Steve Dalachinsky
door suite (for M.G.)
door 1
a door opens
is an airy space of wooden legs
invitation to sitting & dining
the possibility of indigestion & discussion
of furni-
ture
door 2
perhaps
door
perceives its
own
agressive nature
closes it
self to
us
door 3
door
knobs
i nod not
like asleep
but as a
yes
turn & o
pen
like hand
writing
changed
a
field
door 4
we enter
door
split
from violence
the room
crowded veils
a film en
velopes
eyes
the shark
orders
more
f
o
o
d
door 5
day is
air connecting
dots
(do not hold the doors)
is smooth dream
job
glish is
night
do you ever dot your
eyes
before you
look?
door 6
a.
boarded
X
train
to night to
view your collection
medio tiempo
at the center of how- to- please
tiempo completo
the law still questioning itself
trabajo.......alert?
at the median of howstoautoplease
evacuated meself from this
emergency
emerged informed but still un-
knowing
bound
delayed between this door
& the other
b. for m.g.
longer stronger
& lost
time is changing
all the time
shadow on impassable door
opening itself within
the light
within the artificial light
an
X on auto alert
this cold/spread handling us like
a game of hard scrabble
within the house i live
               M
  on      a  &Nbsp huge cube
           Missing   M
a window is sometimes a way out.
door 7
"people come & go
close the door
i just don't long
any
more"
DREAM BOOK
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) and flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schcmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015). His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). He is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres.
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door suite (for M.G.)
door 1
a door opens
is an airy space of wooden legs
invitation to sitting & dining
the possibility of indigestion & discussion
of furni-
ture
door 2
perhaps
door
perceives its
own
agressive nature
closes it
self to
us
door 3
door
knobs
i nod not
like asleep
but as a
yes
turn & o
pen
like hand
writing
changed
a
field
door 4
we enter
door
split
from violence
the room
crowded veils
a film en
velopes
eyes
the shark
orders
more
f
o
o
d
door 5
day is
air connecting
dots
(do not hold the doors)
is smooth dream
job
glish is
night
do you ever dot your
eyes
before you
look?
door 6
a.
boarded
X
train
to night to
view your collection
medio tiempo
at the center of how- to- please
tiempo completo
the law still questioning itself
trabajo.......alert?
at the median of howstoautoplease
evacuated meself from this
emergency
emerged informed but still un-
knowing
bound
delayed between this door
& the other
b. for m.g.
longer stronger
& lost
time is changing
all the time
shadow on impassable door
opening itself within
the light
within the artificial light
an
X on auto alert
this cold/spread handling us like
a game of hard scrabble
within the house i live
               M
  on      a  &Nbsp huge cube
           Missing   M
a window is sometimes a way out.
door 7
"people come & go
close the door
i just don't long
any
more"
DREAM BOOK
1.
smeared in numbers
3 figures
6
7 4
combo diablo
devine winner
taken under
elk denote marriage embalmed
serious suicide
an unexpected event brings good news
a happy but solitary life
white swan
disordered.
2. house
a.
it was
that i thought was never
there
river takes house b. but…….
big house by sea
somewhere in the storm comes erosion
midwest i scream (she does very loud )
flat but calms – relief -
it is not my house my life
06497 - 111 46 that will be washed away
a space off of a space
where i felt
safe
of covered wagons
3. creature dream sans creature
crossssshatchedsleeperinterrupted
by a lagoon of edges &
polarities
/ maplike indulgences
of elements
( land / water / air
empty > mass < flow
treeshaped arrows & buddha-johns
cross(-)circuiting creating typos
4. creature dream minus the dreamer
at 126th Carmeela enters the bodega
asks what her name is
2 men approach her w/a 40 in their hands
speaking dots - she joins them
@#$%&*#@$ como se llama ??????
?????como me llama ????
the mass become empty
the emptiness mass
both become finger prints
))))))))((((((((a language all their own
a pretext for signing
sounding singing speaking writing creating
typos -- me/se llama CARMEELA.
tilling the air (eating dream)
articulate complaints
de party insults
re: leaf
tables alarm edibles
edible muted sleep (others)
exhaust (fumes) open
multitudes din smoking lobby
separate race flounders
desisn <0> 1 (9) 2 other repeating count –
habit various shells squeezed young herbal gloss
hard-of-seeing sour scowl while missed appetite
brook goes strangely adlib unfamiliar
yrarbil – frequent stranger debunked
away print
smharb unique textiles text styles
tiled mosaic against grave seriopus pen
appalling thief transpires rickety
br(other)
m(other) - appear weak week collection
glared hard furious
uncover = take off
recover = put on
bathe re frain be tray s(tale) late e mit
flush precise stub toward unnatural death
within the parent mill
vile nt e labor ate emit time
immerse weight
scowl sour
scowl sour
curly cropped miden
bathing born astonished
munching feline stew
g(r)aze greys grZE grays
confused lost scuttled
curly cropped denim
immersed weight mined
wet
up hold story
upholstery sheets choice alc dov tis
shower
elom elom articulate and mol(e)ded
peril formed too late u tu late
born astonished.
nyc 10/12-13/04 partial scramble lynne tillman reading at bklyn public library decoded at home
soaring thru tin
her bet by sel (b) (f)
click
click passed imprint
\ imprint
(b)land
precisely
looks in e radicable precise
looks
click
click
perish
parish pew pyou pee-u podium mike enclosing speaker nibuo cigam
emit
emit
omit wager strip nickel down snarl
money
money
money honest
honest g(amble) flush
flush
magic wept yavoni yavoni lace
honest flush pro snart
honest flush marker marker hum drum
music/art
settle
unsettling pag pro test
wager strip sprayed
cling
cling
mur nosbig clave clave insectuous grope
select
select
ants
nyc g.sorrentino reading at ny public library re-scramble 10/12-13/04
5. bird dream
652
timbre of doow
long shadows
bad weather
so afraid
the red speckled bird
downing
it is raining lightly
i am shooting a rabbit
feed that bites the hand
atroph inbelment w(one)
excuse be perferated
prefer to eat the foot for luck
tin whilt good temper ate meant
in all things
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) and flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schcmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015). His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). He is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres.