of
all I know
the bustle of light zigzagging,
superstition
of the affairs of the world
sunset,
the signal
to light
the August Summer
the copper re-
flection
Sung shattered into
sparkling glints like floating leaves
To
go from one place to another
the shortest
distance between two points
is
a zigzag
the routes of the swallows, who cut the air
the line
the reason to believe that
dropping from a rooftop
following gutterings
a space in which routes are drawn
from
what is outside the eyes
eyes
scanning a blank page
view
diminished.
mistakeable to the eye
the wind
stirs the vanes of the
mo-
ment
this view, this light, this buzzing, this air
: obviously the name means this
and could mean nothing but this.
I have never seen and will never see
a fragment
It was dusk there.
the hour
a
mask
no longer
tha n
a growth of beard .
Douglas Luman is the Book Reviews editor for the Found Poetry Review, an intern at the Chicago School of Poetics, and an MFA candidate at George Mason University. He is sleeping in a library somewhere in Northern Virginia. Follow him on Twitter @douglasjluman, or at http://www.douglasjluman.com This five-page excerpt is from a book-length mashup text entitled "Star/Formation." It adapts and uses text from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" and a 1918 edition of Marco Polo's travel journals.
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Entrance and Difference
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named Alana
Madeline Vardell
swept up in silver & yellow
flashes
An Imaginarian
Peter J. Greico
[1401 - 1500]
[11601 - 11700]
[16901 - 17000]
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Initially Thrilled to the Idea
of Memories
Douglas Luman
from Star/Formation
Vincent Toro
MicroGod Schism Song
Rage Hezekiah
Phlebotomy
Natalya Sukhonos
Parachute
Laurel Radzieski
X and Y Axes of Charts
Made About T's Lover
(The Incident)
Jonathan Travelstead
Myopia
Emily Strauss
White Night Terror
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In the Basement of the Penal
Colony,
Version 2.3,
Rimbaud Remembers