Prose Poetry by Stephen Guy Mallett

Mineral Waste

You said the amygdala-shaped part of what you expect of it is. The dots of what they are on the grid of what they will be froze into one into what you called the infinity of the crystal item always into the immobility of a point of view. Sawtooth National Forest trail 680 Gunsight Lake southeast of Chinese Wall ID 11238 feet above sea level north of line parent Calkins Peak White Cloud Mountain. Jade cut from the mountain is measured in degrees Kelvin as jade is priced for its warmth. You said he trashed the place. Shortcuts for the machinic here of what we are now and erosion and less a Melusine and Raymondin at Partenay bas-relief than I was in the heat of it. Still-life with B.T.H. CS7A silicon crystal. Still-life with no external power source. Still-life with variable condenser from [one position] to [the other] in order to cover the whole wavelength range. Still-life with series resistance equivalent to the reflected crystal load resistance; still-life with the capacitance of the aerial to earth and the aerial's effective series resistance. Still-life with a number of ex-Government surplus units. Still-life with 85 turns of 24 S.W.G. double cotton covered wire tapped at [indeterminate] turns from the earth end; the earth lead-in wire to the bolt; the [other end] of the lead-in to the earth connection on the receiver. Still-life with a .0005 mfd. variable capacitor as the tuner (soldered across the stator terminals of two-gang variable capacitor). Still-life without Germanium crystal diode (Sylvania type 1N34 (Allied 7-219)); Germanium minimum voltage is approx. 0.3 V and Silicon is 0.6 V and [a compound of silicon carbide] is 3 V (the high [silicon carbide] voltage is the reason why a [bias battery] is {necessary} to move the threshold down so that the weak RF signal voltages can be {detected}) (cf. a still-life with a filament rheostat of approx. 8 ohms max. will be required if a valve takes 5 volt and .65 amp.). Still-life with two coats of shellac. {Slowly} dragging the cat-whisker spring over the B.T.H. CS7A silicon crystal's surface with the tuning slide centred on the coil. Can't hear shit as the wind verbs.

 Stephen Guy Mallett

Four Poems by Mark Young

A line from Du Fu

 

Off-screen, a psychiatrist can be heard

leading conversations which exhort

patients to let ego go & move to a

different dimension where Netflix is

 

part of the Persian Empire. Temper

outbursts become routine, the wee-

ping voices rise straight up, cry out

for attention since they lack the nec-

 

essary skills to self-settle. The Kurds

of Turkey & Iran say that crying is

necessary to develop the voice. It

seems they always loved soul music.

 

 

Concertina Bliss

 

Find the sunlight. Drink a glass

       of water. Drag the large

red pin with the dot to any desi-

       red location. As promised

by the realtor it's practically fail-

       proof & very easy to use.

That is, until the butterfly effect

       takes over or there's no

GPS signal, & a dense & busy sche-

       matic results. Metallic

gold foil may now glitter in the

       light; but how do you

communicate a circuit to a human?

       How does a defibrillator

work? How to demonstrate that

       each clustering algorithm

comes in two variants as stated in

       the client list that the att-

orney general says she has on her

       desk? Learning about sci-

ence can sometimes seem scary, so

       get that ebook for free now!

 

 

Deconstruction / Reconstruction

 

Robert Rauschenburg took

a Willem de Kooning nude

& rubbed it out to make the

point that all art is transitory.

 

Jorge Luis Borges tells of the

rewriting of Don Quixote in

a manner indistinguishable

from the original of Miguel

 

de Cervantes. Then there was

William Seward Burroughs

who cut up text, & rearranged

it in a different order in order

 

to create new texts. Who, when

describing the technique in a Times

Literary Supplement piece, attri-

buted it to a Lady Sutton-Smith.

 

 

Slightly belligerent

 

The presence of new actors in

modern asymmetric conflicts

calls for visual aids that can

significantly enhance under-

standing. It's important to

foster an environment in

which the skills & disposi-

tions associated with those

 

axiomatic rules of war can be

updated to allow complex in-

formation to be visually navi-

gated so that dynamic spaces

exist for interactive problem

solving.

Two Poems by Damon Hubbs

Poem for the Society of Classical Poets 

why does it 

sound 

like prog rock

you had

your dick in your hand 

when Medusa 

turned you to stone 

is that a suite… 

let’s have 

some beers 

& trash 

the bathroom 

Poem for Volcanoes

I couldn’t tell 

if I was coping with grief

from a distance 

or if it was 

a vulvic stadium 

with black-winged gods

of love 

Damon Hubbs