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Feb 2020 · 78
Nominal Bird Born Blue
Onoma Feb 2020
this lucidity's left

in trust

of lingering motions.

it's as hard as nothing

wanting to go easily.

expressed as clearly

as a nominal bird

born blue.
Feb 2020 · 91
Revisitations
Onoma Feb 2020
to say to oneself, i've seen that movie--

know it by heart secretly.

as if everything has been taken away from it, you turn away.

that which has somehow sworn art by the

book of your life, cast out the frame of a window.

that silver conclave of a screen breathing motion.

subjugated by the recapitulation of memory,

always the richer for impressions.

thanked with the shellshocked brutishness

of a beast, scouring for a spot to eat and

be eaten away alone.

overlays of attention--revisitations if you will,

or will not.

with nothing left to confess but wanting nothing

from possessable experience.
Feb 2020 · 110
Chiaroscuro
Onoma Feb 2020
forelight not for want of thee,

foredark not for want of thee--

essenced Word of breaking lips

loath to void.

as what clings to spacey walls.

outflanked vine throwing off

dimensional shadows.

head come head, prophesied forefront.

disseminations of empurpled grapes.

gourd of psyche, countoured with

drying juices--the letting of outlasted

accentuations.

Caravaggio dying on the run, restating art.
*Chiaroscuro: Italian word for the dramatic contrasts of light and dark in art.
Feb 2020 · 123
Free Hand
Onoma Feb 2020
what's easiest to

draw free hand--

a circle, a square,

or a triangle?

independent of

their shape?
Feb 2020 · 165
Nonplussed Aums
Onoma Feb 2020
a glass blown urn,

pit to the stomach

of fire.

convexed with bounding

residuals.

gush thus water, gush thus fire,

gush thus air, gush thus earth,

gush thus ether!!!!?

meta-realities of ostensible I-s

deigning to unbecome, seen aright

in part.

elemental satiety--nonplussed aums,

lightless dins held to nothing visible.
Feb 2020 · 42
Zpriori
Onoma Feb 2020
you've only just

begun to

become nothing.

probably one of

the most deceptive

statements never

made.
Feb 2020 · 55
Kingdom Crawl
Onoma Feb 2020
Atonius Block,

sixty-four squares

deep.

in black of white, in

white of black.

kingdom crawl.
*Inspired by the film: The Seventh Seal
Feb 2020 · 126
Stiff Successions
Onoma Feb 2020
too far afield...

winter whose borderless

transfigurements hold

stiff successions of land.

rapidly aloft and kept in sight--

every streaking nook in light and

out of mind.

budding and sprouting with what

will come again.
Feb 2020 · 82
Whisper of Nonexistence
Onoma Feb 2020
i hear the rain try

different lyrical themes,

as if orienting a lost child

fast with tears.

a sounding neighborhood

loosely based on its intensity.

honing in on a whisper of

nonexistence.
Feb 2020 · 140
Omission
Onoma Feb 2020
is the omission of

highly pertinent detail

what eats away the: I, that

stands for silence?

that would be to move water

without creating ripples.
Feb 2020 · 141
Unfastened Umbilicus
Onoma Feb 2020
myth making pokes

at the navel of gods--

reminding them about

the import of an unfastened

umbilicus.

then tearing out their guts--

holding it up to the god

created therefrom.
Feb 2020 · 85
To Step Into the Man
Onoma Feb 2020
hermes winged head

loudly ***** to activate

morning light.

a swelling ember of memory.

sleep's spindrift treble and static snows...

an interrupted monody.

as the hoary lines of a precipitous ghost,

leave off to step into the man.
Feb 2020 · 45
Nothing Protracts
Onoma Feb 2020
it is possible to be

blinded by perfection.

without suffering

the excommunication

of having walked

thru walls.
Onoma Feb 2020
inertia is the god

of the mountain.

not allowing one to

dissever the vain and

inarticulate.

doubly conscious of what has

turned in on.

burdensome and unmoving--

spells of dead atomic flies

stuck in resin.
Feb 2020 · 121
Koi and the Sapphire Jewel
Onoma Feb 2020
an orange koi

swims in a

sapphire jewel.

transduction of

positive karma.

rippled refractions...

welling surface sparkles.
Feb 2020 · 152
Diogenes
Onoma Feb 2020
Diogenes was the

first punk--an ancient

Greek stoic philosopher.

who pre-valued shock,

before it became affected.

spitting, barking, *******,

******* in public--living in

a giant cracked clay ***.

spray painting dyslexic aphorisms,

and riddling the togas of fellow

philosophers with safety pins.

**** as a dog, hard as nails--

busting in on Plato's lecture

just to topple his word-castle

with a storming remark.

by the time Alexander The Great

got to him, he was already a famous freak.

so Alexander proposed he provide him

with anything he wished.

Diogenes said something like: get the ****

out of my way, you're blocking the sun.
Feb 2020 · 540
Meetup at Bounty
Onoma Feb 2020
these poised and

neverending hands

pruning the take away.

stalwart seasons refreshed

by definable lines.

meetup at bounty.
Onoma Feb 2020
wick works thru wax--

downward the upward flame.

center to a square glass table.

a white silk scarf lay carelessly

tossed round a white candle's neck.

material real time, made more

fragile.

as these constituents subject.

seperately spanning the eye

of their relation.

no candle holder.
Feb 2020 · 158
Blue Period Ellipsis
Onoma Feb 2020
black curtain over

the city skyline,

apothic explosions

of transformers.

flickering subway cars--

snap portraits.

Picasso's: Blue Period

ellipsis.
Feb 2020 · 105
Beyond Recognition
Onoma Feb 2020
are you prepared

to accept that spirituality

is something you

recognize especially?

more than yourself pitted

against the crowd to which

you contribute?

a crowd that's shunned as much

as embraced.

beyond recognition.

bow!
Feb 2020 · 108
Alas The Induction
Onoma Feb 2020
overexposed polaroids are
being dealt on the outs,
unhitched faces blowing blurbs.
filled with cathartic mumblings,
scrawled reminders to break
into the houses they gave the slip
to hours prior.
while
living alone to eliminate intrusion,
a mind's routine of
cutting the teeth of keys that won't
fit.
patting down the empty pockets of
limp thighs for spares.
is it not all as it has been left to--
the village idiot claiming the world's
***?
whose wayward business was made
to see where all the strangeness is
stashed.
following it around with a secret society
of eyes.
alas the induction, the inductee--
locked out.
Feb 2020 · 125
Afford The Appeal
Onoma Feb 2020
overt sentimentality

can only afford

the appeal of a naked

beggar but once.

too little to clothe itself--

till it's not.
Feb 2020 · 54
Marked For Non Repetition
Onoma Feb 2020
the chirpy, gurgly springiness of rails

during an oncoming train.

akin to the sound a lone ice skater makes

as his strides ricochet throughout a frozen

body of water.

there are many kinds of finality--that which

is marked for non repetition.

what is it to bear with those reverberations,

registering ends in and of themselves?

they're being funneled, by a finality one

among the many.
Feb 2020 · 100
During Certain Paroxysms
Onoma Feb 2020
during certain

paroxysms, colors

trade places.

to be versed in the

views of different

windows.

a fully retained aspect

of continuous light.
Feb 2020 · 35
High Hate Montage
Onoma Feb 2020
coked up cars

snorted by the straws

of bridges.

psychobabblers diagnosing

current traffic.

high hate montage.
Feb 2020 · 83
Master's Sketchbook
Onoma Feb 2020
Leonardo da Vinci's

sketches of incised latency--

necromantic choreography

dancing off the page.

anatomically correct to

the degree of fractal phrasing--

admittance to other dimensions.
Feb 2020 · 119
Two-way Mirror
Onoma Feb 2020
no more raw

than the cloisters

of breath.

a two-way mirror

that enlists a wind

to one end.
Feb 2020 · 63
Wave it Off
Onoma Feb 2020
let rivers

account for

changeability--

and oceans

wave it off.
Feb 2020 · 89
The Forensic Line
Onoma Feb 2020
bent by light--

the curve,

a patient etherized

upon a table.

doubtless Thomas, do you

prefer hello or goodbye?

at once the examined

and unexamined life.

stiff and lithe with

preoccupation--spread thin.

the forensic

line preceded by sentinel: X.

standing in place for the name

deemed by law competent enough

to undergo...
Feb 2020 · 51
The Commanded View
Onoma Feb 2020
furied and blindly whole as a stone--
heaped to a mountainous unraveling,
the commanded view.
what nothing takes away from supplication
upon impact.
as the trident pierces The Self...
what state could never grace.
the clamoring hoard of the heart's lair,
spews blood-black dashes of ink upon refulgent
pages.
upheld till clarified beyond meaning's repose--
where peace finds peace from peace.
Feb 2020 · 71
Xallapattar
Onoma Feb 2020
intelligibility quotient:

meaning.

from the late Wallace Stevens

made early:

rattapallax.
Feb 2020 · 107
Anorexic Fat Lady
Onoma Feb 2020
an opera house

giving the silent treatment

to unattended seats.

rehearsed in stages.

anorexic fat lady.
Feb 2020 · 131
Extra Light Scratches
Onoma Feb 2020
a jittering small white feather

set to the tip of a branch.

seen through the derelict watch

of unclean windows.

the tractionless, extra light scratches

of a waterbug on the wooden floor.

the monstrous ingression of traffic

heard in a truck's gasp-growl.
Feb 2020 · 106
Grey Apples
Onoma Feb 2020
hypnagogic rope,

serpentine

alpha wave.

guardian of

visual metaphors.

sibylline interstices

of grey apples.
Onoma Feb 2020
a chief choking down the

blood of his pride.

one tent under the north star.

while peace is kept between tribes.

attempting to dance wild enough

to shake off his scales.

gored by the gross injustice

of what has not been told

in full--his battle cry.

a vision of mounting his legless

horse, outrunning freedom.

prostrate dust of a trail blazed.

seeking the wisdom of ancestors.

who sing him the settled scores

of sleep, to sleep.
Feb 2020 · 51
Even Skies Flock
Onoma Feb 2020
now even skies flock

to this strength--

withdrawing their lines.

reams of land fallen

upon distance.
Feb 2020 · 66
Poor Translation
Onoma Feb 2020
poetry has its

native tongue, but

receives poor translation

in other countries.

which did not have

the word for the meaning.
Feb 2020 · 80
A Paranoid Other
Onoma Feb 2020
we ***** cities

to become

nobodies on first

name basis.

people need schematics.

a paranoid other.

the wild's the same--

without drafted plans.
Feb 2020 · 106
Never be Startled Open
Onoma Feb 2020
in light of--

where nothing can

follow.

where the highest

praise accepts relinquishment.

to bring together things of its

selves under no roof.

where One Eye watches

sleep.

where it can never

be startled open, even by

the greatest galactic Age.
Feb 2020 · 97
Camouflage
Onoma Feb 2020
that which drew

you into existence

draws you to

camoflauge.

noticing pigeons on a

rooftop exactly the

color of its tiles.

a starling exactly the

color of a patch of garden

between park benches.

how do they know what

they look like, not vain enough

to stand before a mirror--

yet are blended in?

resonance.

the colors of survival instinct.
Feb 2020 · 78
To Wrack The Barren
Onoma Feb 2020
if you still

consider

what you let

go.

you haven't died

enough to give

birth.

how to wrack

the barren?
Feb 2020 · 52
The Fairest Exchange
Onoma Feb 2020
bind a nugget

to the sun's mouth.

bind a crumb to the

moon's mouth...

to know they've already

eaten the heart of your

inmost/outmost matter.

simply to take turns

appearing and disappearing.
Feb 2020 · 68
Nor The Other Way Round
Onoma Feb 2020
the tide

knows nothing

of a tug of war.

only faithfully

presents the illusion.

the sun is not the

moon's co conspirator,

nor the other way round.
Feb 2020 · 57
Summit of Elements
Onoma Feb 2020
a nervous system's

forest fire.

absolutely no one

to put it out.

a summit of elements.

integral spines snowing

ash.
Feb 2020 · 45
Long Walks on Water
Onoma Feb 2020
words,

and long walks

on water.

volume come  

the depth of

transparency.
Feb 2020 · 92
Holding The Places
Onoma Feb 2020
enfleshed petals

holding the places

of blank pages.

voraciously read.
Feb 2020 · 96
Grandfather Clock
Onoma Feb 2020
Poe pacing Fordham's

High Bridge.

The Raven on his back.

quothing vertigo.
Feb 2020 · 67
As in a Perfect Likeness
Onoma Feb 2020
the Truth is never

insurmountable, if it

comes upon you

just so.

form for form, as in a

perfect likeness.

where here stands before--

no judgement, only understanding.

that fiercely intelligent

and evasive shape taken--

whereupon

some seeing is undeniable.
Feb 2020 · 95
No Whince
Onoma Feb 2020
what a bizarre kinship

with these depths

willed to exonerate me.

of curvatures and skies

burst at the bubble.

no whince.
Onoma Feb 2020
too much life's a

great thing.

freezing frames

dying to be seen.

di-versifying.

shared experience.

we're all here--

even when we're not.
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