VENICE

abbreviated  heads

a certain prime set

                in visible fingers

a sidewalk of air

shattered fallacy

espoused with frugality

that splashes

the one false

                measure folded over

pink and yellow

topical antibiotics             it cripples

the eighth’s inversion

from eyes on the ground

to eyes on the ground

evacuated in green

*

                ooze from the left

lobster’s pinchers

unaddressed but not open

to the counterpoint that curled

a retirement of flowers

microphoning substance

                to reflect the non-empty

inside everyone’s lungs

by contracting the impious

degrees of fondness

or decoding

the nestles from nettles                              

of our

porous domes

*

                in in-universe

parallel one ways

face caves

wait for the wall

to crumble          into

another

turquoise corridor

where shoes are

                                of no use

but where

money is

an enclosure

for discrete

breathers            a sceptre

that occurs in clusters

or not at all

an important variable

pressurized us

to invent laughter

                after being buffaloed

by a sodbuster

the sea smells

                of the hated       form      of

political                 representation

and the fluidity of banks

never changes                  in spite                 of

the shape

that creeps

 into the jaundice

instead of

the ocean

*

over the hundred

and eighteen

islands in feathered blackness

the city masks

an exemplary    hierarchy

that we remembered

disgust is unjust

while the waves were framed

by static               a mannerist’s

concealment was eating

into this dwelling

snowblind allocation

*

                for the sake of the seventh

gentleness temporarily

skull bells broadcast

personal forgetting

and skin silks

                to rain patterns

after in the centers

for a flutter of a rotation

the hemophiliac persists

by adopting lichen           the grips

slip         by mental application

a straightjacket of light

brained me brine

crypt from my eyes

stalagmite desire

embodied           ventricles

whose dirty

toenails                                are over

compasses with wings

and winged                        missiles

                barrel over

madrigals

into the zero

towards another stairwell

*

the parameters

of the slowest

                                dissociation in bowed

particle board

come from the center

of a volcano

                a glass chamber

where our

alchemic spit sticks

to the aperture

for words

of the other

we desire

to hold the world

as the world

                and no more

*

                without the conditional

trust in                  to toll more

like a lower chord

of the ocean

our tertiary chain strengthens

today’s continent

of weather dissonance

                by carving out giblets

the grated tenders

the lagoon’s parabolas

and the edges

snake along

today’s detergent

polluting the gutters

                as a series of functions

cut off from the world

                a puddle of sorrow

diced tongues

its rightness

is not a question

we can finance

but we will

to be outside the city

centripetal egos

*

in another century

of fragments

at the table         a high ratio

of gray patches

flooded the fictive

                walls with eyeball

wrinkles               tension

                between the inwardness

of protection and its

isolating saturation

                that this

jointedness

does not cancel

though it does

splendor

*

at the moody     chasm

of misplaced concreteness

the fried placenta

stores for never

and the mirror is never

empty                   but the simulated

hiccups

a canal and its safety

to acquisition blanket warmth

 from the nexus of

fun’s dementia

                cysts fits and love

*

                clasping the unclaspable

enemy of vampires

to record dignity

without splattering

                the untruth of the machine

a martyr backstage

awakens as quagmire

condenses in praise

her voice is radiated

above the others

through the blender

my spastic masticator

rewinds unseen

                ballistics to siphon

collagen emissions

like a squid blinking ink

the spleen’s

windowlessness

shatterproofed

pentatonic

                grief      

archive groans

triumphantly

body tingles

uneven angles

cauterize

alkaline mechanisms

                unable to bend

music begins

from medical treatment

without fanfare                                onto the willows

against ourselves

SHANE ANDERSON is the author of Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen (Broken Dimanche Press) and STALL (KTBAFC, with Elvia Wilk). Poems and translations have been or will be featured in: Edit, VLAK, Asymptote, and the playbill for Matthew Barney's "River of Fundament" amongst other places. He is a 2013 Triple Canopy grant recipient for his forthcoming translation of Ulf Stolterfoht's Ammengespräche.