olvido poems by John M. Bennett

olvido del punto final

.jaw  .ton  .lop  .mrate  .fell

.blit  .shell  .apt  .toad  .nort

.chow  .sog  .flap  .chase tore

.blangk  .flab sort chain  .cheese

.dream the lang fog  .sweats

.ring time with sodden loot

.file  .rain knot half business

stumbler note  .bull  .feel sat

behind shapeless politician rots noose

.drum  .leak fold meat cloud

nods and flakes a  .coughing

.dime muscled tooth yr tongue

stuck in sweet blood  .slathered

.reached the fog watch ladder

rusting in weeds below the

.tower  .the tower  .the towerrr

...peluquería...

- Catulo

olvido del volante

nod ,focus at the dog hole lint ,luz

,morcilla ,nubes antelúdicas ,el

tornillo de tu pierna izquierda la

tuerca de la derecha / / half bark\\

wheezing on the roof your soaking

shadow dries  .the  .leaning air

,bulemia sin matices el viento

,,,dunes dragged across the

desert,,,  that wad of nostril

fuzz scraped the shape of

earth the dripping sea the

whistling corn ay cubo de as

pirinas en llamas donde se

empieza el tiempo ,bi-idílico

,chortled ,swearing and sw

eating beneath the blistered

wall | my troubled neck be

gins my doubled neneck mmy

...knifeedged disk...

- John M. Bennett

  

 Olvido de Byron

         “For in it lurks...”,

         Lord Byron, The Giaour, 1813

nod focused lint on cliff he

belts the scorned bloody hand

the truly apeish smell invisible

to all but him scurrilous nape

dancing with lice’s grave flash

of’s unearthly wave’s my

ass pyration cornered in the

much of times the glancer f

lopping in my trousers ah

nameless spell  !the gazer

slept unspeakable and claims

the bird the sock puppet

met alone ,your pale lip

blister ghastly quivers

!yr swallowed birth dou

bles in that spitting doom

yr dribbling features vulgar

in the wading gloom

¡Quítate los lentes!

- Ramón López Velarde

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John M. Bennett appears in AlteredScale.com 2 and will appear in AlteredScale.com 3, coming out this spring.

John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press), CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL (Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed)), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods), BACKWORDS (Blue Lion Books), NOS (Redfox Press), D RAIN B LOOM (with Scott Helmes; xPress(ed)), CHANGDENTS (Offerta Speciale), L ENTES (Blue Lion Books), NOS (Redfoxpress), SPITTING DDREAMS (Blue Lion Books), ONDA (with Tom Cassidy; Luna Bisonte Prods), 30 DIALOGOS SONOROS (with Martín Gubbins; Luna Bisonte Prods), BANGING THE STONE (WITH Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods), FASTER NIH (Luna Bisonte Prods); RREVES (Editions du Silence); NEOLIPIC (Argotist); LAS CABEZAS MAYAS/MAYA HEADS (Luna Bisonte Prods); BALAM MALAB (Logan Elm Press); LA VISTA GANCHA (Luna Bisonte Prods); THE SOCK SACK/UNFINISHED FICTIONS/MORE INSERTS (with Richard Kostelanetz; Luna Bisonte Prods); T ICK TICK TIC K (Chalked Editions and White Sky Books); THIS IS VISUAL POETRY (This is Visual Poetry); EL HUMO LETRADO: POESÍA EN ESPAÑOL (Chalk Editions; 2nd ed. White Sky Books); ZABOD (Tonerworks); TEXTIS GLOBBOLALICUS (3 vols.; mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press); NITLATOA (Luna Bisonte Prods); OHIO GRIMES AND MISTED MEANIES (with Ben Bennett, Bob Marsh, Jack Wright; Edgetone Records); SUMO MI TOSIS (White Sky Books); CORRESPONDENCE 1979-1983 (with Davi Det Hompson; Luna Bisonte Prods); THE GNAT’S WINDOW (Luna Bisonte Prods); DRILLING FOR SUIT MYSTERY (with Matthew T. Stolte; Luna Bisonte Prods); OBJECT OBJET (with Nicolas Carras; Luna Bisonte Prods); CARAARAC & EL TÍTULO INVISIBLE (Luna Bisonte Prods); LIBER X (Luna Bisonte Prods; CUITLACOCHTLI (Xexoxial Editions); and BLOCK (Luna Bisonte Prods). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature. LUNA BISONTE PRODS, 137 Leland Ave., Columbus, OH 43214 USA. Phone: 614-846-4126, bennett.23@osu.edu, bennettjohnm@gmail.com

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