Sunday, February 27, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 27

Sunday, Feb 27

“scoop soba”

“every once in awhile, her nipples showed themselves
as her cleavage got deeper”

“you wouldn’t by chance have a small lime green purse and a pink ipod?”

it’s fun in reverse, beverage blur, delicately wasabi

“the ghost of the dead will haunt them at night”

ask their eyes for stories
decay, the floor soaks with corpses

scrubbing stench

scissors soak with detergent


Ray Craig

Saturday, February 26, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 26

Saturday, Feb 26

from ay and ay to j

jismatically jocular, skull scooping salmon
one-man occult oozing orange oboe
happy homage: lips lacerate locust
nude nihilist: tongue toasting tits
sophisticated simply jalousie jacket
orb of omni-pussy offering oolong
lights love: hypnotist habituates his hands
transcendental troubadour nibbling Netsuke


Taylor Mignon and Ray Craig

Friday, February 25, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 25

Friday, Feb 25

add canvas, delay
acacias dissolve eluding aisles

imbue with obtains
napkins accumulate cassette complexion

response impels fractured foliage
aquarium concedes shirt

“asphalt imputes moisture”
leaves replenish pond

arm ensures acrylics on cassette
goggles consume film

abrupts window
inhabitants scoop knees

**

initiate moisture
aquarium remains contagious

camera adapts to gravity
excess enacts embankment

opaque adherence

**

tangerines squat
address adheres to Genji

foliage distracts canvas
souvenir extinguishes to Shibuya

acacias anticipate asphalt
contestants proceed

**

napkins accrete on canvas
moisture splotch with cows

goggles swarm to capacity
rehearsal to aquarium

**

peel kilometers from skin
luggage prepares in souvenirs

spatter, infatuate, acrylics persuade
adjacent to intervals

**



almost lamp, swathe in thistles
acrylics latch their subway leaves

impersonate variables inhabit delay
clasp excessive swimmers

**

lapse to adjacent cleavage
“she prefer routes without signatures”

replete absence
ankles moist in tattered squares

bring slats, procure goggles
hunch in fabric amber

film intersects with language

**

two girls, about eighteen
detach their shoulders

ice-espresso, walk back
erosion is visible

**

delirious with “strawberry wrong”
excessive ounces cleave, scumbles delay

absence accelerates moisture in vacant amber
sleeves further with roost appetite

**

anxious to scatter
situate the batch in stains

lamps to mention, wind
darkens in stoop, anywhere, leaves

tinge with gravity

**

leaves surge from shade as the fold
participates in thought

acrylics attract amphibious statistics

aquarium adjacent to pond, boating
facilities in August

contestants adapt to excessive moisture
recent acres quench halves at loom


**

delay explodes with baby: “suicide assassin”
AGF: Language is the Most

Gerhard Richter: abstracts on aluminum
Phil Niblock: concrete film, etchings and strings apart


Ray Craig

Thursday, February 24, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 24

Thursday, Feb 24

aquarium acquires
premises, retain

to involve, partially immobile
access constitute

unanimous, acclimate
persuasive

remnants, landscape recede
to complexion

**

absorb increases aquarium
excavate infection, deterrent to slat

relics attract film

**

legs ache, consumers respond to fabric
napkin reinforces eucalyptus

acrylics attain absence delayed in Japanese
goggles drench, “lemon kittens”

tinge as successive decibels
habituate contiguity

frequent aisles
asphalt lull in adequate leaves

emit peculiar slouches
Los Angeles Monogatari absconds to Bolivia

**

abrupt “pillow between knees” resistant to posture
aquarium, habitual infection

acacias coalesce: “opacity contaminates asphalt”
previous embankment, ounces on wood

receptive to contestants
Endo Kenji collapses after Neil Young

extricate as closure
retrieve incessant deferrals


Ray Craig

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 23

Wednesday, Feb 23

weaving through sidewalk legs
to ask Chinese pedestrian, please for us
crossing skirt, her leg sips up
“penis removed, flaps of skin inverted back”
comic “mimics vagina”

tears removed, scraps of skin inverted back
arrival resembles
surgery explains scrap peeling from skin
two hours expecting
buzzes sink reunion, come, bring your legs
vinyl crates, algae cesspool
attendants waiting with insects
expecting pedestrian, please for us

**

scrimmage with insects nesting in pencil
tentative disguise: monk nibbling cleavage

crossing skirt, her leg sips up
scrap peeling from skin, tears tether to vague cluster

**

“penis removed, flaps of skin inverted back”
comic mimics female Buddhist monk

crossing skirt, her leg sips up
scrap peeling from skin, tears tether to vague cluster


Ray Craig

rabbit inhaling dog rope (working notes, January 2005)

Saturday, Jan 1, 2005

complete with pause
fugitive crouching, close across to speak

rabbit returns home with chair
client with prostitute at least with numerous mock endurance

buy their hats
chair pleasing client

tsunami unsubtitled in victims


Sunday, Jan 2

same hotel before ragged doorway
they moan for chairs inhaling dog rope

rabbit listening to chairs in a circle
slow magazine, study wedding palms

identical clogs , curtains in the weather

rabbit crouching stomach ceiling for an hour
resist optional nurse with pencil

I have feet sitting in her address

rabbit inhaling dog rope
rabbit sitting in her address inhaling dog rope

remain adopted, rabbit reading Nagai Kafu

children appear smaller in ice cream,
rabbit cleans rifle with tongue

rabbits listening to optional nurse
chairs moan for identical clogs


Monday, Jan 3

startles rabbit
footprints asking in mud, trace chrysanthemums

chairs moaning for identical clogs
startles rabbit with rifle

punish horse, punish horse

monk vanish in sitting
insects drone behind their arrival
abundant thistle

we were often deceived by our servants
unintended corpse, screams slanting

insects swarm behind their arrival
sparks pursue ember, immerse in her address

insects linger behind their arrival
we were often deceived
abundant thistle
unintended corpse

screams slanting we were often deceived by abundant thistle

chair appears smaller in her ice cream


Tuesday, Jan 4

eaves deepen
damp
and each scrabble crumbling

measurement of distance
rather than of time


eaves healing a hundred skin

methods to extricate anonymity as a description

adapting to film dictionary entangles with fashionable crime
closely she stands in Mom is modeling Monday

Dzama continues as space when shirts have tongue

Found Poem: Stanley Brouwn

Walk 95 m in the direction of la paz

Walk 11 m in the direction of Rangoon

Walk 776 m in the direction of Havana

Walk 180 m in the direction of Helsinki

**

eaves healing a hundred skin


Wednesday, Jan 5

constantly slowing skull to ignite

whether in visual discrepancies
accumulating ruptures

**
constantly slowing skull to ignite

gasping for sparks

spattering canvas in ambiguous wound

**

bruised by damp thistle
rabbit tasting snake ointment from her skin

**

I don’t use seatbelts
I don’t believe in gravity


Burt Lancaster, Atlantic City


Tokyo Repertoire No 1

kogeta waishatsu tsukue ni chirakaru

burnt shirt scatters on desk


Thursday, Jan 6

else’s mouth kissing damp murmurs
suppose hesitate in luminous dissolve

Noise 5

Murdock and Elvis waiting in the window
disguise damp murmurs as whispers and kisses

arm enjoys weather dividing bones, a container
rhododendron phrases

else’s mouth waiting for rhododendron phrases
conversation about comforting begonias

another suicide apartment for rent

arm raising easily suppose phrases hesitate in luminous dissolve
including lilac ambiguous wound preserved in damp murmurs


Friday, Jan 7

rabbit clings to dresser, arguing months for hotel access

groove bunch

cassette scraping cleavage, she wasn’t
aliens arrive in folded shirts

what happens when they influence her to stop seeing me?
spread damp napkin on table

**

rabbit clings to dresser, scraping cleavage, she wasn’t

she doesn’t use the door bell
she bangs on the garage door

don’t come, don’t come
I promise not to leave tonight



Saturday, Jan 8

tattered sleeves, fold
possibilities with anyone littering chrysanthemums
attempting canvas, tongue tangles in nipple

rabbit replaces monk

**

contestants trim in thought
teasing rabbit as sleeves fold subtly

slow and simply
between

Found Poem: Kurt Weston
A Chair is Still a Chair, 2004: touchable photograph (caulk outline in relief) ; 24 x 26 in

suppose her clothes suggest criminal injuries


Sunday, Jan 9

inhabitants susceptible to skin remain realizing in dance

arm raising eludes to concern, tracing amputee as a description
where to explain surgical clothes

measurable thought, prepare notebook
chairs and folded shirts accumulate on paper

rabbit clings to amputee, scraping cleavage


Monday, Jan 10

several pages insisting amputee
instead, they’re posing clamp capabilities

more skin receiving chrysanthemums
endlessly repeating the desire

scrolling down
reading backwards

amputee spitting the room with semen

porn haiku:

got fucked
her face, confident
in aborting


skin repeating


Tuesday, Jan 11

concluding trout as beverage
quiet with aquarium corpse enthusiast
listening which is equally dub

follow, draw that man
his crip walk is impeccable

in fact, when these backspin electronic resonate with trout beverage
delay Pippilina sobbing in glitch

ninja breaks, slicing opponent’s arm with precision
skin endlessly repeating injuries

kitchen posing orange

erection with a reasonable length
skin entrance is mathematically correct

someone says kiss me
dub bubbling glitch in beverage trout


Wednesday, Jan 12

avant-pop: practice editing online

Found Poem: Desaparecidos
Read Music, Speak Spanish

what’s wrong?

she doesn’t like it when I can’t breathe



Thursday, Jan 13

let’s run away and become servants

display rabbit clustering crickets
treading charred hairpins smear on skin, how there is crumble

under identical clogs
emergency troops arrive

align with seaweed fragrance soaking in someone’s soup
lamp design with monk influence

knot for clothing, fabrics leaving their discipline


Friday, Jan 14

permanent sprig habitat, mouths gasping
suppose someone sculpting bracelets impose attendance
horse trembling, brambles thickly clogged

An-hsiang. . . . . . Dim Fragrance
Ch”ang hsiang-ssu. . . . Eternal Longing
Chu-hua hsin. . . . . . Chrysanthemums Fresh
Lang t’ao sha. . . . . Ripples Sifting Sand
Su-ying. . . . . . . . Sparse Shadows
T’iao-hsiao ling. . . . Song of Flirtatious Laughter
T’a so hsing. . . . . . Treading on Grass


rabbit visits her skin, stumbling
their leaving this swim
rabbit emerges from brambles thickly clogged


Saturday, Jan 15

imperative excrete
rabbit pantomiming amputee
enable carelessly spurting blue
father releases wound between crawls
skin swelling with ambulance bodies
cemetery to remain
subtly

rabbit excrete wound between crawls
skin swelling with ambulance

Tokyo Repertoire No 2

miruku umibe ni wasureru

forget milk at beach

**

thread magazine sending require ambient pulses
I was the kid that liked the white crayon

decisive, crackling in silence,

I always learn more about my work during a collaboration
especially as, O/r (with *O) for example,


inquiry Joujouka

patch 30 seconds in audition
bakageta raifuru: ridiculous rifle


Sunday, Jan 16

dermatologist with tattoo attempt lips
stray in dance, evening beside abandoned gift
rabbit nods tracing plate
sloop dampens chair, diluting skin with amputee
skin minutes attempting lips

adhesive infection lingers on tongue
amputee injures on rabbit, partials encourage skin

a nursing student living in a mythical part of Tokyo populated almost entirely by Americans

Komizu Kazuo
horror plus Eros plus splatter

Selective Filmography and Scripts

2000: Tokyo Black-Out: Elevator Panic
Tokyo Dai-Teiden: Erebeita Panikku

2000: Erotic Slaughter: Lips and Gun
Erotikku Surootaa: Kuchibiru ni Gankou

1989: Easier Than Kiss
Kisu Yori Kantan

1986: Entrails of Beautiful Woman
Bijo no Harawata

1981: Catch Girl: Moan for Tongue Play
Kyacchi Gaaru: Zetsugi Monzetsu

1969: Go Go Second Time Virgin
Yuke Yuke – Nidome no Shojo


Monday, Jan 17

interest in subtle silhouettes clutching tuberculosis

amputee, partially skin
distracts rabbit

finishing medicine between quick promise

what weak though, lack sentiment
in on or about

quarrels in exercise distract finishing medicine
rabbit between quick promise
amputee, partially skin, clutching tuberculosis

forfeit the wound, insects delay in Chinese cleavage
grid replaces consent to numerical assignments


Tuesday, Jan 18

afternoon fracture in hours
translating physical, even bent with us

conducive to coffee and conversation
ingredient includes lilac

aroused by amber on her tongue
past the waiting visitor lock

it’s not dangerously until
her muscles flinching, twitch

it’s not grim when translucent


Wednesday, Jan 19

let go, evening doorway
clothes stitched with licorice noise

adding things, rearranging sequences,
letting new lines stay

unless you watch
clutching skin

rabbit aroused by adhesive smudge on her tongue
past the waiting visitor lock

forfeit the wound, let the insects delay in Chinese cleavage
it’s not grim when translucent


Thursday, Jan 20

cleavage opening easily as mouth
splattering pocket coffee on beverage tongue
limbs less than an hour
staggering for sandwich else’s said anymore
soaking surface the entire going

**

aroused by adhesive smudge on her tongue
past the waiting visitor lock

forfeit the wound, incision delay in Chinese cleavage

wound is rabbit murmuring amputee smeared on skin
it’s not grim when translucent


Friday, Jan 21

room swarming with female criminals
dance teases amputee
vapor with thousand sleeves to consider
stain subtle teases on skin
tongue near

stout pedestrian lifting licorice scissors

tongue near stain teases amputee
skin swarming with injuries

random radio circles
Elevator Bath is a definition

born surprisingly gifted with an internal sister

abducted by folded shirts
Britney Spear: adolescent beverage tongue
shot after shot of slot after slot
translucent skin: disturbing hypnosis manuscript


Saturday, Jan 22

muffles in vaguely hairpins
she turns around from skin removing chewing gum with tissue
speak as seem
clothes between two sisters, apricot twins

**

Late Spring: Collaboration with Yuan Chen (779-831)

evening swallows keep twittering by the curtain
skin muffles in vague charred lips
sparrows squabble, stir up dust on the steps
cleavage opening easily as mouth
evening wind closes gate
speak as seem completing a semen mask
quietly flowers fall but no one comes


Yuan Chen and Ray Craig


**

you can spot them better in winter
when there’s no leaves

coal tit

**


Sunday, Jan 23

porn amputee

vanish in amputee dampened by rabbit
ambulance hesitating on skin

no one comes dampened by porn

skin dampened by porn amputee

sparse shade

**

cleavage opening easily as mouth
charred nipples smear on tongue

**

Osaka Art Notorious
sister share escapes to brother
surprisingly internal sister
absent sister
born surprisingly gifted with internal sister

**

perhaps not gifted with absence
share erection with absent skin
follow film visually perverse

unexpected visitor from google search: amputee drawing
pedestrians stagger, ambulance lingers on wound


Monday, Jan 24

Lake Map in Chinese: Tung-t’ing Lake, Po-yang Lake
nestles spreading less than 300 kilometers

quick, scatter bangles
cat’s black fur
glistening

sleeves stay with horse, else’s new pillow
plates clattering in koan

eaves arrive in rescuing plums
rabbit adapts to amputee

comb on the floor
idleness

adolescent beverage tongue
shot after shot of slot after slot
translucent skin


disturbing hypnosis manuscript

when I count to three, your hand will become a girl


Tuesday, Jan 25

surgical scent
sweater includes adequate pimp mask

after tasting orange, Zen as pop commodity
koan buraku (village) proposing minimum minutes

their blouses appear in a narrow column

Found Poem: 40,000
Number of Chinese police devoted to patrolling the Internet

nearby lake excursion, students fucking
Eno score, lingering beverage

husband proposing wife surveillance
Someday he will remember electronica

delay Pippilina sobbing in glitch
asking clearly with plate as she platter t-shirt plums

Chinese police lingering on skin
where to explain surgical scent


Wednesday, Jan 26

room as aquatic detachment, actress in alien prosthetics
shoe ruins book, there exact rumpling

briefly weather, linen cut separating
lilac underneath as wound

finger harder to faint
Flamingo, Houdini

fish polaroids, mischievous teasing
magazine blouse, doesn’t many employ beverage

implies waist
she’s got lots of gloves over there

Found Poem: Toon Porn
You don’t have any boundaries in animation

rabbit drawn to amputee drawings: unattainable skin

contestants confirm magazine address
mischievous teasing implies waist

flamingo wound, seventies by theater
persuade with spontaneous cello

Henry Darger surprisingly gifted with internal sister
sister naked with penis

obscure dialect, Chinese clients speaking tea
supporting the nearest ladder

sleeves transcend when students describe

Tokyo Repertoire No 3

hada no suufun wa Nihongo de

skin minutes in Japanese

rabbit skeletal muscle
infection did not induce cleavage


Thursday, Jan 27

scraping did not induce cleavage
ice-skating monologues

else’s Mom used to favorite shirt
accepting anonymous furniture

describe audience in 23 minutes
infection did not induce skin

audition gleaming with chrome
aliens fold as shirts

films about weather is sufficient
plate littered with lemon hues

absent sister inhabits his skin
monk arrives as tourist

their blouses appear separate in students fucking

rabbit heaves to amputee drawings: unattainable skin


Friday, Jan 28

confused, an illiterate whispers boating accident
someone interviews looking at the casualty lists online

reading Japanese film titles in romaji complicates kiss
the prostitutes slowly came to trust rabbit

Recent Referrals: pen, pencil nude silhouette drawings

Search Result: shipments down elsewhere drawing in pen
folded shirts emerge in pencil
new shirt gymnastics, Chinese Apricot
Sunday, Nov 28 draw nude female aliens

**

Recent Referrals: detergent struction ingredients

Search Result: concession to detergent package with
ingredient includes lilac

**

Recent Referrals: Chinese swimsuits

Search Result: I let six men choke my pussy
Pussy prefers Chinese swimsuits in April


Saturday, Jan 29

subtle post electronics, admission quickly entertains
monk with chocolate cassette

Jackson Maclow radiates from his wife

daughter sees blemish
reported missing from Phuket, Thailand

tsunami ghost

we would play for 16 minutes
Hokkaido Butter, dialect in souvenirs

**

tsunami ghost
monk with cassette

daughter sees blemish
reported missing from Phuket, Thailand

**

I gots to git down to the infirmary, Zuzu, something
awful is happening, the Thing has stirred in its moorings.

Ismael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

**

combine conceptual pornography with medical advice
explicitly museum, trout costume with luggage

children clutter to invisible tractor woman
fart cavities, tchotchke mafia

diminishing piano loop
residue as sadness

Alice Coltrane scares cerebral refugee
Lester Bangs extract William Burroughs

static decay complicates skin
extract scraping as discarded tongue

retrieve film isn’t


Sunday, Jan 30

women and children return from the river
and smoke sago leaves to warm their mouths

Simatalu, Indonesia

clinging to her knot, horse tint to vanish
children trace fish on plate

dancers inquire swarming skin in pause
same salmons in sequence

prying salmon to assert skin
unfinished apartment rhymes with plaster

cleavage in transit, cinema increase salmon
cleavage comfortable in amputee
audition: salmon capable as amputee
unfinished cleavage rhymes with salmon

scraping incites cleavage
infection smears with surgical scent

Recent Referrals: skinniest actress

Search Result: clinging to the skinniest actress in corpse rehearsal


Monday, Jan 31

unfinished apartment rhymes with actress
complicate skin ambulance to camera
unfinished apartment tempting their entrance

tongue tempting skin, minimal opening
muttering obvious seduction

Soft and Hard, 1985
align crease to napkin, soft on it

thought interrupted by nurse
removing insect scabs

unfinished actress rhymes with apartment

Recent Referrals:

amputee drawing
carnies head
purple speckled dildo
crip walk
pen, pencil nude silhouette drawings
Kumiko Akiyoshi
torso amputee
Ming-na Wen got fucked
detergent struction ingredient
Myra Hindly
Chinese swimsuits
skinniest actress
Kurt Weston: a chair is still a chair

**

tongue interrupted by insect scabs
minimal opening removes salmon from unfinished taste

unfinished skin ambulance rhymes with Chinese swimsuits

tongue interrupted by amputee
minimal opening

fold unfinished kiss to napkin, soft on it
tongue tempting her entrance


Ray Craig

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 22

Tuesday, Feb 22

“ice-skating lesson, we meet the seemingly Craig family at the rink”

Recent Referrals: Ming na Wen stockings, Crip walk dancers on camera

Found Poem: Chloe Sevigny
Blonde Bunny pg 270

airline ticket stubs, postcards, extend luggage, kung fu fighting

Lipstick and Dynamite
wrestling documentary: girls “gouging eyes” as they money crush

swimming prompts skin: “Do you want me to get undressed?”
neck sweater with shirt: adamantly fabric

scrimmage with insects nesting in pencil
tentative disguise: monk nibbling cleavage

swimming prompts skin
husband convinces wife to speak Japanese


Ray Craig

Monday, February 21, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 21

Monday, Feb 21

Tokyo Repertoire No 5

kogeta waishatsu hada ni chirabaru
burnt shirt scatters on skin

displace surface, fold as fabric overlapping

blouse with cleavage

“Moles nesting in your cellar and nibbling every third potato”
“In the far recess of summer/ Monks are playing soccer”

Thoreau / Ashbery

sleep horses, sleep horses, surgical thoughts

Found Poem: Korean Poets from 19th Century
Kyehyang was a concubine
Nung-un was probably a mistress or concubine
Hyejong was a female Buddhist monk


Ray Craig

Sunday, February 20, 2005

re tattoo assignment

Kawaita Hana (Pale Flower) 1963:
Kaga Mariko is attracted to his promise, cleave to lamp as a fragment

Konchu Dai Senso (Great Insect War) 1968:
skin assaulted by insects, scrimmage with female ninjas

Nagai Kafu, unshaven, travel sketches in pencil
carpenter’s back tattooed with demon mask

such as streetcar clanks around zoo
rented room for skin

“April 30, 1959, his body was found, fully clothed”

illness conceals salmon from plate
insects, persistent skin

clients speaking tea
obscure dialect

Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) 1953:
Hara Setsuko duplicates daughter, permitting herself to film

Kuroneko (Black Cat) 1968:
Nobuko Otowa returns, determined to cleave, skin disguised as blotched ducks

re tattoo assignment: salmon emerge from skin

**

monogatari suffused with cinema, adaptations

Nyobo Funshitsu (Wife Lost) 1928:
husband infected with dancer, tentative hinges: crushed ginkgo abrupts skin

“prostitute stabbed by a deranged guest”

Gendai Ryoki Sei Hanzai (Grostesque Perverted Slaughter) 1976
wife convinces body parts to husband, students arrested for speaking Japanese

Kasuga-cho, Bunkyo-ku: Nagai Kafu explores address

re tattoo assignment: after his death, weekly magazines exaggerated his skin

“tattoo mark was found on his arm
commemorating an early love, Shimbashi geisha Tomimatsu”

**

a pocket then rub pencil
rain disrupts rehearsal

insert coin, remain accurate
tongue dispenses ticket

moisture indulges passenger
students anxious to speak

Shibuya station isn’t news anymore
clutches luggage, an actress playing Japanese

**

Hyokai Hyaku Monogatari (One Hundred Ghost Stories) 1968
defiant weave, woman fucks Umbrella Man

table subdues actress
Nikkatsu realizes vaginal alternative prompts skin

passengers insist accuracy
cheap pencils, library skin in 20 minutes

Haiku

clients speaking tea
Tomi dances with penis
obscure dialect

Hikidoshi Fufu (A Couple on the Move) 1928:
Shochiku Kamata Studio: wife flirts with landlord

mid-1920s through Shimazu, aftertaste of burnt salmon skin

passenger clips train
an actress playing Japanese tumbles to subway


Ray Craig

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 20

Sunday, Feb 20

Kasuga-cho, Bunkyo-ku: Nagai Kafu explores address

re tattoo assignment: delete salmon from skin

after his death, weekly magazines exaggerated his skin

“tattoo mark was found on his arm commemorating an early love,
Shimbashi geisha Tomimatsu”


Haiku

clients speaking tea
Tomi dances with penis
obscure dialect


Ray Craig

Saturday, February 19, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 19

Saturday, Feb 19

monogatari suffused with cinema, adaptations

Hikidoshi Fufu (A Couple on the Move) 1928

Shochiku Kamata Studio: wife flirts with landlord
mid-1920s through Shimazu, aftertaste of burnt salmon skin

**

according to legibility: circus scabs
fluorescent cuticles emanate adhesive trimmings

a pocket then rub pencil
rain disrupts rehearsal

insert coin, remain accurate
tongue dispenses ticket

moisture indulges passenger
student anxious to speak

Shibuya station isn’t news anymore
clutches luggage, an actress playing Japanese


Ray Craig

Friday, February 18, 2005

partial as someone promising skin

partial as someone promising skin
address precedes arrival

fabric brochure elude intimacy

swathed in vague complexion
skin cleaves to fabric

kilometers tether to skin
address preceding hospital

partials stain fabric
nude promises submerge in notebook

sadness depends on fabric
address elude accident


Ray Craig

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 18

Friday, Feb 18

Nagai Kafu, unshaven, travel sketches in pencil
carpenter’s back tattooed with demon mask

such as streetcar clanks around zoo
rented room for skin

Japanese News: from school child for walks, grove he died

“April 30, 1959, his body was found, fully clothed,
by the woman who came in to do his housework”

illness conceals salmon from plate
insects, persistent skin

Haiku

clients speaking tea
sister naked with penis
obscure dialect

Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) 1953

Hara Setsuko duplicates daughter, permitting herself to film

re tattoo assignment: salmon emerge from skin


Ray Craig

Poems: Recent Postings: 1/23 thru 2/14

Poems: Recent Postings: 1/23 thru 2/14

Habits on a lamp
posted 2/14


the room beneath her dress
posted 2/11


Daughter sees blemish
posted 2/4


Eaves arrive in rescuing plums
posted 1/31


Six Poems for Dzama
posted 1/28


Chinese police lingering on skin
posted 1/25


Late Spring: Collaboration with Yuan Chen (779-831)
posted 1/23


For more poem listings, see post date 1/21

Thursday, February 17, 2005

I was pregnant with your feet

Jakuen: they isolate themselves writing TV scripts

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 17

Thursday, Feb 17

“ay to ay”

reverse funeral, release the dead
biologist impose vertical surface injuries

passengers insist accuracy
cheap pencils, library airport in 20 minutes

margin for tambourine assignment
stepping season, decidedly denim, unexpected crisp skirt

ronin penguin, noise explains Nico entering swimsuit party
speaking, she describes capable to ensure

dancehall chatter, System D128 directs Banned in Libya

Hyokai Hyaku Monogatari (One Hundred Ghost Stories) 1968

defiant weave, woman fucks Umbrella Man
table subdues actress, Nikkatsu realizes fabric involves nurse


Ray Craig

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 16

Wednesday, Feb 16

Gendai Ryoki Sei Hanzai (Grostesque Perverted Slaughter) 1976

wife convinces body parts to husband, students arrested for speaking Japanese

address: Sakai Hospital, 4th floor
identify plate conversation: eyes, tablecloth, she talks under a scream

dredge rummage, ferrule
scraping plagues cleavage

waiting for Émigré to arrive in the mail
office workers return from shopping safety pins, Elevator Bath

Gamma Sango Uchu Daisakusen (Gamma 3: Space Project) 1968:

Vic Morrow impersonates a transvestite, passengers clip trains, tumble to subway


Ray Craig

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 15

Tuesday, Feb 15

Kwaidan (Ghost Stories) 1964: blind musician performs to dead warriors

audience with Buddhist tattoo
nude partials submerge in notebook

cackling trims bramble entrance
subtle proposals decay in excessive weather

put a three each, skin disguised as blotched ducks

Kuroneko (Black Cat) 1968: Nobuko Otowa returns, determined to cleave

**

partial as someone promising skin
address precedes arrival

fabric brochure elude intimacy

swathed in vague complexion
skin cleaves to fabric

kilometers tether to skin
address preceding hospital

partials stain fabric
nude promises submerge in notebook

sadness depends on fabric
address elude accident


Ray Craig

Monday, February 14, 2005

habits on a lamp

habits on a lamp

souvenir "slides under" the inherent dialect
everybody's responsible for an aisle

popular proximity?
eaves blend unanimous in monk


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ambiguous dialect (working notes February 14

Monday, Feb 14

Konchu Dai Senso (Great Insect War) 1968: skin assaulted by insects

scrimmage with female ninjas

**

partial as someone scrubbing amputee
address precedes arrival

contemplative balance
fabric brochure elude intimacy

swathed in hospital complexion
skin cleaves to fabric

kilometers tether to amputee
address preceding hospital

partials stain fabric
nude promises submerge in notebook

sadness depends on fabric
address elude accident


Ray Craig

Sunday, February 13, 2005

May, 1992

May, 1992

curfew 7 to 6: windows remain boarded
provide weather in posture, rouge replaces vacant bench

florescent lunch is no longer an option
Hawaii Five-O animates casual conversation

"did you know, your wrist glows in the dark?"
despite their arrival, incision clarifies the wound

monk remains tentative, Xenakis with entrance
science dissolves the bone to swim, surface is an extraction

"picture the kitchen table when you're not there”
sand is an acceptable option, accurate as the five folding clothes

arrive with magazine, coffee is casual rent
accident is someone else to pause, furniture begins with aquarium intact


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ambiguous dialect (working notes February 13

Sunday, Feb 13

Kawaita Hana (Pale Flower) 1963: Kaga Mariko is attracted to his promise

cleave to lamp as a fragment on canvas

celery stubs wrapped in seaweed, pedestrians converge
sadness depends on paper, stumbling down the stairs in accident


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April, 1992

April, 1992

swimmers weigh their shoulders
splotch themselves with envelope: "Not Drowning, Waving"

foliage snags furniture
asphalt to conclude: Godard locks film in language

Shibuya station fascinate in absence
replaces wound, skin conceives its own departure

monks emerge from their own absence
"little toy cans that 'moo' when you turn them over."

measure themselves to absorb
unexpected foliage: frequent halves conflict with rent

inversion to taunt, dialects are identical
entrance between subway delay and coffee extended

lamp is optional, clusters connect
sand symptoms: climb spatters anonymous lamp

weather without arrival: blouse spills on chair
"two brothers manufacture small boxes that moo when inverted"


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ambiguous dialect (working notes February 12

Saturday, Feb 12

tentative hinges: crushed ginkgo abrupts pavement

diminishing hour crease in fold
name baby wrapped in newspaper: Otik

clay perspective: nipples burst with error
thread as a odd comparison: lilacs stitch to lamp

the room is transparent: Chinese cleavage as equivalents

Nihonbashi inflicted by subway minutes, excessive salmon splotch plate

merchant with fishnet scoops cassette floating in water

minutes induce fragility
Jakuen: they isolate themselves writing TV scripts

Tokyo Repertoire No 4
Train schedule to Naoko

Myoko: 8:52
Shinetstu-honsen
kudari (descend)

Naoetsu: 9:48
Hokuriku-honsen
nobori (ascend)

Kanazawa: 12:35


Korean Music Countdown: pink dress clings to skin


Ray Craig

Friday, February 11, 2005

the room beneath her dress

the room beneath her dress
recent as browse tinge sand across aisles adequate to rove

contestants arrive with their knowledge intact
promptings were lenient

pitch coffee on the table fascinate, pockets peel with lamp
persuade anonymous in beverage

acacias coalesce to pounce subsequent stairs
shelving blends alternative as wood attains moisture

equivalents brim nave in a practical clasp
absence habituates the film

situate the room in frequent pauses
harbor half prompts pavement steep in beverage

kilometers trim, blend with extracted certainties
pleat dress in a tentative fold and lock the slightest surface


Ray Craig

March, 1992

March, 1992

Morton Feldman beneath the infant fold
anonymous proximity: weather situates the accident

"the reawakening of the voice always presupposes a break,
an irreversible distance from the lost object"

acacias on canvas, Dear Claudia, partials encourage at length
because coffee is landscape the room is Japanese

aquarium on paper adheres to recent language
monk insisted absence: discarded leaves emerge in thought

habitual attachment, shoulders to glass
unanswered asphalt recurs, insisting late shelves

pedestrians cling to excessive rain
Yayoi-cho, Bunkyo-ku: Nagai Kafu receives address

accident on the bridge delays morning traffic
paste acacias on asphalt, inhabitants wrapped in furniture

plate splotches Eriko married to Shibuya station
aquarium imposes delay: distance prompts a new dialogue

laundry complete: blouse pocked by detergent
subtle folds interlude as weather

"mistaking someone's bracelet on a table for an ashtray”
Pablo slouches in dub: percussive pockets count as coffee

"by the way, can you add a rabbit?"
Beckett is peeling someone else's raincoat

regional dialect, partial envelopes
Emigre arrives in the mail: 2 intersects square in Soviet brown

vacant boutique as film music
unexpected rain, passengers decide on their kilometers

Akiyoshi Kumiko clusters to Leonard Cohen
children speaking Chinese adjacent to the airport

Marlowe retrieves Monique's message
the decisive dialect is film, kilometers fold in vacant rent

KSAN 1969: Aki no Tetoron wa Teijin des’
"these clocks were installed by the lowest bidder."

Shibuya station remains inconclusive: questions are not evidence
pavement is accurate: slightest rain and the passengers arrive


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ambiguous dialect (working notes February 11

Friday, Feb 11

Angelo Badalamenti slips audience with moog

spontaneous scratch splintering radio hiss
diminishing electronics inflected by “dub reliance”

layering supplements static
Richard Chartier performs as an anonymous engineer

Nurse with Wound disperse cassette impulses
audience as an obstacle comparable to abrasive teasing


Ray Craig

Thursday, February 10, 2005

February, 1992

February, 1992

film is a persuasive insertion inflicted by absence
she supplements her income as a Chinese Macy's girl

zaru soba for lunch: $1.95 a bowl
she didn't understand ginger

"how can you remember, if I haven't mentioned it."
this afternoon, kilometers included rain

draw insects, lamps continue to trim
monk situates the thought: film inhabited by absence

2/10/92: children play Lemmings with mouse
her clothing is casual expectation, numerals separate

laundry in many fingers
"the film unbinds the text by enveloping it with intervals."

skin is popular
"let's run away and become servants."

furniture fills with soft rentings
earlier than weather, roses weigh the entrance

rue bent to vanilla
coffee corrects the dialogue in late breakfast

clothes packed in aquarium
repeat swimmers in their leavings

Cindy Sherman appears indecisive
weather is partial, leaves spent in thought

bamboo splatters on porcelain
"the accidents will be kinder to us"

62 boats ahead at 4000 meters
ice-coffee includes Shibuya, film imposes its own dialect


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ambiguous dialect (working notes February 10

Thursday, Feb 10

swap address for more JB’s
steady stuttering consistent with funk
couldn’t go on to Pamela

Wax Poetics Errata: Fela Kuti’s middle name is Anikulapo,
not Anikupalo as reported in Issue 10

because someone who I don’t need it

address as a jazz musician for more JB’s
test results: moisture emanates from cleavage
see if you could recognize a cover when it was in the bins


Ray Craig

Recent Referrals: Crip Walk Steps Drawing

Search Result: squabble, stir up dust
on the steps of cleavage opening
Nicole inquires what have you been drawing?
follow, draw that man
his crip walk is impeccable


Ray Craig

Recent Referrals: Stencils Rhythmic Gymnastics Costumes

Search Result: emerge in pencil
new shirt gymnastics, Chinese Apricot
same guy who invented snow costumes
girls don’t masturbate with paper-cuts
costumes open on the floor


Ray Craig

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 9

Wednesday, Feb 9

Neck Face: God owes me money

latest table: knitting in the lunchroom
employees invade dialect
porn voiceovers
egg tattoo
bus problem at 8
static contestants send for blog prizes

loop bottles breaking in dog machine
Anthony returns as Nina Simone roller-skating in clogs

porn soap: slither illegal contestants on skin

Amanda: for a split second, the whiskers
and the tone of voice. . . and I’ll need to stop


Ray Craig

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 8

Tuesday, Feb 8

address: pink khaki
with vague complexion

shirt attendants endorse Ziyi Zhang

“During breaks he walks in the hall,
seldom speaking to anyone”

woman ripped from impact
compartment for clay faces endure compulsive contestant

**

breakfast stubs accumulate , longing sufficient to accident
ambulance footage consisting skin

she bares her breasts in vague complexion
scissors cut detergent, extract scraping as discarded cleavage


Ray Craig

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 7

Monday, Feb 7

families have access to their fado patients
breakfast stubs accumulate longing sufficient to infant
ming-na wen bares her breasts to the camera

drench fado patients consisting skin
families arrive in minutes asking for more ambulance footage
their blouses appear separate in students fucking

scissors cut detergent, extract scraping as discarded cleavage

**

Recent Referral: crip walk steps drawing

Search Result: squabble, stir up dust
on the steps of cleavage opening
Nicole inquires what have you been drawing?
follow, draw that man his crip walk is impeccable


Ray Craig

Monday, February 07, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 6

Sunday, Feb 6

spook sister : desk lamp as intrusion to interpret actress
align camera to door in which to verify Godard

Neck Face spooks pedestrian: skin is a departure

families have access to hospital patients
she insisted fado carriche
14 years his favorite dada exercise
bones scatter moments creating fascinating friction

lamp intrusion fascinates actress
jazz clicks in spliced cuts
tape enlisting Mille Plateaux ambience
mid-tempo funk folds floor in shirt pocket
Pablo slouches in dub

spook pedestrian: Neck Face abandons skin besieged by pavement

inevitable address to Luggage Gallery

Recent Referrals

amputee drawing
carnies head
purple speckled dildo
crip walk
pen, pencil nude silhouette drawings
Kumiko Akiyoshi
torso amputee
Ming-na Wen got fucked
detergent struction ingredient
Myra Hindly
Chinese swimsuits
skinniest actress
Kurt Weston: a chair is still a chair
chicken head necklace
ming na wen measurements

someone from google search: stencils rhythmic gymnastics costumes

Search Result: emerge in pencil
new shirt gymnastics, Chinese Apricot
same guy who invented snow costumes
girls don’t masturbate with paper-cuts
costumes open on the floor

crip walk stencil dancing


Ray Craig

Sunday, February 06, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 5

Saturday, Feb 5

minutes conspire to visa, new airport bath
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Badlands (1973)
Neck Face packed in pavement
film noir complete with newsreel prologue
Edward Yang Film Catalogue
new employee acquires bus schedule
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
precision submits to clarity
misled bride, a sentiment horse in snow
aliens disguised as infection
examine skin
vanquish in Notre Musique

“not as something to be made, but to be inhabited ,
as if it were there always “

Stanley Kauffman on Kiarostami

Neck Face abandons skin besieged by pavement

sip stout and stay


Ray Craig

Friday, February 04, 2005

daughter sees blemish

daughter sees blemish
reported missing from Phuket, Thailand

tsunami ghost gasping for stray dogs
monk scrubs skin with cassette

anonymous tongue offering lamp and rice
feet stubbles in mud

**

women and children return from the river
and smoke sago leaves to warm their mouths

brambles thickly clog in luminous stray

Simatalu, Indonesia


Ray Craig

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 4

Friday, Feb 4

drench horse consisting skin
children arrive in minutes
asking for more ambulance footage

cat fetches bangle
they have headphones, do you?

Toon Documentary: Darger

Chinese cinema
tentative loss

beats and clothes
patients asking for more skin

I was pregnant with your feet


Ray Craig

Thursday, February 03, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 3

Thursday, Feb 3


physicians wait with horses

scrub cassette with horse consisting skin

**

daughter sees blemish
reported missing from Phuket, Thailand

tsunami ghost gasping for stray dogs
monk scrubs skin with cassette

anonymous tongue offering lamp and rice
feet stubbles in mud

**

women and children return from the river
and smoke sago leaves to warm their mouths

brambles thickly clog in luminous stray


Simatalu, Indonesia

**

visitor from google search: ming na wen measurements


Ray Craig

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 2

Wednesday, Feb 2

radio jacket, dispose audience in pursuit

morning secret: brambles thickly clog in luminous stray
tongue insisting amputee

tentative posture

sparse shade
palpable entrance

audience in pursuit opposes thought
scissors cut detergent


Ray Craig

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

ambiguous dialect (working notes February 1

Tuesday, Feb 1

lifting oxygen depends on falling
vanishing tits indicate scabs on tongue
sprawl pavement faster

they escape through their nipples
they vanish with ambiguous tongue

aquarium moths vanishing

sprawling faster with pavement

they interrupt skin with ambiguous scab
change room, occasional conversation
ambiguous entrance with tongue vanishing

scissors snag on tongue, ambiguous dialect, insect nipples
scissors interrupt tongue with ambiguous wound

ambiguous tongue interrupts amputee


Ray Craig