Two Poems
Edric Mesmer
Undate : : Abnormal Formation and Stress Are
for Nick Dulak & Joe Marzullo
“ %E0 la fran%E7aise ”
does not compute…
“demeanor numerical”
does not compute
Let’s put on our blinders and trawl—
Serifim,
“of imitative origin”— the lapidary
dragnet
Declensed, as by Wiclif, a cache of
trivium
deems and deems and deems—
My beaus, de-
nude sartorially, lape-
lled in
triphthongal
lieu…
Lithophyte : –ology : : these –phytes’
neologies—
link to loblolly : : cuts an
unsound
ear, and an ode is
freed.
And if brain, lobot-
omy
To go— and to hear the nocturne—
I will not want again. Pervert-
ing its course— to source—
the trivial
ratio- felo-
ci- ni-
nation ous
“Then you can lie down
[published];
But the [reader]
will be [robed].”
And instantaneous, anemone
among,
blown as from Shropshire—
a dis-
simulation
of Guten-
berg
‘Mærykkah
Made up
disbelief, of clausal seg-
ments “drawn to”
“‘strong signatures’”*
Just wrought
ironness strug-
gling with leviathan
design. The azure, re-democratizing itself, tiles…
Constitutes—to rapprochement—infinitive ‘abesque.
If english be dead: wrap digital texture round.
If bling be said: the baton, the flute, the automaton.
Veer of borders, magic propelling spiral-ward, over
hair, their pointed shoulders, and seaweed cylinders.
In rose periods. “The period
of the period.” Cacophone.
You are the KO’d possum.
*On Isabella Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini