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poetry by steve parker

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Dmitri's secret dissent in the parrot axis (impetrarc sonnet)

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( to his loving wraith, Suliko ... ) whether ( it ) were (Shostakovich) in the mind of the Leningrad metronome—the dead re...
Monday, January 25, 2016

primus inter pares as pathology

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all that big stuff she says how showy how now  too big for poetry keep it undramatic no big words no climactics or adornings resist meani...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

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some mischief the scarecrow's splash from the well .
Thursday, January 14, 2016

articles of a pantomime ghazal at this odeon near you

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the anxiety of breathing under conscious(....) control-the-tiny-filament that 0 separates the animal in the brush from sunlight —neith...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

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broken trees stuck on a weir — the end of things .
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

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white turnip heads in the floodwater— the dead of winter .
Monday, December 28, 2015

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slanting fields pour through wet drystone— new waterfalls .

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the river rises— nearly to our doors we breathe .
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

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three and a half seconds of pure light  ( a poem for the  Time Being) unlike the  whip-pan , which  is used to rip the viewer into a ta...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

le dormeur du val: an inflected cyborg translation of Rimbaud for Remembrance Sunday 2008

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it is a hole of greenery where a river sings hanging madly to grasses ................................ tatters of money ...................
Saturday, December 12, 2015

'The' Tao that loves is or is not ...

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慈  loving  故  causes  能  ability  勇  brave .
Wednesday, December 09, 2015

found language poem with

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creaky-voiced glottal approximant (th ey tht lks out frm yr ope glottis) .

diminishing returns

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Prize: a lifetime's supply of cigarettes .
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

payment protocol (lacuna)

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make a hole in the self-text into which (which?) fluid a lake to fill the lack which yourself luna-like from below-above one (second o...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

if so how (Cézanne of Green Fables) ]now you're for it/

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Don't throw the dog —Tibetan Buddhist monk from Drepung monastery (speaking to Tashi Tsering, alleged four year-old reincarnation of ...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

canniku

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the sky, look for an instant they hold .

canniku

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put to the question snakes the way and long .

older by an idiot (Immaterial Culture) (unfinished otherwise overfinished)(high, heeled posture and bearing)

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In September 2006, the U.S. government announced  it had moved Mohammed —Wikipedia  [seemingly its entire being in  lordus  though its vo...
Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Walter Sickert on late Monet:

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‘I feel no need to pass out before a pond.’ .
Sunday, October 04, 2015

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Act boldly, and unseen forces will come to your aid —Dorothea Brande .
Saturday, October 03, 2015

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225,386 people  were killed  with firearms  in the US  between 2007 and 2013 (keep it quiet and act like it didn't happen...
Friday, October 02, 2015

babyku

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a mother makes up songs for her baby— cradling her thoughts .

/ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/ of the lullababy (work in digress)

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this dyad is found deep —Wikipedia so I says says I —Ireland that even those who assert that everything is predestined ... look both ways...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Virginia Woolf speaking of words ...

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... feeling herself carried along in the swirl of many things —Virginia Woolf: Night and Day, 1919. A recording of Adeline Virginia sound...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

full text of Pliny the Elder's natural history

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~ et in arcadia ego -;*> ; >;.-^>^  le berger traces his own shadow in the script not that of his companion not that of his c...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

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"I have attempted the penny whistle,  and have discovered it to be damnably devoid of strings." —Madeleine Shine. 1969. ...

our savage gentle forthright astronomy (work in regress)

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and the item is life whirling and the auctioneer leans back says this says this will not be our future no this will expresses most cle...

End of Career

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the cruellest thing Tony Blair did was not the Iraq War it was buying Gordon Brown an ice cream in public then watching it kill him...
Monday, July 27, 2015

if you had it in your hands

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if you had it in your hands it would be all purple light too many voices has the world and rather too much fight O I have been rejected...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

of love and dark ways in fragment and phrase

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this the cold air of a summer in which of anyway there was no certainty even afterwards long after when he held his head in death cradli...

upon the killing. turnips etc

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silence in the lounge where once as if some explosion everyone bated look at their idiotic think now, think hard what comes next ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

all the grooming politesse of night

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O men dreary rolling their armpits through the steam oh look he says to the mirror oh look that's all this is what it is to live to...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

miracules

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the enclosing lushness of the path to the Pooh Sticks bridge Herb Robert is everywhere reaching, with its tiny pink starlight offset b...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

schlock and schlock again

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all that it ever was A major bouncing like me and uh you in a bouncy castle by a uh river no minors no sevenths no augmented nothing but ...

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delight ain't just  the giver  of sight—Madeleine Shine

machine sea

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ugh a dread from over              the far morbay that blackback fells stark                           into spluts of early birdscold a m...

Cronos eat (jelly) babies (to the Gala)

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what we call watch they call un show we look it from different sides somewhere between this thumb or toe time and tongue for no—elides ...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

(a hypnagogue for JM)

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... that slepen al the nighte with open ye —Chaucer ... delight ain't just the giver of sight —Madeleine Shine ... because he is abso...

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radicalization is the resigned resort of the desperate and lonely anyone can find friends and fervour in that foolish firelight .
Monday, June 08, 2015

jump or roll the dice

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The people we write for are always already gone and will never read us again we write only for ghosts —Madeleine Shine once it becomes...

last night I walked with a zombie

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inconceivable now as the pathway its soft-looking venoms where once the bell the bell the clang that rang for us zombies at the river...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

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It's not a smile; it's the lid on a scream —Julie Goodyear

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose--Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.The most revealing features here are the murmurations of the audience: when they *dare* to laugh.

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or maybe stoats lofted, Biggles?

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what are you like with heat? there is a tide in the heat and beat which if taken at the flood, would what do you call a man with no head...

Just because it's that time on Saturday night, or should be...

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Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Littlebigbang Theory

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cold dark matter, some of it bright and hot some of it not matter on such a scale that it might appear arrested, frozen, fixed in crysta...

we are the eggmen

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as with Burroughs's ugly spirit what killed his wife one awakes to find one's existence compromised by forces that appear alien b...
Friday, May 29, 2015

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philosophy is remembering your girlfriend when the lights blow out .

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commas are the breaths within kisses .

Quick poem for Duncan's sculptures

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swollen their hard-soft bellies that are not bellies beyond mathematics their beaks that are not beaks this sculptor of the infinite wil...

riverghosts aside

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the grass in the glint the hand of your hand the river's brush the sun's cackles as the low small things away they won't ...

Worlde's Blis: The Jaye Consort.

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

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her drums pound all the night soft pigeons at dawn .

ONESUPPOSESTHEAPOLOGIA (eek means also)

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there is not one moment in/for which the clockface of dandelions blown out as basements will not tell its facial tells at the table in th...

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it means like the shifting the wheeling of Patton's army to Bastogne in an instant this miracle that cannot happen like that it will ...

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pale early morning drums all quiet .

Orange into black in the Yorkshire sinks.

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always though they follow

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all our secrets it is as though we had convened perhaps at the riverside had been alerted to the coming of the river monster and had fle...

Eithe Genoimen (reversal)

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I would that I were littered stars cast up upon the tide that all my eyes might gaze aloft to where you hence reside .
Thursday, May 21, 2015

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fuck you he would say with his dripping schticks— I am Nature .
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

ghosts by the river

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the glint in the grass the brush of your hand the river the sun low as the cackles the small things they won't go away the path i...

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full of monkeys the car slips softly into the river
Sunday, May 17, 2015

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Peter Ackroyd, whom I generally regard as exhaustive in his research, and thereby reliable, reports in his biography of Blake that the avera...

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" The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad "—Salvador Dali

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" The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the e...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Ooh so got to learn to catch a ukulele now ...

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hair-clips

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there's nothing left of this but hairclips perhaps some DNA which even post-apocalypse takes time to wash away .
Thursday, May 14, 2015

look harder

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look at each other across the vast gulf and try to read what is in your hearts and heads most of all try to read yourself in the eyes ...

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

rag-rug rag

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if you can make it here there's still no guarantee that you could make it in the Gaza Strip or the frozen methane of somewhere else ...
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Thursday, May 07, 2015

patachresis draught

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The raw, which contain bark shavings and bugs during scraping, is placed in canvas tubes (much like long socks) and heated over a feu. This ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

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Crikey, what a new (ancient) box of toys one have unearthed here: Mediaeval punctuation. (& every other punctuation & characte...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

in the ruins of lost civilisations

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imagine you wake to find yourself at the wheel of a miraculous vehicle smoking down the highway to some destination you suddenly forgot ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

de quidditas et bedknobs

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It's not a smile, it's the lid on a scream —Julie Goodyear I'm going to be a star —Withnail (Oh the shock has pretty...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Socrates just annoys me with warnings of anachronism.

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Oh a bath full of blood or a cup of hemlock either should suffice to stop the travel of self-reflexive idiocy I am not surprised really I...

Some strange claims have been made for the Greeks.

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What nonsense that the Ancient Greeks created our ideas of physical beauty. We got that from when we were pre-human, and a strong, healthy b...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

discus etc Myron

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one leg weight-bearing and the other not ... this is an untruth one is weighted and the other braced also weight-bearing, carrying all th...
Monday, March 30, 2015

we love icy noctiluca

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some girls are bigger than other girls' smothers you mustn't dream your eyes your violet cruelty oh what nonsense as we jump shut...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

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If you don't do what you believe in,  you end up believing in what you do —Xavier Rubert de Ventos
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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For balance and measure, here is Wikipedia's etymology about the word 'hallow:' Etymology [ edit ] Further information:  We...
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