how to write by sean s.

[new]

Since you told me you hate
what you write, I've formulated every trite
or profound encouragement as bait,
hooks for your mind or heart.

Such:
Hate is distraction. You must
love where you can, love
what you can. Hate is untidy
love. Hate is
half-hearted. Find your beautiful burning
hands in your memory's wick.

Tricks. Everything so
much simpler. What
I really want to tell you
is there are words here, waiting for yours.
On this page, on the next.


(for H.)

Another P.O.V. by JKD

After Geo Vance's Point of View.

not concerned enough with each bright
inside not the same
as outdoors this
semblance of self-contained seen
apart the striated panoply
roundabout seeing seen
as within a tube of lightning
contained others and
their rules

not unlike looking deeply at the bereaved
a no-thing in turn without
its twofold absented sense
of 3 years scent traced later
peer into the interned (twined)
twin of… and then to
apply rules to memory
this affect(ed) (ing)
motion... rapacious
attenuated (delineating) contexts

exact or exacting
gaze grazed
this fallout
glimpse

Point of View by Geo Vance

concerned with the inside not the same
as outside
the self-contained seen part of a many-parted panoply
seeing roundabout that panoply and its
other rules

not unlike looking at a deeply loved thing
2 years later
the rules that apply ...memory...affect...(e)motion...(s)pace
attenuating contexts

Exacting rules

Sighting by JKD

after "The Tin Temple" by Lisa Pasold

beware the tin temple
the silver-tongued, the brazen,
behold the falling ashes
city new-sprung, light reigniting
people nearer positions close
to never scatter to scamper to
fly forth green, seascape beyond
moat, their voices wings in
flight attempting with each bat
to catch up, behold that cave-shadow
beyond and farther still the tin sound
growth a whispered rush crawling
close now in the dusk squint to
see clear the onslaught shimmers

New, fragment after Forsythe at Chaillot by JKD

What is this pulling this she what pulls at her outside she is that is what she is pulling outside her inside of her self this pulls at or away from as what is of making her pull her pulling what’s it supposed to hurl her help her seal her away this layer out farther not to touching pull against what to pull what from her this is this inside outside in this as her voice bounces her body bounces away in what form of her deformation this is a beginning of a perchance a formation her formed her what from this former self pulled forth this pulling a begging out from form what of it?

New: the tin temple, by lisa pasold

beware of falling ashes:

the city is new but the people will never

catch up.

unequal-librium by jill d.

after Small Variation by Miranda and Grounded by jkd

glass in her mouth from her past, her throat is a mess.

that once-timed destruction
of place encounter
revisited like
vomit lingering
against the backdrop
of olives
classic greek style
the sea (grows old)

of place or encounter
destroyed against
individual waves erasing
a finger
a forearm
a history (is in the details
ready to surface
in an instant)

the taste textured
scarred(scarring)
against a place
undone