Solarpoetics

Solarpoetics

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Wyh do we udnersntad a txet eevn fi the letetrs
aer in dsiordre

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The letter A
like a membrane
melliferous the animal flesh
bread baking   butchery

Alphabet of blood and ash
Litanie   incantation
from the back part of her throat
salt for the stew   salt
for the bread

Sings the poet maudite

When I in my youth
strolled in a blue wool dress
I strolled in a circle
of blue

2

The reading brain    the eyes moving constantly
while reading

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The letter B
when black letters of fire
patterns of animus across
the landscape

The place in the distance

Where the air
smells of poisoned rain
take one step after
the other

Where you do not want to go

An amalgam of words
in sequential order here where
you walk ahead   stop
raise your eyes

3

We identify only ten or twelve letters    quick jumps
three or four letters left and seven or eight letters right

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The letter C circles
zigzags   animates the plaster
death cast   a solitary
workwoman then

From the back part of her throat

When I in my youth in a blue wool dress
I strolled among   maidens   monks
and birds   I strolled in wind
cold and heat

Across green volcanic hills

There In shadows   haze   smoke
in three dimensional space
piles of charred human
and animal bones

4

The history of the neurology of reading
the existence of a visual center

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The letter D whispered
in the dismal quarter where
absence of a picture   the green
volcanic hills

Grain   grape   bread   wine

The story of the shepherdess
staged and scripted sub-plots  there
in a bucolic setting our lady grows
out of a mound of dirt

Her rose-bud mouth a crooked line

A breast vein as thick as a finger
the wedding feast   bread and meat
yellow   sulfurous   a plume
of  smoke

5

Some written words lit up or hidden among
geometric forms

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The letter E
elaborate the graphic design
chasms and fissures
in the earth

Our lady grows out of rotting meat

Sings the poet maudite
I in my youth   concealed and disguised
walked in three dimensional
space

Heat   cold   wind   water

Data  science
pain   fear   phobia   multimedia
exhibitions   photographic art   illustrations
the ritual of baking bread

6

Yeast spores are ubiquitous in air and on
the surface of grain

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The letter F
the preserved body rotates  forms
sweet bacteria   then the skin
of the fingertips

Chemical     molecular   where

In a circle they joined hands
ruiners and destroyers engulf and consume
victims and executioners ooze out
the urge

Staged and scripted sub-plots

Genesis to revelation
in elaborate letters   shift   twist and slant
disease   famine   torture   war
earth   air   fire   water

7

Everything begins in the retina
ten years of research on the reading brain

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The letter G a graphic design
sight   touch   listen   the sound
of grinding corn   the smell
of bread baking

Then she brews tea over a fire

There in reddish violet light
violet light    a jagged black line zigzags
a graphic design   the head covered
with a hood

identity unknown    tree   rope   grain

The air smells of smoked meat
his mouth waters   taste buds pulsate
from a gap   a fissure
a flow of hormonal forces

8

Begin to understand
the nature of the leavening process

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The letter H
catches in the throat   then she steps
backwards and flings
a handful of earth beyond the edges

Of a page   you hear a hollow sound

The dry external covering
of an ear of corn   then stepping forwards
she scatters letters cut out from
the skull   spine bones

The form of a human body

When I in my youth
in a blue wool dress   I strolled
in a circle of blue
sings the poet Maudite

9

The cerebral cortex   a sliver of brain
barely thicker than a credit card

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The letter I vertical
under an occult sky once upon
a time I sat cross-legged
in the crotch of a tree

Grape    wine   grain   bread

From roots of plants
that bear the grain in darkness
light   heat   cold   focus on
a common scene

Chasms in the fissured earth

The story of the baker
a set of skills in sequential order
the finished loaf   A to Z
in place and space

10

Recognize in some dozens of milliseconds
a written word

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The letter J   the shape
of a hook and on the hook

the butcher's coat
wind   heat  cold  drought

Blood and mud flows out
of the right sleeve

One animal
gut   head and tail   measure
body length   jaws  claws
diameters of holes

The zones of inclusion   exclusion

Salt for the stew   salt for the bread
once upon a time   my mother
was sold from me when I
could but crawl

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Dispatches from the frontiers
of neuroscience

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The letter K stands apart
like a barley plant
in three dimensional space
the dry external covering

A snarl of fibrous hairs

Drifting in circles
wind   heat  cold  drought
and dead white the barley plant
cut down

Deboned and buried

Then the reading brain
follows one letter after another
beyond the edges
of a page

One millionth one millionth of a second
an episode

Selected Poems

Hermaphropoetics

from Solitary Workwoman

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Selections fromI am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter

Not Be Essence That Cannot Be

Part 3: Fire Clay
from The Joe 82 Creation Poems

Selections from
I am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter