Renshi (collaboration)

Ray Craig left one sock
and flew away

no one doubted
it was left on a chair

a practice which complies
with dance

swung scarves around
gyrating neckless necks

plate with toast
as an identical intention?

eating chocolate-dipped strawberries
they bewailed imperialism

position defines the movement:
knees bend with both hands

bulldozer rape of demolished homes
she carefully shaves underarm hair

public access with multiple speakers
dogs bark at cartoon dogs barking

comedians prefer fish cunt for breakfast
flipped zombies, trolls, elves and imps

Brazilian cuisine with 1960s porn music
heli takes off from her bed-shaped hat

resistance in expensive red paintings?
perhaps, we might question again

how many ways there are to count to four
that's why mathematicians tend

to commit suicide on the weekends
rubber glides on feet protect floor

time flips pancakes of fame
the yellow pages unopened

paper-cut on my thumb, hurts
when I press on it

treatise on contradictions
glue sniffer's paradise lost

dancers pile their clothes on the stage
and toss blue combs into the audience

transparent heels and a shadow's hat
pedestrians receive sound of scissors on Wilshire

discarded club flyers stick to wet pavement
"it's her birthday" so we all chew pig lard

tires screech dancers freeze automatically
speak no more about the leaves

and my skin prompted by female criminals
goose bumps into a lampshade overnight

a long cloud of pink letters in Ferrari dust
extends the treatment in a popular attempt

to enhance furniture ambience
reclines tattooed on sofa of lesbian love

distorted percussion loop
stable surface: coffee simplified by crushed ice

rumbles stomach through thought petals
spilling across sky of broken bottle dreamscape

ice-cream parlor waitress, autopsy photographer
kiss me says the girl with pink hair

under the brambles, knees knock cheeks
rambunctious wind licked from deer's ear

select climbing roses suited to coastal weather?
contestants accommodate themselves in various folds

adjacent to the employee's parking-lot:
crumpled erection in ink?

more than a wad shot through chrome rocket
onto the tapestry of nightstar's winking eye

tear out the scissor sisters page
and use the rest of the issue to pack boxes

folded arms and paper cranes adorn his skirt
trades in his wife's kimono for a new pen

the unwashed remain unrepresented
on the bamboo neon scaffold of power

discipline arrives in Canada
transvestite photographed with cleavage

"I'm really sorry for what I didn't show"
you needed more than less" she snickered

daughter clutches her mother's hospital hair
so where'd you get the beauty scar,

tough guy? eatin' pineapple?
acrobat in slippers yawns yams

why bother not to kill space time?
children encourage their parents to clap louder

under the waves over the sky
bridges to clusters of fireflies

elsewhere in vinyls across Mendoza Street
corpse accessories purchased by phone

includes a disposable camera
disposed unseen like the line

you suggested I discard in velvet
celery with peanut butter

susceptible to school clothes?
the plaintiff concludes in static referents

"the spiral staircase of process"
must be climbed backwards upside down

press the fold flat against the table surface
sleeveless Marilyn top in pink or black: $29.99

people with an authoritarian mindset
won't change even when commanded

pigeons sleep in daylight
shared address anticipates marriage?

glow of life in the formica decay
"Tokyo Rottens" from alien cats

modern girl quick to concur with pop gravity
aging mother in emergency room halts poem

while gas valve grows suspicious febrile hair
swimming pool with fence

disrupts the aesthetic fluidity
1964: an Italian nun holds a transistor radio to her ear

adrift between earth and sky
she itches everywhere but never scratches

amulets acquire a peculiar pause
surface disappears: gallery performance with turntables

"purple, pimple, nipple" rolled off her tongue
lifting barbells of crabapple and chamomile

tongue red in licorice paste
mother picks up the phone and talks to herself

discovers daughter’s head in oven
and quickly hangs up on herself


June, 2004


John Solt and Ray Craig