SPACE SPACE Clark Coolidge tfl 1817 Harper & Row, Publishers New York, Evanston, and London ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Acknowledsment is made to the followins masatines, in which some of these poerrui have previously appeared: Susan & Celia ANGEL HAl.R for .. Fashion Berry" and "miss ship" ART ANO LITERATURE for "clip .. " and PARIS REVIEW for '"woodpecker .. .," "Bee Elk" to my parents A~ ANTHOLOG":'. ..oF NEW YORK PO~ for "Fed .o.ra~·= ''Styro,: lark bender . .• OUl'ICe code oranac . ., prune acryhc .. ., by a .. and "listenc ..." GENESIS: GRASP for "Hot Dark Miles" and "Smoke" SP.4.C!.. Copyri1ht © 1970 by Clark Coolid,e. All rights rexrvcd. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information addre111 Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 49 East )Jrd Street, New York, N.Y. 10016. 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LIHAA'YOFCOHGUSS CATALOG c.uDHUMaEa 76-123976 Contents ONE Fed Drapes The Image furnace, Under Brine Machinations Calcite 5 A Nerve Treatment Echo & Mildew 7 TheTab 8 Soda Gong 9 Milk on the Lob 10 Hot Dark Miles 12 Immobile Drops 13 Crisp Loss 14 Dripstone AMC:mbly 15 Bontecou Chandelier 16 The So (Part Two) 17 Gobi 18 Brill 19 Circle Devils 20 TWO Rights 23 Red Size 25 Leaving Rattle Bar 26 The Eight Rains 28 "time coal hum base" 62 Stretcher 30 "trammel" 63 Fashion Berry 31 "quasi" 64 Bee Elk 33 "agape modal serene" 65 Smoke 34 "pin coaling which" 66 Styro 35 "the at arm it on in" 67 Calypso 36 "ounce code orange" 68 "margin bunk a choke starling" 37 "bearer" 69 "clip" 38 "grammar a granite" 70 "grace hominy florescent a bent" 39 "dial um" 71 "car parked up pocket starling" 40 "woodpecker" 41 FOUR "said lines types ohm" 43 "lark bender hair air" 44 "lexicon sub" 75 Siren 45 "more let apt" 76 "miss ship" 46 "bloom right" 77 "country an of plan gar tine "elect malt trim" 78 three plow low Spatting'' 47 "are lames two sew meet umbridge lacquer'' 79 THRE E "of about" 80 "will term" 81 "contact back" 51 "A" 82 "a arc bust a writ tin" 52 "tions" 82 "grants" 53 "isso" 83 "mount" 54 "the" 83 "prune acrylic whose" 55 "in" 84 "docks" 56 "look" 84 "tapes" 57 "an un" 85 "arranges" 58 "nor" 85 "green left sound bore add" 59 "listene" 86 "tailed simmer told honk" 60 "by a I'' 87 "map doze stem" 61 Our 88 These 89 "background since in as" 90 "the a these but then for" 91 "sent off the of want of once" 93 "sidle vents" 94 SPACE Nothing at Newbegins 95 On Once 99 AD IOI SPACE (spls), n. O.F. espace, fr. L. spatium space. 1. That which is characterized by extension in all directions, boundlessness, and indefinite divisibility; the subject of determinations of position and direction. 2. Math. The aggregate of points, or ordered sets of , • • • ). n numbers (x 1 x 0 3. A limited extension in one, two, or three dimensions: a part marked off in some way. 4. Specif., reservation; accommodations, as on a train. S. An interval between two points of time; duration. 6. Opportunity; chance. 7. Archaic. A while. 8. Advertising. The page or part of a page of a periodical used for advertising, or the number of agate lines so used in a newspaper. Trade Slang, U.S. 9. Music. A degree, or open place, of the staff. 10. Print. A small piece cast lower than the face of the type used to separate words. 11. Teleg. The interval during which the key is o pen, or not in contact, in operation. 12. Popularly, the region beyond the earth's atmosphere. esp. that between and beyond the planets and stars.-v.t.; SPACED (spist); SPAC' ING (spis'ing). To place at intervals; to arrange with spaces betwcen.-SPAC'ER (spls'Cr), n. One FED DRAPES FELL FAR BUT THE BARN (came) up & smacked me Who're you, blcedin? Fled. Blat in back of a Victrola Car is so red is such that sun fell in the rushes & pen bear appear the white wrong numeral on the wall can't take it off with the clock down with the dock it . way on the board·couch with brass, kindergarten clench joints backed violet rip into the gas valve it hemmed & snowed the wrong way remnant face rubber the pucker THE IMAGE FURNACE, UNDER BRINE MACHINATIONS CALCITE in the ward room, the desk players crated a banded " one" near the floor acetone imprinted he needed, & was room, & made it oblique swatch on the skin car barn oil wall ocarina & mumps the door an edge what the slats became, what the fur much wet green door, a I'd leave sole key to this game to my friend, sheet water cat "the good case!, " sighed slamming his pencil actor impressed vacuum of the light bulb drop, the sigh weaving candle turn on computer cigarette, paper wall sign ve nt of its tarheels & balance slat a lo t of yellow stick neck . way He'll have to hurry & carry away, to my blue friend husthng brmgmg his mooh & car the gang played a steamed agate inked pipe under snooze bucking game merry melodies drool on shank of wet lead star tool under cantilever upper structure crayon & sands metal banana length of granite buck-drill smiles of the under It's sucking up the strand, his crystal flag, & the eels tube for that, carriage oil, shot, aJI, "empty pockets!" their parade swizzle fun a laugh. a water. a bent aluminum envelope. arctic suck night & gasp. shades of vanilla. splinter dry-ice spazz luke-ing ace supper at ch urch hard pinks & sponge breath he played for many forams drift . keys Roller window going up on I repeat my offer food list tn iron flakes his sleep became ticks needle ECHO & MJLDEW A NERVE TREATMENT the window rips & the curtains in your hand sunk in steel time tMs no crumble eventual out so moldy the tools near the captain's RIM mike hook-up tipped much cakium into the stem sat by wire fence mumbled daisy tune to lot car barns "Believe ... " much Tuesday yellow cellophane horseflies in the piss pot & matches golden over he came to sad hang flailing weeds too much steam, whine rules dope applied in sedimentary bog lay soup from cans wasn't the dairy type sod under the blue & saw the roof to health up warm eye day every page bagged him a litde left of the copper rod (he) sucked in, leafed, & sneezed dangled the capillaries in front of mike sailing eyc·slicc discs to glint view of the vague synthesis: scconal/quartz once & lump trajectory & dufflc armies of harps & bleeding film, so? tar shack torn by oil sea what's in a glass pocket, stickum ants? (suffocant roses here) a knee-out thinker & eggs in pits. the metal that com~ in bags. eyes (considered "head") ways muffed it muffled a berry fade. strip turn pike coming grass fluffed to hunks like oiled faints. scrap of book mosquit~cn buzz of bottom sump haze dots. zap shard, shred of insect engine on lime wall those: hours acid loaf remembrance a: Nazi emblem on fore paw like radio, grid on sky "stay with me, Blackie!" no more purple end days sat on lost time ring, inscribed surrounding fac~ rock "designing elevators better than the haul up to" THE TAB SODA GONG mica flask moves layout hasty box of surinam toad glass hill bunkum geode olive loin candle pastiche bartender a live teeth mines repeating sky hot dregs, in cast tepid tones - brine lank oiler blocks, hats sink wig pyrite & hasty troll by the rim orange milk myhrr louvres coinage hovers suction the mast glitter planting new bulgers tolling sentence stained-glass hole of suds, repeater shaking in salt, mud domes fa lling do fuck they it's trellis concretion, one green mote is you the gas farm o n Blue Ledge filled·in washtub board pine mist into " darlings" chasten elevator lap rest to the lead block gas viper comprende chain arrival starting, a silver flight liar snatch, unh . hunks sharpen up, in the fold of coin black snake search tops spines bee air tower in azure launch finger bunt I'll on steaming hair, slid rock flakes tipped grind to shelve-cirrus shake-up car ice in bring bong bone fl at tints pale rake-off shale widens, baking MILK ON THE LOB double the banshee? rocks do loom pill's an ape gone throats fly slips green decks & red subtle & green castrate chair propc\lor slick cancer in onion book is knowledge (& realms) beery right numbers the john to slip up & map it over the knee childless j inuary Oneonta turned up a flap car tour monkeys with the trees morcless paramount? geyser making sure thrilling drops straddle hate & are blacker film milk snapping like a beak smile the rest is oats sips fake sog a lozenge or whelm through or ore boats hobbling chimes mumbling blocks whistle scree red popsack dust strikes late lake & the jelly classic umbra open fur reds a lemon more crisis crystal than sunrise broncs and's floor (red) or's tar (red) the blank list ti ps, these lips that's (red) price of scrumptious (tag) bone blown on sorrier inflates? dulls? twists? the lobs don't deal to too (u ncle tune) b~eath marries scary to off & go MacCarthy Silas Moon nor tarry & thighless uncles morn but stars throw out up up & gland make hay slip higher the pie's a pile & known for threats sol~ & a sly rut unthumbs melodic humidity static coats & stones are all broke throw-up seated belc velveteen the clothes cash in saddle realm (Gobi) clamming back to the store aches, pores come the slice to silents & wee nil 10 II HOT DARK MILES IMMOBILE DROPS black car ape & lock fell into an immediate dropout single mirror, toe (scick wires) luck apes fly radar it grass flood-age on the gasket file wood, dart (thrush it) calmer candy sire cap bow vortex (auto plate) (hole furs) age of the shine on the adder & black elbows aqua circles (spelled: P) black beer state it a "Love Lunch" echo plate tremendous unwinding o n the can sadness wires spark-gap to cement activity of honks & threadage lowered drcadnaught toes, munch eye whelm the rest cancels & ribs blur murky rod sang & ("thanks but can't ..