Juvenilia

A Firm Negation: Twelve Transcriptions

1.

Dash Dot Bleep
Sand Daisy Sleep

2.

Heads/Tails
Every mediocre truth is wrong
Wrongness is a fine quality

3.

Cricket sounds penetrate
the latices' work of frogs' voice
carry
carry

4.

Ghazal ligaments

a rosy quartz nipple
nested in an outcrop of hair

granite worn
smooth as ebony and porcelain

mistakes
are grasps like lichen

5.

before the face the mirror found joy

6.

to cheat cheaply sharply

7.

echo hoe racking
work

8.

leaching the lipwise air

9.

parsley syntax and garlic grammar

10.

ingrain
integrated grace

12.

the bridges came in the springtime
burning with fierce humility

simmer is close to seethe
burns leave scars not always
      redness is also glow

11.

I smell the humus like ink