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Poetry collection from Calvin Pennix
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On Reaction
Calvin Pennix
On Reaction
Calvin Pennix
Differentia Press
Santa Maria, CA
On Reaction
Calvin Pennix
Copyright © 2013
All Rights Reserved.
Published by Differentia Press
Book Design by Felino A. Soriano
Cover Art, “boomboom”, courtesy of Calvin Pennix
Except for the sole purpose for use in reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced in any
form, without the written permission from the publisher.
Differentia Press
Santa Maria, CA 93458
Differentia Press Poetic Collections of the │Experimental Spectrum│
differentiapress.com
Thank you to the editors of On Barcelona, New Mystics and Lightning’d Press, where parts
of this collection appear
COMMUNICATED CONFIDENCE
At a loss
one begins in
italics
Additional markings
communicate confidence
in upwards of …
situating a main point
As distracted avoidance
and clearly defined
however
it’s a fragment
How far does blue
A CALL FOR INTERPRETATION
but still there’s a position of acquiring
which is cause for concern of immediacy A call for interpretation produces a finite infinity that stretches to a personal end
Black
Left White
Right
Up
Blue Down
Seven Lenses widen as they shrink
when one steps outside themselves
allowing for the music to be heard
This impatient used to sprout in the spring
A COLLECTION OF LESSER DISTINCTION So as it happens notoriety concedes to hatred Apart from each we speak in monotone allowing wiggle room An expansion is welcome in conversation
o o a watering daylight o o a collection of humanity
Recognition
other than metaphor represents those of lesser distinction who have overcome the struggle
which is a necessity to
o Glow o Flourish o Shine o Grow
Finally a check worth mentioning is prevalent
ABSTAINING FROM FALTERING
Perseverance
as it stands expectantly
as a barrier
that molds and corrodes outside spatial quality divides itself in many directions abstaining from faltering though teeter it may Residue begins to compile
feverishly
giving in to spastic sights seen through perforated vision
LEADING IS ANOTHER MATTER A landing
stuck
leaves no room for interpretation
Who
What When
Where Why
How
Square root
or squared The inverse takes on a following that follows the followers
leading is another matter
An enclosed space
has its fourth wall broken
a gaze produces anxiety
Memorizing a memory changes its definition
REGISTERED AS OPAQUE
Things exist in differing modes of
o stasis o closure o finality
A decent person
waiting to be allowed to breathe reaches for the surface as it continuously appears
This contempt registers its status as opaque
though object leers nearby
VOID THE VISION OF EMPTINESS In the distance
shriveled with age
the purple posits a reckoning
but vows in its stillness to void the vision of emptiness Registered with adornment the landscape expands at a minimal clip and light provides nourishment
while sifting through the gravity With exaggerated amplification
this ornamentation speaks in tones audible
though masked under a differing sense Archived as permanently expandable
is this instant this instant this instant
DISJOINTED BY ITS OWN CONNECTIVITY Down and around
on Barbadanes1 that contributes to the landscape a condition of bluntness
nevertheless a condition The fall preceding the rise presents as necessity disjointedness by its own connectivity We employ a place that has pounded itself into deconstruction Alas we celebrate its openness and present it as variously configurable bits stiffened by a kind of rigor mortis Down and around on Barbadanes
1 the street
not a metaphorical street but an actual street
GUIDES THE RESERVES A collection of stock resists
in varying forms of conflicting grandeur
allowing for instances of seclusion
Demonstrative displays as deterrents
act as barriers withholders of the miniscule
((((bright browns highlighted
with black)))) fostered for such a presentation
The empowered portion
guides the reserves intensifying the delusion
REPURPOSING CONTROLS THE SOUNDS Obtuse accuracy relies on a perspective of change as authors persuade
gathering identities Repurposing controls the sounds as we arrive shortly effecting our own attribution and causing stasis
inching
stasis stasis placing a premium on being a commodity A straightening spiral
opens at a wide angle
access easily attained
PERPENDICULAR TO EVERYTHING To discredit belies an allowance of judgment The sound of night
distorts an aroma’s hue
leaving its nakedness concealed Hands appear pristine pristine only because they are empty
and angled perpendicular to everything
TRANSLATIONS OF INTRICATE SYSTEMS But then again what we call for is sustenance The ability to
o speak o write o think
Is not a given
and comes with a price What do we pay
or withhold to become transparent
within ideals We hold these truths
I often wonder
World peace We employ a stance
that mirrors others but yet deviate to make it our own
There was once a place that we held dear it has been torn apart by what we hold dear Varying forms
serve as translations
of the most intricate systems in a bouquet
that holds its silence
amongst ceremonial opposition
EXISTING IN READINESS Deferral against participation
elides a knowing
slowed by casual connectiveness empowered by consumption
Absolutes speak no equal resist categorizing
elitists in logic
Figures being unified amongst a background of figures
Some readiness exists
digresses in a mass of digressions
but not before a slow dance
a rhythm prone to deter filtering a domain in the last possible seconds and we stand and oblige the lack of topical relation extending through a scope
disclosed as historical
AN INNATE VICARIOUSNESS
In correspondence to the lowest plane of mental capacity we go down
around 11
give or take
An episode of waking life
Man
Tree
Tree
Man
Inertia is built through lack of action
an innate vicariousness on display
though missed in sight
A narcissistic mimicry carries a hint of truth
realness
that belies perception
and allows for interpretation simulating an appearance of submission
We exert a compulsion of bowing to necessity
then vow to defeat it
DIMENSIONS OF EXTENSION Undocumented resources
downgrade somewhere between this and that
looming
in hopes of waiting for
ascension amongst unrehearsed chemicals
Domain: {humans} Range: {culture}
A dimension of extension
allows for one of time Put up against oneself
there’s a retreating The trick of being alive is something about having an outside which can be witnessed and an inside that can’t
Though they vary in size
one tends to walk in circles
STRUCTURED W/ POTENTIAL A chance [word]
upon paper
may destroy [the world] as a window [ ]
also acts as a wall |
||
as consequence
it becomes impenetrable
A sour stench seeps through a loss
o innocence
o time
o capacity
portrayed as inductive
posits procrastination […]
structured with potential