Oct 23, 2011

DANCE POEMS

HAZE
Wang Yuanyuan

Chapter 1

As if tethered to the angry sky
                        lurching

through smoke


                        somnambulance




            silently



                        huddled



            reaching

free-fall
                                    captive



fish

                        awash

            margined

footfalls of

                                    gunk




                                    bird lesion




tumble down

rolling                        duo
                                    corpse                        bounce

            vain                        vein

                        cut


                        lightfall




                                                circle

                                    blow by blow

waiting to rise
                                    fall
                       
                        last apart




            center                        hold

Chapter 2

Foment            crowd
                                    purify
            machine gang


            struck silk            drum




            lapped                         silhouette






            limbo                        stance


in perilous light

                                    death waltz


            flowing like diamonds


                        sparring






stood




                        atom
                        time





bolt                        down




                                    first pull




                                                lapse
                        nation



            finding wedge

watched

            troubled offering



                        fall back
ripping


                                    fulfilled
            called



                        parallel








            dark

Chapter 3

Cipher

                                    sever


            scurry margin

cast            around







            ego            ergo



tried
                        gulf

down on
                                    down

                        drawn


            fate


                                                dropped



            going
                                    circle






                                                days
                        alone

                        air pulled



                        prone



                                                sidelong

            arc                                    fallen





                                                away

line


                        edge


            afoul

                        breaking square



            upright                                    upon




                        fall back from solid


                        teetering

                                                last

                        embryo


                        up
            at squall clouds



            remain
                        here


Oct 16, 2011

DANCE POEMS


WATER STAINS ON THE WALL
Lin Hwai-Min

Reed silence

                                                contrapunt


& margin
                        a leaf bending

                        gnomon tilt

                                                maintain

                        submerge shadow





                                                sun wheel

                                                plaint

fall


                                    susurrus curl


shadow                        stain


                                    reel

puppet                                     reach
                                    double stalk

circular
                        sun      stone


                        allele X


Archimedes

                        bleed


3                                       ink

                                    ink clock


slipping petals





                                    shock



                        light     droves

lit span

                        shroud


cloud


            lift


                        echo

                        wind

            thunder

cirrus
            over
                        drift
            & pull

            pincer              pool     shade

            asp       air
                                    atomic



group                                       lap





                        centripetal
                                    stand

           
            cloud ink         ink away


                        stair swirl

oni cloud         writing

                        balk     walk

                                                lead

            air
            water
                                                quadrant
            fire
            metal
            wood

                                                arise




                                                *

meld limb


                                                center pupil

            curve
                                    6          5
           
                                                graces

            wall     swirl

            spill     weave
                       

                                                bell








                        pace
            pact      axis


                                                proffer

                                                clear


breath              swing              torso

                        bola

clear

dream              spun                flutter


                        mantis crypsis

                                                strain

                        late       shadow


                        shadow            O

                        procession
                                                process

                        season




wisp                prostrate

a                      coral

chorus             wind
beetle


                        3 halves           risen




                        twister





                        laid

never               touching


                                    bow



string
            ink                   vein

                                    river


                        walker

            storm   gaze     fire

vertigo                         pulse

crawler


                                    strobe

            fast                  silence


                                    rain      slip


            cloud edge tracer


            maker

                                    ever over dusk

catcher                         ink

                                    comet

            shrink

undulate
                                    summon          spine

            gather                                      tether

live
            settle

                                    cloud   lariat

                                    active
                                    culture





                        pillar
                       
                        remain




Oct 9, 2011

DUNCE

Charline Von Heyl


Blue motley in the low cool
            dream of agave,
                        the cage door slides
on the moron & his
            conical helm; the one
with the answers, water
            in his guts in this
barren snow, winds whipping
            up tears
to a peak, harangued
            meringue, what we must eat
                        every day with our fingerless
fists.

AN ARTIST

Thomas Wilmer Dewing



The shadow of the cello being
                                    a shadow

of the self
                        in coital repose

the flaccid bow
            dowsing, opposing

bare necks & backs
            curiously mirrored—

the eyes afar, watching
            what has now gone

from the air.