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iconoclasm of the glacial

Poetry reversal game played on May 15th, 2019

Daylight departs from an unchosen wall
Black holes end your tomb’s immobility, a curse
of fractured gifts, the rind
of a regimented chaos. My shadow hides your bare baroque throats
acids in quatreform quiet, ruined
numbness
to the fossil outside its soul. Two true smooth faces’
emptiness which eternity won’t offer, the crumpling muffler of
the un-world’s rim and drastic preservation.
The muffler fossilizes their arbitrary anchor.
(Steve Morrison)

morning is disturbed under a random window
black hole darkness and its testicle stillness, a desecration
of a flawed recovery, the crust
of a designated disorder. you hide your adorned belt
of solids outside a linear stillness, remain
insensibility
for the tree outside the line. many wigs are the soft
singularity of space doesn’t inquire of the cocooning voice
the poles of celestial and almost intense unchanging
the voice digs up during its superfluous motionlessness
(Casi Cline)

the iconoclasm of the glacial

but before many run gracefully
because, a plain was red for the first time there was not enough dog poison
for negative two, he thought. But you say you are outcast beside that sphere.
night is different than less misfortune to her.
and you will not be remembered
under an ocean making itself cacophonous by the standing decks of submarines.
there is no more than not enough eternity for her
heartlessness either. You’re the shoe and bowls that belong.
an imprisoned tsitra. a first and last for the cynics

never do the hard mountains untangle resistant roots
outside a sole for one person only
this unbreaking is my secret
a spotless constellation whose irregularities reject isolation
and at the beginning call to the burning agoraphobic, naked
in brown at the beginning of the lome.
She can’t see close by the falling drop-off of the country’s joy
and open few ebony blackouts unlike medicine
instead she isn’t the clothed native.

(Casi Cline)

CLARITY
Of what it unraveled in indecipherable iron
Nothing bares naked out of disrespect of many blades of artificial Easter decorative grass
Outside of many light bulbs I pass out
The whistles that batter me, with heaviness

Rarely, if you should speak with clarity
It drops memorable things of varying levels of smoothness
But she what you are unrelenting,
she that you are

And a dog of no relation to the stiff
orders fluffs her last quiet goose
Rarely when a pebble ceases,
a cheerful majority lower their feet

(Aaron Dylan Kearns)

DISROBE
that which you cut from heavy sea
we cast off as curse to our atmospheres
when in the suns warmth we slept
a quietude was sucked like a gravity

never again will i preach
lowering down for the memories tear
and she that is the devouring
it is in the body of she that i am

but that worm of the heavens
silenced her most violent violin
and just as the tearing was sleeping
happy multitudes, they opened up their throats

(Steven Cline)

Enamel – but you forgot the desert’s muscle
and you neglected the occupied void

and he was unconscious for the first time in consideration of the dogs
accepting a clear indifference

that was the snows, and he thought
here is an elevator, a bathroom

outside of those unoccupiable pits of the same, Urinal
but he abandoned a nuisance

nuisance that holds no relation to the water to forget
there wasn’t water, only the same cup

It is a singular of a negative,
which was left unpublished for the uncountable devils

Enamel
Disruption of dog

(Aaron Dylan Kearns)

Zan – and I forgot the roadkill armadillo
and I forgot the tongue of the sea

and I moved among the insects
shivering to a wide open kindness

of the soil, and I moved
but there is no trash bag, no junkyard

in the cloud of that other, Matthew
& a villain forgotten

singular man of the rains that never come
another rain, another torrent

he was no one of the twelve
& unknown without the seven devils

Zan,
apocalypse of parasite

(Steven Cline)

2019-05-16T10:45:24+00:00May 16, 2019|

Éluard Games

We played two games with poems from Éluard’s Capital of Pain. The first was a translation game. We chose a poem and covered up the english translation, then took turns attempting to translate a section of the french. (None of of know french…)

To Touch a Leafy Day
To touch a leafy day, so unlike a tire pour
A Motley and senseless pastry lens
We dance the night like ants, we embrace the castle moat
We extend vibration under the bruise of the sun

Without a center or along the edge of vegetal fear
Lies a luxury of peril and regret of night
Without the hands of the sun the body lies somnolent
Grottos of idea retire behind your eyes

Souvenirs of bovine hearts, brewed tame.
I reform one chamber, then two.
That I may encounter life’s paradox.
The terrible loss of a glass creature.

The second game was a reversal game. We look the poem Marsha was beaming and each reversed it, according to our idea of what the opposite of each line would be.

Steven
Max has Darkened
The eternity’s stillness is at the height of opened death
Some ugly scaly toad slower than a gallon of porcelain
Throws stringy life across a void
Triangles of moon harden in the dirt
And the boat of its tunneling awakens the dark
the worst is always lost close by

Megan
Asthma was fractal
The second firm at the leaf of unbound breath
Settled a whole youth inside a dark pool
Isosceles of shade harden its feet
And the stillness of its death endears darkness
The worst was not near here

Casi
Many seconds stand still at the branches of linear eternity
The hideous naked worm slower than a multitude of planets
Pushes a many-headed baby away from a black hole
Cubes of moon harden its legs
But the doldrums of its landing calms the dark
The worst will be hidden inside you
Formine has been Shrouded

2019-05-03T13:13:43+00:00May 3, 2019|

Faust Game in honor of Walpurgis Night

Surrealist Comic Game

Players: Steven Cline, Casi Cline, & Aaron Dylan Kearns

Directions: A “moderator” chooses a few pages of a comic, and numbers each text box. Sheets are then made for all of the players, alternating the numbers on each sheet so that one single person does not have multiple boxes in a row. The moderator notes whether the text box will be a line of dialogue or a narrator statement, but no other hints will be given as to the subject of the comic. Afterwards, line up the numbered statements with their respective boxes. Viola! You have a surrealist comic.

2019-05-01T22:48:38+00:00May 1, 2019|

The Animal Monarchs

We recently played a few rounds of the “Listening Game” (outlined here) with Steve Morrison’s daughter & wife as the main storytellers. Afterwards, Jason Abdelhadi attempted to re-tell the story of the first round, going from the images alone. (Images by Steve Morrison, Megan Leach, Casi Cline, and Steven Cline)

Jason’s Re-telling: The Animal Monarchs engage in a revolutionary re-ordering of the universe, starting with a new Declaration of the Rights of Objects Whatsoever. The Cat Monarch and Pig Monarch garnish the evening with autobiographical speeches. Cat Monarch’s graveyard insights, a film noir story. Pig Monarch’s astrology.

2019-04-25T18:40:58+00:00April 25, 2019|

why the moon glows green

What does the whisper in your stomach say? Cracked oyster shell.

What do you do when you sleep through an eclipse? silver hand.

What is the answer to the question of cat paws? A solitary blood drop.

Why is the love of a good woman born from the dark soul of a potato? Because the clayman devolves like liquid.

Where did mac go? It doesn’t matter. The fan intensifies the fire.

How will we know when the stars fall in love? When there is no more antelope under the rain.

Why does the star vibrate? Maybe you should be asking why the moon glows green when you vomit your agonies.

If the cat discovers the apple then the particle will be trapped by the potential energy barriers

If the sphere becomes erect then it will definitely be sausages for breakfast

If the flesh transfers it’s spore then the buffalo fish police will buffalo the buffalo-fish police

If the marrow lies fallow then we will all rejoice and eat hot pickles

If the branches fall to ash then the soles of our shoes will turn to dust

If we open the book to a random page then the gods will wink and we will disappear

if the world stops turning then we will never understand the true nature of asparagus

Word games with Amy Hale, J. Rhett Aultman, Robert Puckett, Casi Cline, Steven Cline, & Megan Leach

2019-04-12T04:30:03+00:00April 12, 2019|

In which we attempt to summon Bessie A. Ficklen, and get a grumpy devil instead

We recently tried to summon our southern surrealist ancestor Bessie Ficklen with a ouija board. It didn’t go so well.

Are you Bessie A. Ficklen? No

Are you dreaming? U2

Would you like to tell us something? FU

Who are you? 666

See Jason Abdelhadi’s post over at the Mormyrid blog for more on Bessie: http://peculiarmormyrid.com/2019/02/03/bessie-a-ficklen-dream-poetry-1891/

2019-04-01T14:32:00+00:00April 1, 2019|
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