Steve Dalachinsky



door suite (for M.G.)


door 1


a door opens
is an airy space of wooden legs
invitation to sitting & dining
the possibility of indigestion & discussion
of furni-
ture


door 2

perhaps
door
perceives its
own
agressive nature
closes it
self to
us


door 3

door
knobs
i nod not
like asleep
but as a
yes
turn & o
pen
like hand
writing
changed
a
field





door 4

we enter
door
split
from violence
the room
crowded veils
a film en
velopes
eyes
the shark
orders
more
f
o
o
d


door 5

day is
air connecting
dots
(do not hold the doors)
is smooth dream
job

glish is
night

do you ever dot your
eyes
before you
look?


door 6

a.
boarded
X
train
to night to
view your collection
medio tiempo
at the center of how- to- please
tiempo completo
the law still questioning itself
trabajo.......alert?
at the median of howstoautoplease
evacuated meself from this
emergency
emerged informed but still un-
knowing
bound
delayed between this door
& the other

b. for m.g.
longer stronger
& lost
time is changing
all the time
shadow on impassable door
opening itself within
the light
within the artificial light
an
X on auto alert
this cold/spread handling us like
a game of hard scrabble
within the house i live
                M
   on       a  &Nbsp  huge cube
            Missing    M

a window is sometimes a way out.


door 7

"people come & go
close the door

i just don't long
any
more"





DREAM BOOK

 

1.
smeared  in numbers
3 figures
                       6
                    7     4
combo                     diablo
devine   winner
taken                    under

elk denote marriage  embalmed
serious suicide
an unexpected event        brings good news
a happy but solitary life
white swan
disordered.


2. house
a.

it was
that i thought was never
there

river takes house                                             b.     but…….   
                                                                                              big house by sea
somewhere in the                                                       storm comes   erosion
midwest                                                                i scream  (she does very loud )
flat                                                                             but calms – relief -
                                                                                      it is not my house my life
06497 -  111 46                                                                   that will be washed away

a space off of a space
where i felt
safe

of covered wagons


3. creature dream sans creature
   

      crossssshatchedsleeperinterrupted
      by a lagoon of edges        &
      polarities
                         /  maplike indulgences
             of                            elements

       (     land   /     water     /     air  
               empty    >  mass   < flow

       treeshaped arrows & buddha-johns
             cross(-)circuiting     creating       typos        


4. creature dream minus the dreamer

      at 126th Carmeela enters the bodega
      asks what her name is
      2 men approach her w/a 40 in their hands
      speaking dots   -     she joins  them
@#$%&*#@$   como se llama ??????
      ?????como me llama  ????   
     
            the mass become empty
              the emptiness  mass
 both become    finger prints 
     ))))))))((((((((a language    all their own  
                                             a pretext for signing 
    sounding singing  speaking   writing   creating
                    typos    --  me/se llama   CARMEELA.
               

tilling the air  (eating  dream)

articulate complaints
de party  insults
re: leaf

tables alarm edibles
edible muted sleep   (others)
exhaust (fumes) open
multitudes din  smoking lobby
separate race flounders

desisn   <0> 1 (9) 2 other      repeating count –
habit   various shells squeezed young herbal gloss
hard-of-seeing sour scowl  while missed appetite

brook goes strangely adlib unfamiliar
yrarbil – frequent stranger debunked

away print
smharb unique textiles     text  styles  
tiled mosaic against grave  seriopus pen
appalling  thief transpires rickety 
br(other)
m(other)  -   appear  weak   week   collection
glared   hard furious 

uncover   =   take  off
recover    =   put    on

bathe   re frain be   tray  s(tale) late  e  mit
flush precise stub toward unnatural death
within the parent mill
vile nt          e labor   ate    emit time
immerse weight
scowl sour
scowl sour

curly cropped  miden
bathing born astonished
munching feline stew
g(r)aze greys   grZE  grays

confused   lost  scuttled
curly cropped denim
immersed weight mined   
wet
up hold story
upholstery  sheets choice     alc  dov tis
shower
elom        elom     articulate and mol(e)ded
peril   formed too late   u tu late

born astonished.

                nyc  10/12-13/04  partial scramble lynne tillman reading at bklyn public library  decoded  at home


soaring thru tin


her bet by sel (b)  (f)

click 
click                          passed           imprint
           \                                           imprint
              (b)land                              
                                                       precisely
looks           in  e  radicable            precise
looks
                       click
                       click
perish 
parish  pew pyou pee-u    podium mike enclosing speaker    nibuo cigam

emit
emit
omit                    wager strip nickel down snarl

money
money
money                        honest
                                   honest                                      g(amble)    flush
                                                                                                      flush
       magic  wept               yavoni    yavoni     lace

honest    flush   pro snart 
honest    flush           marker  marker      hum drum  

music/art
settle
unsettling  pag            pro    test

wager strip sprayed

cling
cling
                      mur nosbig  clave  clave   insectuous grope
select   
select

ants
          
          nyc  g.sorrentino reading at ny public library re-scramble  10/12-13/04


5. bird dream 


652

timbre of  doow
long shadows
bad weather
so afraid
the red speckled bird
downing
it is raining lightly
i am shooting a rabbit

feed that bites the hand
atroph inbelment w(one)
excuse be perferated 
prefer to eat the foot for luck
tin whilt good temper ate meant
in all things 

Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His most recent books are Fools Gold (2014 feral press), a superintendent's eyes (revised and expanded 2013 - unbearable/ autonomedia) and flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schcmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015). His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). He is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres.
 
 
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