Posts tagged chance procedures

Poem: ‘horizon’ (and some thoughts on procedural poetry)

the horizon
                fixed the abyss to an eyelid
             there I was
                         stretched        like            vessels
               across                                  the sky
before learning as adults
                                   my thoughts            pressed
                along the flow of a

                                        plume

                         until the pressure was subdued

more it gazed into me,

                                                               More I aged, per mesi…

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misreadings

scribbles in a second hand book

doodles, scribbles and misreadings are like ghosts

‘Yes, there are only ever misreadings, of course; but mine is the correct one…’
Donald Paterson, The Book of Shadows
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911 CALL at the end.

Brightened my commute to London.

BROWN SHUFFLES HIS CABARET.

Suppose our misreadings are something else?

Paris in the
the spring

Tiny foreign bodies flying past a lense unnoticed

beast

bicicletta-felicità; felicità
amiable beast profound and literary
dressed in english cotton
despite its its years
does not feel guided by literary texture
but by machine-readable form