Apprenticeship

... between impulses and repentances, between advances and retreats. —Octavio Paz, Eagle or Sun? Here I am posing in a mirror of scratch paper sonnets sonnets as rare as a live Aegean rhino absorbing the cracklings of my craft its riverine volcanoes its spectacular lightning peninsulas emitting plentiful creosote phantoms from an ironic blizzard of unsettled pleromas scouring through years of unrecognized pablums of constant arch-rivalry with extinction bringing up skulls of intensive discourse by the claws in one’s mind which seem to burn with systemic reduction one then suffers poetic scorching by debris by inaugural timber which flashes by friction which flares up & harries by unrecognized moltens collapsing in glass of initial intuitive neglect as if one’s fangs were fatally stifled by incipience by verbal range war didactics by territorial driftwood by sudden undemonstrative detractions awed by the diverse infernos of Trakl & Dante one’s youngish body stands devoured by reverential print trails momentarily cancelled by the loss of blasphemous nerves & upheaval stung by demeaning neutralities ravaged by a blank Sumatran solar psychosis by a tasteless collision of rums in transition by a conspiracy of obscured fertility by hubris as one sucks in doubt from a wave of tumbling blister trees there exists irradiations flecked with a gambled synecdoche with indeterminate earthenware splinters taking up from aboriginal density a forge of Sumerian verbal signs cooked with a tendency towards starfish hypnosis towards psychic confrontational drainage conducting one’s frictions in a torrential furnace of osmosis & ire yes apprenticeship means poetry scrawled in unremitting leper’s mosaic cringed in smoky interior cubicles releasing various deleriums as if pointed under a blackened Oedipal star with its dark incapable tints with its musical ruse of unspoken belladonna poetics an imaginal flash of Russian chamber lilies stretching under a blue marsupial sun like kaleidoscopic tumbleweed fugaciously transfixed upon an anomalous totem of glints upon rainy Buenos Aires transfusions above the urinal coppers of a flaming polar star rise of course kinetic like magical malachite rivers flowing from moons blowing through the 3/4 summits of motionless anginas I’ve looked for only the tonalities that scorch which bring to my lips wave after wave of sensitivity by virulence yes a merciless bitterness brewed by a blue-black tornado of verbs in a surge of flashing scorpion chatter in a dessicated storm of inferential parallels & voltage like a scattered igneous wind co-terminus with the bleeding hiatus & the resumption of breath resolved by flash point edicts by consumptive stellar limes by curvature in tense proto-Bretonian fatigue mixing magnets juggling centripetal anti-podes & infinities cracking the smoke of pure rupestral magentas yes hatcheries floating through acetylene corruption of practiced mental restraint to splendiferous vistas mingled with inspirational roulette its mysteriums always leaping like a grainy rash of scorching tarantellas or leaking moon spun alloestrophas* as if speaking in irregular glossological green Dutch a frenetic seminar on febricity a reitteration of hendecasyllabic agitation & stinging a ferocious vacillation explosive as random “aggregational” nodes mimed by a black consonantal dissection its maximal priority forked at “hypotactic inclusion” with isochronous internal procedure with ratios with phonic penetralia by distortion primed by anomalous “nuclear accent” by a cadence composing syllables & compounds yes poetics its force jettisoned by “hypotaxis” by ... paratactic co-ordination & fire