i am nothing more or less than i am committing anguish and delight through my poetry... i have a few small self-published collections that can be found below 'seamless ruptures'; a collaborative journey in black and white with the photographer and my brother robert biemer and tanka prose by myself
sitting in a corner of blank walls to his left is an opaque canvas brittle and undone, it has been this way since the beginning
pensive arms waiting on a captains chair with a legal pad cradled in his lap
only the keen would spot the shadow image inside him of gnarled hands gripping a horse hair brush and broken palette dripping rust covered oils reflecting greens and blues turning into a peacock's tail
and each time before placing the pen on paper i strike a match to both oil and canvas and oil knowing roots of the chair will sail back wave after wave to the soil of this room and broken palette
his face itches needing to shave, still he clings to drawing nonsense on a paper seeing there is no need for a cockpit when riding a blue horse between bitter oranges gallop and bite all on the way dripping down his unshaved face
will they wand him or touch his junk or even use radiation before he can enter the mystery grotto
he rubs down the horse feeling as if he had been strangled and abandoned by tendrils and judders from love's silent earthquake
shake the head nothing clears ten twenty seven am still nothing not a pulse in the wrist of the winds
i don't care that before ashes the library will be unlocked i just need to breathe and shave surviving simply as an uncarved block translating secrets in the belly of an unpainted cello or cave
kite tails trail many voices ink all as powerful as peacemaker bombs
on the bed diaphanous translucent and white gardenias are lazy and silently strewn where wine dark drinks and poor mans haldol can only work so long
in the mirror i too have become so pale that you can see subcutaneous bruises where fingertips once brushed and on my chest blood echoes long lost lips and other wind dark links
look hard and you may see a beating chalice whispering in strength once again where below a maple i smoke and lean in dust and mist swirling, it doesn't matter if you no longer see me open with each growing bud
it must have happened in sleep in the one walking through prism halls floating in paper boats above paper cranes
unseen but heard they pull an arm through green into purple hoping to hide bruises from a crystal needle
this is hard this stone ether in the wind where your tongue cleans off fire from your teeth as if you were a marionette at la scala and black stone injections are nothing more than goat whispers behind the theater of the wolf but you would behead me otherwise
a baseball cap an olive branch a water wheel an orphaned frontier try again and the needle will break
magic spells and memory chants mix with rain from a cobblestone sky a frog and elephant turn into a stand mixer for stalker breads where do they come from and who will store these nuts
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this one has happened before// i am being showered with dirt and earth worms and lichen and steamed lilac camas bulbs// stillness in the healing fright for messages in a blue glass bottle// a night unloved is still the night where fractal shadows are sitting on the fisher moon as a loon watches mother theresa flamenco with gertrude stein// alice is wedged between, greater than three lives
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there is a reason unicorns never sleep, blood flowers are blooming across straits of speared ribs
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i bow to a bow of returning unleavened notes// of hints in the black wolf trumpet my crossbow sings sings
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losing a thimble opens the head of janus spiked by glowing cats playing basketball
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translating means walking without knees wearing grass skirt demons summon wind there is always a tornado on waking
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this bleeding is invisible, a pulsing pain from empty sockets acrid and mahogany dark deep like an undertow wine drinking cosmogony using star trowels to lay the bricks building a hollow house whole
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i don't know what I know i can't see the conductor but a pine needle quilt brings rest splashing against the many places i live