Der Defätist / The Defeatist

hydraulic stilts more than fifty shipping containers on the drifting ice shelf of denialism a johnsian thing with tap root a latter day alchemy a flag with atmosphere as big as two or three conveniences massive inches a flag   dripping paint on [...]

faith, energy and trauma travel lodges stifling rooms world eroding teen tongue vogues blow i remember feeble carnations behind a dead mother the tied up chin or “clusters of grapes” or the scolding of words or financialisation or flat [...]

  the “mixtre” of goals set me up with 300 youths now living in my flat 3.5 percent of a nation’s population can paralyze the plan they said you know bleak is bleak arresting alarming punishing withdrawal from welfare huffing: [...]

  Hers is us says the moon waterless arid baked bald but not barren there is a name for dessicated coconut moon no song text available “Free of income tax, old man,” Lime twinkles … he knows Harry’s incoming crimes the happiness [...]

let’s cast switched back sweltering swinging trees switchboards of swallowtail swallowable swarthy swellfish’s sweltering swankiness swaggering swithering surling morph swooningly tailing swell wellheads, sword & fish swizzled [...]

whenever a slender boy comes along spelling out weak i look to the ankles where rips & ringlets of snakes point to the pattern of the great blind worm & his arms seem to catch the glider composed by a chestnut firm he will say to the ranger: [...]

  in the wee hours of bird song a twinkle, a blink the black slate of transliteration runs across the orange rising of winging baby pheasants breaking the dips of vite … vite  phasis daybreak at Colchis; important that they aren’t [...]

curve & neon air badlands & cornhusker state or nebraska the grand island of middle end while planes burst into flames & firefighters go astray visiting fresh trouble never paying a call to uproars the disruptive skies the mending of [...]

  lyre & flensing deck lama or roskilde zealand or zealous land lama or roskelley mad knee or mc kee or mac the knife we’ll see “teltowkanal” 1961 someone took suit & briefcase to be afloat to swim-step to new ground [...]