swodniw ees
--worg
(it
is) out
with
#s
seen
collapse
as we settle a
station.
where
the river is crossed
or
sweated out in late season
(though
you are not listening
to
this)
new
hope, vicksburg
a dream captured that I have not
had
Page
from
reduction
as
build
slight
now
from distraction, a felt action left
reaching
out
as
shade
for
description
to
pinpoint
space
on
the
timeline
/
to believe the line being given
to have taken
piles of gravel for description
to start from
where one is and follow through
to answer when
asked about memory
to speak truly
about action, vision before the act
to understand the
currents unseen
to start and move
toward the green.
And Somewhere
simple
cactus garden
relaxation
and the voices
that
whisper,
is
this phrase correct?
I
suppose
everyone wants the
rules
as they crack
and state who
we are.
we
undo these
words
to live.
Dive
watching the outcropping--
how
words fall from the cliff in search of
a
structure. My consciousness falls with
them
through air and leaf to new growth.
i
search the trails left by insects, the stage
set
for epic tales and battles, but i am
alone,
and the borders holding me in fade,
so
i soak in all directions at once and
unbecome
these words scribbled in time.
Sketched
you
will be briefed
before
we let you
leave
with our
words.
(The Bacchae are waiting,
just
now, for you.)
Join
or Die.
and
then shift your
alignment.
William
Allegrezza edits the press Moria Poetry and
teaches at Indiana University Northwest. He has previously published many
poetry books, including Step Below:
Selected Poems 2000-2015, Stone &
Type, Cedar, Ladders in July, Fragile Replacements, Collective Instant, Aquinas and the Mississippi (with Garin
Cycholl), Covering Over, and Densities, Apparitions; two anthologies,
The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the
New Century and La Alteración del
Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente; seven chapbooks, including Sonoluminescence (co-written with Simone
Muench) and Filament Sense (Ypolita
Press); and many poetry reviews, articles, and poems. He founded and curated
series A, a reading series in Chicago, from 2006-2010.