Category: abstraction

Hexylmathemagica Chaos Koans – 4/29/2017 – Non-representational poetry

[…] the tricksiest of the Pixies came alive in the ferment & brought the lightning. […] Puzzle piece insanity is, in fact, something anyone can develop. It takes only some conditions, or some habits, or some different blend of beans. […]

Staircase

Original publication date 11/21/2015. It’s quite brilliant and I don’t remember writing it at all, but it escaped my 2020 purge and someone looked it up today and I reread it and said yes. The streaking of the red dogs. The wild dogs, the feral dogs. The chanting of the mice. The lift into the […]

Dissolving Thoughts

First draft posted 6/19/2017 Technically speaking, the scatter of papers represents entropy, while the persistence of furniture represents illusions of permanence. There is no persistence of the construct of self, at best, a standing wave, yet we all act ‘as if’ it were so, and in time the elements wear on it. Meanwhile, in their […]

Dreaming Plants

Writing, ring-toss ’round the rosies, limits of imagination, checkerboard pattern of climbing vines straightened with Backbone Growing all through the night bedroom, the jungle, where the wild things are & limits unlimited, the mind unbound untwisted untwisting the madness free associating and unwinding on these small pages Cranking out the thoughts like so many fireworks […]

Iris’ Pathless Void of Dreamspace footway (in 8 postcard poems)

Theoretically(& it’s also perfectly practical!)Each lightning strike of the stormEqualsOne soul awakened& Set ablazeOn fire with passion Helium Dreams& Neon DawnsCobalt Darkness& Lithium MoonlightThis, above all………. <write your answer on your heart & hold it close- > Incremental catapultsBit of an oxymoronContradiction in termsIn a test of lucidity vs. dreamspaceWho do you wager wins? In […]

A note on the utility of gender-free pronouns in literature

Consider the phrase “the Raven of Stars begins xyr [simplify: their] dance” which is what I was writing (for the Discordian Postcard Conspiracy) the first time I decided I required a multiple genderless possessive. In my case, I wanted to specify that despite being a ‘the’ the Raven of Stars was not-singular yet [……]

You Are Ready

You Are Ready Falling awayAlways fallingAlways losing piecesAlways drifting throughMoving ever through the endless dreamsCollecting up all the little pieces of harmYou know you are readyAnd thence and then split From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and Kobo, as well as direct from […]

Poise & Finesse Will Carry You Through

This piece was made by cutting bits out, collaging together and then editing for flow, word choice and structure from several interesting little posts from 2017 and 2016 that were a little too slippery to really have any meaning; this one is still pretty slippery but I dialed the randomness and anti-coherence down a lot.