R Keith
cluster of thereafters
steady wink the malign pocket
covered with posture
punctured gestures gain saying persist
galumphing and gyrating impressions
worth quoting in full
assailing wince
flash across
slipping off images
often grapple to fluency
haunting dull
collective through gags
wobbling knuckles become disrupted
swallow oasis
preventing the break
dawdles with scant regard
along to fragments voxless
like a frame put over
cupric habits
mechanism of slipstream crescendo
function in the rid
trick the equation
chafing, shuttling
flooding fluent melody
of antique exaggeration
misfiring
both substance and form are striking continuities between
following different tracks
they have practically no forms at all
dip-quenched and allowed to drain
as an example of perfect instruct
in the same rhythm
the colour of concrete
it provides a slight tooth
immense guiding
legs are tangled together as if they were tangled in wire
cannot be achieved in another way
make shift structures
despite everything that is shown
leaves of succession
surrounding to vaporize
living nameless forms and projections
emerge through subsequent layers
hope screeched
trapped between frames
reduce the thickness of what is
steered by
caustic pictures
will show this to be untrue
theatrical speculation
is work for the mouth
running parallel
travel at the same speed
let image remain faint
appear to diminish
serving as a conduit for
every smear of paint communicate something entangled
reinforced
has no where else to go
a grip on unresponsive culture
the understanding of the nature of simpler steels
a planned luminosity
move off the scale of personality
as distinctly separate process
to breach common sense
patterns distract us from the idea of body
which will provide an appropriate skin
has proven a stubborn ox
implies something to resist
some are tempted to believe that anything which has the slightest flavour of deliberation and foresight tends to inhibit the spontaneity of the creative process
its moment(um) goes fuzzy
mingling here, taking in
once again we meet a misleading term
the phrase “just looking” is a point of departure
deleterious
built on the very simple but mistaken idea that the observer and the object are two different things
is not for filling gaps
eyes roll up, all fall asleep
a sound connection, current flow
surrounded by reflections of itself
the whole assembly seems to tremble and collapse
scattered offering
moments of blindness are necessary in order to view at all
…
the fierce argument between circuits
senses muddled brighter
firmly caught less distance
shifting maps and almost no language
grandiose-vermin
coauthor deserts
still in the sheath
sidereal mouth feebly growing facing towards
interact with cuts
in the landscape of morals
reliably undervalue the future
inside its own absence
puzzling to have
grabbing at hemisphere
irascible usual
reliably devalue the future
pelting audible
broken down phrases persist to
pinching contours illustrating tough
alibi for
struggle to recognize
gather squall
compel tasks
move the fovea around typical
joining the dots
repelled bittersweet
what is worse, we have to be unanimous
lineup with the boundaries of fine scales
pulling their ropes in one direction
the shivered milk assumptions give
after a few seconds of gnashing
so that tinkering with it is
ramps up through the bottle neck
occluding
out to graze
cluster, shudder
done by daylight
tweak chunks
drawn into thaumatrope
mouldy for the want of
in a steep accent
what is called the ecliptic
a trick of
dorsal streams
part of a lower plot
braces sharper offering of
replaced by one of the otherwise wasted morning hours of light
sequences of grainy film
the leisure of mistranslating inside
limps away
formation. In formation
envoi surely is a byword
…
dignity and solidarity made by the book so great that the book can have no sincere purpose except that of hurting, titillating or causing mischief
disintegrated soon after launching
we quickly grow used to the way things are
common place thinking dictates vision in spite
the nature of instinct and imitation
indulgence of long-dreamt struggles is effort some
face-to-face from time to time
these are the taken-for-granted features of recidivism
would depend on the whim assisting
lay down in advance
temporarily, and arranging for
dispersed trigger
could not have been written
would like to see it bogged down
setting up of a narrow self
in order to persuade the booming of mawkish laments
because of its highly punctured drama
in aggregate terms
to alter a balance
bringing-together of
impulse is to separate reflection
another domain characterized by collective mood
a barely sublimated punitiveness
undermine speech
there has to be some phase of
the gap is unavoidable
clumps of flesh ascribe a separate sympathy
deemed to have myths merely restated
when linked to the problem of the disposed
speech can be a feeble animal
wrestle with the questions of the emphases and pauses tune in
disproportionately concentrates
aspirations to wholly spurious
the light of disturbance
how much is adequate?
themes flourished under
the now hard to dislodge
for the sake of nevertheless
in certain moments
exposing turbulence
choose the breadth of limited pleasures
from one discursive register to another
to persuade into embarrassment
direct link of bonding gestures
proper allocation of blame
all at a standstill
extended into memories
nowadays the word “serendipity” refers to
A vicious circle pushed in the sea
spelled out how unbalanced
…
the forgoing discussion is
another effort to give an objective summary of warming over
most curiosity enveloped in silence
unlock the door
proposal of retention
a prototype for urban life
not the apparatus of tenderness
kinetic and tactile relationship that nature has to consider
is sometimes a casualty of potential
drooped along
to a stable image of self-contempt
often deliberately placing objects in the foreground
as a fair sample
noise compared to permafrost
The rhetoric is deployed upon broken friendships
the unfocused image informs
cluster of thereafters
threat of halcyon
loom over inimical
in the working form of still-life
gives a pause of the most ardent
cold snap. Applause.
a faceless presence working through the social
exploiting colour
to offer assurances, wedges
sweeping unfinished work
a depersonalization in
prudent, but effective
vaguely anxious initiatives
for the writer to unveil
ribbons on
irrevocably walled
just as well as the tonalities of leaves kept in a state of flux
R. Keith is a persona that works with visuals, texts, poetics, fiction, and exophonic writing. He is the author of four collections of poetry, and five chapbooks. His collection of Visual poetry Chicken Scratch was published in 2017 (eyeameye books) Forthcoming is his 1st novella in 2018.