The Raining Floor
do genres cooperate?
“Goodbyes” hum
broad
transcript
deities
without truth
but with geography
flown
epistolary
suicide
tactics exist beneath the continent
another inverse nest
decreases memory
strategies like sleeves
or corruption
or calculate acidic failure
of the past
de-void
the pre-face
why loosen the anagram?
Paltry civilian?
How did the typewriter purge accompany the
raining floor
contributions
—a hamnet map returns
the wedded
affair
ceremonial
colour,
& shelter,
collapse
anima talks
numinal
bright,
valuable objects
destroy &
noise
their psyches disrupt at
the fall of gods
tune forth to
the nounal
illness
conspire,
then number all the plates
vicissitudes lead
to the carrion of music
a photograph’s lesson
“I speak through typewriter doorframes”
like a godlike skeleton
shuttered up for centuries
in this peculiar congruence
but, not to worry,
I recognize characters
everyday
I recognize two characters with four lungs
& 36 syllables & 46 interiors
map the images
Hide (in) wounds
I’ve written:
smoke
meditation
Forsake the Third Zone
Mercury is weightless
like bones
like therapy
was
Sacrifice
Wordless vistas
illegible
viruses
desiderata, folds,
mutter
forsake the third zone
fortunate sexuality
& agony—
isolate neighbours,
dreams, & singular beings
isolate my problems of evaporation
isolate the secondary fissure
isolate the whelp snow
its frigidity
an angel’s organs
bespeak in flashes
of anonymous grammar
—more intense dialogues
healthily
complete, then irradiate
gotten bile in the furnace of home,
loveless
extremity
then hope?
her radioactive semantemes—
lung roads,
american Girlfriends
dead soldier
gardens
the agon
whirs
do genres cooperate?
“Goodbyes” hum
broad
transcript
deities
without truth
but with geography
flown
epistolary
suicide
tactics exist beneath the continent
another inverse nest
decreases memory
strategies like sleeves
or corruption
or calculate acidic failure
of the past
de-void
the pre-face
why loosen the anagram?
Paltry civilian?
How did the typewriter purge accompany the
raining floor
contributions
—a hamnet map returns
the wedded
affair
ceremonial
colour,
& shelter,
collapse
anima talks
numinal
bright,
valuable objects
destroy &
noise
their psyches disrupt at
the fall of gods
tune forth to
the nounal
illness
conspire,
then number all the plates
vicissitudes lead
to the carrion of music
a photograph’s lesson
“I speak through typewriter doorframes”
like a godlike skeleton
shuttered up for centuries
in this peculiar congruence
but, not to worry,
I recognize characters
everyday
I recognize two characters with four lungs
& 36 syllables & 46 interiors
map the images
Hide (in) wounds
I’ve written:
smoke
meditation
Forsake the Third Zone
Mercury is weightless
like bones
like therapy
was
Sacrifice
Wordless vistas
illegible
viruses
desiderata, folds,
mutter
forsake the third zone
fortunate sexuality
& agony—
isolate neighbours,
dreams, & singular beings
isolate my problems of evaporation
isolate the secondary fissure
isolate the whelp snow
its frigidity
an angel’s organs
bespeak in flashes
of anonymous grammar
—more intense dialogues
healthily
complete, then irradiate
gotten bile in the furnace of home,
loveless
extremity
then hope?
her radioactive semantemes—
lung roads,
american Girlfriends
dead soldier
gardens
the agon
whirs
Sean Braune’s
first book of philosophy, Language Parasites: Of Phorontology,
appeared in 2017 from Punctum Books. His poetry has appeared in ditch, The
Puritan, Rampike, Poetry is Dead, and elsewhere. He
has two poetry chapbooks out with above/ground press—the vitamins of an
alphabet (2016) and The Cosmos (2018)—and a third
forthcoming called Face Portraits and Author Cops. A chapbook of
his creative writing has appeared from AngelHousePress called Story of
Lilith (2017).