My home, her heart still there.
Long rainbows form her young face,
As the mist becomes my sleep.








11.08.2009



Left Lair


Will have to pilfer empire
from where I brood
Hadn't set out to be besieged
by the slow decay
The bodhisattva called
and the flood drowned saul
woke up in the belly of Brooklyn
how's that for hindsight?
So "drumroll"
Will have to pilfer empire
to maintain the covenant








10.01.2009


Or some other work that fulfills you

For wholeness, I only want to see
what's really not there when you
turn to gel down your hair in the
mirror, cow-licking to intensity
those wide, brash eyes and that
querulous stare that seems to say,
look at me! look at me and relive
the pain of knowing you were once
a tree, a lush garden shady spot in
the bowels of the city, avec some
inner-knowing, far-reaching familiar
rootless limbs and leaves.








9.13.2009


the concept of podcasts

My anime shrine
        comes with an
airtight plastic lid
        capable of with-
standing extreme
        fluctuations in
temperature. I didn't
        have to kill any-
thing to make it.








9.03.2009


Calliope Nerve Media Presents Edward Wells II's hawrs



The great poetry experiment continues as Calliope Nerve is proud to present Edward Wells II's HAWRS. Download the e-book now, free of charge.

"HAWRS" is the latest collection of poetry by Edward C. Wells, produced and distributed by Calliope Nerve- an independent press whose editors have taken an interest in the use of new and changing technologies to connect readers and writers.

The experimental poetry of Edward Wells II is another example of Calliope Nerve's support of diverse and non-traditional approaches to both publishing and the production of creative content. This latest offering will both amuse and perplex.

In "HAWRS", Wells has made use of various tools that manipulate text along predetermined parameters (exclusions, fields) and applied them to the texts of content that he has selected. Commonly called "cut-up", his methods seek to change the way that a reader will interact with the work and derive meaning, as the context is de-emphasized and the burden of conveyable ideas rests, necessarily, on key words. He uses programs that are available online to modify the text from the original arrangements which he then edits to produce his poetry. Wells does not stop at text with his experimentation, choosing to manipulate sound as well, spoken words transcribed into text. He has manipulated the internal arrangements of articles, and also the positions by halving content and rearranging them.

Wells shows what can be done with words, and pushes us to take another look at the ideas we hold onto regarding linear structures.

--Lynn Alexander (The Sphere, Full of Crow)

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8.26.2009


midnight

You in your white Pima cotton shirt resuscitate my reason for loving your skin. You in your surrounding halo maybe bask in how I feel when I can see you warm enough to live another decade maybe two. You are unseasonably lovely and continually loved. You are alert to how much beauty can be placed with any common or proper noun. I say your name as if to myself only. I say your name to you also. I look at how you look and I recite some prayer I just made up and elements become my way of seeing. Fears released from muscle tone become bequeathed to someone other than. I live in relaxation. You absorb my relaxation. You recall a photograph you occupied and you re-enter as a silhouette. I think of a small population we become within the frame. My heart frames what my mind sees. My eyes intend. My skin treasures your skin.

World in a state of being seen, perceived into existence, changed a little, photographed, imagined past itself








8.11.2009



New Rule


New rule
I am the sum of my distortions
The first wound never heals
We bleed when we laugh
in slow tragic anomalies

Kill your promise
to stay guilty
abort the beast

My age never believed me
so I faked it

Silence depends
on the noise in your time
I am overwhelmed

Get born again
in the rabbit hole
grasping the chains of heaven

Future never happens
without a motive
Future is immortal shadow boxing

Love pays the mortal cost
of human frailty

New rule
we are the best of strangers
and the worst friends

We cry death
but love the dead

Reality is one fifth existence
pick your spot in the maze

Zi0n can be hacked
encrypt your backdoor to heaven

Hate can be subtle
debug the last smile

Spine 3.0
for the new intolerance
it is closer than you breathe

Learn to swim
with open source gills
Gaia reboots without warning

Summon the key maker
to reset the dreamscape

The understanding
that this is nothing
never was
but a fake parole
from eternity

New rule
this poem needs
a fresh bitterness
preferably a web whip
to sting them forever

A digital lift
from the Luddite spill
from the meatspace drama
from the poet's grovel

Flame holy writ
gather your temptations
burst your seeds
across the future speak

The poet's bleed
watering the world
my bitch rant
could gather steam
kickstart a tsunami breakdown
of the old golden rules

For the new rule
drowns and reclaims us
yours to gaggle
and mine to spill








8.08.2009


Experimental Text at it's best! Calliope Nerve presents [+!]

I haven't been doing much writing these days as but editing and publishing have definitely been my artistic forte of choice. I invite you all to check out our newest book, soon to be available in a print version as well! Best to all, keep the faith.



The third book from Calliope Nerve's Literature Arm is available as a free download.

"[+!] is a post-code-poetry experiment, making de-composition into re-composition... art in it's truest sense... a bizarre, compelling, visually stunning, important work. Lysicology may not be a part of your lexicon now but it will be..." --Lucindo Anthony (author A Disease of Poetry)

Kane X. Faucher, Matina Stamatakis, and John Moore Williams bring the collaborative powerhouse that is [+!] to the Calliope slate of books. The very book itself redefines possibility and meaning.

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7.30.2009


If You Could Fly, Would You?

How warm the land against your feet,
how reassuring?

How many skies retract
your inventory of floor layering?

A felt-tipped diagnostic changes
how you were to how you are.

Whatever water is embraced by
the imaginary branches.

Look from the picture window at what qualifies
as an automatic, fleeting photograph.

How will you keep it?
How will you keep still?

How will you avoid keeping still?








7.28.2009


new piece









7.26.2009


Felino Soriano's Apperceptions of Reinterpretations



Felino Soriano's Apperceptions of Reinterpretations is now available as a free download from Calliope Nerve Media.

"Felino Soriano's language scans each scene through the keen eye of an eagle. Ekphrastic interpretations in a sea between updraft and whitecap. Our guide into this gallery is the real artist. Articulate. Elegant as mirrors by candlelight. Each painting, like fledglings being pushed out of the nest; all the down has been plucked away, only the sharpness remains. They'll nudge you, lead you to the edge; teach you how to fly." --Joseph R. Trombatore (author Screaming at Adam, Pushcart nominee)

Read it.

Love it.

Tell your friends.

Read more of Felino's work at the Calliope Nerve archive.





22 issue

Ow stop that
Not like that
It’s hurting
So we stopped
One day
When we’re old
Honey remember when?
Honey will be
Dead but
His cocking dick
Knows what
It will tell all
The chicks
It’ll squabble
Over the feed
Peck their nipples
Bone sting
Bite sugar
Rock candy ‘til ill
I took two
The next day
I said
I’m going to
At least
Get high
Off my
Rapist boy
See you
Soon
She said
See you
In ICU
I took the
Biggest
Lollipop and
Left her
The gumball
22 issue
Number fives
And a
Pocket knife
Went to the
Nursery and
Said here
Take my
Baby girl
She’s sick
Sugar coma
Puking
All on me
Ow stop that
I bruise
Easy