Thomas Lowe Taylor -- TEXTS

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TEXT I

There are certain
preparations one should make:
the lanterns, melting. Notations
which remain
on the eve of sensation:
brown trumpets grinding
like oversensitive shoes, electric
and contradictory, elusive as
cold stones and
un/warped.
She fills, she boils.
She leaps & turns.
Catch, catch.
and go down like moonlight,
casting water up into reflection.
crashing like sentimental wood.



TEXT II


Toward morning, she yields
finally, to the artificiality of it.
Admits
that it is a fact, or the
contest of dreams, and
shreds the ficiton
which scattered the other possibilities:
and event becomes potential,
comes up to description.
No.
Gets the staircase, rough wood.
clattering around.
The space is architectural. Feels
right. And good, glowing
from just at the edge of the stomach
the edge of it catches my breath,
lightly, as though
floating.
The subject:
comes down the stairs, finally,
toward me, demeanor relaxed,
forward, as if in surrender.
Black at the edges,
silk
rustling, conventional artificiality

reading about
some of my energies contained
in this manner
definition in act
form is open at the
end, here resolves.

RESOLVE:
she moves toward me
at the end of the dream
finally



TEXT III


The exercise of space follows.
Deer browse underneath the ceiling.
Grass
covers the linoleum, she
covers me with bread,
and hot sauce flows.
Hope, too,
in the crevices of her body,
and in action, or
enacting sense, there it follows
from evening to evening,
in firelight, and
the forest glowing in
the tubes.
A blossom. I
follow that, too, in shapes
I recognize, and leads
past, leads past. Ends.
The drawer in the
closet, in which I
did not sleep, or
even passed
but left and turned
like history: was never
evasive, as water
might be
come, but moves across, to
the left side (with
which I am unfamiliar--
at least in these motions
of the watermelons of vege
tables.
Stops at the end of
the line / her wispy heat
catches me in the midst,
and surmounts
ease,
prepares the oven, tone, rhythm--
"OK, I'll talk about it."
Then goes on. Carries
carries, carries away, like
ease, too, and working
all the time.



TEXT IV


Family Poem

1

Analogies, as
children before the fires, in
wet clothes, &
what gets across, direct, no translations
required, (the heat

of course,

space.

Coming through the landscape
without any sensation of motion.
Polar
senses balanced. The enemy is
close at hand. As
I open to him, all
colors merge harmlessly into

the tone of these
days is their assurance

Let
on the side of the terrain
there are trees galloping with the
twin speed of fortresses,
giving way
to the intentions of song, as
it develops from space to space.

A bullet drops away, too,
& signifies modernity in falling.
She made signs
to follow, so,
giving (thus follow

Three sisters sitting in a row,
as one gets up
the others

Brothers
find their language growing
--pacing the breath
a w a y --------------------->>

so air
` so air
to find verbs to find so air
She made signs to follow
the wood, piled by the door
as deceptive as you wish.
to develop, then, as one moves,
a gait, across the plain
covered
(with markers, sometimes only
poles driven intot he ground,
but decorated with feathers &
maybe bits of cloth
--or stones piled.
"The traveler
who did not know the general
pattern of these markers could
(not determine the design.
Wd lose the way
Up, little
bird of flames & glass,
grow so peaceful that you last...

She shrinks and dries to
use and love, comes
to fit these songs, as they
go out to not the tone
time/float over
so air notes
Bound trail path goes to
finds piled-stones flame pushing.
Going to stand beside the
river pacing pebbles in descent
oven dream rock move grow. Red.
Again Again Again Again So Air

Leaps.
Church's high metabolism in front
Catches Sends
gifts.
Going into lines.
There sheep
too join grazing bird and toss
like sleep
On the monumental
carol-ing
rattle of firecrackers.
Design denies actual. The shape it
has "ought"/not moves

words to be tossed
"pill:", "gnaw", "passionate flowers"
"flutes"

She motioned to the followers.
Who deciphers.
The mirror.
Christ, then, acts deceit, but
turns to flower, does the bird
and sings.
That is, carries.
But the decorum of the music
makes letters.
Etruscan, as I read it,
Flowered in the tomb. Fine!!

So to approve the letter
to approve letter
the so
approve.

on/and goes
(skips here, lets out. Waits)

Salt, from tune to tume,
Back to the bird.
She followed
the motion

. .
. . caged . .

"Now, these sketches are delivered."
The senses continue
and phase away, as words do.
children by the fire
are light, do become.
that: flesh of food.
and waits for the tone to
declare its intent, no, goes on
any-way (both ways
to alter all concerned.
The doorbell, as an instrument of
leisure.
Where work goes toward paper.
as light
so air
---------------------------------
His general inner psyche...began to be
activated not only by his thoughts
butr also by his inner feelings and his instinct.


2


Closing the curtains.
Where he sleeps, padded wool.
And over the rafters
symbol work
area. or zone
(marked

the hair
movement in (there is 1. There
is 2. There is 3. There is
4.

lightly, rain drums the roof, &
the earth rumbles.
And as moon

waving, antennae and forearms
they jog left,
turning, he said, across difficulty.

Rhapsodies decorate their fields.
Swan dives past cloud, house
shakes,
octogon covered with shingles,
domes.
These sacrifices may not be
too great, to work over the
same material
same material.
Catch twinges.
roasting doves, and the pillows are full.
Dogs moving at treeline, near the horizon
and disappear.
From the music, from
other
turns, & enters room.
Springing, leaping. Eyes which

There are no disguises in the words.
Move, the children have
rescued the fire! See!
They are seated by it.

The fire is growing. The children are
not consumed! They survive
unaware of the danger they
have passed, or which has passed
them.
If it pass, move, then it
reigns.
These else's
like costumed doctors, who
revise the soul. But trees

I watched her beckon from afar.
and paced my walk to meet her at
the stairs. unaware
even of my intent.
or, as a
shadow raced by, & I caught
its meaning.

Nowhere.
The children seated by the fire
eating
she beckoned that I should follow.
and hid
the rest, or rescued me from
my solitude.
Noting these air forms,
how intricate they seem, or become
then, the roses bloomed. It
was fair!
A shadow, then, or a word.
often, after dozing through the
pressures, I seek water
or food. Noting change, or hesitation,
or the spaces between words
words.

The lettuce in the box at the
Back door, cabbage.

Then I begin.
She beckoned to the children
beside the fire to carry out
their plan.
They did not move.
Broken notes sounded sleep.
I dropped & bathed these notices of
luxury
and asked the rest to trans
form.
The content arrived in trucks,
or land masses. Who-soever quotes
the or ther
I indicate these rocks as boundaries,
& piece the hoofs of broken animals
with string and glue.
Make a carriage from trees.
going away & down.
The soothing qualities of


3


Afternoon sense. and has clips

dressing in lines, as formal,
no difficulty too great to state:
of possessions, then.
firm, &

Then, light chains revolving through
the windows, other forces
too great for description

symbols

She moved in the silences
of noon, to discovers
the carriages of noon.

has ear charge. donut


4


manners as they lose the way
habits become less than
sensation.
OK, rigid definition of
the distance between the real
& the real, to
do. over fishbirds, to
accumulate energy, to look for
graves or original
experiments to
perform, moment to moment:
there, and moving on the
lines, to no described
Headache, I'm
off in my work,
again

And as she moves,
they make their slow
moving turns, sailing
over walls &
towns in gold-formed half
moving magic or
wonder, that to
manage more than
one dialect
is to neglect your own.
Keep at it!
(to whom on air
suspended, as the
robe opens & ceremony
disappears.
convention
convention
convince there pun opens or
closes, drop a line, drop
and gets them off the
line
"that poetry should instruct
children."
Where specialty
gives way
way way
on air

shoe


She sleeps, & I go back
in dreams of death &
sperm/congratulates the
dream on
its
magnificence.
So there are
waves, &
mnoving back to the energy
of stories,
every day.
it is ----> in the act
as he said,
can
here the act goes:
begins to make itself
known,
but now the end goes
it is
in sight, too, the
end, there, there, there
which has no prone offers
and talks to others. And then
talks to others.
Mundane is good, & revises
all opinions,
there, work has

shape too, as
it is done, is done
well, or

Bird, Bird be
familiar as an
image which comes around
full of manifest
dues, the air
welcomes, & trumpets fall.
no artifice, no
thing but in doing.
ok, go with that &
spend the rest; on syntax.

it is too easy to
keep it up since to
do so is a variety
of refusal.
There's hope in
that.

glass catching light
or space (there & on it
a horse dealing
heavy blows to the earth. A
fat man asks for
higher pay.

Who is this "we"?

"they".

I mark that line and move
it on, well, too, if I
do so.
(in the polite
an address, or a
name to go with it.
Heavy, as
eggs, collected on pipes &
thrown
back to noon & cardboard
dues. pay &
collapse like wooden balloons.
and a moment
before, his face to the window
between his 2 existences.
worry in that heart, &
recording; no attempt to share.

"Take off your mask."

She did.

so there are no more mechanisms
&
no more ideas. to fill the
days I have loaded wooden
buckets with sand.

Dark moon o

passes a raft at evening. &
goes on.
She held me in
my paleness, which I disdained.
No work in that, I said.,
and let
let

finished

2:23-4:69



TEXT IV (2)
Family Poem


A return to presence even,
or to find them Lying about,
as the ear gets eye
to know

Hump.
What did he do?
to
otherwise, in making, to find
and in finding (etc.
and rest
where go, to go as your eyes
tell, (as I know, too, & go.
that to lie alone, in ailment
to lie is borne as
these these
voices,
when he returns.
returneth.

And being there, first line,
line out, to be
there,
and having that, it goes.
to God, as wife, who
is known, being born a son
first,
& forgot the rest
(AH! &
lies withe DEATHE, at rest, as
rest, I lie to die, down
Not to know ( simply
to "work"
& find there(in
the form the flesh
made real
as to turn
as I know resting
as I find my place, to die,

(Ah,


2


And being known, for
content, being
"put together,
as I am wrought,
I would ask even that,
to know where (?

when I am toasted, as
word caught,
in voice known, to be so
to be so / language
& going back,
is to know,
in act (enact,
to get him down, (ah,
to know to be so
& I catch it down
corpse, blood-line, they
hit
Hit it down, to
relieve

well, what I can do is
is here
where I am counted
by my own
created)
hand measured, in
these sucked juices, as
slightness.
You get to air
you bleat like
some f o m u l a t i o n.
in sea
borne, as
Father dust, to
to so /known



3


Ah, said.
space to air.
& her, she
waits & asks, pleasant
as air waits
I know
my element, despite

and information, where
it is so,
to be so,
means, as means
with flesh, & time
taught.

& (where
finding my
stomach's measure,
& moved,
"the mind"
on temperature
"the heart"
in doing
"the children"
from Being
"to her"
as KNOWN.

Thus: cause is known
as
Birth.

and "making it known"
no cause, but apparent in
(being ( relation ( study.
.... the rest, too,
all fits
--information.
yeh.

to hit, to go/blood, yeh.
God, all of them,
get it IN.
where?
means / as time.

get/give/go -- in
where, TEMPO / has lines,
as they fit, where they can,
in act
(Richard,*
enactment; hear?
I don't know any
to be so,
catch evidence,
yr song as/lets.
to many, the tax
syntax, as
composite,
lessons / too many

OK, let / red-fox, &
tune, be/lief so
so to me from
others in my time,
as space words it
as it gets, & goes,
to time to tune / & to know.

yeh.
have it there
here,
here,
yeh

* Richard Sassoon



TEXT V



1

Back in
town.
and habit is a presence,
and habit
the work from
passengers getting off the bus
in the heat that was
there
we met and / God exploded
through his own journeys
"With
respect to what passes, passes.
I'll keep these, too, and
imagine use, that in/from
the act/
I get off from it
like a tray of ideas

gone through the design
He fell in
the bread dough.
He'll be all sticky:
shadow of
armor
he advancs, pulling his ax from
its sheath at his right hip
pulling the hatchet from
leaning forward they eyes
and rides on down
the line

numbers.

I find the air open to the
air
where these

has enough of stops
stops the forward motion
back-fall and get-in
rose ideas go up
air goes back
and

where am I? what
voice cautions the passers?
in alien planets

movs to present, the room
dimensions & echo deliberations
graft the zebras onto pasture.
This couch is a bed
a bed is not a couch
A nose is "in the air"


2


neutral and
parachute, they get a head
to
use the material where it
lies
indistinct/Distinct
there, too, as distaste
& comes
as stomach
or nerves
this Buzzing. finds
where poem says

Mary! a gag.
he sends greetings
I'm working on this

So in coming
and blue birds
where he fell
to night antelopes
fought it
forward.
now, to see
now

and offer
terms
like paper
he shut & peddled.
grappled with
and

The questions:
who comes first
what moon is not
and where passing.
do the new days visit?
the senses? too?
ae your maps loose
or futile?
(She made a line
down the bird-paper.
Was the
drawing or the thing?
answer lately from
your ears.

So, where it takes place
is final, & thats
not any poem
Dust begins to weep like
news. I am not that one.
She moves too slow.
Oh, air! Recipient;
Body's
fall & draw away.
No moon passes. and
the body, then, of
words.

Making a new signal, value,
has it that they
picked the laws &
went to work from there,
(named locally
(named
I have these distances
and build them like
ice or time.
She weeps for convention.
Energy precedes work precedes the
model.
2:28:9



TEXT VI



Word surface
Dirt dug up in front
Fence; car goes by
House across street
Tree/sun/ear hand
p e n.
Move flat
orange trucks, fly

car ges by, waves
(occupation/slavery
topics/experiences
(looks back, rubface
ear hurts
body is poem, registers

air/skin/sensation
mind is body
blood/skin/air relationship
the skin is the land
scape
yeah, got that.
You are
wondering then about the poem
as landscape
(on table, sun over my
right shoulder, a
notebook in which
this is written. Is is is.
--stops car gets out walks
Everyone a poem of
landscape, or
an essay about his
language

Their chance meeting indicates a need
to talk. There was purpose in his
step and in the manner.
Let me know exactly where you
stopped hearing this &
where it went.

Do you subscribe?
or else one is the landscape
The Gods have it
that way
overlaps

moon/sound wave gets like
air shaft in
hollow desert cube to glow
in foreign tone slur in tone
slur as
grey shades stop
stop stop.

These
techniques for statement
as the skin
no longer grows and

shaft from earth kiss
goes back to earth shaft kiss

in corduroy contents
(as skin & body,
words, the language
works that way (too
to say -yeah-
that baby (it
baby that it yeah
to say
language has it
from me to say
stop/ but inner/outer
don't jell from
habit but by nature
comes in words which
are from the
techno/theology
I-it (sure,
says we-me
and as motion, passes,
through ideas
about it,
to stop/say



2


And as air
gets
body-close, on the mountain
as
rock has identity or
spirit,
I am erect or on 4's
in relation to the mountain
as a guest or
crawling over its body
mine/it &

the guide too is aggressive
in his

we all
re-tell our mountain

run down from up climb

and light
camera machine with
stopped landscapes in

bounces

as we pass

stop/say
and go as moon
and
words
here duplicate the
form of

another close look, and

has a quality of forgiveness

3:4:69



TEXT VII
(Brautigan's Regret)



Hear past Roman arch
answer holdings / how you
hold and let fly as
when purple lights linger
or offer image noise
to scale these offers
to pass these equivalencies
seeing beyond the form of it
and hold close as the
Patron Patron Eye of
in the air then or off
from other rooms the air
half or other
as you have it here
folded,
where the flesh meets
and other causes from
catching in the air
where it HOLDS and
rocks piled like Rocks
& metaphor
"an object which takes
the place of something."
and no disguise

as offering, and coming
three or more in the attic
formulations, where I pass.
to catch as my tongue
and move slow like air
and move slow like air
in the earth, so dust
as in dreams where they

-------------------------



TEXT VII (2)



inner
the fire flames and I go too
find these fires to
flame the manner, and
get in moment described
of it, how to turn and
the rest rests
as it blows or
stuffs it up to
sell in linear mood from
go-to



TEXT VIII



Long high wide he rolls in
The objectivity of waters, and
perpetrates the seasons
in their dooms as if their oceans
of light were like scattered
moons of ochre dust,
and
carries off the boar, and
buries and buries
clock of flesh sense
get and stabs like light and
death. Other colors migrate
habit touch eclipse and
turn from sentences of doubt.
Rub.



TEXT IX



burn seagull eagle blaine
for the turn of space and
belief forms turn of blue
and eagle form of beliefx
and eastern lettuce today
load doctor eating elbow.
pasture pasture pasture..
I am leading the forms aw
ay into cold pastures whe
re these dusty years are.
burn the information dust
and let these energies to
no more categories, only..
WORDS having in the slide
of they goat toad form to
bleat like man with arms.




TEXT X



modernity, on it, who wants to
update the cemeteries: like war and
text
modernity of means how do I know that?
Besides
which
modernity of wit, that has its
limits, or the vanity of separation.

Watch my teeth?
Do you have to bleed.
It passes:
I am not in the air: of it.

Poem is on the landscape too,
sticking up out of the
typewriter, tap tap tap
tap tap tap tap tap tap ta

I find these doors are like
doors, too, and if they are
not confined, the roses gyrate
these moments pass too scaling
from red dusters often oven and
leak like lk too, that error,
and
MODERNITY, too, as method,
moving why or how, as category
is described not by circumstance
but by action of whole, and as
relative, even the absolute
changes & that is absolute,
of.
Nest, butter daughters come
like oceans of wax and cream,
with ages of scream to delight,
that pleases too mnany dreamers
who passing this din leave flowers.
Butter daughters come and come.
Like these butter daughters,
coming.

A SERPENT and his following:
"Leak
as if the dust were dust. Said
to the yellow box as contained,
to word it with words,
he said
elsewhere, or over there.
Sing.

Text x, as you say it ex or x.
My air. Yes, and more. to answer
to that quality as if it
made
no difference
between a and b, say, that
the diffeence were located,
Located, I mean, there and were
equated after all, all that
is with all else, that the
sign were the thing itself.
The thing being the thing itself.

Coming after, the daughters, too,
and finds them not weak, as I
thought, but lessened by (twine.


"2"

as in the rest rests.
Olin Olin Olin..
makes designs,
Makes, that is,
the track
over and over,
the rest,
and makes that over to the rest.
Text Ex
Ex-text, that snake eating its tail
the ex snake who is now a circle.
circling its text with water butters,
and coming to Modernity, as I brought
it around,
to let it go from that,
why not?
Or shoes verity
verity
equate



TEXT XI



Zip turn use thoughts for intended purposes only
breadstick catalog
machine flaw, message condition?
ok Olson called for it...
consequence of calls
calling, radio falling
lets lets let's and lets

one could object that Bachelard's more
recent book, La Terre et les reveries
de la volonte, he extols the rather puri
tanical values of redressement and hard
work. He says, for instance, that if
Sartre had made his hero hold a rasping
file instead of a useless pebble (of Words
worth)(or Beckett)
Roquintin could have been
a perfectly normal ouvrier, conquering
his fixation with the viscous and the
soft by a hardening of his will; he would
have been a hero of surextentialisme.
violation
of structure
reveals structure, so taking away
is giving to
act reveals structure. Machine is
not the thing itself
the thing is not
the thing itself. which means means.
red dust
takes to shallow air form puts and plugs in
as putting places into place the put or putter.
as ear goes to hearing and is natural to it.
as sheriff has earings on his mind for forlorn
purposes
designs the work as it goes away
coming back. to the spot. located.
I am on it.
"he relieved the shift
shift



TEXT XII



indefinite others / mark
or pass. Shadow Lane desire to
ease ease; this and no
know it / he well: or is to

gnaw and calm as peer
grow into clean of peak
geak infra closet from park
he hea gnea plurient make
homo faber homo labor etc
lake shine reflect sonnet style
sonnet game or has design &
describe me to others as diamond
go
and ear go
pass car to messagew
message go up to
helping from these eats

or gills of }
heap me to } Salome

heats her she man weals or
way door from posed these glimpse
to do
to do
one/half

this eats nose worm:
plague

today and inner sandwiches

the feeling of repetition

joyous
joyous



TEXT XIII



Well: receipt,
another depth
wherein water
or forms like depth
from these colors of monumental

Detour, and from the mountain
a distance a detour of color a

finding the way no way no
and from this

Into Into
Into Into

Well: water,
into these depths
as the colors
increase into death
and managements of the earth
come from their circles into
the penetrated into

Into Into
into into

Where it goes in and down at
(moter of earth groaning at
(father of steel sentinals at
(lines line lines lined at

Further than the surface
Denial of sentient

Going as if in a cart a cart
Toward the sunset in the mountains
Where color inserts these dimensions

And goes toward the colorful mounds
As
into into into into into
From this outward/ and and
the relations falling



TEXT XIV



Lights distant, come out
and delight the streets from their
mobile and eternal, like fire floating
as here and there and over there
I am weak and weeping
He slights and rolls,
as the method changes the
tempo of the tempo
and over TIME
I rise from clouds and dust
and
and
grape juice, shifts
of tense,
and over the line : : going as
of tense,
he sheds the roses like parachutes

offers others, gets the line down
slides into the salad
or, over the side, how the air moves

Song: why do you move, too,
the ruse inside the tensions
Light and
as language, then, OK or slight,
as it shifts, where
the old guys, Pound even,
"Spontaneity is spontaneity
I get a
makes dust go further from
design form to take or flake it
in, or in and ets the
I get a
lets the in form/pasture/milk
so Ruby lets them in and they robe her
twice twice twice (makes 6
that
's easy and not at all what it's about.
I am air and dust passes my heart like
the fountains of the Nile, and where they
turned to ice & snow, I make the lines firm,
I turned them down, I lighted the trees
I scaled the tune to the market/place

I left here with my saddles baking.
She kept me from falling
We dined on toast & paper



TEXT XV


1

Potato Pace, idea
in skin fathom, hit
of the skin and eclipse
hangnail often, over turn
pumice cloth puma doubt
vegetation, whip/red
as evidence to overt sky
as report skin red vegetation
node, as

the air and clean hears from new
loss as reminders a scale and
going between mother notations
from suggestion: suggestion from
the idea pot
pace of identure toward detail
as ease as doubt as idea as

against use use use against
hear
the rotating stove
get it out
please please you see
turn heater on
lavender
scalding return, over
coffee and and and
the the the grease
green totals glue
other offer an
as
delight in
delight in-score
and help to learn how
from his voice & or random hammer
hand

adverb move, also light
who decides and chooses as these
lights slip from sight


cameo spur eagle twist
design light ligature, burnt
area in


2


the body has its
indirectness
and spells with ease, from
peak to peak, across that.
unspeak from list. as horse
as daisy, rattle ok, manner of
indirectness has label
from or after as into, or detail
and angle, perspective
line form, the rats
toad from dark
isolated and rhythmic
pear, dog
automobile, flag, engine
woman wrapped in flag
design, desire, hand in, arm/in leg/in
crawling legume

tractor-tire, occasional whippings
peak perspective, larger than
smaller than

constituted or
or has or have half
three far lave
or house
dirt have
from or dirt have glimpse house
has ethic drawn
ethic dream from or house drawn
fee-mer
has to have had horse drawn
house drama ethic had
(print drain)
three drama ethic far
house far
thorn catch from as
as
has, ethic thorn

and ether notch, or
house drama in manner tune

as tree turn from house house lave
drama ethic turn three far
or as from into
inside light free to angle
hook to pernicious
panic have to light hook



TEXT XVI


New statement: history & presence
relation: vegetable kingdom
morality: all vestiges of life are
present in the house
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New statement: The House is the
source of all life.
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New statement: stronger than
Birds, I worship the condition
of my brain container.
Theme: the poor bird is naked.
Internal statement: my mind is wander
-ing, but I can hold on.
Total poetic theme summary:

I am the horizon:
the jungle is my house
and kingdom.

The poem:
Sight carries emblems of form.
The roasting Duck is clay.
Far to the side,
oceanic buildings.
Now, to begin,
the model is
the dialog, the model.
But in my mouth, no
tongue, in
my eyes cataracts.
The wooden chair
is floating