Monthly Archives: June 2015

Jeff Harrison

Thorns In Young Faces

gumshoe hover plain knows
plain knows? dead. sea…
Kukla, frantic, frantic, knows
Kukla knows? dead. sea. right knows?
earnest tribal right knows!
Ah, each and till since river…
thorns in young faces…
sea lovers down deep Oh weep
strep half tones, weep all
animated space… dead. sea…
where queen bee summons

in answer to the words “gumshoe hover plain”
we (royal We, queen bee) get variously

1. destruction

2. purple

3. hound

4. power

5. (and, again) destruction

then I (royal no longer) reversed the word order –
“plain hover gumshoe”, with the following results

1. for “destruction” I got “hound”

2. purple = expanse

3. hypnosis = death

4. power = tale

5. destruction = hound

to the words “Kukla, frantic, frantic”
we (me & the queen bee) got

1. blue

2. thought

3. bird

4. porous

5. blue

from the fact “earnest tribal right” = “mud”
and “strep half tones” = “fellow night”
and from the fact “mud” elicits the word “yellow”
and later “light”
“fellow night” is answerable by “blood”

Ah, each and till since river…
thorns in young faces…

Mark Young

an interloper note on some earlier six-liners

So

they do not
flow

nor are they meant to

rocks in a river

wat-
er

moves



The Menciad


Human nature is thick-

skinned & fleshy

but escapes predation

by taking on a

concave shape &

matching the

environment. Blocks

of information are

turned into collage or

collagen, flying cranes

unfold themselves

into the sheets of paper

they once were. Is

essentially chameleon,

but needs to be left to

learn how to conduct its

own orchestra. Other-

wise, seduced by

seduction, there will

come a point, just be-

fore the trumpets enter,

when potential captain

changes into cabin boy.