Nights in the Asyntactical World

Ann Lauterbach

1.

Sparked enemy cluster     radiant ball

Applied rodent     blue fuel

Cast nearly to sated arrangements     pooled

Clamor for arrival near the     other

Ocean fired claustrophobia of what

Washed out cauldron miles and deftly

Uploaded for the licensed opera

Begun under weight of the never seen

Mud between roiling atmospheric ages

And apparitions once annealed     once

Thought cold     once     revered and swept

Into the prelogistical curve

Mountain arc trail fate

Suffered among     skip adventure the atoms

A nation’s flames

Habitat scald or reflection rising

Puddle clouds     the instant

Arrival as of final last     star     strewn

Apogee flown now

Detained as signal

Trussed upheld local     celebrants blinking

The hazed adventure

Vernacular gun heavy     struck

Sainted     or     leveraged

By knowing the turn’s

Yield glad pearl     moon     drawn

Path not soon     nor ever     under way.

2.

Crave earth gone moody sold under wraps face obscure murder

Dressed meekly assuage reason tech trimmings coil drainage

Acquisition procedural blast-studded trial crested

Flow after auction blockage oily vision’s gaping retrieval.

After lens doubt formidable recess pulse drowning matter

Sign of curtain trigger wind namesake token permanent closure

Aching for rhythm literal extension dusted power permission

Came lately drawn callow predicate Latin tarnished flickering ball

Fictive recursive hold finger after jazz after halo after

Market verbatim shallow encounter crisis adage to dwell

Skeptical bondage filled fact acres wall needy repair

The sutured redemption the dissonant tide tower mirror

Happy for touch the hill the declension of habit poison

aged poison reason answers redundant caress crisis of mind.

3.

Slowed to an apparatus say of speech frequented

In the collect of sighs urns signal aspiration

Not close to sleep now gathering torn burdened eve

Close to awakened trivial rugs glass trivial lyric

Architectural tonic foreseeable trains as immobile

Sky clad in broken gloomy barricades for birds

Titled as song reaching pitches pitch as tonal degrees

Married among fallen disputations of a silent partner’s

Woes. Cat wants food. Kids want more. Mundane

Ballet of ordinary refusals at the kitchen’s narrative

Gloss. Heart’s nightly pillage refrains collect standard

Feather dressed radical erasures clausal yet kissed

As by art. Care marvels. Sleeping crass ending totals

Under wind hoped encounter cancels good sex.

Desertion hopscotch plenitude graffiti

Across migrant goals logged smoked down bridge

Not to look dressed numbers under stark

Killer mobs fortune music gets traded on show

Forget it went trolled forget trails underfoot

Weather delay and the yellowing willow aflame

Drastic choice undo the fire settled claim

Resting on knowledge and damaged continue

Damned then halt ask them stop as on an altar

As on a stoop pink bat leaf pink ball underfoot

Had hidden name had filtered passage

Striving to enter to climb the mosaic render the icon

A poppy or rose a title or a blessing of water

A spoken allowance for margins to braid an infinite reel.

4.

To address scandal nerve vibration culled fingered

Blast moon roams doom grass natural conundrum paint

Slander high vigil forest over frontispiece you vanquished

Antics slow mosquito wintered playtime exaggerated now

A paw stretched hair loose array feminine secreted thus

Abundant seek bliss say kindness measured enrollment

Among ill met speaking strangers’ unseen halo

These amendments culled to be spoken the stories tell

And meet still carry emblems order traced conundrum

On shelves interior volume and acres persist

Allowance repeated enclosure respite trail footprints

Signed fox itinerant child hears cry comfort this note

Raising better often pulse star visible anthem

Coterminous near fables belonging to none still

Mute vehicle fugue mainstay rode slippery gamut

Futurity solved musical palace domed receptacle torn

Further as if when these evasions wrist ascendant

Figured as classical ambit tune monks among thieves

Again softly appended grace further structured mode

Terrible arch hollow with dolls meager at best turgid

Also blown arms raised hello formerly stranded gold opens

Silhouette against trouble seductive aggression marvel

Holy in plastic garbled yet forsaken for whom knowledge

Give travelers their punitive roam at twilight this time

Feathers united float glue dangle to obstruct harmonic

Rendered as marvel orange dust ready not sooner

The vagary ends. Would more appreciate a must for all

To listen partition to regulate form a ring’s shambles tonight.