Beauty Colony
argo in red shirt sails / pants, cargo / there is
a before & an after / in two
five day
bURSTS
called the white witch
& with a new life contr[act] the badge
with demeaning nickname is removed
Mom’s for Liberty
Daughter’s of the Revolution
the “work,” an indoctrination
each trainee
dresses a fantasy version
of themselves &
carries the room in death /
rebirth exhibit
in wilderness
the point of the spear
is
the sp[ear]
recruiting an audience.
Crooked Silo
unknowingly the mole admires stalactite cathedrals
dimples, freckles
of field,
buckle and folds of the basal layer
loops / whorls / arches
the landscape bodymapped
in Muller glia
the monolithic stare of cows / melanoblasts
underland
there are platforms
& pyramids
linked by complex
causeways
cavefish have lost sight of their eyes
a rotunda of stone
cut / out of a buried river
& filled
black dune grains sheltering in vein time
force sensor / discharge valve / flow patterns
of katabasis
winched into the abyss
we climb the crooked silo, feeding the rat.
Norway
The submarine is five meters underwater.
The water has been here since the day
trolls mixed ochre with cod liver
to paint their caves red
a poor substitute for the sun
or a Danish designed PH5 pendant lamp.
The submarine is now a restaurant
and a 1.5 hr scenic drive from Kristiansand
when guests arrive in scuba gear
waiters & sommeliers / cooks & interns
say hello with great warmth & hospitality
no one mentions the masks & snorkels, the BCDs
the 18-course immersion menu features pure, naked flavors.
state of the art
the day is generative, metallic blue and fed with seasonal congratulations. after. the. tight. and. docile journey. in which a network of databases containing centuries of landscape and portraits are rendered into the wet black surface of their eyes, the Guernsey Jersey Brown Swiss and Red and White grand champions of the greater tri-state region arrive at the livestock pavilion and are herded into the Grange Hall of the State Fair. The official 4-H beef enrollment forms are signed, weigh-in information is recorded and bedding fees paid. Competitive livestock are drug tested in accordance with the Livestock Premium Book, Section 3.
all entries are submitted on disposable plates: muffins, cookies, one and two crust pies, quick breads, yeast breads, breakfast rolls, hula hoop-wide whoopie pies, meringue swans on pink-fondant plinths with matching fondant flowers, industrial-sized butter sculptures of hands, mouths and ears, cream-swollen confections tipped with trompe-l’oeil cherries —implying a complete universe, the hermetic sensibility and formal clarity of baked goods extends beyond their material bounds.
later, in the Fine Arts Competition, a picture made by an algorithm wins a blue ribbon. First prize $300. Every ingredient must be listed in exact measurements and the type of in[gre]di[e]nt must be specifie[d]
next slide, please.
lazy river
the lazy river
loves to laugh
at how lazy
we are,
traveling without seeing
only half-
submerged
we pile in
& out
change bathing suits
rent rafts & rubber rings
tuck into hotels
new weather
just like the old,
thinking all the while
that we are peeling an orange
in a single fluid gesture.