Volt face
by Alex Houen
[ poetry - june 05 ]
Boot connection pieces together charges many in a sense.
Skin wave on wave in chair bolt-upright then await leads from
following. Place in crypt or living room made to appear with you
in mind. There you are, then, figure against off-white background,
flagging eyes. In sum, happen to be there spread clear as sheets on table
to stick to speech index fingers webbing w/ gum Arabic a tremble. Still,
as stock frozen in express fashion, a dire stasis shores off your eyes.
Loading up focus one eye a cartoon bomb fizzing in snow,
the other soon to be crater. Will head-pieces mouth-pieces plugs in ears serve
to follow leads. Uniform reports that she has been taken by several branches.
Close-up now head breaks pixel blocks in kind tectonic horse mouth,
place in bits between us. Falling back in place face comes again to clear
grounds
of action. As flag ups the old scores, yup, will she be sure to flap around
some greased poll. Following suit, lightning bolts to get it in the neck.
Smell shit metal forms in passing. Scan indices.
Her throat now clearing a message to occupy escapes her very words,
bares testament to at least four nervous movements.
Flesh out of scripts jerk her head left right left right left...
manoeuvre somewhere between reading and refuse.
Now clockwork the running mouth falls in place of face.
Screen blossoms a blue-green mint conditional then image stalls again.
After resolution, cut to cockpit shot with market people fighting over what appears
to be frozen meat. Distant mountain clouds voice-over, then its back to you.
Now voice cuts to airborne crackle heads off purchase on orders of chump.
Reading between the various drafts / cables of ground-up action,
it naturally follows the effects to drift as snow.
Leads then will jump up to follow suit, prime a time.
But first the offer of a capital point-blank confession for us, neck bolt-
upright, voice a little hoarse to bullet points.
As it spills out of her a blue metallic haze whirs taking leave of senses.
In sum: Anywire limtied is test of interest/
Utopain must be withness in vein/
Mainline fecal syllabubble to mobule/
Scrap litterval to depulpulate/
Acutalise cinenematic collabortion/
A wash with solvent seepch to develope finish/
That will do for drift. Now close-up face down to light under table one knee
pistons up and down. Jig jig jig the screen to start scrambles dancing
table issues terminal gains. Feel now a little kick inside her watch her pulse intone.
Sweat traces face makes up flat genesis in blocks without foundation.
Watch face lifted up to light shines down now makes its sockets soft
black holes. Clearly the confession done for us more than she could gnaw on.
Face up to prime time in caves transmission blocks the lip sync. As her expression
boils down to last bare bones, blue haze takes on air free-floating helmet.
Now cut to what saw voice all over. Feel a stream flip out a flurry to lift off,
Since the words you said,
holding
sheets,
rendered one of my tender points
between
us.
Leaving a taste
utter
barrage in my mouth
hovering sidereal
blue-
green light.
Reclaimed
land fills
its visor, spills out
to
glance blows.
So coming to land
near
you, a setting
of fresh heads to bring home.
