Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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Heller Levinson

tenebraed to

distance

& if but this was here to were-ified

steps                     accumulate

          ::  canister bee  ::

[if one is where one is is distance a fiction  ; a tale  ;  a flirtation

[no gaps just changed positions

[body as spatial block     as stampeding curtail    But

what got us here

deep in the path of scarlet horseshoe

reversibility & the day of the Cyprians

place:  a consideration

             or

             a position

to map

                : :

where in the

map

is the

query

the wobble          the displaced the

misplaced the wayward the

awkward the maligned the

malignant the belligerent the allergenic the tame the footloose the

fancy free the frolicsome the remote smote freeload reload download

upload explode
 
 
 
 
 
tenebraed to

nitrogen

the cyclically alimentative

                                                            dis-charge

                                                             in-charge
 
soluble
 
“Ironically, that the same substance – nitrates – was essential to
improving agricultural yields and to making explosives.”
 

how much of cyclicality

is

rasp . . .

rub frisson splay, that between the spots fertilizer, fricative-tantalize

essentially the dialogue as framework :  call & response  :   the inter-

gather 
:  in-gest ://: di-gest  :  the insupportable supported,

the supported → suspect

the road to nutritive road

shanghaied
 
 
 
 
 
in the brooch-brood of quantum cross-correlatives
 
congeal anneal rapprochement              boot root baronial buoyancy            

          word-bits qubit queing    → the grope that addles

bit stacking: 

seepage/slip/step/drift/roam/wander/loaf/vacuity/imponderable/tangl

e/morass/bundlebunglebromidehuddle

seeing eye to eye with the black-spotted pufferfish

salutations to the

merge mesh meritorious multiplicitous phlogiston rhumba