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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green soft/pling why
subatomic vermin
either too full or too empty
to be thought
amphetamine patriosis
rip/snort paralysis
highend highjinx
hygiene always last/first
& men do stam(p)
da proof in da pod/cast
wiggly poetics
improvisational promiscuity
academic folklords
a cult of culture-making
cast iron flyfishing always
a highwire parataxis
granted green mats
dependent on soft/pling
a gracious spill of why not
pretense of relaxation within
borders of confine
vowelic melodiousness
self-made proletarian sabbatical
this is the kind of time
God would inhabit
if he existed
if he existed as a fragment
or a postcard.
plot stem hummer
im print
the hand clap
hill shout
re print
press hind
imp rest i cular
window cell
cilia fossil
poetry
clout slap shin
heavenmetal
m e n t a l
weather
pint-seized
hell ee cop tour
whip out whooper
trance screamers
what typer lips
ex press / pressure
drop draped
tongue cut of(t)en
soft but young
merino, contumely,
notes from
underground...
memory is not
subjective — how
old do you have
to be to know
that? helix crop
circling ships
cop tic(k)
trans end dent /al(l)
marine life organ is mmm
mm ar gin al(e) sphinx/ter
muckle
plotsemheimer
Stravinsky
neighborhood: poetry (as
in Beethoven, or
Rauschenberg) is a
perpetu
ally seditio
us
charter of human
rights // sideways
thinking
meristic phrontistery
aesthetics of abundance
rotissisere & crack/ward
blinking...
umbilical chord of illumination
Role of Poetry
perpetual vs periodic inventory
disalienatory
airports for particles
Role of Poetry — to Obliterate Pessimism
perennial inventories
blown whistle dreary
dues captain 'lectric cloudy chair
best of friends needy companion
rainin' stormy on the sea
i feel somebody has ship
wrecked for / me blue wish troubles
flown capital rain nest drains
thistle lectern tricks fried torment
weary clout eye seeds only
fuse hairs comb onion seal
eyefeed some bodies hash shop
invented stories of alien articles
in life kissed death cold lips
lord hot/dog on my roll red rose
heart of green briar fell
blot em/brace the wire
ar m ature brank use gioc
met me sou teen risque
"you have to start somewhere" they
said, but i didn't and still don't
believe them
despite
global warming & heart/
break
bicameral pulsion foamer
wall
of tin (sel)
declarate
the warped ones
mizu (gucci)
rem(br)an(d)t
self po(u)r / trait
s diploma/dials
intuitional optimism
v o w e l i c heat
self-branching
bones of the
desecrated
s ea l
sea l
sea-wall
hopevue dry/wall
plyward boptional
rivers/compulsion
involute la foam/er/sohm)
placid placard ' s paella
wry venue tonal barnyard
what are the best sources
for protein? spelling
cardboard diplomacy
moss-over loam and
nose flute
abstract truthes &
olive
branches.
storytelling
they were telling stories around the
lamp-fire. i remember i feel 17 years of
non. non-did non-despite non-iconic
non-would. they were wars dispatched
and laundered next to process.
toasted they roasted marsh demons
always scary ghost sagas
i was at times mellow though a
frayed of the dark & of sweeping
outside / the the stars were
a comforting blank
kit... i slept with both eyes op
tioned,
boasting of the scarred host, stark &
weeping. shoes on fire. dawn as fear
arrives for a fee. roborate, rident,
costrengthening,
creaking.
i was streeped in (t) ra/di(a)/tion
over-ripe for (g)rif(f)
ting - ear splayed lopin'
re/tread in gog me
)b)lust elements of chemo-/stree
ready to gather me rose/bloods
whilst i coudn't for a day @
the (t)race / rack.
lather the streets with
clack & glint. hematomancy.
radiation-creep, roped-off &
layered (flog them with
bread, not with
cake)
walked
chalk faced millenials
having taken the courses
8 now the money
gibberishing
their way thru solid cell
you -loid mascara,
bluefish in the swamp
opine
ses ami
da ditto-mat eats
der fisherman
un(d) sard/een
swimmith 'tween
da legs of der pisher/mint
der cramp/liar
is soaked by the (b)rain
(what do you mean when you
say "drain the swamp"?)
open like a seed or
a brillo pad?
pen OH sez army
spliff like spleen drill or
dapple/gang her ornaments
(a)for long
ball peen hammer,
a foot-long ball peen hammer.
says ah mea(n) grinned
griminal
"don't you mind / people
grinnin' / in your face" says
john the revelator groping @
the elevator hatch
moaning open sesame
seed me bluelin bring da gypsy's blue
lips home.
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.