symphonie des phantasmagorias (the contour of angelic grace) * IN ITS ENTIRETY*
by gargantuan hum
Posted to Action Poetry on 2002-06-26 20:10:00
symphonie des phantasmagorias (the contour of angelic grace)
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— overture —
observe:
with a thumb placed directly before one eye i sing rushes of wind send
arrows gushing signs
a trampoline of energy radar beacon beckons reasons image motif gleans
the clouds gallop, glistening
observe the ether buildings set loose from blue jars, the wind blows
elusive
walks the street
movement #1
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step by step bends shaky saxophone knees this night is wrecked on a reef
of madness, the clang & beauty of repetitions, metallic smiles &
contoured reasoning, you enter this with the eloquence of angels
NAKED!
a head woven like a wicker basket of awakened pronunciations and the
door opens unhinged, a mindocean vortex of syllables released in
shedding tones of excited light
NAKED!
a map of terrestrial destinations stretched across the topography of yr
back, mountains & valleys serene
NAKED!!
the long stretch of limbs that shoot skyward into the turf of vagabond
heights, dip earthward into the roots of starry subterranean seas &
losing fetters in an aerial dance
this vision stretches elastic in phantasmagorias, the contour of angelic
grace, maneuvering spaces laid back against church steeples, phrases
release unto the street, step across the clouds
ingrained in cell pretenses, the fabric of crystal revelations fog
hammocks retreat beyond yellow treasure dome omniscent oyster skies
clouds that traverse lost air rivers, clouds that quiver in vast
friction across desolate bluestone cobblefields, clouds that break open
like eggs & spill sustenance across the cream fleece of a myriad astral
phenomenon
pouring over in hues that scatter like creatures of lightning and
fluorescent auras
over jagged hills & infinite street potholes reaching outward climbing
revelatory jungles of brick walls & prismed towers scattering across
the quivering blanket of space coughing constellations & layered suns
this invigoration
the rip of hint pins
freshwater fabric of reptiles
the grease heathens
paranormal illusions
the fresh dents
sex frozen yes epics
rust vanquish the ruts in
tone bone yodels, swollen
i am the seething beacon!
i am the ringing king!
i am the hardscrabble vagrant!
i am the gargantuan hum!
look at me!
this mouth-quivering madness…. the desire overpowering, speak &
spell in a phenomena of morse-code dialogue…..
i am a fractured bone
beneath the sun’s bed!
i open my mouth and speak!
speak in cast-iron radio frequencies,
speak in tongues!
a fractured, bent confession
projecting genuflecting
a certain illuminated sense….
o, the nectar of madness
there is mischief on this
makeshift planet, a tunnel
of trapezoid fountains
bereft of forgiving, aloft
on the far dreamy yield of
bankrupt manifestos, the
terrain erupts in a volcano
of creatures bent upon
the error of heavy ways
a static revelation of planets twirling with one awkward pigeon finger
the dawn of being and somethingness
mind-flow
let loose the revolution in yields of yellow the sculpted overtures that
move
in seasons of white singing
triumph! the vertical nexus, triumph! the jazzy glad freedoms of
healing, triumph! the underling flower, the faraway frames that
circumnavigate
the triumph!
triumph! of reconciliation
triumph over hunger
un-loose these chains
take note:
the revolutions front, center, and back of this mind train no yield
non-stop universe
of the eyes, the gut
of primordial say epics
release this:
the multiplication of mute argyle
elements, a creeping disease of phenomenon, a tortured harpie of bled
youth
wrecked jungles of eye sing seas
set loose from the vagabond water
dip the limbs in desolate blue blur
syllables release,
RELEASE! in shedding overtures that traverse lost the gut signs this
night blows elusive
constellations & reasoning
RELEASE! even in wet brick slick
revisions, the plate of crawling high
luck on rippled iceberg jangles
this yelping trance
this fierce yell from the inside
the ascension of shouts,
shouts for joy
shouts for sadness
shouts for shedding
shouts for bargaining
shouts for resussitation
shouts for heavy energy
shouts for necessity
shouts for mystic blessing
shouts for renumeration
shouts for the shattering
shouts for the chameleon’s smile
shouts for the pyramid
shouts to this planet
shouts to the equator
let the shouts resound from all angles, reverberate in a triumph over
silence,
a naked alive shout that will be heard
stripped
down
straight
down
to the ecstatic primordial shout
a siren, a wailing shout
movement #2
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silence
noiseless overshouting
the muffled breach of
the edict a certain nothing
that music which merged together
becomes the universal hum
dragon in torch breath, the roar,
the sweet robin’s egg blue
from the birth of the nest singing
a herald of time
heart bent horizontally
pulled forth from unisons of hum
paradox of reasons
sirens alert, o the heavy points!
motions here there, that dragging sound
entices, pulls as a force magnetic
closer,
closer,
further away aghast upon vague faces
mouths not talking, the never spoken,
the uneven telepathy of no-thing
release the efforts of a
breezy jangling in the
coffin of a dark mind
music notes replace words
expressing what language can’t
the music of internal
feeling the half-eternity
looming inside a skull
so many reasons to release
reverie or deep soul search?
music! internal hallways!
one of the highest senses!
music a new sense,
another angle!
gregarious the runneth over,
a plaintive meander
that hides hidden gestures
the opus drone of a madrigal
yawning, the questions
that lay like frosty carpet
on interior spaces
silence
jettisoned from restful dwelling
the om or creed shuffles
the plethoras of street talk
& the winding curves of highs
swaying from restless arches
to meditative pitches
silence?
real the absence of silence,
the calls from river rushes
aimed the flat of twisting,
a death of renumeration
dour the visage of silence
reefed in a rainbush tree,
limited in retina colonization
peaks of buildings
nestled in the central eye
concentrated impressions
the revolutions of sight globes
on a spindle unwinding
bricks that spit rivets,
concrete & steel,
angular, intrepid,
of asphalt jackets
a constant hammering
the skyline purloined
in vacuous equators of
relativity & loneliness
tossing & turning
through gravel rivers
the weight o the weight
calling out in echoes
the peeled orange of sky
is lighting beyond
this dark bed of earth
the sweep of avenues
lined with shrubs
silence?
the voices that speak no name,
the automobiles that retch no exhaust
the bus that grinds no dire gears
the orphans on streetcorners
that beg with no remorse,
met with a silence that
squats on upturned palms
eyes that look inward
& the bus, its slow subtle
roll backwards,
the remnants of noise like vapors
hiding in corners
of fish-stinking alleys, angular
triangles of solitude
the immense fret of being
landslide hiroglyphics
the deft fauning of patience
in casading circles hovering trecherous vain & sweet, rearranging
dawning fading wisps of air hang, all eyes set out the chameleon attics
of the which way mind
interlude
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once in painstaking dreamscapes, we bet on a merging, a bronze atrophy
of modalities, the trust that begat a shaking, the catalog that begat a
yearning,
the premise that begat a hovering, the undertow that begat a bellowing, the
purposeful breach of spirit that underlies the intense partitions of time
flashback & flashforward
now lost passing through the quagmire
passing tremulous, slowed passing
paths duplicating in exchange
paths across cities erected monumental polluted & transparent steel
soothsaying just saying
passing:
these reflections float like tattered pages of wind
age? wisdom?
what haunts lead back? age nor wisdom? age or wisdom?
the gloating dimensions
of passage that part & renumerate in temperatures teeming
movement #3
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this is a peace in eternal offering,
the peace of smiles & weeping
the peace of long bright skyscraper sunlight
golden bowls of liquid tranqulity
a peace of ghost-eyed tomorrows
long peace twins rolling in grandeur
this offer this putting forth
the language of exchange
the osmosis
(multiplication of this vast city)
the city is spoken, a language beyond the ever-apparent
a city something heard beyond the ear (superauditory / the
lengthening rope of the senses)
cities in aqua tarantula grimace
city in marbleized flame
city in a torch of unity
a city on plains of misgiving
those cities morose & complacent
a city immense in triangles of believing
city flux
city hope om
city cat hip fist
city scat
city dancing in neon gargoyles of light
sister, brother, holy dancers,
crystal enchanters!
these city junctions swivel hips earthwards
with all intersections akimbo
the crooked unknown dance
cities,
o ziggurats of the centralized white hot nerve
soho memphis sphinx mesopotamian
exotic quixotic cities
behold the cities and the thieving nectar goddesses (–blues—) alive
pollenating
amidst the elysian fields
(a tip of the hat and the golden reefer)
ancient ancestoral kingdoms
on topaz plains rising from dust
& returning to dust, rising again
the premise of graphic belonging
these temples of high multitudes
(infatuations of delphic wonder)
the roads that lead to towering castles,
the gates of the city thrown open in a
cataclysmic cyclone of prophets
(in peace)
amethyst awe amongst spirit channels busting open as rivers of fine talc
certainty and uncertainty tearing their own page out of the circular
grains of awe, wonder
manifestations of polar intensity in waves of powder blue and green,
sifting through the dawn city awakening
a poltergeist of knowledge
vain transparent illogical
remote monuments
to systems in denial
grazing green projectiles
of regal remains
a damnation of remorse
the scattered circular
waterfalls
that
pour
down
in
reckless
revolution
into
overflow
chasms
OBSERVE!
I am beginning to see
OBSERVE!
Words that navigate trailers of time
OBSERVE!
Moments elongated to a huge river of ale
OBSERVE!
Time– too much hence too short
OBSERVE!
This floating between structures with many levels prophetic poverty
observe this emancipation
genuflect eternal
bounce frame flags
in fragrant nectars devoid
of manipulation
I go to yield the veiled traverse of
lettered tables on mercurial tablets
to welcome home this missing bliss