Joanne Olivieri shoots

John D Robinson writes

A DOORS TRIBUTE
 

'I want to get my kicks

before the whole shithouse

goes up in flames’

he told me feeling

clever and posing and

pouting:

‘I don’t think Morrison

got his kicks, heroin or

heart attack in a Paris

bath-tub and the world

isn’t engulfed in fire

and maybe you’ll get

closer than

James Douglas

ever did but no one

here gets out alive,

kicks or no kicks’

I told him:

he looked away,

‘This is the end’

he sang and I

couldn’t deny him

that.

Jim Morrison and the Doors Live Concert in the Street -- Fabrizio Cassetta

Daipayan Nair writes

Dual Hazards

Death on its toes, the few hairs on my armpit
First cuddle of smell or brushing against a recoiling wind
Rohingya! Rohingya! watch for the bloody hound
ISIS, doubly present, will get breasts round

Armpits, stretched and open, high in the air
Either a pact with terrorists for the orgasmic centre
Or I shall free hundreds of lovers, except the mentor
In Paris, I too hug and kiss, how does my smell sound 

Grab her nipples at my place and it's geo-politics
I made God stoned long ago, his blessing, now a rotten armpit 

Refined shit, when on God sculptures lies a raped clit
Often the world of fucks suggests the seat
See that human gun, its sexual son, aren't worse than Cow meat
Ending on a plate; my smoked pyre, gesture with closed armpit.

 Armpit -- Ellen Altfest

Duane Vorhees writes

Either Alzheimer's or the Lightning Bolt

Whizzdizzyingly
cruising The Moment,
arrowing past all awareness:
highway,enginewhiine,steeringwheeltrafficWorldsmudginnnnngg past
while we, preoccupied, reprise Creation,
absorb Eternity and Logos, Eden/Gethsemane, Genesis-Apocalypse
and the Night the Night,

the private bleeding into the general,
and Ouruniverse proxying for ego. 
Glorious cosmic fusion in an infinite minute.

             (or so it briefly eternally seems in our infinitiny microverse)

The ends of love
are but two

:your V8 plunges from the surface
and, crucified like a butterfly in time,
helpless consciousness heightened,
you hover in slowmotion witness
to the juggernaut earth’s decay
just as your metal-again grille
begins to embrace solidity

or: doomed foresight eludes
as you rearend that lightless
semi-

CONTENTS for Duane Vorhees

                                   GOD RUNS THROUGH ALL THESE ROOMS

                                                BOOK A: THE ENDS OF LOVE


    PROLOGUE
Either Alzheimer's or the Lightning Blast


    BETH

Another Spring Night in Farmersville, Ohio * Ah! Nights * Francis Drake * My Fingers * Without You Beth / My Life

    JENNY

Jennifer in Two Voices * "Mushrooming" * sAVAnnA * Atoll * Montana Motel * Queen of Denial * For Love * The Beast * Her Name is Jenny and Many a Morn has Worn her Face

   YEOBO

Still Strangers (Prologue) * volcano * Solstices * this is how . it all begins * A Poem with a Title Near the End * Yes, But Where Are the Wheels? * Don't Get Me Wrong * Take Me In * A Poem and After 70 Years a Reply * Contretemps * Busses and Crosses * Leap Frog * Evidence for the Mutational Codependence of Time * What Wanton * Dowser * Once, Once * Trad * WORD * That Y in Miser Is Me: A Melodrama * Peace Meal * Eros in Erosion (Epilogue)

   &u&

Hawked and Doves * Conquering Love * Loves I Bear to You * High Coup * (And) Purple: Prose * In Solitary * In Your Way * And, Do You Still Go by Beatrice? * Lillian the Ocean and the Isle of Palms * Confessions * Van/ity * Just Stupid, I Guess -- or Blind -- or Inattentive -- or... * Mary * Lepidoptourists * The Engagement * By Invitation Only * Don't Interrupt * Ley Line * First Night in Thailand * Liquid *A Feminophile's Plea * My Life in Tornado Alley * O Former-Lovers * Her Barbwire Lips: :Her Waterfall Eyes * Flight of Fantasy * Inanimate Enamorata * Antikarmic * Ergonomics * French Kiss, 1789 * In Order to Form A More Perfect Union * Gloved * Simple Math

   GRACE 

Soul's Advice * Gracelessly Waiting * Dirty Blues * Reporting for Duty * Dear Departure * She came draped in birdsong * Regrets

   O, DARK LADY

Reverse Metamorphosis * Enlightenment * In an On-One (self-portrait, unfinished for now) * Nyun * La Srever S’efil * The Dance: Nancy

   SALLY

In My Defense  * And Just When I Thought the Earth was Turning Cold * Nocturne (a duet) * Sally * Apple Blues * We Within the Wheels: Dalit * Whispers

   AND SIRINYA, AT LAST 

No Crosswise Stripes * Between Two Suns * Doubt and Reassurance * Cake's Consumed, Candles Extinguished, Balloons Popped or Deflated 

 EPILOGUE

There Are Two Sorts of Zebras in This World


                                         INTERLUDE:  My Life Was Mapped Out for Me

  

                                                         BOOK B: BROKEN CHINA

Three by Li Bai * Passion for Life (after Wang Guozhen) * Paintings (after Wan Wei) * Homesickness (after Yu Guangzhong) * Qingyuan, Lantern Festival (after Xin Qiji) * Inlaid Harp (after Li Shangyin) * Flowering Tree (after Xi Murong) *  Yearning (after Wang Guozhen) * Cambridge, Goodbye Again (after Yu Guangzhang) *River Snow (after Liu Zongyuan) * Passing Anren by Road (after Yang Wanli)

                                                                 BOOK C: GIFT

Gift * The History of Our Art, Illustrated: From Madonna and Child to Mud on a Windshield *

“in the 7th day”

Kingston: 8 Days! 7 Nights! * Escher's Sharks * Newman * The Attic Language * Around 5800 South on Ellis

“flaming sword slicing up the sky”
 

Bush Babies: I. Responsible Parties * II. 49th Isonzo * III. Iraq/Katrina Collidoscope * IV. Locks & Boxes * V. I Ask Us * VI. Swastikas? Where? Which Ones? * VII. Rootedness * Choice

“humankind was witness”

Eye Job. Nose Jobs. And Red Crosses * Buckeye Boys * Status Caste * Slumber, O Slum! * In Munster * Deign Not to Name * On Reading Lawrence O'Donnell in the Age of Trump * Airy Poppings * Declaration Manifesto Palimpsest

"skeptical descendants”

 
Another Noel * Damascus 

                                                             BOOK D: HEAVEN

Poems by Yun Dongju

[12 December 1934] One Candle * Life and Death * No Tomorrow
[18 January 1935] On the Street
[1935] A Daydream * Southern Sky
[20 October 1935] Blue Sky
[December 1935] Clamshell
[6 January 1936] Home * Chicks
[early 1936] The Map of the Bed Wetter *  Rooftile Couple
[10 February 1936] Doves
[20 March 1936] Parting * Meal Ticket
[24 March 1936] At Peony Peak
[25 March 1936] Twilight * Chest