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 rescinded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