OOZING IN THE OWNED SPACE

Geoffrey Olsen

 

 

we stare at each other / the cat runs back to the bushes

 

                                                                        run / lines of police / they enraged

 

                                     because it is them visibly wrenching the city but others,

elect in passivity, succored, that they have softness in their spaces

but rigidly determined order for outside,

                                                      inside rotting

 

it more & made this condition if one touches it

                                                      in the rot is that seed of undoing?

 

                                    to not just take disease so it’s imposed on how they are seen,

 

                                        that’s not infection/ phasing blue the red over the grid in that income are bodies, zone together

 

                                    B: it’s totally dissolved feeling I’m not even an active participant we weak together

weak weak not even shared.

 

 

 

                                                                                          (pause)

 

Ada: your moss which is to absorb them tenderly and it’s growth is political, green pods upright, scurrying over surface, the circles of circular flowers in the center of the wet, mossy, mouth

B: rain.

Ada: hungry not neat as um

B: um, trying this movements / the crowd in the form of against this professional looking-up

Ada: smelling of JP Morgan. This business does not smell at all ecumenical still valence shell of these numbers.

 

                                                      Ada: I think it is verse.

                                                      B: versus some cultural fugues the commonness / incident

                                                      Ada:

                                                      Ada:

                                                      Ada:

                                                      Ada: mote / past

                                                      B: I was uh here with you

                                                                                          when they moved                  it through the crowd

                                                                        that loud still / so I can like the imaging

                                                      we’ve shared I hope, wasn’t it?

                                    I’m cool it’s very crowded and I say /

                                                                                                            I can say that this standing

                                                                                          with that is valuable / it’s the eye of or not

                                                                        being secure being help or held by then

 

                                                      who were really with

 

 

                                                                                                                              us

 

 

 

                                                                                                                              oozing in the owned park

                                                                                   rose up with the oozing circumference

 

                                    there’s some second thought it’s cold

                                                                        can we be together in

                                                                                         

                                                                                                            momentous opposition

                                        resting

                                          restoring resistance

 

                                                                                                            set the insistent calipers

 

                                                                                          got them out ooze mind

 

                                                      it said, rounding now and going homeward

                                                      it said, are you sure of your weight of wealth of being away

                                                      it said, are you sure the ghosts are human

                                                      it said, spirit presences collude the square room

                                                      it said, & the formal one the slow dripping in space

                                                      it said, cantilevered power measure hinged

 

like the string conceived separate section

 

                                                                        often a time, rounding dark carved tunnels, spacious weaving under

neath that is where they enter

                                                      so you consent to being accessed for surveillance

 

                                    such would be knowledge gust from the comfort of flesh,

                    so suspect gathering lit above, under pools we can collect there present / operand

 

It is a trough or trench with sharpened sticks secured and angled outward

                                     

 

                                         so that you think of your displaced breath

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           decoding agent suspect loud as do is to sprawls as zygote barrelling transparent is it this

that could be filled up with inadequate morphing sentiment leftover

 

                                                     

                                                                                                            razing red yellow instead the behavior

                                                                                                            instead another exercise against

                                                                                                            fear and persistent sorrow

 

Ada to engage is not that

                                                      being further against lining wintry

                                                                                                                                                great invert

 

                                                      burn in this the

                                                                                                            anomaly soothed or crush

                                                                            it is new external mark

                           hailed flowering mouth

 

           that they are negative will scar them right?

                                                                                             just flowering never to concede

 

                   

 

        of the

                                    dead

       of the                  

                                    flowers

       of the

                                    seared

 

                                                                        place pulses so that

                                                             felt spiking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEMBLANCE EXPLORED DISCOVERY

 

 

                                then this semblance explored discovery inverting

spherical

                                                                                          your world turned is not

                                                                        not synapse sinew inward projecting now our commun-

icative present

                                                                                         

                  some get more than others

 

                                                   leafy and

                       with dirt

 

                                    living in the muddy slope

                                                        rose I the symptoms

 

                                                     so withdrawing leafy surround filtered cool

   wild outer limiting not / giving to us no / escape

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                ADA our distinct schlock

                                      wintering military as all occupation

 

                                                      varied dis

                                                      ease

 

                                                                                                            semblance body

                                             domed quarter of the city

                                                                        interpolating light

 

                                                      rest their attention, move among cratered walls

 

                                      on the hands

 

 

 

                                                                        shamed out of our we semblance

                                    wood heft / weight of home territory and nomadic movement

 

                                                      purpling surface ink

                                                                                          leak to wonderment

Geoffrey Olsen
Geoffrey Olsen

Geoffrey Olsen lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the author of the chapbooks Not of Distends * Address Panicked (Minutes Books, 2011) and End Notebook (Petrichord Books; 2008).