Michael Ruby
“THERE ARE AN INFINITE NUMBER OF WORLDS, SOME ALWAYS COMING TO BE, SOME ALWAYS PERISHING.” --Anaximander
There are an infinite number of worlds…
The song plays without
The rifle without
Ham without
Sue without
A bacon
A necklace on a horse
To predict the suit
Horoscopes to pin on blue dresses
Melting escarole
Pungent syntheses
Of leftover, pregnant, mellifluous
Back them into a corner
Pull the process switch
Emulate the
Before the fallout brigade
Range of pure microscopic synonym
Tail breakout
*
There are an infinite number of worlds…
The dawns precise lipstick
Ogles the
Doghouse brew
Perhaps the best way to see
The regular boathouse
Brigade
Bring the susan to the seashore
The bringing
Bakes a hole
in the
The magazine
breathes hot
petunias
Pollen soaks the door
The ward
The submarine—shadow
*
…some always coming to be…
ringing the ice on the microwaves
pining and toasting an optical transfiguration
a breathless borrowed mug of swordfish
measuring the so-called evidentiary
neglecting to presume the innocence of the doily
easing the regal claptrap the peeled insomnia
the renal decency
remitting the honorable crayon the nuclear intimacy
pressuring the face-saving to hold
the bamboozling to recreate the red mite
*
There are an infinite number of worlds…
Tears are one
Broken houses
Frame
Rest stops
Perfect
Phonebooks paydays plasma
Poolhalls running dogs
flowers for breaths
flowers for no one
flowers for air
*
…some always perishing.
Reeking, professing, persevering
Egging, toying, dynamiting
Postulating, aiming, receding
Blaspheming, beeing, teething
Miscuing, trembling, weatherizing
Hiving, renaming, officiating
Taming, misplacing, escalating
Soothing, timing, hightailing
Bifurcating, recusing, titillating
Moonlighting, pooling, broaching
Migrating, herniating, dueling
Testing, totaling, haying
Panicking, sussing, buffaloing
Crazing, disdaining, disguising
Rising, noodling, annealing
Pining, highlighting, dialing
Braining, painting, rating
Doling, intoning, folding
*
…some always coming to be…
Flames and flowers and waves
Seasons
This (one)
This big
Turn
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Michael Ruby’s fourth and fifth books of poetry, The Edge of the Underworld and Compulsive Words, are from BlazeVOX. His other books are Window on the City (BlazeVOX, 2006) and Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling Presse e-book, 2008). He lives in Brooklyn and work as a journalist.
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RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1938-3592, Volume Three (2009): Immanence/ Imminence
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“THERE ARE AN INFINITE NUMBER OF WORLDS, SOME ALWAYS COMING TO BE, SOME ALWAYS PERISHING.” --Anaximander
There are an infinite number of worlds…
The song plays without
The rifle without
Ham without
Sue without
A bacon
A necklace on a horse
To predict the suit
Horoscopes to pin on blue dresses
Melting escarole
Pungent syntheses
Of leftover, pregnant, mellifluous
Back them into a corner
Pull the process switch
Emulate the
Before the fallout brigade
Range of pure microscopic synonym
Tail breakout
*
There are an infinite number of worlds…
The dawns precise lipstick
Ogles the
Doghouse brew
Perhaps the best way to see
The regular boathouse
Brigade
Bring the susan to the seashore
The bringing
Bakes a hole
in the
The magazine
breathes hot
petunias
Pollen soaks the door
The ward
The submarine—shadow
*
…some always coming to be…
ringing the ice on the microwaves
pining and toasting an optical transfiguration
a breathless borrowed mug of swordfish
measuring the so-called evidentiary
neglecting to presume the innocence of the doily
easing the regal claptrap the peeled insomnia
the renal decency
remitting the honorable crayon the nuclear intimacy
pressuring the face-saving to hold
the bamboozling to recreate the red mite
*
There are an infinite number of worlds…
Tears are one
Broken houses
Frame
Rest stops
Perfect
Phonebooks paydays plasma
Poolhalls running dogs
flowers for breaths
flowers for no one
flowers for air
*
…some always perishing.
Reeking, professing, persevering
Egging, toying, dynamiting
Postulating, aiming, receding
Blaspheming, beeing, teething
Miscuing, trembling, weatherizing
Hiving, renaming, officiating
Taming, misplacing, escalating
Soothing, timing, hightailing
Bifurcating, recusing, titillating
Moonlighting, pooling, broaching
Migrating, herniating, dueling
Testing, totaling, haying
Panicking, sussing, buffaloing
Crazing, disdaining, disguising
Rising, noodling, annealing
Pining, highlighting, dialing
Braining, painting, rating
Doling, intoning, folding
*
…some always coming to be…
Flames and flowers and waves
Seasons
This (one)
This big
Turn
_____
Michael Ruby’s fourth and fifth books of poetry, The Edge of the Underworld and Compulsive Words, are from BlazeVOX. His other books are Window on the City (BlazeVOX, 2006) and Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling Presse e-book, 2008). He lives in Brooklyn and work as a journalist.
_____
RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1938-3592, Volume Three (2009): Immanence/ Imminence
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