shyku on the day I was reading Alice Notely at 6 a.m. and spilled coffee on her beautiful book and myself and burned my balls

Until this new elegant water is century wiring my entire doubt, I finally have still open at least dawn ^ Notely’s collected resources thank god or who made cup of coffee what is twenty minutes missive ^ a quiet personal ^ want it to ascend the floor through the ceiling how it spilled onto my space as architecture ^ it is warbled on the page at home a bold breath-blush ^ location entire ^ perspectives and swallowing of mistake ^ and only then could we framework for meticulous permission ^ once used finally below point of intersect maybe twice used ^ offset by a calm idea one with elbowroom for color ^ one that doubles as an ideologue with brogue that dances an island to trespass with distinction in loss ^ fragrance shall be footprints for flight to ^ you bloomed elemental to form the outer space where too a geyser ^ essential foam in twain ^ I am what else can come next ^ yes there is noticed bliss that is oddly just after

pettyfilch shyku

Ambience, I think,
is a romance

not a thing
between too much. Done

inside there
it goes

making something
it can't know.

Like two futures
wondering inside

some people,
neither of them

well blended.
What other reason

is there, artfully,
and more

wooing
than its modesty? --

The more I withhold
from eyes

inside hands,
the more

we're both led,
living, by something

bold. Face:
a translation

that wants both
seeings (far inside,

where there's us.)

on 'on modesty shyku'

what was i thinking to screw
the lightbulb into the
lightbulb--so obviously
immodestly, and back again

on modesty shyku (outre sap lilt wreckage foem)

Romance, I think
is an ambience

not a thing done
between, much less

shown. Inside itself
there it goes

making something
it can't know.

Like two people
wondering inside

some future
neither of them

supposes--well blended.
What other reason

is there modesty
and artfully more,

wooing ten more
than its opposite? --

The more I withhold
from hands

inside eyes,
the more

we're both led
bold by something

living. Translation:
a face, Lady

that wants us
both (far inside,

where there's seeing.)

underscoring ted berrigan shyku

sing in idiom of disgrace
the cherrywood romances of rainy cobblestones
and then one morning to waken perfect-faced
to the big promise of emptiness
the air beginning to thicken
banging around in a cigarette
whatever is going to happen is already happening

shykumache

what is noise endless reciprocal ^ the way the park ends in continuance blades of grass the sheen of hills and activity playing catch kissing eating sleeping I once even saw two people asleep with their hands in each other’s pockets and of course clouds ^ did you make time faith ^ rendering peak paranoia a tiny tweak becomes passion ^ continuum New Hampshire via New York via Jerseytucky ^ that was a horrible decision ^ what was that in the margin on the shoulder the car like all machines mache seeing ^ my dictionary bless its heart defines mache with a note that says, “see corn salad” which means “a plant of the valerian family that often grows in grain fields and has edible leaves,” the UK term is lamb’s lettuce ^ my mother who hates disturbance would say “you should have used the original word you selected,” which was “makes” ^ tiny tweak becomes yes she knows part of me was in her Nebraska perhaps the skyline or just the way you could throw your eyes like dice across the table of endless plains and that gambling is called romance, the ancient kind, nothing to do with man and woman, rather something tumbling deep the heart’s locomotive dream ^ corn smut is a fungal disease of corn that produces dark swellings on the grain which is kind of what I was trying to say when I was trying to say when something was trying to be said about romance and Nebraska it produces dark swellings on the grain ^ corn snow is fallen snow that has a grainy surface because it has thawed and refrozen, it is also called corn it is beautiful conceptually but there’s no music in it I imagine in Spanish or Italian it would not be so useful and therefore like the thing itself that is beauty ^ a cornball is somebody who cares too much for romance, he is “very sentimental or unsophisticated” ^ how you track days measures meters you out ^ coffee with a friend maybe music the right kind why is that so hard ^ only stop you can be king/d again but bleeding debt opportunity ^ “stop being such a cornball,” she said I take that as compliment ^ calendar squares hours tiny windows painted white bloom defeated already weep ^ have you discovered anything new lately that they haven’t smoothed new ^ incomplete I want it like 10:20 a.m. a few sips left Akron Family or Bonnie Prince ^ his lament my lament internal glamour what for someone other ^ a line is a ledge where I can pile new data experience perhaps an extra eyes ^ I want so much to fall away a life minimalism what is the tone most like flame ^ perhaps simple joy like falling into what is that scent of mint words leading the thought before the experience is enough ^ loss of meaning disorientation sonnet mind nameblind I wish I knew a beautiful word in another language I would say it three times would skip it across the water there ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

shyku on a ruined wavelength (from red pinchbook #2)

Winter Zero Swartzel’s
‘Bottle Farm’—Farmersville
OH no doubt . calm euphoria
Douglas Gordon 24 Hour
Psycho . a present image
interpenetrated in reference
to everything past . cyclorama
otium cum dignitae—leisure
with dignity . Volunteers
of America of Kentucky
Inc . cryptwork . tenderness
that isn’t a function of
self-consolation . two
separate facts will proba-
bly come from this . the
boring a mood of itself
intense and helpless . penny
whistle . shock troops . pinkus
Memoirs On The Tether .
not to be an instrument
of modest erasure while
carefully resisting to be
an ambitious one . acanthus
leaves crowning Corinthian
Picasso and Tchelitchew
change as variety within
a form . stretching kneading
time romancing its taffy
properties . Baron Alexander
von Humboldt—surmised
altitude sickness from lack
Linnean binomials . Viola
Saint-Pauline the African
Violet was discovered named
by a Christian missionary
hymenoptera . mimesis . tallest
weather . Harvard denied
Thoreau the use of its library
hot water plus solvent with
Clorox half a cup . blurs to
harden into historical humans
endless fund of suggestiveness
jellyfish from graffiti . furred
and crystalline tetrahedronal
structure of the unblown
tourniquet . safety net . debt
the poorly held . in organized
bewilderment before the simple

again[st] genius shyku

sometimes someone
wandering
has

nothing except
in the city many language
diseases, the people

the space between buildings
who talk and cannot
breath

you stop then
in
do not have

out
"what it takes"
again[st] genius and they

are only repeating
sometimes
what they see

like today I saw
gregorian chant poured
all over everything

now in everything, as everything
I keep hearing
their voices, most happily

silver haired shyku

I've hardly ever been able to sustain the tiny voice I emit walking ^ belief that walks admits ^ from the hardly fleeing, but ^ how can I expect harvest ^ the thing a thing to be perceived ^ to believe in this thing, well, that's ^ that is supposed to be the hard part, the echoing of the voice to sustain, bolster generations, time, what a manly word, this word that moves an inch inward and with mixed motives enters all the big victories, the fanfare and thinks away from the way to be endured while enduring ^ it is yours, yours ^ I probably should be thinking outside your epiphany ^ to squander, to examine ^ family and furniture is true value ^ who love without taxes ^ men can hardly say the word ^ you must ^ a new kitchen ^ midden like me ^ then these are, for me, imponderables like who breathe the most beautiful ^ say it ^ sustain ^ I cannot lay hands on stars or thoughts ^ smoke wants to be lost

shyku in bright quarantine (from lime green thimblebook #2)

healthy again . fit for looking
in this time of living rest .
benthic haze over soccer
annuit coeptis—‘he smiles on
our beginnings’ . tomography
neogenetic . the thing being
about an unbroken mental
scream is the brain never
runs out of breath . ousted
trichonoma—eye disease
China—20 cities over
10 million . the danger-free
privilege of silence . he
meant trachoma . estimating
37 million blind in the
heavens . pity being care
extending beyond the end
of loved much . rescinded
caravansary . trumpet vine
crystallizing bewilderment
into platitude . unconsoled
by his own inventiveness
which is not a power
and changes nothing but
a view of things is not
insight but instead
mere internal glamour .
melodrama mugging for
its mirror corner . called
American Witness . Blue Mark
the Reverend Charlie Jackson
Marcy’s Roman Lure . with
will in right proportion and
direction to synchronize
with unprompted bidden
lifeflow . not to strain
or contradict . didacticism
in embattled circle safe
from softness . a gospel
moment . improvident
ferruginous—of, relating to
or containing iron . insight .
jobs . yoga

shyku in sampo of a feather (from black flightbook #1)

ornithology . architecture
time (a history of) morphology
movies of turning away
toward . ambitemporal
Nocturama . walking alone
for a year’s worth of hours
trapdoors of simple surface
with something from the
sea narrating . knuckle
to forehead kernel of the
real . Limonilla . depths
that were once diamonds
thieves for stillness in lateness
sized by pain . intricate
interlooking all to be
cruel . Laysan albatross
(gooney bird) . Chihuahuan
Raven . Bobolink . Black-
Capped Chickadee . Dark-
Eyed ‘Slate-Colored’
Junco . Cuzco below us
navel of the whirlwind
aqua origamist creasing
finches from water . inter-
necine . wingless factitious
doll with money hair .
blue eyes . blonde air .
at a lowness five foot
ten . maiden-frail
bacchus of the sugar high
hummus spinach cheddar
redbuds heart-shaped leaves
sheer energy released by
juxtaposition . gangbanger
to flower girl . the Flood also
mass deletion . in ruins of
boredomjoy . treacle

through prison music shyku (from lime green thimblebook #2)

downgraded into ancient
ineptitude . disappearing eider
down . Bechterew’s disease
autocephalus . The Diversity
Of Life . zooids and corallines
quadrants and sextants .
Mike Higgins ruined drunk
carried passively all the
way to O’Hare . the Kara-
korum Mountains . sampo
curls are purling . Robert
Erikson—The San Francisco
Tape Center . spangled
with counterfeit realization
on the bee-eyed wavelength
Serbian tamburitza to
shakuhachi—a Japanese flute
analytical hibachi . door
height 40” width 28 .
body ten years old and
yanked with breathless
suddenness to zero . Un
certainty by David Lindey
or poor Henry Cowell’s
prison orchestra . composing
to this day in a cell at
San Quentin a piece for
band based on the moods
personalities of fellow in-
mates his famous out-
mates except Varese
having abandoned him .
burnt umber . musk .
bathroom stink of mildew .
lexical anemia where the
truth tone begins . a stuffed
armadillo on the back panel
of a police cruiser . Kalevala
Aesthetics of Disengagement
Contemporary Art and
Depression . Anatol Levin
of the New America Foun-
dation . aphelion . the
Red Mosque Siege . Cooper
Union (an art school)

shyku for mrs. graves

would you when startled ^ each narrative the undeniable ^ brief the form ^ reflected a word in a fleck collective ^ noun my favorite ^ "I" empties itself of radiance ^ more suited to ^ meaning what can a sentence like this mean ^ or is nothing tiny ^ narratives of syntax ^ the story is that explosion ^ within grammar yours wanted you ^ cruelly to empty ^ derange to craft radiance ^ what's a man ^ to mean anyway ^ isn't it ^ to expect ^ allegiance of water ^ wind and con ^ not ^ at ^ ions

ten fingers, ten toes shyku

the eternity days ^ long gone would ^ an extended pitch of lost ^ real numbers instead ^ wind-empty and you ^ what you lose, what you expect ^ everything is to lose ^ would you ^ if all became ^ what if the time came ^ denies the ability something wanted ^ a wedding ^ bliss ^ day ^ the house made noise to be ^ counted ^ willing but your appetite ^ other than that which is participant ^ disappear breeds something inebriate ^ and what about breathing, cloying, begging, besmirching this ^ guess how much I love you ^ about it (this) no doubt ^ more ^ simply here ^ that there can be transformative looking ^ far-far foundation thinking ^ secrets and wishing ^ counting ^ to unfold a way again ^ in the way that too is a way ^ handed breath as to own it ^ only resemble ^ what number are you on ^ turn this day into days and overturn ^ swift ^ spoils go ^ the victor empties bellies ^ I almost ^ and with love or hatred ^ it doesn't ^ not I ^ zero just past ^ almost became one ^ become one ^ matter ^ no