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Issue 1                Featured Poet: Stephen Ellis                   December 2003      ©TheRepublicofCalifornia.com

 

 


About Current Issue: New writing from Stephen Ellis' Opulence; poems by kari edwards; poems by Jim McCrary; poems by Steve Tills; poems by Brent Bechtel; poems by Catherine Daly; poems by Chris Murray; poems by Layne Russell.
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kari edwards

 

five Poems

     a   doggie   in   the   window
extension


     noise   without   dots   suggests   a
basic ingredient for color

     nothing   is   a   color,   but   sells
reflection  points  evidenced  in  high
contrast windows

     a   sign   appears   as   a   series   of
followings
           dot   conditions    with    an
allusion to an A or B
           taste  is  a  door  of  a  different
rope entirely
    part impression
    part long winded words
    preferably the walking kind

        implication of superior voice-
overs   gives   one   an   “on   going
feeling”

   a subject  feels certain areas
   areas  that  appear  out  of  complex
points  found in sentences
            where there is an moment of
something continuous

    the subject believes in persistence
of vision
     an ability  of          killing time as
an option

    at  this  point  something  ordinary
happens
   mechanical at first
   a   doggie    in   the   window   of
extensions
   a  noise  without  dot  suggestion’s
sells refection's to an end
   to give one “an on going feeling”
that feels like forever


a stranger in bedroomset land

random scratches

                 escape              random questions  of loyalty

                                           or sometimes not
  national
just dead ink                                      something in a  sin size
exception
                                                                  deviant    legality
in bedroom set land

   a stranger exchanges fluids              endangers a species
looks like   a holocaust             almost real

almost                         steel amnesia
         out of a personal waterloo
later day   saints  embroidered in  intentional
                                  smiles

limp conventional                                 smoldering     yellowish
missionary vessels

         on the edge of a smile
always on the edge of a smile


element 7 - malfunction*


suddenly inside
                         the familiar
          a strange zoo            for petting storms
                                                   through walls

          familiar in pain

                          familiar in a clanking that turns to melody

merges in a cacophony of
                                  established venues

points of view
                                                            more rounded

                                   plush to the tongue

appears after
                                         stupid indecision's

presents plans for the dead

as
                                   the less than horizontal
                                                                                                     eternal flames still’d
on an eternal walkway

but the literal takes a wink from

wiggle hole characters

                                           tapping out perfectly frank messages

which conforms the neverneverminds
                                          as an elongated  dramatic effect

                         a fresh horizon
a parasite in

                                        enigmatic folds

                      that stretches from one horizon to the next

displaced in an instant


in exact change

*from: Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965)


 

           
     

 

 

 

 

 

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