EMILY SKILLINGS ~

Girls Online






The first line is a row of girls,

twenty-five of them, almost

a painting, shoulders overlapping,

angled slightly towards you.

One says: I'm myself here.

The others shudder and laugh

through the ribbon core that strings

them. They make a tone tighter

by drummingon their thighs and

opening their mouths. The girls

are cells. The girls are a fence,

a fibrous network. One by one

they describe their grievances.

Large hot malfunctioning

machines lie obediently at their sides.

Their shirts are various shades

of ease in the surrounding air,

which is littered with small cuts.

One will choose you, press you

into the ground. You may never

recover. The second-to-last line

has a fold in it. The last line is

the steady pour of their names.



_______________

Emily Skillings
Fort Not
The Song Cave
2017

AN ELECTRIC STORM (WHITE NOISE) ~

YOU BETTER HIDE (YELLO) ~

Love to Bob, August 5

Love to Bob on his birthday from Sweetheart !

💕💕💕

BOB ARNOLD, "HANDS" (ARCHIVE) ~

ANN LAUTERBACH ~

Nominal






Through the bare branch, a flutter.

I thought a flag was an immense wing.

Sky sliced through with long clouds.

The city is an avalanche; all torn down.

I have a bridge in mind; a river.

River, clouds, sky, wing, branch.

Flag. City. Avalanche. Bridge. Mind.




_____________________

Ann Lauterbach
Spell
Penguin Poets
2018

D.A. PENNEBAKER ~

[ 1925 - 2019 ]

D.A. PENNEBAKER

IANNIS XENAKIS ~

SILVER APPLES OF THE MOON ~

PLUMB LINE ~

MEDIEVAL WOOD RIVING ~

TRUE CRIME ~

One of the better books on the map line of a criminal family.
Published before The Mueller Report.
The author's next book, aligned with this one,
will be ~ 

published August 12, 2019

THE DROWNED WORLD ~ (BALLARD)

R E A D     M E

Liveright  

2012

BOB ARNOLD, " FOR SUSAN " (ARCHIVE) ~

for Susan

Happy Birthday!

WOODSHED 7 ~

( joplin, house

as I pass thru)

bob

WOODSHED 6 ~

( get to the tool room

— grab the handle)

bob

WOODSHED 5 ~

( whispered to me as I passed

thru the woodshed into the tool room

bob)

RUTGER HAUER ~

R U T G E R      H A U E R

1944 ~ 2019, Netherlands

At the Sundance film festival in 2013

Photograph: Victoria Will/Invision/AP

GERTRUDE BENHAM (CLIMBER) ~

G E R T R U D E     B E N H A M

WOODSHED 4 ~

( in the woodshed )

bob

WOODSHED 3 ~

( passing through the woodshed )

bob

WOODSHED 2 ~

( on the woodshed wall )

bob

FAREWELL, PAUL KRASSNER ~

P A U L     K R A S S N E R

1932 ~ 2019

WOODSHED 1 ~

I'm posting a week of photographs taken in early spring 2019

as I pass through our woodshed and into my tool room to

fetch hammer, draw knife, axe, saws, level etc.,

since there is another woods cottage to build

and I'll build it over the 

spring, summer, fall

on stone

in fact very close to the stone hut

I built in 1985 —

I just may have more to say as I build over those months

but for now when I walk through the big woodshed

and into my tool room

these are photographs and drawings

showing up on the walls after the wood has been burned.

photograph by bob arnold

april late 2019

ARCHIVE — BRIAN DILLON ~

Penguin

Ireland

2005

R E A D       M E

THIS SPORTING LIFE ~

AMERICAN PRIMITIVE ~

ZORA AND LANGSTON ~

L I S T E N

"I'M THE ONE " (Annette Peacock) ~

BRAZENHEAD BOOKS ~

THE NEW YORKER PRESENTS: BRAZENHEAD C'EST MOI from wonderful6,inc. on Vimeo.

M I C H A E L   S E I D E N B E R G