Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Catches

If his son could only catch

the windfall floating in the air

from forty yards --

to catch and run

to dodge and dip -- no doubt

in gathering in

That wouldn't make a difference.

The father doubts.

The windfall wobbles.

The son stumbles to track its trajectory

it bounces off his head

he swarms it into his arms

he runs the other way

he times a kick to reject its arc

it lands harmelssly, without a thud

it goes out of bounds

it knows no bounds.

The iron balls, in baskets,

hung from each hand

each foot

fathom nothing, form something

in excruciating, incriminating pain

as if reading

reaches into the reader

the same instant

the reader reaches into reading

Looking for Work: PO25centEM

PO25centEM zines are pocket-sized zines that will be handed out individually AND serialized with other zines in the series to make an 'autonomous anthology.' So far we have numbers one through 31 available, but single copies are always floating around and being traded: they are handed out in Baltimore and in Washington, D.C. The pocket-sized zines are compact and are 16 pages or less, making for an intimate read while waiting for the bus or the train, or just lazing the day away.

The jist of this project is to get everyone to read more poetry. We're handing out free poetry to
recover the sense of readership in a public that seems to not care about poetry. Folks may keep or give the zines away to others, so the turnover rate is unlimited, trading goes on forever.

Furniture Press needs all the texts it can get. We're bent on publishing every writer and
anthologizing this project: we're hoping to receive substantial funding and a national coverage.
Hopefully other presses will start doing the same.

The goal, for now, while funding is low, is to serialize the zines and sell them as 'autnomous anthologies'. These contributions will go to the pressing of more zines for a wider distribution.

Here are the specifications for submission:
The zines dimensions are 4.25 inches by 5.5 inches. Send texts between 8 and 16 pages that fit
nicely onto a 4 inch width by 5 inch height format. Please send texts to
furniture_press at graffiti.net. No titles are necessary, any work, old and new is welcome.

Send submissions to this e-mail address.

Anyone who would like the first volume of the series, please send $12 to:

Christophe Casamassima
304 A7 Stevenson Lane
Baltimore, MD 21204

make checks payable to yours truly.

Thank you! Spread the word!

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Stripped Text 23

it intends to be encompassing

and wind

bent at an angle of anyone's choice

strafing the obnoxious composer

is both life and death

the end

period

Stripped Text 22

there is much work to be undone

Stripped Text 21

marked the anniversary of

her face with a broken mirror

bottom up

empty

rain

lighting the east wall

TRILOBITE by mIEKAL aND

2006, 76 pages, 6 x 9, b&w $12. 4th edition. Postage included.
ISBN 0-9770049-2-9 | ISBN 978-0-9770049-2-8

Imagine the days of visual poetry before the widespread use of 
computers. Copy machines were the black & white lens through which 
the daily collage of headlines, fonts, graphic noise, clippings were 
reconstituted. Each component piece specifically found (selected) 
from quadrillions of possible choices. Pen knife, glue stick & boxes 
of discarded magazines were always waiting their turn. At the time, 
there was something perfect about this chaotically imperfect 
practice. This is how books were made.

Trilobites are short one page poems, typo-fossils embedded with 
syntactical mysteries & multiple possible references, missing links 
between semantic precision & indecipherable code. This book was 
originally published by Xerox Sutra Editions in 1983.

"We know trilobites existed through the fossil record, fortuitous 
encounters with geochemical processes. We know Miekal And’s Trilobite 
because the work flat-out matters millenniums later, because the 
chemistry—mix of text, image, collage, collage/image, image/collage, 
text—combusts, conflagrates, bursts into our presence today, a 
bright, blinding flash to remind us of what came before at the same 
time pointing toward more, to the future, toward now."
—Crag Hill

http://xexoxial.org/new_releases/trilobite.html

Xexoxial Editions
10375 Cty Hway A
LaFarge,WI 54639
perspicacity@xexoxial.org

Stripped Text 20

then fluidity

yes, it will have internal references

echo filled with its own

terms of endearment

picking up books and instruments

astonishing and unaccountable

that very terrain for kite flying

Best Served Before

I

of the

said, discolored

knew to

was dumb

chance,

identification. Somehow

   the mortician

        the girls

           to be extremely well

Started To Post Again on SPORE Blog

Look for some poems from SCORE 5, including Harry Polkinhorn and Kirk Robertson.