Jim Leftwich & Steve Dalachinsky
Jim Leftwich is a poet and essayist who lives in Roanoke, VA, USA. he is the author of Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1 -187 (Differx Hosting@Box, 2011 - 2016), and three volumes of essays entitled Rascible & Kempt Vols. 1 - 3 (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016-2017). Since 2008 he has been involved in organizing and/or documenting mail art, sound poetry, visual poetry and noise events in Roanoke.
Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His most recent books are Fools Gold (2014 feral press), a superintendent's eyes (revised and expanded 2013 - unbearable/ autonomedia), flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015), The Invisible Ray, with artwork by Shalom Neuman, from Overpass Press, "5-COLOR ASSORTMENT" Chameleon Too from Redfox Press, and FROZEN HEATWAVE with Yuko Otomo, from Luna Bisonte Prods. His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize.
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The Western Rain
finesse
the way socrates
sucked it in
sucked wind
poisoned the word
with oratory
lax/a/tives for muscle
joints / juke joints
tucked into a nest in
a sock flax flux rat
story or corpuscle
pith like plato
appointed duke of
adjectives
to/ward off/ten cham-
ber clambake horror which
meddling cost jam slag
out/door centrist
flax flex flicks flocks flux
the toe bear muddles the
sword the
lamb snake ghost the
lag sense wrist the
witch the
chameleon roar
so crates filled with
glambles slock the unner-
grund hence la pence worth
of wood/fence glory mo(u)rns
la roof
flux flox flix flecks flacks
"transrational destabilization
of instrumentalized
reification"
like a shambling gerund
lockpicking the
wood-nymph's
hoof 'n moth at
ease back to saxet
to wheez the
gain lound clog
strain(gl)ers
below belt pin/drip
droop-ping
pine tar and yellow
railroad lights
flogging the hound while
saxophones sneeze on the
Western Rain
angels of Tangiers
snorks-bah the handbeckham
nuits de spring carbuncle
pluto contra rasta
flywheels ouster variorum
implementos tulipeo regardation
angels of Tangiers
snorks-bah the handbeckham
tinted cantras(h)ted opto-craga
pluto contra rasta
tambur-angled linoleum oser
implementos tulipeo regardation
wingfli mal/ajuncted sprignuts
tinted cantras(h)ted opto-craga
pasta beckoning smoke
tambur-angled linoleum oser
guardians of plumed Tupelo
wingfli mal/ajuncted sprignuts
optical canasta-tilt
psycho saddle plug-swath
calypso
divine dream/es/cape
the dooobler
innersouls mit kleiner schtuu-
uup where hanging fixed
accident
by cement mixer
angling for hiccups
the shoetooth cleaner knitting
soulspinners
the loomer-do
inscape-scraping
"cream of divinity"
soapy lips of the sacred cow
as with first electric trickster
plug swath inglipped
cheats you forerunner tide badling
bathing in the eyeruins
eats the score
Languths sweating lugwrenches
steeringwheels
oilslicks
triple-sec modula-
tions pre-cog plati-
tudes psycho-saddle poverty
shame slime
verily poodles addle spies inc
& then the mayhem
ensued.
knackles
emotic slugtraces weedeating
psychologous nachtmusik nix
nor pixie knackless
l
ocker
roo
m'b
oom
promote plugged seed/feeding
pissantillogistics shamisen plucks
pure nixed calouses
m
ocking
bloo
mers
roach/climber
beauty will be percussive
or not at all
small bottle neck
leads to dead family blues
croak /blaspheeemer
well-fed and throttled like
the lemurs of
Vermeer
slung dark krauter
16 hills
transgressed
the opening
deep closed swam
healed before the scrim
gases well up a pizza-
chest
pillage and invest
/once upon a
gaseous scam / the
forehead leaden / the
swarming
ing clos
ets
ets sleep
ping ing / sleep pong the
g
rain rests s
till
between
stardust & be wilder
the brillig left a nasty taste
& lefty rumprolled
thru a timely paste of ginger/fried
flim/chee
crimpled & pizzling
they chime
cleft & charbroiled
they builderburgers b
ust er
dus
t um ru
st
ing
ing & ing
slung dark krauter
flip ing plung
ts sup ose blong
tallip thlop
the signature
boids
exploding ghost
what-enough by lin
ear lin
eat
ed
lineb
reak
s, ssssssssssssso
what?
what was free loaded
with peon / knees
da drach/mere mainstem
ultimated
am
bass
a do(o)r !!!!!!!!!
based on the soci
ally
condi(c)tioned ill
us
ion
of hall
ucinati
on
s exploding?
deny gho
st chance
surr
end
er
lov
er
dre
am ###
the glove fever
vends
& slurp
/\\/who\\\/|/\//\/\le\//\/\/|/\
vanilla poop pods.
bubble-wrap
mood swift
tea/wanna rain
fall outer side
s(l)ung loud d(r)unks
unmuted
crocked croons screaming
soccer slat
at food
with sea bananas
on the brain
and a tongue flute moon
dreaming hats
say cottage
cheese pine/apple
fruitcakes scrim da boiler
groomer even in the grey
crooked fried cookie dough
oily and dim
how many surrealist
baby boomers does it
take to supply a crock
pot? - 1 to fold the shoelace
& 6 to untie it
love songs of the sane and able
port-lood
the seafall at dew-point
lung-mutterer rocket socks
poem should
not meat but
bean
bananatongued pie
of the booze-wah-Z
dance freed of pork pulled
nova scotch taped
above lower slip 'tation
tripped da 'electric plank ton
against the blau-jinx philosophy
a) trance-soda
aa)) knee-scorch
aaa))) tap-lion
aaaa)))) ripe & lank
yz((( whodawhatda
sst() loada clap trapped bud ha
))fuc|| > kinda leanin eeee
fxplhhh{{{ sculmber farty
artistic partly hearty and fair (
verweltlichung) (a shrinking and
narrowing of
existence) lort-pude
the sneeze-all Cupid's snooze code
bow drawn allergy prone default
qualude prelude exude applaus(e)
- able way to relieve pain
cinematic fromage
bec/
kon be/
come / triggle pink
da ox lies / dor
ma(n)t
prep/ are
thunder ring
ear splange
t
hhinn
gs
fal la part
not only for no reason
not exactly
for no reason
chewing-gum schema,
cinematic t-shirt
cranky
music
be / a / con
clum(p) / see
3 bord spectacle guy
why drink the hairy
smith / whence
ho(a) se shoo thlunk
self ham
m (st)er >épater la
bourgeoisie (eating
potatoes with the
bourgeoisie) (no
straight lines in
nurture))((crooked
ti(e)Me senil frap
war/wrap
parmantier / moule
fromage
chicken pot pie
& you know that fluffy stuff
that looks like whipped
microbes....
souvenirs without nostalgia...
infinity is before you.
(all poems july 2018
Jim Leftwich is a poet and essayist who lives in Roanoke, VA, USA. he is the author of Six Months Aint No Sentence Books 1 -187 (Differx Hosting@Box, 2011 - 2016), and three volumes of essays entitled Rascible & Kempt Vols. 1 - 3 (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016-2017). Since 2008 he has been involved in organizing and/or documenting mail art, sound poetry, visual poetry and noise events in Roanoke.
Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His most recent books are Fools Gold (2014 feral press), a superintendent's eyes (revised and expanded 2013 - unbearable/ autonomedia), flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015), The Invisible Ray, with artwork by Shalom Neuman, from Overpass Press, "5-COLOR ASSORTMENT" Chameleon Too from Redfox Press, and FROZEN HEATWAVE with Yuko Otomo, from Luna Bisonte Prods. His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize.