Prose Poems a la Ryan Downy

Doctor’s Orders

An instrument for scraping bones, this surgical gumminess we obliterate with a series of x’s. The printed maps of skin. Sometimes colored by collecting, clever as cancellation, a writ ordering the act of, or combination, bound to live a life or service fervently without. To suffix. To ease a common fund. To cherish in various denominations the smoothness or shininess or singleness of compounds combining. To mark condition, to aid, to out-order, under-possess, to or toward a having, a Polaris-sense, a scrupled correctness, an under-going, an over-outing, mutations by time. And by time, matriculation, in a lone garden.

Forecast

Dot-com the absolute! Vagaries of information, please! Lacking exotica, she, queen for a day, behests! Formal and quotidian. Interface me, why don’t you? To, with pleasure, clean flamed, with manufacture of spirit, anthem yourself. In nectars, antimony. Her necklace, a caped clock-piece, corralled conjugation. Everyone! This annulment. Annotated noblesse oblige. Another vein forward. A greeting-card toothy-ness. The angel ascends, a table of weeds, a greeting. Tear-jerker, fending his hostess clear.

Deep Rising

Apodal, our biblical book. Mineral re-central. An organism is a result. Irregularity reducing or tending to reduce. So old as no longer. Agro-anthro-aut. Bathy. Bronch-demo-com. Itsier and itsier. Bit by bit. Sharing a commonness, the mad race. A nearly rounded Roman-ness. The blipping beings, built up and believing. Backwards farther please. Backwards, before. Sealing in maximum value. From the true east to the temperate west, our eyes sun-sinking. The brine of our birth. The twin brother of our conquering. The derma-hydration of our wandering. Honk! Jack is over the hill.

Meditation

The furriness of sleep, the trajectory of waylay, the open-sightedness of engine, or odd numbered parts of self-preservation, earmarked absence of art intended, to gnaw off, to insta-drift, to oil-slip, too capable often, too, mislead, the ocal language, the opal tendon, autumnal misbehaving, within, the weight of, the aural sameness of unlearned phonemes, the textual reproduction of erudition, equal to the power of significance as, or thing equipped, of parts, a brilliant, the oval, we are thin-shelled eggs, we impudent, small, unusually furnished within, disparate elevations, effrontery, the soft boldness, belly-tension.

Publication

word for/word I got two poems in it Fall 2008

the ultimate surrealist act

killing black people on videotape is easy.