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symphonie des phantasmagorias (the contour of angelic grace)
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                                                             by Mark Kuhar & Andrew Lundwall

-- overture --

observe:

with a thumb placed directly before one eye i sing rushes of wind send
arrows gushing signs
a trampoline of energy radar beacon beckons reasons image motif gleans
the clouds gallop, glistening
observe the ether buildings set loose from blue jars, the wind blows
elusive

walks the street

movement #1
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step by step bends shaky saxophone knees this night is wrecked on a reef
of madness, the clang & beauty of repetitions, metallic smiles &
contoured reasoning, you enter this with the eloquence of angels

NAKED!

a head woven like a wicker basket of awakened pronunciations & the
door opens unhinged, a mindocean vortex of syllables released in
shedding tones of excited light

NAKED!

a map of terrestrial destinations stretched across the topography of yr
back, mountains & valleys serene

NAKED!!

the long stretch of limbs that shoot skyward into the turf of vagabond
heights, dip earthward into the roots of starry subterranean seas &
losing fetters in an aerial dance

this vision stretches elastic in phantasmagorias, the contour of angelic
grace, maneuvering spaces laid back against church steeples, phrases
release unto the street, step across the clouds

ingrained in cell pretenses, the fabric of crystal revelations fog
hammocks retreat beyond yellow treasure dome omniscient oyster skies
clouds that traverse lost air rivers, clouds that quiver in vast
friction across desolate bluestone cobblefields, clouds that break open
like eggs & spill sustenance across the cream fleece of a myriad astral
phenomenon

pouring over in hues that scatter like creatures of lightning &
fluorescent auras
over jagged hills & infinite street potholes reaching outward climbing
revelatory jungles of brick walls & prismed towers scattering across
the quivering blanket of space coughing constellations & layered suns

this invigoration
the rip of hint pins
freshwater fabric of reptiles
the grease heathens
paranormal illusions
the fresh dents
sex frozen yes epics
rust vanquish the ruts in
tone bone yodels, swollen

i am the seething beacon!

i am the ringing king!

i am the hardscrabble vagrant!

i am the gargantuan hum!

look at me!

this mouth-quivering madness.... the desire overpowering, speak &
spell in a phenomena of morse-code dialogue.....
i am a fractured bone
beneath the sun's bed!

i open my mouth & speak!
speak in cast-iron radio frequencies,
speak in tongues!
a fractured, bent confession
projecting genuflecting
a certain illuminated sense....

o, the nectar of madness
there is mischief on this
makeshift planet, a tunnel
of trapezoid fountains
bereft of forgiving, aloft
on the far dreamy yield of
bankrupt manifestos, the
terrain erupts in a volcano
of creatures bent upon
the error of heavy ways

a static revelation of planets twirling with one awkward pigeon finger
the dawn of being & somethingness

mind-flow
let loose the revolution in yields of yellow the sculpted overtures that
move
in seasons of white singing

triumph! the vertical nexus, triumph! the jazzy glad freedoms of
healing, triumph! the underling flower, the faraway frames that
circumnavigate
the triumph!

triumph! of reconciliation
triumph over hunger
un-loose these chains

take note:
the revolutions front, center, & back of this mind train no yield
non-stop universe
of the eyes, the gut
of primordial say epics
release this:

the multiplication of mute argyle
elements, a creeping disease of phenomenon, a tortured harpie of bled
youth
wrecked jungles of eye sing seas
set loose from the vagabond water
dip the limbs in desolate blue blur
syllables release,

RELEASE! in shedding overtures that traverse lost the gut signs this
night blows elusive
constellations & reasoning

RELEASE! even in wet brick slick
revisions, the plate of crawling high
luck on rippled iceberg jangles
this yelping trance
this fierce yell from the inside
the ascension of shouts,

shouts for joy

shouts for sadness

shouts for shedding

shouts for bargaining

shouts for resuscitation

shouts for heavy energy

shouts for necessity

shouts for mystic blessing

shouts for remuneration

shouts for the shattering

shouts for the chameleon's smile

shouts for the pyramid

shouts to this planet

shouts to the equator

let the shouts resound from all angles, reverberate in a triumph over
silence,
a naked alive shout that will be heard
stripped
down
straight
down
to the ecstatic primordial shout
a siren, a wailing shout

movement #2
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silence

noiseless overshouting
the muffled breach of
the edict a certain nothing
that music which merged together
becomes the universal hum
dragon in torch breath, the roar,
the sweet robin's egg blue
from the birth of the nest singing

a herald of time
heart bent horizontally
pulled forth from unisons of hum
paradox of reasons

sirens alert, o the heavy points!
motions here there, that dragging sound
entices, pulls as a force magnetic

closer,

closer,

further away aghast upon vague faces
mouths not talking, the never spoken,
the uneven telepathy of no-thing
release the efforts of a
breezy jangling in the
coffin of a dark mind
music notes replace words
expressing what language can't

the music of internal
feeling the half-eternity
looming inside a skull
so many reasons to release
reverie or deep soul search?
music! internal hallways!
one of the highest senses!
music a new sense,
another angle!

gregarious the runneth over,
a plaintive me&er
that hides hidden gestures
the opus drone of a madrigal
yawning, the questions
that lay like frosty carpet
on interior spaces

silence

jettisoned from restful dwelling
the om or creed shuffles
the plethoras of street talk
& the winding curves of highs
swaying from restless arches
to meditative pitches

silence?

real the absence of silence,
the calls from river rushes
aimed the flat of twisting,
a death of remuneration
dour the visage of silence
reefed in a rainbush tree,
limited in retina colonization

peaks of buildings
nestled in the central eye
concentrated impressions
the revolutions of sight globes
on a spindle unwinding

bricks that spit rivets,
concrete & steel,
angular, intrepid,
of asphalt jackets
a constant hammering
the skyline purloined
in vacuous equators of
relativity & loneliness

tossing & turning
through gravel rivers
the weight o the weight
calling out in echoes
the peeled orange of sky
is lighting beyond
this dark bed of earth
the sweep of avenues
lined with shrubs

silence?

the voices that speak no name,
the automobiles that retch no exhaust
the bus that grinds no dire gears
the orphans on streetcorners
that beg with no remorse,
met with a silence that
squats on upturned palms

eyes that look inward
& the bus, its slow subtle
roll backwards,
the remnants of noise like vapors
hiding in corners
of fish-stinking alleys, angular

triangles of solitude
the immense fret of being
l & slide hieroglyphics
the deft fauning of patience

in cascading circles hovering treacherous vain & sweet, rearranging
dawning fading wisps of air hang, all eyes set out the chameleon attics
of the which way mind

interlude
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once in painstaking dreamscapes, we bet on a merging, a bronze atrophy
of modalities, the trust that begat a shaking, the catalog that begat a
yearning,
the premise that begat a hovering, the undertow that begat a bellowing, the
purposeful breach of spirit that underlies the intense partitions of time

flashback & flashforward

now lost passing through the quagmire
passing tremulous, slowed passing
paths duplicating in exchange
paths across cities erected monumental polluted & transparent steel
soothsaying just saying

passing:

these reflections float like tattered pages of wind
age? wisdom?
what haunts lead back? age nor wisdom? age or wisdom?

the gloating dimensions
of passage that part & remunerate in temperatures teeming

movement #3
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this is a peace in eternal offering,
the peace of smiles & weeping
the peace of long bright skyscraper sunlight
golden bowls of liquid tranquility
a peace of ghost-eyed tomorrows
long peace twins rolling in gr&eur

this offer this putting forth
the language of exchange
the osmosis

(multiplication of this vast city)

the city is spoken, a language beyond the ever-apparent

a city something heard beyond the ear (superauditory / the
lengthening rope of the senses)

cities in aqua tarantula grimace
city in marbleized flame
city in a torch of unity
a city on plains of misgiving
those cities morose & complacent
a city immense in triangles of believing
city flux
city hope om
city cat hip fist
city scat
city dancing in neon gargoyles of light

sister, brother, holy dancers,

crystal enchanters!

these city junctions swivel hips earthwards

with all intersections akimbo

the crooked unknown dance

cities,

o ziggurats of the centralized white hot nerve
soho memphis sphinx mesopotamian
exotic quixotic cities

behold the cities & the thieving nectar goddesses (--blues---) alive
pollinating
amidst the elysian fields

(a tip of the hat & the golden reefer)

ancient ancestral kingdoms
on topaz plains rising from dust
& returning to dust, rising again

the premise of graphic belonging
these temples of high multitudes
(infatuations of delphic wonder)

the roads that lead to towering castles,
the gates of the city thrown open in a
cataclysmic cyclone of prophets

(in peace)


amethyst awe amongst spirit channels busting open as rivers of fine talc
certainty & uncertainty tearing their own page out of the circular
grains of awe, wonder
manifestations of polar intensity in waves of powder blue & green,
sifting through the dawn city awakening


a poltergeist of knowledge
vain transparent illogical
remote monuments
to systems in denial
grazing green projectiles
of regal remains

a damnation of remorse

the scattered circular
waterfalls
that
pour
down
in
reckless
revolution
into
overflow
chasms

OBSERVE!
I am beginning to see

OBSERVE!
Words that navigate trailers of time

OBSERVE!
Moments elongated to a huge river of ale

OBSERVE!
Time-- too much hence too short

OBSERVE!
This floating between structures with many levels prophetic poverty

observe this emancipation
genuflect eternal
bounce frame flags
in fragrant nectars devoid
of manipulation

I go to yield the veiled traverse of
lettered tables on mercurial tablets

to welcome home this missing bliss