Silphium

silphium

Nick Aster

x   enophobic black black begat red in that twice heartattach

x   anthippes spasms and spasms and paroxysm    

a voice from very far off and half my own voice

augur promising blackblackblack begat white

my everything                                                         stemmed in through newt eyes

messed up afterimages of color and brightness    red endlessly in black black

the indigenous      abecedarian       spindly fibres that mediate allmans weight and shape

these automatons these first discriminators wailing hollow by the thousands

in the resonate hollows of nesting hollow   understanding this ripture

iatrogenic misconceptions of season          redness in blackening      plunk upon heartsichords

unscheduled equinox inverts all oosporingovercodes

every moment on top of every water will hide somewhere flighty séance

ephemera phloatabobbing in ripple awake

after this flood your steps will be crakey

as if on bird twigs

vaccinium ovatum and lilies

vaccinium stameum and lilies and aspirated breath

i heard with fish ears from a very far off voice half my own that every eve 

on sundown city preachers kneel and ask blessing on the towns of the living

call curses onto the chockablock cities of the dead  they are not wholly bad or good those that live 

under the wood o please keep thy tired eye on all poor creatures born to die

x  eric are these first moments of light led by the single cephalopod reach of a sucking

x  enagogue

*note: title, amount of lines, first-letter couplet pairs, spacing, word choice. Haha I wrote this as a 'dramatic monologue' for class. Try to guess who the speaker is??