As/Is







4.03.2025


Livid: The Kanzler Saga: Apparition Poem #1181


 


Just as you couldn’t paint but to vandalize, I had
the instinct to vandalize you, my love. To rough
you up. Because for you there could be no love,
I would assist you in understanding repercussions
could follow from games you thought were fun.
How your green eyes had a problem— you stared
at things too long. That wide-eyed stare, made it
so that (for example) no one could take you seriously
as swish at a first night. Or on First Fridays, as you
tried to swish towards a homing sense you were going
where you wanted to, your simian male friend at your
side. As I said, I wanted to rough you up. You could
never paint to be crisp, only smudged, so that Abby laughed
at how hard you worked to convey retardation (and succeeded).

I could never decide if, behind the wide-eyed stare,
what was there had any genuine innocence. It seemed
to me, to be honest, there was none. Your sense
of complete calculatedness in every respect is why,
how I now kneel before you, my round browns mingling
with your round greens, brown & green smudging each
other to determine advantages, now that the first nights,
First Fridays are all part of a distant past, the time’s come
to choose whether to live or die. I’ve decided to salvage
us. That’s crisp in me. You were crisp about the bed
part of it, for a while, so that I force red into your mix—








3.29.2025


Forthcoming and/or works-in-progress









3.22.2025


Adam Fieled: E-Books: Catalog

Posit (chapbook pdf): Dusie Press: 2007

Beams: Blazevox Books: 2007

Rubber Soul: Ungovernable Press: 2008

The White Album: Ungovernable Press: 2009

Apparition Poems (print book pdf): Blazevox Books: 2010-2024

Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled (2nd edition): Argotist E-Books: 2010-2024

Mother Earth (2nd edition): Argotist E-Books: 2011-2024

Cheltenham (print book pdf): Blazevox Books: 2012-2024

The Posit Trilogy (including Posit, 2nd ed.) (2nd edition): Argotist E-Books: 2017-2024

The White Album (2nd edition): Eratio Editions: 2018

The Great Recession (2nd edition): Argotist E-Books: 2019-2024

Also relevant:

Jeffrey Side: Collected Poetry Reviews (2nd edition): 2013-2024

Various: Critical Writing on Adam Fieled: 2014

Books on mp3:

Equations (1), Equations (2): PennSound: 2023










3.17.2025


Connective Tissue


 How part one of The Posit Trilogy connects to Jacket Magazine.









3.16.2025


Addendum: Brand New Key


 Get set for the ride: Jeffrey Side's Collected Poetry Reviews (2004-2013) re-published on AO.









3.07.2025


Jenny Kanzler: from Art Odyssey (2013)(6)


 









3.06.2025


Apparition Poem #1574 in Fixator Press


 Apparition Poem #1574 in Fixator Press. Many thanks to Jonathan Butcher. 









2.26.2025


Apparition Poems in Eratio


 Two Apparition Poems up in Eratio. Many thanks to Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. 









2.24.2025


Jenny Kanzler Two-fer


 Diving into the Kanzler maelstrom again on P.F.S. Post, in stereo.  









2.05.2025


Deep Wood's Woven Shade: Apparition Poem #2040


 

Where metaphors become themselves, put
the pedal to the metal, I want to be the one
not riding bitch on the plush-lined vessel’s
back seat, so that I generate (from tension!)
new metaphors also putting their pedal to the metal,
& the car I’m speaking of is Noah’s Ark, I’m the one
that got everything in there— it would have to be,
because she chose to paint kids playing King of the Hill,
because our brains did King of the Hill games back
& forth, years after all the fucking was finished,

because calculation was not foreign to the situation
on her side, so that I carry the all, the everything she is,
rich, recondite, multifariously about intelligence
or retardation, depending on her mood, green eyes
knowing the me past me that she’s counting on,
the Ark having to be a car to stunt it, in her wonted
fashion, perhaps even a jalopy. She knows me past me,
is herself a man, a king, past what was between her legs,
which I thought I found interesting past calculation,
because she set up a game there I’d fall for, & I did—





Brand New Key


New URLs on a newly archived Argotist Online site, and a sense of semi-republication, for the e-books The Posit Trilogy, The Great Recession, and Mother Earth.









1.27.2025


Jenny Kanzler: from Art Odyssey (2013)(5)

 









1.21.2025


Deep Wood's Woven Shade: Apparition Poem #1347


Because women who paint have two bodies,
the fragile blood/flesh vessel common, normed,
to all, & an aggregate of coalesced colors & forms,
extending residue useful to raise brains past models,
the winter day arose I plumbed the depths (for a random
reason) of my files, found a miracle, ten paintings,
all master class, by her, without understanding how
I’d mislaid them a decade before. But there, in that now,
I found her body again, the first stroked into
the second, & it was a revelation past anything but

the most violently revelatory intercourse possible
between two human beings. Honestly, not hostile
but real, our more literal expression had wobbled
on skittish rails towards the noncommittal or gossamer.
But as she left it for real, her physical body, in coalesced
colors & forms, the retrieval was all intercourse elevated
into matrimony usually thought too good for the human
race. It is, actually. Especially given the work’s twists
& turns towards revealing again all this dullness
we live in. Four bodies must suffice, to turn dullness to fullness.








1.13.2025


Apparition Poem #1180 in Scud


 

Apparition Poem #1180 in Scud









1.05.2025


Something Solid: Aughts Philly: Dresser in Lothlorien Poetry Journal


 Dresser, from the Aughts Philly section of Something Solid, in Lothlorien Poetry Journal









1.01.2025


Jenny Kanzler: from Art Odyssey (2013)(4)