shyku against empathy sculpture

no caricatures for you
to strike to
understand what's lost
in your likeness

shyku from within a policy thicket

that you know nothing and yet
withhold everything is what
the commonplace shows of
repose which we as beasts of
heart and lucre
can only plunder

mithridating shyku

to surprise the paralyzing plus
of aggressive human doing
a means by which falling
lands in itself

shyban shyku 2

for one is married to the world too we learn love of the world from the song of songs don't we not copulation with material goods but rather a spreading out in the good earth this too is symbolism sure but allow me to be hard-headed to be literal after such an original start after conceiving an idea that might reorient the spaces of our lives for one is married to the world too one took a vow in the earliest days of living when fallen stumps could be tinkered into airplanes and flown and the night fell like a blanket with breathing holes we took our vows in and the sacrament was so large it did not need a church or priest the question and the answer were simultaneously born in the body and now you are older and have neglected your young wife she is still so young how many days how many times I want you to stop and count and then we will all add up our numbers and the total figure will be rough approximation of the distance we have gathered

shyku waiting for a train to pass

'i like my women
thick like a snake'
graffiti union pacific

shyku in quiet proof inframince is life

who can say how confusion moves
as an internal swarm
or fragments of total home, but

walking past without much mind
a typical billboard this morning
above me there was this
demure and gargantuan model’s head and bedroom
eyes shrinking
to thoughtful size
obligatory parted lips
amassed curly hades
locks (black) frothed in fertile contrast
with an ambiguous flower
(yellow) of paradise, tucked
like a pledge
behind the ear, purling
in star formation open
long thin petals from which
a heathen stamen tickled
my eros, not unlike
antannae and not quite
in subtle fantasy displacement of legs spread
rhyming with invisible torso
to which what? the sole response
could only be
this is Dana, gangly charming
of several parties not at all
smoky or fatal, vertical and inverted
into a flat thing
to be touched, elsewhere
how stupid, for a haircut at Aveda salon

all natural shyku

cockleburs straighten me
and so i am no small flow king

simultaneous shyku

bewitched by variety . this and this
at the queer end of focus . the softer louder
glints, objective spots . a woman in a wheelchair who lifts
out of penitentiary flood . a feather to her lips
with no finger directs . worth swearing by
........................and so we follow.................................

shyku in the shadow of reductionists

facts a kind of pyre to be
and sense unsettled out of
the brain nearly accustomed
to what shouldn’t greenly surround
pageants of ghostlessness with coordinates of vibration suggest
a fool’s field
and outstrip the one

bronking beckett shyku

an accumulation
is handy, what
we cherish obligation
for, to be endless
unti the end
is to be
what longing
is, a hard word
to place near
silence, to bookend
all possibility--
still not still
and that is all
all can be
or needs

news from the real world of fiction shyku

no comment

pain scene in the greatest skyku

ralph eyegene
glimpsing family out the
window . around back
blinks sadness . what will happen
in a name

greatest shyku

meatyard: think about it

shyban shyku

are stories possible anymore yes of course the story of responsibility, it grows tired, tires one remaking everything in its image one of wrestling an ancient throw match where bodies are breaking against each other joints the muscle this all so holy coming as it does in a body, a single body being tied to darkened horses bid to rush for a kind of fortune that is beyond the body what the body can know and such knowledge being unattainable is of the spiritual sort and also what sustains, only what can sustain without it lost with it less lost but only because direction contains the bidding

untitled shyku

divergence remains a friend
that movement all ways can save
only a coward is besides
the point as I am delivering
another worthless sermon to
some corner, a silence grafted
onto the endless background
noise that lulls me into
a half-hearted coitus with
what world and nothing more

ironic libido shyku

time to fuck like a wild man
he said climbing
onto the kitchen table where the
divorce papers lay

shyku of diogenes or not

to what extent
inventiveness stems from ignorance
is the nod
without lifelong warning

metaxu shyku

tap once
let me out
i'll hear you

detail from 'shyku in the valley'

it is for instance electro
chemical energy in brain
cells derived from photo
synthetic sugars in vege
tables whereby we can
see a star at all and the
fire of the star we call
the sun could be seen and
thought by nourishing the
brain with a glimpse of
god in it with knowledge

shyku in the valley

the paradox of originality houses many rooms
the views from the windows are all different
invention where there is nothing to see
we remember means finding trace . intricate
and subtle lines wherein "Every force" Mother
Ann Lee of the Shakers "evolves" . a form"
the painters of Lascaux found their horses
wherever a bulge in the cave wall suggested
equine solidity surrounded with elegance
of mane legs and tail unfinished or sufficient
to say 'horse' together prancing legs that are
man's first graph of the verb 'to move'
says nature the very first voice of philosophy
loves to hide always to know how much
the world has taught us to see once we are
quick to suppose it was always waterfalls
before Turner and Wordsworth moonlight
before Sappho without . rhetorical cosmetics
the apple has its history . the word eros
conceals a rose . is a rose

shyku tying everything together for the very limited time being

and I quote:
I rock out
with my
cock out

shyku at the harsher end of gossip

yesterday there was hearsay that reached my general
orbit about some hipster who jerked off on a
girl while she slept beside him and i thought
how lazy do you have to be to
so accurately describe yourself

shyku of ominous measurement

gesamtkunstwerk
i cannot pronounce
through rent is paid
within it

unthinking collage shyku, with brief cannibalism

by driving home
so many jealously recurring
motifs
whoever leads with this
mirror language
is squashed

shyku of kitchen midden against early killings of the road

where possum plus is squashed
by driving so many
carelessly from where thru
jealously recurring with
many steps as height
whoever leads this
mess is directly
the mirror

the brooklyn bridge shykus

1.

right at monk's backside
leaving chinese o.t.b.
behind

2.

rosebuds over iron trellis
colorless
shadow

3.

when they see me
they say
who is that man
walking next to
neck face

4.

17,439
individual conversations
and this is just
one

5.

a good friend can save you much time
and also
from stepping on a dead bird

6.

I see them walking
they're walking
me

7.

Benjamin Franklin:
printer
patriot
philosopher
statesman
sculpture

8.

on a quest as absurd as this
we still become tourists

9.

cold water
1 dollar
sold

10.

joyous paucity
of bras

11.

keep me out your film
he said
lovingly

12.

it is okay to litter
on litter
is it

13.

Murray Bergtraum High School
for Business Careers
god love you
let us out

14.

fame
where are you

15.

thick calves
bowling shoes

16.

woman in white dress
with camera phone

17.

the true idiot nature can be revealed quite simply:
bringing the wrong equipment for the journey

18.

brooklyn bridge cables
reminiscent of tron or
my time in the fallopian tube

19.

the true nature of his fear
was really
his hatred
of inconvenience

20.

laying on back in grass
gazing up sycamore skirts
to the bloom

21.

somewhere alabama
a big pig was killed
and the father
proud

shyku poetikka

hew ( ....
hew .........)
campanology
won't rein
the ringing

beckett shyku 2

I want to know
what you know
I do not want to know

lazy shyku

my joy to consider
more strictly
the appalling logic
of eyes

shyku of a last line amputated from robert penn warren

my eyes to consider
more strictly
the appalling logic
of joy

manhattan tantrum shyku

when withheld from being given
some sweet or crucial knick-knack
demanded of his father
often william blake
is not above licking
the floor, though in a sane world
wouldn't that be
a ceiling

shyku for joe on the night he taught me about graeme obree

your stoop was not open
for business so I left
a book and wandered through Park Slope
until I hit Mooney's and
you and arranged, among other things,
an annual foot race with the whole family
watching and tried to play
bocce balls but there were
too many hipsters, oh so many
hipsters and they could never
understand Grandpa Joe
or Uncle Al or the game
they used to play and then
I was in a cab flying
toward the Upper West Side
and when I unwrapped my
whitefish on pumpernickel
the cabbie stopped at a red light
and pulled out an equally
delicious bagel sandwich
and said, "the bagels at
that joint are good, aren't they"
and I agreed and for the rest
of the trip I thought about
how everything that wasn't beautiful
was trying too hard
and even that was kind of beautiful

shyku for glen detinger, contemplating the lydia within

the gentle touch
is your house, friend
i look
at my fingers

shyku for joe manning within his art and spoken troubles

definition of beauty
that that does not know
(throw)
how much it is

ennui thesis shyku

gratitude without fulfillment
zugunruhe

nachbar shyku

piety of your own
improvised opinion
repells, Second Person
be first, refreshed again
troubled at the nexus
where beer is them

post-nach patio shyku

because I am so bad
I mean strange
at being people
this fig tree
planted by time diet
travels

shyku of miraculous blushing

rigorous flubbing of meta
lugdubbing the groundswell
moisting the cherrybomb
lazing the schlub
lushing the bon
and then
wherever
you find yourself you find
a plumper summering
rubbing like velvet

shyku of widening address

135 lbs
to lose
before I'm
you

intelligible shyku

to write from the thorough
bottom so there is nothing
inexactly to be undercut
by the affirmation if one so
happens to explain feeling
of having no one to talk to
being everyone in particular

Beckett Shyku

when he learned a new word for pus
he said, oh yes, that will work
perfectly, a new title, Sanies, and
then it was back to the rusty
liquor, back to filling the bucket,
and all the while they thought--blindly--
poems were made of dreamy stuff
and that beauty's only
an inch wide, an inch deep

shyku of the habitual projector

tinsel that fears itself
clings caress
to on
for from
adorns each act
of decoration

team sleeping shyku

no things except
in ideas
the walking
sometimes swimming
cages

Casual Space Shyku

There is no casual space.

Ambulatory Mysticism Shyku

Eye vs. I.

Red Dawn Shyku

Tanks, machine guns, Russians, firing lines, national anthems, Patrick Swayze.

The Last Days of Left Eye Shyku

When she was younger she painted pictures and later
she burned down a house.