( LOS TAN D F 0 U N D TIM ES No. 41, November 1998 $6 Al Ackerman Bob Heman John Adams E. A. Hilbert Tim Allen Marshall Hryciuk Roy Arenella Glenn Ingersoll I van Argue11 es Eberhard Janke Marcia Arrieta Joan Payne Kincaid athan Austin Jim Leftwich David Baratier Eel Leonard Baron Joel Lipman Todd Bash Jeffrey Little Guy R. Beining Giovanni Malito Anmassend Bekehrt Malak John Bennett Randy Moore John M. Bennett Sheila E. Murphy Jake Berry Musicmaster Musicmaster Diane Bertrand Barbara Passmore Keith Breese Mark Peters Philip Buster Walt Phillips Alan Catlin Francis Poole Dave Baptiste Chi rot Adam Powell Jim Clinefelter Ricev Prosa Jon Cone R. Revagliatti Robin Crozier Dan Russell Jorge Daffunchio Fran Rutkovsky Betty Derrick Jack Saunders ParI Dubit Spencer Selby Patrick F. Durgin "Swarthy" Turk Sellers Ficus strangulensis Glans T. Sherman Cesar Figueiredo Paul Silvia Chris Flink Arnold Skemer Charles Henri Ford Willie Smith Hugh Fox Jack A. Withers Smote Peter Ganick Thompson Chris Gordon Amy Trussell LeRoy Gorman Joseph Allan Tucker John Grey Retorico Unentesi S. Gustav Hagglund Lawrence Weinstein .l\aron Hawk Barb Yordy Linear haiku scattered throughout issue Editor: John M. Bennett by Chris Gordon: Consultant: thick hailstones in april i keep swallowing my tail C. Mehr 1 Bennett Cover art: Cesar Figueiredo Subscription: $25 for 5 nos. Back issues: nos. 1-40, complete, $173. LUNA BISONTE PRODS, 137 Leland Ave. Columbus, OH 43214 USA Ohio Arts Council ., A STATE AGENCY C John M. Bennett 1998. All rights THAT SUPPORTS PUBLIC revert to authors and artists upon Charles Henri Ford publication. PROGRAMS IN THE ARTS ISSN: 1083-6780 Retorico Unentesi Lustrious from IT HAS CONTINUALLY STRUCK ME THAT AT THE END OF ACENTURY DEFINED 1) trope churn uppers languidge chymey This poem describes the poet's feelings about the poems of Autumn is the season closest to the state of mourning. 2) deboner scarlet system vienna contraband In this enigmatic poem, the scene shifts from the external Although at the outset, "Passages" seems to refer to trials or The poet notices that it is no longer possible to read. Even a few She had written a few stories she called The Minus Ones. They 3) caducous porridge divurges madcap raconteur He conceived the plan of bringing two fictitious Persians to Erica said, what I wondered about, some people have read Could I lift this piece myself and put it in my bedroom with 4) whup quarantine flotsam taut-ology milken I would invite you in where the transparent boxes imitate the My neighborhood first person has a fence, impersonal intention I stood where the geometry resembled purity caressed, as 5) selph plaine moddening penchant flayme The here of actual space, addressed Fictitious and dotted chocolate object Can the Emphasizing not only the ground upon which her movement They had come to the rotunda and yet the seven spires evaded Never more averse. In an unpeopled blur He sees he has mutated in the time of least consecutive Adam Powell surf ace eat urican sacut of atath but the window Back to these warm layers the sun sheds, vin de pays When the red flying squirrel hits [STORY -VISION- VESSELl More than that is hard to say. These trees that just walked in, with something of the manner How strange that Warren's back yard The spot on Plato's tie is bleeding, out of the marl. Hills, lakes, valleys, To merely exist. I wou Id not have given the message of ash to you my love I listen every ten seconds to the dahlias - birds in a nest ­ Winds ripping trees from the ground and all night a long bitter exile You have to begin somewhere. It was bitter the exile it was like vinegar upon the wounds Nothing could be any stranger. I would not ferry the bag of fine skulls bound in wire There is nothing habitual but travel. Sky full of the whirling vomit of birds sea I could not or would not as the limbs allowed no one the pleasure "Now" you say and I know Bitter bitter bitter is the night of the old man the partridge arose into the path I could not for the violence of the arrogant young men Maybe two birds Riding their chariots helmets thrown back hair flowing like fire Enough of this observing It was bitter teaching the ignorant the secret signs Disguised It was gall in my throat to reveal the pulse within the stone It's a language we can recognize The ta ·te of seed in my throat it ' .... as bitter like death extra splutter lit goes I waited for your lips saltpeter on my thigh An angel counts with his eyes We took pum ice to our backs because of boredom And ful of torment and of harde grace Th~ grnss huts shook like maracas full of flies It ,vas th'" beach on fire six nights the petroleum in our noses Retorico Unentesi Breath like tor1ure on the face of a sliding mountain I could not bring the ash for the jackals tore at my heel Long was the night full with the heavy beat of waiting Rivers clogged with tree mass Drunk the gods all two of them Phalluses rigidly rointing north in the roaring winds This I admit for r have no guilt untouched by the purifying palms of rain I c1id writ~ the word 'resurrection' ten million times upon the transillcent eyelid of my love Jnn CnrH' Spencer Selby aXIOM OF Y a:xiOrn of Y thawnet what if hat wif maxim lint you see me max in copper eye --r-mInlm...........taint--- what if of tinted hill & fat wi i gets me hurried hat unarm paint what if off to tip like a cloud; rearm saint wat hif (in its shrubbery a wooden what if corporal EAR at whif whistl€'; a lark with a everlongshadeofdullmatter s tar t lin g sen ten c e splattered feet what if jes of these 3 layers of poetic blubberings: in wideoperaofdream_ taw hif THERE ARE NO LESSONS TO GIVE what if right scope to 8E~AUSE PEOPLE WILL NEVER wind pocket, aw thif abbreviate henchmen LEARN. as hunchmen what if what boots to wear wading into 21st century , approaching GLASSED IN LIQUIDNESS large lagoon of it? realign veins in AIR if thaw so golden as to point to PEAR, it once be's this fine path, patches of a path ie. as maverick of nowhere to mesh with triggered patch of columbines. & maiden of many. LeRoy Gorman now thru grim stage of farewells, Guy R. Seining GRAY TONES & TONGUES AS A LIZARD PINCHES AN EYELID. all these lights, they're hummin...2. uncomfortable in every position Guy R. Seining INFORMATION INFORMATION Left alone their eyes devour the available information. The cat or That was required by the fire. They sat close by it. The frogs became a shadow makes a movement they can only sense. Some of them have hats storm around them. The trees were men later on. to arrange their bodies. Sometimes their bodies are arranged by someone else. Sob Hpman Sob Heman from THE WHITE FRAGMENTS Ricev Prosa OUTSIDE SO \10LENTLY outside so violently book shelter supply contemptuous and disappeared numbness atrocious uselessness surface and to like her legs there are only in the hope slop­ ing pavement back gently taken place the middle the remain in the what aborts no to designate something not knowing ourselves from inside specific are experi­ encing a breast know who an accurate remembering not acknowledged the of sleeplessness monuments other words the if by sacrilege defiance in varying leather brain nerve emanations scenery within tears duets and anything else con­ sidering in this world to the scrap everyday theories of bourgeois optics which tra­ jectory and a on the ground the often brutish an assault or by these losses the twi­ light of feebleness which real human genius producing what it parodies circles reiterated performative mechanically bisected implanted syntax without color more insipid than exchanging old-fashioned at the same sedative promises ofvan­ ish from sight beneath the ruins and through nodes cannot add much document a long complex spectacle of closed gates without passion without heartening news the which impels and admire the idea country road looking single aeroplane scat­ tered the hand in recognition of intent doors opened standing paralysed and anx­ ious the falling is it or agriculture fallen away verdict the propagation at any price flat post-event in that signified dull harmonics like of operations hi hunger voice and everything is free sky green grass that are dead ancient pleasure-seek­ ing a painful sting liberation hi ho the undulating column silver chains hung thousand bearded men meet a thousand display of emotion of inward detonation filled with blood criticism from amateurs hidden unity becoming respect this stop­ ping of knowing it boots clearly against needs of the always struggled that's has already happened other hearts other inseparable honored but age and who leak­ I' ing rowboats boys have they been pulled to pieces trouble all my courage to walk if quiet there from the nether on the blood forward with so that which will scent pleasure even dear oh dear wide world this and all the look of things between noise and window some live of this world of all the ground about blood guests come in yet in the and disperse trembling the boundaries gradually the whole business innocent atmosphere hospitality a remote world read passages from knife and the and back again another a house each distance gaining power over men idea of ordering the water and finally gathered together or beautiful display with gold , dust years ruins surprises approximations of voyeurism a past of of the trains the \ /, prevailing graphic a few meaningless as burning coals echoing on the dotted with I"~ birds calming effect no the same dangers as if true comfort among the when sim­ Ii~ I II ",i,.