Pearl Pirie’s lists, reviews, interviews, etc. since 2005

people to see, chains to rattle

keloid, deltoids, trapezoids, ovoid, right honorably annoyed, evade, delayed, elude, occlude, slip out, elision, derision, decision, incisive, incise, disguise, guide, divide, easement, lament, encouragement, “dirgement”, DJ, smashup, bicycle collision, the spoke unkindly broke, radial becomes random, broker a deal, provoke, provocative, come on, invoke, invocative, vocal, yokel, heavy yoke, unevenly yoked with a non-believer, roped in, tied up, chuckle, chortle, snigger and yuk, yuck, bound to honor leg and foot, shook off the hook, flipflop, make a splash wriggle glittering as lake ripples, releeeaaaasssssssed.

Paralax

I read thru my nose
my eyes’ll be ruined
like my throat for singing
both sides of a duet
trying as songbirds to throat
2 songs at once

mother’s reproving look a constant screen
gridwork graphpaper to plot in

skipping rope dropped
a tiptoe mince roll to the outer edge
feet finding a small stilt
to destroy my ankles with
as a chaired fidget would mar
the watercolor dream-child

show me a bit of baudy

show me a bit of baudy

for all the strut, where’s the magic touch proof
muscle shirt Cohen verse, kleenexed codpieces
of pity lines, the main thing is what I paid to see
offstage — not the dance,
the full (round, monty, backle)
naked contact with greatness,
with god.
Now unbuckle the clever fripperies of syn-
tax and sense. Flash me your brilliance. Names?
This ain’t no geisha sonnet foreplay. Get me?
Why keep so many good feelings separated
by arbitrary labels — just a quick general thust,
tingle up a circulation bump, grind your goodies
til I sweat, jill off, chill out, move on. pay? (snort)
fade that to the romantic black you need.