Homemade traps for new world Brians
By: Evan Willner
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: BlazeVox Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Buffalo, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781934289440
Copyright date: 2007
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: "The slot of hollow suns risen" -- ; title: First state : "immediately the urge was on him once more" -- ; title: Second state : when chemistry generates mental worms in the fields -- ; title: Third state : if a man rubbed across and smeared his body's limits -- ; title: Fourth state : skyscrapers look like unkillable memorials -- ; title: Fifth state : jerked forward by intimate chemical exchanges -- ; title: Sixth state : you were always the one who wanted to make Earth face -- ; title: Seventh state : just like a mother voids herself of children and then -- ; title: Eighth state : and windows aren't metaphorical like cut glass -- ; title: Ninth state : then there's the issue of the Maypole bodies that pull -- ; title: Tenth state : after the Renaissance buffet is arranged, seasoned -- ; title: Eleventh state : though their playing at leaping from what look to us like -- ; title: Twelfth state : the wall looked like a wall and bore when he looked its brick -- ; title: Thirteenth state : when you undulate all over yourself, processes -- ; title: Fourteenth state : tapping -- ; title: Fifteenth state : in prehistory oral nerves were enveloped like -- ; title: Sixteenth state : pour us into city bodies someone you've got to -- ; title: Seventeenth state : when you, your face invaginated and your finger -- ; title: Eighteenth state : then there's the one about the west tending contracting -- ; title: Nineteenth state : in the great give and take plains statesmen like us pack -- ; title: Twentieth state : this photograph of a man who is about to be -- ; title: Twenty-first state : believe that finches collect, shout, and fan each other -- ; title: Twenty-second state : post-mortem on the poet's father's mother -- ; title: Twenty-third state : now you're dead and your furniture is dusted with skin -- ; title: Twenty-fourth state : when spring loaded cars bud from far countries -- ; title: Twenty-fifth state : the pilgrims stood in clouds at the far coast, having rubbed --  -- Preface.; title: The workshop of potential literature -- ; title: Twenty-sixth state : "there can be no concession" -- ; title: Twenty-seventh state : a Brian may be delivered, chubby and sulking, -- ; title: Twenty-eighth state : the first time a homeless face exhales itself over -- ; title: Twenty-ninth state : even after its loam filling has dried, the doll's skin -- ; title: Thirtieth state : the pipsqueakiest of mechanisms you hobbied -- ; title: Thirty-first state : if all tagalong creation insists on being -- ; title: Thirty-second state : this is how the infant bundle, hemoglobin thin -- ; title: Thirty-fourth state : the sheer pet flesh pawing your chest like groupies, -- ; title: Thirty-fifth state : seeing Brians exhuming themselves from sidewalk cracks -- ; title: Thirty-sixth state : between you and me, given the Brians that feeble -- ; title: Thirty-seventh state : say to yourself that pigeons wind the buildings sliding -- ; title: Thirty-eighth state : we stood firm in the face of our Brians, swaying back -- ; title: Thirty-ninth state : when wrecking balls punch mouths into a skyscraper, it -- ; title: Fortieth state : when bodies burn down the street, popping arclights pouring -- ; title: Forty-first state : the internal combustion engines flare euphoric -- ; title: Forty-second state : even the skin of your boots ripples with leaf breathy -- ; title: Forty-third state : say there were a few pounds of flesh folded over and -- ; title: Forty-fourth state : and as uninhabitable as all the other -- ; title: Forty-fifth state : (understand that when we came with our milk sweat and -- ; title: Forty-sixth state : pore rich and penetrable : it had invented these -- ; title: Forty-seventh state : "decently ambitious but lacking the raw talent" -- ; title: Forty-eighth state : when our gardenheaded Brians discover they'd been -- ; title: Forty-ninth state : one more permutation of genetic letters will -- ; title: Fiftieth state : when our cities have settled into their concrete old.