In this, narrow /, leans
through, Ovens / you, by
where the mists by kiln,
grew to me chocked binary,
hole under some other
first hole
only first shown,
compressions, loosening
referent,
your casting is where the shade
picture works / black theatre,
Carcass
become,
surface, because
the sun got out / the houses the
estuary carbonated,
animals with the soda drinks, malted
heckle shawls
Manacle the apparitions
of its particulars, shape vacant
Dear, etymologies,
drawl, disruptions, you are my
harem, you understand
Why carry the oar, bitten apart
collections, saw moat, final elsewhere, parts whale
tongue, shale, What years now, at the
waters rusts blueing,
Got new fought, or further set, Engines,
under bayous,
A separation
of these
veins, No,
Fists the shapes
in the mouth, drink rings
off police hands
I am out to scrape the web / again
there is nothing is done away from
this type of near erasure
invisible going down where sky
repeats
nothing repeated crowd movements, on
the person.
( Kiln’s preface )
( coordinate, from ), ( station, wound )
( strobe, opposite what ), ( projection, surfaces ), ( figment, choired about )
( Kiln's preface )
When
one pulls
up against a place of
sketches the
types of wholes
leaping
the
room is dark until
the room is light
enough to realize the room
formed emerging disland,
near you
the circuitous,
kelps of bone, &
collapse
together
/
We disinherited
through
knows what is most
knows what it is
place of sketches
that animals
form
business
of surfaces,
off
stray
fever
shapes,
continuous on,
& irreverent
/
These are face
closed on
to fronts of me,
insists
a land is single,
lit, & percussed
when
thing
disconnects from itself,
corsets
of, visage
were
they made
echo then,
your vacancy
address
/
Between
the gnat-moths
you
or I move rusts
to
specific object,
houses close onto
white
boards to shell
us unison, black
theatre
of
beardlice
bit
away the beard
the face
to
ice-holes
/
I can
have
this ledger
of some
things,
days taking
soundings, where
still the aspect
misses,
deserted
of, frame
to
have
the functions
of one upon
you
to know is it never buried
outside
periphery
what
to let
the drunk
land,
&
close me
/
Muzzles
to you
type of
plant the body
is
kiln where you are
fever
to
strobes of gull
let us do it
how else
origin, filled
the hollow
in
series
that cannot
&, only
series
/
Gone
the nameplace,
compression
without
render
occupant
be
dismantled off
namespace,
beach ratified
vague
to packing, &
volumed,
this for
sight
spreading
our poor objects, &
continuous decades
( coordinate, from )
Like this land is this vast chopped land, loose
the dissolving
weathers formed emerge plates turn bone, front, the head is
a smell in the face, animal
thin, is, continuous, is, lit the foreign object, its convincing
echo material, is its own percussive sketch, area
insists, area, usher, process disland.
Follows surface, aye, and subsequent and closed to mesas
inside, survey
piercing that expanse that eager globed compression in its opening,
omission, there, rooms of, tomb sear, closes, onto
event, an entire
strobes, to
collapse people beneath a rain, sound of houses, they
bordering in, whose holes through do our windows they.
Disinherited through, physical means, again, you are
minuscule we single
continuity, skin that to usurp weather in
these events, unisonous,
rows across the arm wrists, these onto my name, nothing is
unprovoked, white
closes the dry white, houses must be insufficient, fixated through,
desert knows what is most
knows what it is place of sketches.
( station, wound )
Swallows everything, namespace collapse, other country
metal wet, to know in
smoked weather possesses onto the bodies, prisms, zags
perpetual cinders doming flaked sky,
differences you, when limes grow, horizontal is, body
differences further beneath its parts. I am your plant. Does
enough low remnant on horizon you, intelligent metal
shine they got up cliffs for, stares
field of rattlesnake shell, a
land is single. Kiln where you are, remains unmangled,
occurs and thinks it means pressing dim into color,
atrocities what
ease then hold, absolute, still,
sun that what is
no breathing, few small continuous decades.
/
A line does not change, stripped out net for the grate,
there is no country shape fahrenheit,
that hollows for, shell, in the wound, is, irrational,
witnesses color moved by another color, lives like place
is,
that heat beaded the accent off, this opposites, we are poor
objects names out front.
Some clipped by certain pay cloud kept their line for
and to begin others, that years before
were a series of disorientations, my father is hint for years,
deafening, putting iron down the land mapper, that
without considering drunks in the hot ocean.
That a seductive light appears
to feature one appears to.
Hours form an intentional place, which an expansive keeping
takes, the arrangement each made each the killer of veins.
Once fine through but through fragmentary, them
converge onto augment, branded, wet callus, stay I noise.
Movement is necessarily described as folds
are, the profanity unmuted, peels atop everything, is kiln,
that there is a wound does not move.
( strobe, opposite what )
When we money the
cacti upright
since undying, &,
cannot occur
or does not figment
atop, you / is no
opposition /
Omits you crowd
movements on the person.
Indifferent / strobing
out be where you can
/
Owning
miraged
husk, & swallowing
apparitions, to
synonym, estuaries
carbonating /
malted
heckle shawls.
Places avoid strong events
they
vulture on
hollow
void phrases /
separate
that we start
faces, across from,
& during
opposites
tuned /
through
surfaces,
all capacity on you
your parts, breathe / flash, & ajar
chew, along a
semiland,
asphaltic /
bogs
/
Empty but is / of collapses, so kiln
is, of,
contains
its own, / series
fingertips, evictions, of glare
is it
shook between figment, &
multiples,
oilskin
/
Monthsbent
everyone chipped
scalds
off a van,
out
in the repeating
mar / I stay noise
rustbent,
whose bones
fixated through floods body
onto me,
occurred
deaf, & manacles
when
loud forms
quiet. And / you the event
loosens
onto it
/
Placeway, curse echo curse, & vein
out to, rusts, heat
islands
vague / strobe,
to have /
its functions upon you.
Becomes, it
law, & shapes inside days
You are sure you
are starting landscapes
is unwater,
is your own echo
smears
its mouth, even / unison
is place we
place opposites
( projection, surfaces )
Lets nothing touch,
hollows, were
vast
ends / itself
void
diurnal
or vast upon you
not /
much
reacts,
earth / not
become
your
open mirage
knelt
to
the water / in
the mirrors
In rows / at the ends
of place /
why /
the bodies
lose their walk,
same
things
come at you
samely /
salt,
halves / horizon to
shot glass
Physical
drag
Our shapes inside
direction
that to more
itself / to
eat off sill, church
where
unfolds
you
kiln
(law)
becomes is
its shape inside
the days, possible, off you
( figment, choired about )
When
signs languages
misinterpret
the aquaplanes
figment.
Much of how / roars
the / repeating
landscape
uncollisional / etymologies
tearing
solar, &, so
shapes
eat over the land.
/
Whose vast /
is less strange
less the event is vague
place is names event / gone
where
region, &,
coffin handles /
burst place
gnawed.
Where you sing you barrage in
planewreck
your
apparatus / pounds air,
is settling mirages
of them / to have
them
upon you
/
Wrapped you empty quarter.
Forward, &, sun,
nothing / between
it
loosening us
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MATTHEW JOHNSTONE is the author of Let's be close Rope to mast you, Old light (Blue & Yellow Dog, 2010), o n e (Inpatient Press, 2015), and Note on Tundra (DoubleCross Press, forthcoming). He co-edits 'Pider (pidermag.com) and hosts the E t A l. poetry readings, both of Nashville, Tennessee.