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Makes Voice Without
The next tether is close at hand. It’s not about being different;
it’s about being alone. Forever. A configuration makes sense, but
geometries shift. Slash through familiar quotations. The coupling is
confusion, an elongated misunderstanding. Back pages promote the
sheer fabric of protects you from staring. Those diabolical
underpinnings. These sojourns of sadness amuse someone. Who peels
back their misshapen frailties? No one is better than another. Water
is relentless here, but the smell forgets and keeps you away. Double
or nothing is how we see all of nothing. The delicious parts of
history. Facing the painting like never before. I don’t even prefer
that anymore.
The air, a moment
rushes against it and nothing remembers its name. Blind-sided,
blinded, the monsters emerge. A pile of board games at the thrift
store. Pieces missing. Seeds caught in the shirt’s cuff. Torn
lengthwise, an improvised poster. Eyelids lowered, the night of your
drink enters. The dispatcher has been out for weeks.
Shavings
in the world / the one obvious distinction / a palace of fever of dementia / also there is the finicky wobble
X / THE DESTRUCTION / A WAREHOUSE LEFT IN
DISARRAY / MARBLES ACROSS A DESERT OF FORMICA / AN ANIMAL’S OBSCURED
DREAM / REGARDED AS A GROUNDED PRONOUN / DRAWS ITS OPPOSITE / X
A SYMPOSIUM ON LOVELINESS
invisible
notations. the nearest distance. a prediction. intends the practical
drift of color, verging on something gigantic. inside the small. a
frantic dampening stick. one hundred bells, one hundred bricks, one
hundred remembers whatever will surface. little alphabet parts. the
genius of the thumb. delightful shaft of electricity. the mayhem
turns on you. as change finds you. frolic is sewn into a hat. you
wonder where gravity is. the forms of communicating. a foray. a
foyer. aforementioned.
Language Is An Accident
Language is an
accident / As the balloon / Gets lost / In the newest thing / A
mother speaks to her baby / A balloon / Her head is a balloon /
Across the street it’s hello Gregory / Her babies are balloon headed
/ There is history / Something naturally occurring / It’s orange im
thinking of / Her mission in sight / Her momentum assured / Her head
looks like mine / I must be hers
Poems on this page © Nico
Vassilakis 2005-2006

Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle.
Absent minded incursions. Two recent chapbooks are SPECIES PIECES (gong
press) and STAMPOLOGUE (Runaway Spoon Press). “Paid to forget, I recall
more.” He’s currently working on a play about Morton Feldman. Nico’s
work involves concrete/visual poetry as well.

What's your
favorite poem that you've written? Care to share it with us?
f rom
IN( )BETWEEN
the formalities
receiving
I think
What is your favorite poem by another poet?
from Robert Mittenthal's 'Value Unmapped'
Paid to forget, I recall more.
What's your pet-peeve in a poem?
the word azure
What's your favorite print journal and why?
BIRD DOG. It's from here, the northwest,
and it's editor brings emerging experimentation into our starving
region.
Do you have a writing ritual? Care to share it?
Do you ever break this ritual for artistic reasons? If yes, how does it
change or improve your method?
Letting time, experience accrue. Ideas to actualize - become material.
Honing the drive, the approach to the page, then learning when and how
to pull back, to extinguish. Applying an amount of instinct to the entry
and exit of writing - allowing the bulk, the middle, the process to
explore itself.
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