Poetry by Steve D. Dalachinsky
Conduction 118
(Butch Morris @ Tonic)
the line blurred
the image made obscure
this is relentless irrelevantly seeming
tie between music & blood
fingers flicking like violin string
plucked
the almost spasmodic near-nausea blending
of dare i say unearthly sounds
oh lowly creatures that we are
wretched devisors
tunnel taxed to its maximum
capacity the suddenness of that precise
abrupt light on an unclean watch
the spill as spread across the floor
like the turntable-ist’s scratch
within infant genes
of orchestra
here i put the fabric that
holds me in place
peel the music of its layers
lie within the belly of the crater
tulip’s star black & golden
star created by fantasorganismic erupt
corrupting the purity of oh that’s
Butch up there batoning his arms into oceans
Billy’s eyes awaiting the signal
Christian turning near dulled fingers wiped clean of prints
Sharp printing electric power pages
scouring the very hairs of our souls
skinned Graham’s skinned Simon’s busy reverse
young women in black cloth darting & re-inverting
your indentured crown of swallowed thorns
revealed to as i revel in this
the moment itself axiom cleaned & made clear
at the roots the very fragmented pulsing of
a lost bewildered melody a flickering of heartpump
& here i close uncountable letters
typed onto my biology
residing in the residue of me
plain/thinking being
resident reflection of mankind
residue of calculated risk.
SKYSCRAPER
(Butch Morris @ the Bowery Poetry Club 7/16/02)
set 2 pc. #1
of
kith kin
beneath skin
the amber waves
stretching toward stretching
of
mts of highways of
mts of
bricked up crazy waking evening
cooing warble of ghost
of middle passion
blown thru interior of
body contained in long long line that is a country’s breath
locked down tight frenzy of the skull’s transition
allaholymessomissinglinks apeak & chirpin inta foward
CROWD ME don’tCROWDME
upascape & down another scaling the tipper scales the falling light
a skyhook caught across acoming tongue of stripe-jacketed monumoments
cycling as a solo jaggedz thru a tunnel-o-tunes
tipsy, conductor snoops last stop the night that pass amidst its passage
of pith & spin
& cold flattened metal
oh the headshot
& the long dark march
toward the bottom of the sky
mts of highways of mts of climbers &
jumpers & skiers & droppers &
pushers & ash spangled
breathbones
the song of off-scale sorrow beyond the beauty of sorrow
above the murderous hurtling joys of flesh
scarification of witness to the scrappers
now fell from the mouth of the world
now scraped from the tongue of the world
so let them lie make love & dream atop the straw
the soft soft straw
that only barely saturates their tender skins.
CONDUCTION IS:
insert remove revert divert & move an entrance into:
a trusting blind allegiance / a new kind of freedom / FREEDOM / bridging space
dome of the rock / what’s inside the stone / infusing ideas with passion
po-po-iee-tick-s as the train of music moves CONDUCTION
as the clouds pile thru the speaker logic / wangle mangle tingle / mingle
pulsing portraits & unlimited possibilities / life melodies & solar flexes
weaving charged miles / toward the greater journey / a way to shape / reshape
connect instant graffiti & gratification disconnect reconnect
interlocking & unlocking / immediate social & musical network / FLOW
the flame itself / right down to the bone / sweating glass of daydreams
diverse significant appropriate evening out / serendipitous / charged
moving & textural / evocative challenging conventional & traditional expectation
powerful communicative & emotional a new way in which music is composed & played
resonating / interpretative / forward looking / significant / subversive / submersive
a way to reshape audience expectation
textural / thematic / melodious / dynamic / tonal / repetitive / modulated / gentle
connecting the VAROOOOOMM KAZOOOOM & basic fabric
pulsing harmonic waves / river into sea / sea to endless sea / responsive / fluid
moving toward a greater journey / charged with miles of mobile invisible apparel
crescendo-causing / punctuated / swelling / echoing / divergent / suggestive
rhythmic / thematic / orchestral / syncopated melting bottomless constancy emotive & profound knowing soaring heartbeat / interplay / breath /
explosive inspired frenzy aggressive floating tapestry
“disappearing into concentrated bursts appearing reappearing disappearing.”
buzzing punctuation / punctuation is repeat repeat
smooth combative intuitive astonishing absolute energy aspiring inspiring.
syncopated free structure(d) rising rolling timeless currents of sound
resonant throbbing pulsing emotion
unifying cadences gliding guiding arousing illuminating
suggestive / melodic / allowing swirling patterns / pulling and releasing,
interpretative evocative moving demanding
a means to expand contract compress express
a way of sticking together a receding tide an onslaught of waves
strength of vocabulary applied / spontaneous interpretation of the score / process /
moving through sharp staccatos / subtle incomprehensible magic
the elegance of a solo/ arpeggios / a wash of melodies
keeping the tonal thematic consistency
foundations that support soaring beyond itself gentle currents that stir beneath
then explode in ultimate resonating tonal punches devastating crescendos
surrendering to the challenge there are no illusions left to illuminate & create
sound & motion intertwined varied & self-perpetuating
the river conducted down to the sea / a stream of seen & unseen waves
the sea accepts the river
as the 2 mix & mingle / direct / hands on / alive / naked
as the conductor of a train of thought moves circumstance
as circumstance becomes unhinged by chance & discovery
& the plick-aschwaaaaa & the schwoosh
dome of the rock & what is inside the stone whole & fragmented
unlocking the mind soul spirit heart flesh insides & outsides
transformative & transitional / expansive & extending
hot looming medium finishing with brilliant beginnings. life melodies. breathing.
river into the ocean ocean becoming sky.
