tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21112460.post-76429634581018546002008-04-02T14:53:00.001-05:002008-04-02T14:56:29.904-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >RAW</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">PARTICULATE LANGUAGE WAGES</span><br /><br />Where were you when we needed you subconscious field richness<br /><br />Bubbly oily rich homology such gesticulating orchestrations<br /><br />Wash us thick with substance<br /><br />Because it can be done par excellence lasting opus<br /><br />Little contrast great emphasis<br /><br />There's sex to be had in the language shimmering large alluvial plains<br /><br />That is why the study of soil covering prelinguistic sites is so interesting<br /><br />Since the beginning of life on earth material corroborates<br /><br />Glaciers are energized moving rivers of ice oozing moraine deposits like mind<br /><br />Dirt and rocks at the edges<br /><br />Time might be said to oscillate elsewhere prairies interspersed with woodlands<br /><br />You can brace yourself against a cave wall for structure<br /><br />Prehistoric men go out hunting<br /><br />Women struggle with the roots<br /><br />It is a great feat that we bred the aurochs<br /><br />The height of the withers of a large domesticated cow is roughly 1.5 meters<br /><br />Convert that to stomach fat couch tuber yam<br /><br />In Jaktorów, Poland the last known live arouchs, a female died in 1627<br /><br />Swedes stole her head in a battle waged with the Poles<br /><br />Studying the dissected brain of the fetal pig we inspire a notion of ourselves<br /><br />We can imagine creatures with mandibles like ours but evolutionarily birds<br /><br />It's been nice knowing you eating everything that breathes<br /><br />I miss you, tribes of the Würm glaciation roaming is a favorite past time of mine<br /><br />Civilization pales in comparison with night<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brenda Iijima</span>'s chapbook, <span style="font-style: italic;">Subsistence Equipment</span> is just out from Faux Press. <span style="font-style: italic;">Animate, Inanimate Aims</span> was recently released by Litmus Press. Forthcoming publications include <span style="font-style: italic;">Rabbit Lesson</span> (Fewer &amp; Further) and <span style="font-style: italic;">If Not Metamorphic</span> (Ahsahta Press). She teaches at Cooper Union and runs Portable Press at <a href="http://yoyolabs.com/">Yo-Yo Labs</a> in Brooklyn.RealPoetikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14919138604759914372noreply@blogger.com