epidermis


poetry journal


Issue #5, Fall 2009





in this issue

Sheila E. Murphy & Jim Leftwich - Ric Carfagna - Peter Ganick -
Steve Dalachinsky - Allen Bramhall - Alan Sondheim







Sheila E. Murphy & Jim Leftwich


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Ric Carfagna



T r a c t

I --

Conglomerate haste Outside certitude A formative stasis Constraining ideological imprimaturs -- Sequence factors To castellated against A tautological insurgence Apocalyptic residuum Feeding the mind's Imbricated glottis But to assume Patterns buildings This acre of land Terse solutions…suppression- Scour resonance amid Lighthouse obsolescence Or hourglass archetypes- Extrication of isotopes Leafless clarity abandoned Romanticists clay feet Paths Scrub brush extinction Bone Fragments Conscious immersion Fount of impieties derision Pilot error Glowering assessment corners -- Civilization Jewels and minarets Columnar fluorescence- Estuary ant farms entropy Pastoral blast furnace Galactic Plenum redundancy Obsidian fissure Xanthium sun fracture Yet -- Days formation wilderness Fallow dharma Conditioned response Dragline passport Towers glass annunciation -- Mercurial tracings Blemish mooncalf executives -- Smokescreen trekkers Bezoars doctrine Perceptions climatic alleviation Lemurs Fibrous tabes- Fault line Assonance- Semiotic landfill satellites Macrocosmic proconsul Rational sepulcher interment Accidental quark transcendence Angelic guttersnipe Saffron plasticity dawn Spirit rapping orchard Interpreting Alewife bathyscaphe -- Anthracite outcrop Highway gables slopes Tertiary Constantinople Mired Colloidal youth skirmish Gravestone and fleabane -- Inky lightning amalgamation Pasture housing materialism Requiem hostels hyacinth Fug hemispheres Journal jitterbugs Lights capes Fractal Penthouse circuitry windrows Shed plebian savoring Plumb bob ossuary -- Chimera factories Angstrom weed patch Facile bugbears Asphalt saber curfew Rush hour Flathead placard -- But strong-armed Pleistocene trigger finger Celestial mousetrap Clapboard aqueous plimsoll Lobster varnish abyss Chantey piecemeal guru Humanities mole -- Crater volcanism Hegelianism -- Dormouse grey saucers Reptile container desensitizing Acclimating serf script Eliminating balance -- Slack noose glissando horizon Curvaceous solstice egg drop Candela but pipe smoke Diaphanous Zygote pterodactyls Sargasso meander -- Leafy bovine afflatus Fossil sewer pipe Platonic high bush Gordian stalemate convalescence Willow dust -- Doorframe termination Stamen chrysalis Corbel bleat Obelisks -- Surfeiting deformation Hydraulic empathy stint Lizard bypass Rorschach-

II --

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Peter Ganick


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Steve Dalachinsky



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of mountains created by impressions
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steve dalachinsky nyc 6/13/09 vision festival




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s. otomo  nyc 6/28/09


Allen Bramhall


A Devastating New Unthinkable Target



The last book by Dan Brown surfaced. Not the last theory of broken
integrity, just Dan Brown, with shoes in his bag. Hold onto that bag,
Dan, now that you have written the book. The century is new, full of
books by Dan Brown. He made a million words look like a book. He is
the essence of Tom Hanks. The war may soon be over. This is a novel by
Dan Brown, with childish emphasis. And then the sea rises because of
Al Gore, and the facts remain insane. This is where Dan. We could not
prove only that words come in packs, but that stories change with
listening. Then the process accepts the poem as a sidecar in an
immense factory of visiting. So Dan Brown grew up with exactly the
right explanation. And it came to a million words or so, who is
counting, which could be captured, frame by frame. And we are happy
with the logistics of such spray, writing thru the day. My friends are
exceptional and go to lengths. Their sense of Dan brown includes a
movie deal and 6 packs. After a while the message is clear. You type
as fast as you think, trying to catch up with Dan Brown. How crazy
must that hominid be?



Practical Poem



the town of nature road a bullock sprite cast in revolution instant. the 
chase of droning esplanade inspired the rock star, portent in the 
hallway. all that were standing woke to chase. the tarnish of red notes 
on the dawn sky, flocks of flowers do you good, and the chapel spending 
culled from cymbals in a rage. we have a process to collect, mild notes 
and harsh, and the love that will restore our structure. town of nature 
is a ball, glows with sun, peels the orange until flight and news, birds 
at atmospheric reach. hello, tourist: this is /Galway Kinnell/, or the 
other book by the same name.



Yours to Deal With



Clacking sounds similar to onions. Vida Blue in Oakland teapot, relaxing 
full of tea. Grampus Americans settled for Dick Cheney luncheon meat, 
vice capital and when we go home. Sentences are Republican, tho not to a 
fault. We have spheres of TVs sitting near our academy. Listen to Steve 
Jobs.

Steve Jobs woke to the fame of being perfectly right. It was a sentence 
without virus, and astonished the voters of saying so.

German war machine includes great video excerpts. American war machine 
meets Russian war machine, while gypsies in Bulgaria reform the present 
tense. Hitler was a party gal.

Maoist rubber pants protect, as do Stalinist rubber pants. The baby is 
well, tho needs a brass bottom. Tenderness of hit man in the season of 
wet blankets, lilacs remain in the dooryard, province of taste. Klingons 
fly off handle, leaving handle to itself.

Hitler party girl dolled up like pine. Deciduous references need a day 
or two. A poem is propped to matter. This is how Dick Cheney got thru 
school.

Dick Cheney refused to over educate, instead he was pronounced. The 
Klingons swept thru, only examining a washed ashore grampus. Shore is 
for old folks, who swim by laying down.

A poem is light like Steve Jobs, filled with ammo, like Dick Cheney, and 
tells a good registration re Stalin. Fight with farts, expert ticking 
machine. Your heartbeat is overclocked. Vide Blue must rest for the big 
game in the past.



Alan Sondheim



sweat glands



this is my practice. this is what i do. i breathe culture. culture comes
out of sweat glands. culture makes shiny areas wherever i move. i cannot
help shiny areas. every day, more and more of them. o tiny manatee, why i
cannot stop. do you know i have swallow jennifer, bind travis, grind julu
to nikuko-pulp, with nikuko-order. nikuko is thin layer on sweat glands.
sweat glands have culture sheen.


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SOME THINGS THAT MIGHT CAUSE CONSTERNATION



THINGS CANNY:

mechanical linkages, reach of the body, phenomenology of liquid,
phenomenology of solids, particle phenomena, physical labor, future
(things coming forward)

INFERENCE

astronomy, cosmology, extractive industries, bubbles, extraction-past
(reconstruction of past things)


THINGS UNCANNY:

elsewhere from the body, phenomenology of gas, phenomenology of plasma,
wave phenomena, past (presence of non-presence)

INTERNAL, ABJECT, INVISIBLE

hallucinations, dreams, farts, coughs, sneezing, heat, cold, pain,
sickness, hypnagogic imagery, trance phenomena, orgasm, "emotions,"
"sensations," "thought," voice, voices, spells, speaking in tongues,
music, song

INFERENCE, INTERNAL

pain of others, heat and cold of others, epidemics, pornographies,
voices

VISIBLE

fire, lightning, melting, evaporating, St. Elmo's fire, static
electricity, magnets, compass, clouds, fog, rain

INVISIBLE

trance phenomena, orgasm, "emotions," "sensations," "thought," voice,
voices, spells, speaking in tongues, music, song

INFERENCE, VISIBLE

source of streams, rivers; source of rain; source of (evidence of)
wind (INFERENCE, INVISIBLE)

INTERNAL, VISIBLE

sperm, menses, shit, piss, tears, phlegm, sweat, spit

INFERENCE, AUDIBLE, INVISIBLE

echoes, thunder, bolides


THINGS IN INTERNAL-ONTOLOGICAL MAGIC:

transformations: ontological (man into beast), epistemological
(appearance of fangs)

substitutions: always already transformed (candelabras with arms)



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