Monday, February 26, 2024

Three poems from Apophenic Epiphanies, Steve Carll

 the word is celebrate again

tufted fuzzy with foreshortened awe
a fantasized emblem for stargazing tenterhooks

open your disheveled community so
a makeshift paradigm can sleep its way to the top
5/16/2021





glory bee and hallelujah honey
a frontline occupancy terrifies the odalisque rep

mainstay cave-in vocalist opens nostalgic interpretation chambers
after advising salutary mobster refreshments
a pop-top fiddler-crab hermitage would envy

eckankar welcome ceremony takes note
of the western brain hemisphere
a selection of fine irrelevancies

a turnip’s alternative
poetics of gesture--or was it gestation?--
overhang the gas station of pleasure
5/17/2021




gallant intrusion into sacred space
the automorph weaves selfing-words

that leave attention invisibly invited
the arrangement to flower relentless

concentric rings of concentrate-forms
apply mystery to organic infrastructure
5/22/2021




Steve Carll lives with his family in Arcata, California. His third full-length poetry collection, Hypnopompic Diaries (Books One and Two) is forthcoming in 2024 from Alien Buddha Press. Earlier books include Tracheal Centrifuge (Factory School, 2006), Tao Drops, I Change (with Bill Marsh, Subpress, 2004), and several chapbooks. His work has recently appeared in SurVision, First Literary Review – East, and Reap Thrill. From 1988-1998, he edited the literary journal Antenym. Performance video of most of his poetry from 1991 to the present can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@stevecarll/videos.

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