Two Poems
Lanny Quarles
Liguria of Fate and Force
"We arrived wet to the skin."
~
among its processes
as if both architectural
and plural yet wholly objectified
we find the sympathies
through a ligurian lens
to be organs of a complicated
and mysterious contour
-
they are so young
so we are naturally attracted
their limbs
though conjoined in a disconcerting
convolvulus
beckon to be sectioned gingerly
by the frontality of a warming face
yellow creeps the frame
of this
or as if a pollution
might continually enter the color
in its mouth
adopting splintered timber
the walker returns
-
lathe
lethe
_______________
outside-
the wide distance
in its skins of cities
dense cells narrate a cavity
bronze bear snout
graffitoad
orange chemistry vehicle
kidney
associate
noir
clue
bamboo
_________________
gently antics guide (& glue hide)
a dismantling violence
Spearing The New Animal in a Long Dead City.
the patient meanders awhile oblivious
to the wonderful clues we give
to the cries and exhortations made
from the inside of its body
white smock
yellow kinetic octopi masque
gelatinous theatre mandala
of ritual pollution construction
obstruction deduction reduction
conduction affection confection
seduction
ductfection
fectduction
fuctdection
dreck suction
the heavy fetish landmovers hover
above the patience
latex hoses, texts, and modified animals
are connected into the text of its feeling
which meanders awhile oblivious
heterofetish
homofetish
technofetish
semantofetish
phonetofetish
fetishofetish
the patient meanders awhile oblivious
to the wonderful clues we give
to the cries and exhortations made
from the inside of its body
a body gendered
but clueless
or does that sound
overdeterminied?
Why does pollution argue
with itself?
Y.
Orthocollideordinard.
We gave.