We are all equi
libria thriving through a
channel charged by
opposite polarities
seawaves both having bro
ken and receding in
to ripples pasts
which could never
not have happened
however the event
the pulse of the uni
verse’s expansion a
nother hour yet
where we
ve come ex
pecting nothing but
arrival. Stop.
Nuptial bells ech
cho back
ward and clang with the
dirges for the living
death of youth
finger bones reach
throughpast millenia
ash to crumble
like [...]
Author Archives: Arthur Coleman
Egyptian Musk
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Autobio (Chapter New York Everywhere)
In my East
Village grotto
I up
turned any two
I hap
penned to anticipate:
three except a spade.
And rolled dice a
round the drain
the same
number six this
time of six-sided dice.
A message was [Pro]
being communicated;
my mistake was to inter
pret it as directing my
going out the gate to East
Village Books ban
ging on the window closed
avid to purchase Nostradamus
in the original French:
the falcon and [...]
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Black Rock City
Souls decked
in neon green
orange pine cones
pasties and shades
float drifts para
ding in tracks
ruts of the mythical rains
to which they dance
their bodies blast kazoos
put percussive pats upon the playa
of hands drudging boots
and bicycle tires.
Bronze skins burn
in light are slathered in shade
at rest from bony contention
collecting force together
chipping in their parts
to build dream
houses husbands wives
missions paths
affirmations they are [...]
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Nomenclature’s Genesis
Pupillary dilation
blurs into focus
hours’ sacred center
Whittle down (to)
(the) zero (the)
bone (the) cap
illary nucleus
The plot line
on the story
board the rob
bers the bar
rons His Hol
Iness the Dope
the Dully Lamb
Da in an
Alpha-bet
A-dominated order
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Creator of Conditions
Implicit agent
in the undoing
of the family
to create
the conditions for
implosion and
every error in the book
of Arthur Leo Coleman
the Fourth
the man behind the curtain
’s brain neur
ology of the psyche
effector of all karma
died on by heroes
seeking in every
furtive glance
beauteous Nar
cissus’s cold re
flection in ice
to hold
forever still
alone with me.
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To Vigor
Vigor vulgarized.
Each chime snuffed.
Metal metastasized.
Who hoos?
The avuncular owl
in forests of love trysts.
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The War(rior’s) Path(o(f)(schizoid)log(ic)y)
Prepare *d(is
the war(tost
art (now(?))i
or)ness what
ever want
might as
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Crow ded inton(atin
ghowls)o
whereby insurp
ass able opp
or tuni ties
collo cation of
fers norest ab
stract satisfac ti
on on ly
in format ions
‘ anal o(r)gies of imp
er manen
(o)cean inf in it eli
fespan god-
willing vitality
Blat [...]
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Amendment
A son of the sun
has no concern for voices’ words
except for their proximity.
To the shadow in the quiet canyon
every brush rustle and fly buzz is
another transitory companion
An emulation of Christ Who
steadfastly would not enter
the gates of heaven immediately
the right hand of God
at the end when He gazed
up where heaven ought to be
and after ruminating in [...]
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A Flaw of Mine
I push
and when I can
push no more
I succumb
to fear
the mes out
there are coming
though there
impels nothing
as far ahead as
I have pushed
and am
lost in a well
known way.
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He said to say all
that I do. “He touches me,”
she whispers, shivers.
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Gorges of swallows
Hunger suckling worms out their
Slimy mother’s mouth
***
A bird alights on
the dip of a gust of wind
perches and settles.
***
Long blinks follow the
images that the eyes cut
to conclusions dreamed.
***
Sleek kneed Johnny Needs
mo o the sof stuff ta git
n lay down the funk.
***
Metrical scansion
Poetic binary [...]
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