Christine Stewart & David Dowker

congenital avowals

alpha

fig soft
   meaning by tri
      viv/ial
         bit
                emit
         ter per
      haps patter
   grapple
                posits
         deft logic
                        s
      ophic
                balm
 

beata

         lobe

s/core
&cup

shattered
edge

or far large
of lip

         later
light mot
         ive clov
en to pho
         neme
 

gamma

hoax hole—slick by the river in back of it. wet rib.
shell bend—arms out, furious wave—hey!

omit stick—dim flicker far away
or just plain ankle stave—kith and clade allayed—

most post-ballistic . . . nirvana aquifer
inexplicably pentecaustic
 

delta

Pieta
rhetoria

(over al
chemedia)

       lapidary co
       llapse a
       lluvial splurge surf
       eit a
       berration (particip
       ant deco
       herence) contra
       dicts dis
       ses its
       elf an

ti/thetic
 

epsilon

a
kin to
diffusion
ligned to
skew
a raw
part ero
tic ex
cess ellip
tic as
ire & i
(as stressed
or un
less said
(release
the net unto
this word))
 

zeeta

tick demotic
        wird echo
   a lucky grid
of lit & ripple

imp stint flagrant
        diagony
   angle struc(k)t
treble ravel so bolted
 

eeta

repeat

re:mote

at status

that disconsolate
junction sprung
under / recal
citrant
since
cinched
this
 

theeta

thy beloved

interlocutor

thicker than water

only creases sleep

and such shape

as sang like any

this fractured

gesture not merely

flesh structure but

thought ca(u)ll
 

yiota

the I is

urgent
& out
side

precise
sleight of
eidetic

like air
in plum

is a blasted fact

(forgive me)

re-booted

jodhpur slog
begot
 

kappa

tripping kin—right eyeris

like wind like
night a kind of black
hut molecule
in here for(e) there

(more helm than
hem or hawse)

squip quinty
my exert
my mood con
my aqua bushy verve
no cause here
just a rapt
 

lamtha

leaning over you watched sound

staring you read lines' brilliant lickt edge

—our ocean spells pelt

—turbulent mouths run to be fed their continual desires

have entry
full tore
full mark
& crink

to say that was involuntary would be inaccurate

the way a hole shows green
the way music reminds
the way this version beats to the hum of a ventilator

some plummet to come to this (g)rappel
rather brute hoist—latent ph(r)ase installer
with dub coupler and camouflage jargon

—octave cap tongue latch

attendant rheostatic
lapse embolism
implicit rivulet (dis)simulation

this is no more (mere) compulsion
than tumultuous lusts might plunder
her chaste de meanour
 

mee

the emphasis

amid

necessary is
rusted

& typically

soviet

as time (like stairs) is

as long and rigid
as pleasure

roped and

fluted as skin

or radio
    this is as irreversible
              as river
and headland
and cannibal

over mudflat and saltmarsh
whim blown indeterminate

where your dry hair roves the brown unearthly earth
 

nee

them is
not a complete silence
but a depot woven
its arrival
not one single
mental
but genital
unsettling these
extremes need
must accommodate
some transit interval
of all who ever
upon what swollen oath
answered that irrational floor

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cs/djd