BARBED WIRE: THE LAND ESCAPES

BARBED WIRE: THE LAND ESCAPES
Poem for wire and accordion.



Barbed Wire




We get tangled and pulled undone.
Then an explanation is provided.
Therefore an application. We are an object applied.
It is palpable since it can be enclosed.

A pulp novel lies on a fence. It is
either nothing to roam for shapeless
spots foxing paper colour by sun possession stays
too long or nomad in a thousand paged form.

Therefore it is manual and inmaterial in time
(when the cow began its treck unconsulted of
the constant of grass and water code).

Cattled on the clock so it is
cattle spiral winding cat walk.
Clocked cattle therefore nothing to write home
since hands on a moon fumbled all oval sounds
in the night bellowed mute secret strips.

It is then marked in half so it is folded
clocked in syntax. It is defined and creased.
So characters are posed cowardly tracing hooves
with finger tips printing brackets on tracks. Therefore it is
a photograph trapped in clippings
in a plastic torn bag. It contains dots
clorophila thorned hair stained blonde and
leaves falling mounted in spaces of fabrication within space.

Red district and blue blood and yellow soot
and cartooned joke.
Castration of moves is flesh and leather is fish dyed
prosperous spacious new year remark wound.
Therefore it had to be implemented
so the land escapes redone
paralleled in each forehead lines.



Paper Trapped




Pricked in sectors and segments
the barbed line hugs asymmetrically
from arm to arm bruised methodically
therefore it is mimetically tattooed .

The abandoned who’re the latter rain
fell on a motel railway
ancestral cuneiformed indented drops
read as ransacked news
from a looted Bagdad Museum.

Either hands at both sides claps and meets
pierced inner ear-lob or because they are
ear-rings like a telephone get sound wrapped.

Outside one cannot get in properly or property.
Inside one cannot get out from pressure or prison.
Neither can one come in or come out nor borders
settle castles in the air
so the poem lies on a fence.
Because storylines are a crown of thorns
lines of desire remain over trodden so
a TV cables up all the bodies from
a skyscraper window reflection.



A Path of Desire




Cattle clocked
cattle walk in fashion
fascist devil’s rope
alambre alambre alambre
al ambre al ambre
cannot return home
paperless a citizen in a city reserved land.

The bossom bleeds from thorns with no rose.
Hair grabbed a pause from a thread of a bird rest
wired curly in parts like a nest
gathered rust and wood
either spring gift or unresolved sprig.
In seasons horses amble near pressure point.
How to fence a cow.
How to fence the word soundlessly.

Because it is not removed
the immediate background
is controlled in a wired site.
Remote over empirical animals so
this poem traces out no experience so
the immediate wire therefore wireless
the question that was demoted.

Positions divided
a mere act of cartography that
bounds and unbounds so it is
terra incognita
and makes the position tenuous.
Connecting points a plantation.
A mine the spatial commodity
exploited from distance
procurement to consumption
perimeters are usable resources.

Land alone does not do this for the investor’s colonialist.
It has to be used cultivated, grazed by animals mined and built
each land determining a different ecology.
So it is a different society to
draft animals and enslave humans



Passing Through





The cloud of unknowing
passes by
chosen in love
defined in lust
guarded by iron.
Dream in a sleep facing west.
I can make any cage to order
the piano that never grew played.
I planted some notes between the paper walls
and became a sentence
for you with love
Christmas falls
so it is a shred of snow
that covers the border.



Vagamond Temporarily Lost




In the street grades of definition
because your body contours
burst on the scene till it lasts
too clearly for a while then fumes.
A friend of a friend of mine
looks like someone else
I may have never met
before in the past.
That day to confess on somebody’s behalf is not shyness
but a blanket that enrolls a kind of hidden war.

Learning not to stay inside when you are brought outside
in the provided schools
there are corridors to protect someone from the truth
and give free access
to the games kids do not play.
The desks have sharp angles and white dust
cover their small hands
edges drawn.

There is a war of boredom delimited.
A war of my vision-is-this-as-truth
say it is the path to the future that happened
of the past you are number one say.
Let us forgive and advance
to go where say
not to see the state of the land say
but to go home I have to go back say.
Like that it is no advance because
you have to read the books as you pronounce
the accents on your unspoken troops.
Will you ever go back?

Did some one tell lie? Tell a truth
Al ambre al ambre
Was it you who used to cry out?
Wounded chair and your hips swing
dance into the shadow rock
spilled from a given green bottle.
A bird overcasts in brown the lines
divine between who will live and die
bodies enlightened in discounted light bulbs.
Concrete with no smell.



Text Escapes in Neon




Let me touch your body that leaves digital prints
and errs computer numb for a
part of the poem is red district where you bleed
the panic touch so becomes errant
the barbed wireless smell adds
on your skin
motion is to be prevented
so walls in aspiration breathe.
Being in a place
is something you do
with your body
applying pressure
to the space it has enclosed
the figure is now enclosed
bovine large udders
small bands of humans
control over the cow was easy
mark the land brand the cow
branded early in life
reverted so it is
violence and motion therefore it
is cinematic limial lips lawnlessness
lawlessness and sexagenic
age say sage.




A Stray Dog



Catch him catch the raving fleeing mongrel dog!
When the plains reached the north
barbed wire intruder trespassed
therefore classification will be sure to penetrate the skin
and give pain
barbed tool for the education of cattle.
Fenced in more than fenced out.
Therefore barbed is wire so it is natural now
the pain and the danger that resides in the skin
we have children in stock
ever since the domestication
a mountain range is shifting daily.
Teach the children arithmetic and learn fences
geography of a grimace as a collection
the umbrella ribs the pouring rain
the corset and the cage breast fed in bars
the naked eye and the natural light shimmers sharply
metal tone embarrasses us so it wrinkles
seduced and censored
agrarian exploitation
cattle roam cattle heard in crowds
from nation to citizen
neither the railroads nor land settlement laws
now accelerated the exceeded lines
of demarcation. Mine is your territorial division.
So the enclosure of a frontier is no man’s land
simultaneously vestiges before it disappears in no distance
it is still a malleable body
from clay to mud in
reserved land in
obliterated community’s needs
barbed wire enclosure
because it must be defined
because it must be controlled
because order brings understanding
because enclosure is including
because you must understand why

so it is because therefore explains
ex plains the land escapes.


Now this is a park.
There are many people sitting in deck chairs.
The pond the willow tree and the rowing boats
they are all being watched in the landscape
so they can think away from thoughts.
The manner in you coexist
pattern signifiers shift.
Across the northern border
paraphrased as deterrent
is an early morning scratch.

Trapped an undated photograph
an unidentified newspaper clipping
draws attention to a ceremony.
A far more personal
a far more responsive
a far more distant than cold metal.
You are included but then you are removed.
A delayed landscape ( ).

Debris
fireflies
mermaid scales create bodies
in the wind against directions tingle.
Fire flies again in direct stagnant oppression
where the heart lies
in love with a silent movie star.
The light is brighter in the silence.

What panic touch set the lines
agricultural and military trenches
resistance of the word rosin as it bled time.
Desire brings you here
the river bank and the school of fish
framed moments of instants
at homes on stolen land
settlers deny entry to immigrants
indigenous groups saw
we are all becoming a
dictionary of silences
barbed wireless picture
naked dress see through lies
subtitles occupied by the other.
Obliterated therefore can be integrated
populated across vast distance a homestead act.
Parceled out centuries of body search

vernacular
and it is not
and is it not heard
and unheard? Of either
sordid village
big atrium steals
the sounds of water-proof sirens
as you dream of all the silent movie
stars when you
compose your travels immensely
far.