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I wrote Some Appearances in 1977. It comprises 450+ one-line poems presented as a single text. The work didn’t appear between covers until 1987, when Jimmy’s House of Knowledge brought a small edition. It’s an odd work, but for some reason it’s remained one of my favorites. I like reading it this way. Hope you do too.
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Some Appearances
Tom Mandel
Animals you got great cages
here
Storm fits the thinker’s hollows
To whistle an ode his voice
smears
Winter go dark in the last strut
That often wrapped a
cable or a wall
where are here are bars of arm
To strum bliss on the hill of
magnets
Car don’t nod bob at night
Recalled
matters right to left on
The ecstatic
walk with your hand
Mr. passport is left too right on
In the deepened square
shoulders twilight
Cut up the ho-
hum markers of speech
Corrections take off on concrete
Held up (in good stead)
before the time-honored forum
you two have
got to make up your minds
for once silent
motionless verbs
Winter drain of bulb into the
dark
Happiness to scratch at any
lethal part
Forward-leaning edgy distracted
Shadow walls the resound
Won’t impose a ··
Cannot the while we being
friends
Large flat feeling worm asleep in an
essay
Don’t fool around brows
lips syllabic slab
A window rides riddle in my
thought
Eye opens that spot behind a
door
Soup spills on a careless reader
Still coffee with
lemon back
To have happy black
possessions
Who comes in for a little hate of a morning
To know who lives with her
and how
Green face relaxing
At last
thoughtful signs advance
Certain images are rent from the creator
Slows quarters of stylized lie
Contraction of impression into counter-action
Someone to prop the artist’s
living up
De Retz calls the corralled aristocrats
Ask of this is damned blue
youth
The little stick suspending
center
Some sign of fluency to his
wish
More accurately sounds of cars
crossing
Four-legged stride piano a
Disney exclusive
He wished he saw more of letter r period
Bloom in a
sequence of tents
How many little masters front to
back
Point that aggressive
imagine
Sadness mated to three-fld contents
To enter to hold with you to be
here
Leaves just enough room I
think
Fundamental dishes do get
done
Black satin vinyl covers closing
notebook
everyone seems to know each other Ok
all right
Can’t stop reading ‘em
Thinking better makes a law
Stepping here pleases them
shoes
Christmas is upholstery
Torque onto the
mountain highway
Nominative thought the hand king of
Nude hopes for
much
Fight stays in canned banker
Various
spelunker silhouettes
A restless kind of dismal spunky
snowshoe
Precise shifter of dawn so forth
The Duke
descends to stroke the knuckler
Musical pitch signifying
parental cello
Pleasant bites of staircase salt
Each visit
marked a prone delivery of dusk
Soot the job carried into a crevice of the
sill
Dense weightless
swallow of oily cofffee
That part is on
the porch
Perhaps best to think her
variation what of
No slicks greet solicitous chins
pats bars
Heartbeat at Lp end
A brown embroidered
bag of our uses
Chain stems stamped gears tubing paint and
PVC
Divided means one guesses to any good effect
Author of a mild loom of
scratches
Exclusion from his kindly
pumping bubble registers
Crypto stacked
returns a magneto sum of
maps
Certain silhouette of the journal moment
To have read his deskful of
desires
Involved behalf healthy little
bones of hand
Slaying trot down the hall
deserve
Pleasure to the active interest of
a time
How all three get in your eyes or calories in a
pot
O noble little greenish book
Concur few
things a skeptic consonant
Yet a person
who’s definitely dying
To have dilated the beer case
An aphorism staggers to its
feet
Along the leading seam may that story
Rising he shall
be thin and loud
Just says goodbye and
means it
Disturbed authority
gripping the door
Long walks on the gray rug
Final words of decisive finality
the fade
Protect out entry to speak what we will
A souvenir
that’s sure to please
someone
Cans of the lab strewn on the
lawn
Habit abates slants pathetic
illustration
Continual street hiss flags
Rim ellipse bordered
parabola circles the edge
Not so extreme
a crater as intelligence
walks
Resumed the black street
crowded among buildings
Resisted bays and systems hunger piping
Will you be
indoors with me
Odd birds in giant lineup
Squeezed
interrogation smarts
Soft blue haze
of light changing behind a shade
Black beyond burden horses free their riders
To take his
thankless chin in hand
Don’t become one to know
what one is like
All rested variables
stripped of motion
Whose right hand lifts to speak good
lines
To hear a form or in a form
A body turned out among the
trees
Stand up in word length
That is a book you’re backing
into
The pen hears the mime
Choice let out at seams the
single scene
Narrative art of fate arrival
A weak link in the food chain
Scrape the side the end of a jar
Leave us dig some little rows
Melody
metonymy
Night porch of springtime jive
Ghastly Spanish
omelet belly upon plate
On the little steps bank their
agents
Will you not need this
feather to fly
Assiez-vous à côté de M’sieur
Algren
Parking winds the street in meditation
Little street big
door
Don’t put that one on either
Snow-bound
monster seems amiable
Out of one blue the two
Deep and
sleazy bites of the field
He who came
here for a reason
Who does all this nothing to the furniture
Preferred to
eating chicken
Disjunction order precision
Months of
blanket dust
Likes the sentences way
over there
Just pulled a bit before juts
One blue one
checked maroon
They will collect his papers into
the known
Dreamed a Senate bowl
rolled on wheels
Claque here kind to all
hungry imposters
White on black & on on red
Now say
goodbye again to kisses
Frame sighs
again and shake
Fold-in grace our thinking
faculty misses
Rising to the take
Master of
lessons count in fours
Only pass and move and play
defense
under street light the
boutique glares
Upstairs the object is its audience
The opening entry is
masquerade
To evolve in closing tricky
chicanes
Ronnie Peterson
1944 – 1978
Offer to hand him the wheel in
flames
Isn’t this year much the same
Next to the road
the station drives
Gray shadowed wall dripping recent rains
One virtue in
relief among the five
Enormous
creatures view the civil setting
White shirt and of smile
Two boots at his
wrist
Jam of effect of calm of prey in hand squeezed
shut
Starred numbers on
certain streets
A convenient book
I want a bowl of soup that thinks
Is this fun?
Great dripping paddles
How often does she water them
Visible nostrils of the mock-up
Listen to your
friends this once
This road stripe leads to Chicago
A dejected
swarm of paint
Two tireless hours in the
American light
Of an experience that
founded an industry
And this end comes out of
you
Dioramic sympathies of the balloonist
Dark square restaurant veranda
He likes to know
the date
It’s nice to bank where what
We walked
between pillar and poster
To be led back to it as intention
A line acts out this sentence
Posing over its
same conclusions
Twice more
than twice then twice
Clear colors written dense in
the tracing
I speak of truly beautiful hum
ming
Then point to a similar dish
Relief of the prismatic
diaphragm
These stones the same as
once they were
Shrink and become more
memorable
What a question to ask me
considering
Never change because you are happy as
you are
A free mood of desires
Perhaps for the evening they
are Dante and Odysseus
If one may speak of
instruction from below
Odd frames
(freezing flame) of instruction
Family controls on traffic
Flowered border across the ridge
Weather is pleasant
science too
We part on our way to daily
work
Hear about sporty new
constellations
A thinking man’s home run
motor home
Sure am out here a lot lately
Controls in
chaos
One more programmatic
title to the good
A spider hanged among the cups
Light of day
lights of night
Or anything as such for that
matter
That calls to me to please move
on
Hot blouses white houses
Long weekends of the Chicago
fan
Put away hole punch scissors and notebook
Would that way be it done her
way
Finances of the fountain district
The gardens
bloom on greenback
row
On a list of numbers search
for his
Rotors stators diodes
Put a new hotdog for
headache in the news
Letterhead displaying
public squares
Dr. Too Much and the doubled
trumpets
You don’t have to do what you
cross off the list
Better not run
on and rain and
Answer a question just
before it dates
Satellite through matchstick
blinds
What is vaso-dilatory what is
not
Worn yellow striking surface
on a box
patterns hawked with
your behavior
All your activities on a
single scorecard
Teeth of the typewriter
Form subjects
of single articulation
Wall down dark slivers baited in
the west
Grip and spread
To be about three miles from
the sea
What makes one
Finger clears steamy glass
Memory for
numbers noted
Two are bound as one
Autumn slice of yellow lamplight
To be continued
contained
B’s falling under the wadded
pages
You want to hear something
State rock of
asbestos
Voice from living room
Symmetry
feature and gesture
Happy, this is what I think
Don’t mean a
pronoun
Ovoid and golden
To have a
happy radio that’s real good
If youdon’t want to hear it hang up before he
says it
I don’t know if I want that plant
to live or die
Did something in every room
What he tells her in the fade
the shade
Possibly more relaxed than in
the original
Maybe the cigar in his hand is
just a smoking pencil
No sequence of sounds I am
afraid
This resolve in eloquent dictation
Footnoted
mother and brilliant son in starred park
shower
That gesture bears life and
reading
Do you find it useful to plan
each day
A discipline contrary to
verbal apology
Gray powdery ground
On a lump of folded dollars
Knee deep in
the scout’s role I was
To sit in the
doorway working
Threshold rhythms dipped upon the pylons
Embrace by
shin-high border of the lawn
Departing roar
that person memory of
brickwork more memory of her
‘Sweag’ go scissors to a
recipe
Verse without reward
To know you whole alone
But it’s only a long light soft
Still to be happy because
In 1829-30, in the Winter of a
city year
Low tan building yields my office
To be be to be in this middle
Kierkegaard opinions
One drachma course on no
opinions
You’ve presently does
eat sacrifice
School for gifted couples blocks
my door
Think line of blemish
Green mustang
sleek brown pavement
Cough of driver slamming door
My hair is like your hair
I feel privileged to exploit your
obsession
Balzac cured my fear of
debt
Did you buy that ticket
A class within the ring of lights
Subculture miniatures
Work the fatherland
family
I meet this problem in my
old age
Of the many and getting
there from one
Plenty of good black ink in his
red pen
What but how’s his hut what’s..
Papers in the
crook of his arm
Now here’s one total explanation
The young rich retire to prime
soap
How do I know you’re an
attorney, right
Leering at the night elbow
butted to love
Eclectic wire chained elenchus
Language rash leads to flash in
trash
Shingled layer of books unread
Glazed
distraction of morning
saxophonist
Buried cigarette or suicide by pencil point
“Ist das Denken eine
Erfahrung?”
Kant was asked
We talk the fact of language in a
cure
Friends wish to revive the
present moment
Morose marginalia
Understanding it
all so often leaves one lazy
Clear plastic
triangle hanging on a pin
Underline what’s
underlined for what reason
when
Junk mail from friends
All those
standards will come to meet
you again
From the foot of
the bed a TV image pulls
Polite wooden
prose of a letter from New York
Medium
complete with evening’s blue
drive
I got tired before then once more
One more windy
one please
Places where art displaced
labor
Vouchers folded the city square
To claim a sound for good
or ill
Why so courteous scurrilous
Curious to note
the XIXth century
between his ears
One big sentence every
day
I press harder
He has good parking karma
Ball point pen
writes on ice in igloo
Stuck turns clog sucked to lead
The last I saw will be ball in
mirror
Sometimes whole weeks no
time to
Every sentence spoken by a
judge
Facial composure over
its wash
I read it it's shitty
Right into time and narrative
What are they pointing to
He plants
himself in all her nerves
I liked it for its
reasons
Return now to soccer fields of youth and yore
Fluid from the split
Asleep, I felt her arm move from
beneath my head
Marx's Milton
equals silkworm
Talk myself to me fascination
imaginary
Realize these cars of yours
are robots
She fled that life retaining no more than
its privileges
Cream cigar tube's got a red stamped screw
top
Clear blue auto and other
essays
Why are they yellow pages
Grain long against my side
Stride out from
hip and shoulder
Half-hearted
hitchhiker's soft shoulders
Little old drops
in a smelly room
See reverse for instructions
Fact or quote
Scratched light
in the tilted screen of a
golden ChronBox
Popular pocket-
style corners
Composition or observation or
thought or precept
Those oppose
Someone friend
to forever knows better
Mind that steals
the books
It doesn't happen as does
you hear
Final grazing all then fibers
sleep
Duplicate estrangement familiar object
name
What the sugar level is acid level so forth
Hubbub of dubbing
characters
Past overcome resistance in
context
I wonder who will feel what if
when
Going to a party party
Light wind
through shed slats
Threw upon the horse a look of knowing more
or less
Now what flat yellow box
of slides to drop
Resting in the shade of
your broken arm
Yes send me details of
this special offer
She leans over brings close her
breast
That's all before breakfast bread
Pop the juice who wouldn't
Which begins itself to proffer
Occasionally
forcing me to do
All five are hours or better
were once
Distinction form not structure
Starts part time in three weeks
What has length
to do
Combing pages for a tour
Do send me your thanks
thanks
Distinction length or period
Games with daytime data
For anything this solutions
Webby outline of the mannish creator there
White men in daytime caps of
green
A thought of the size engages it
I tell you what I'm going to do
to do just
Across the street called
Waller
In a second you will look at this
with me
Ok I'm coming up now
Tooth-rimmed
lagoon
Chinese man with impatient
elbows crossing look
Stayed late and left unconvinced
A camel
smokes in the ashtray
Death's flirtatious glance
a dare
Snowman lights and utensil
noises
Bookstore of all attritions
Power of the sun to irritate
left eye
Oklahoma phone book
Butt rounded
black leather of cards
We miss your bright eyes and
your smile
One from Column B
Immortal motors smoke if they're
cold
Particular gray of yellow or is
red
No white scrap today
Step in there carrying your
history
Complaint in an even tone
One must talk apple in mouth
Precondition of
the social process and also its result
How to become depressed and
resentful
Their own appear forced aspects apart
An ancient transition sincerely
Zoom beige
room
There strong format again
One might as well say is as of
the book
Faster than a calculator more
accurate too
Band of pain round back and
ribs
Why he have home to come to see me can
Stab of night bowls rouses
me to the widow
Reckless light and shadow
bad news nervous
First words upside down
read from father's paper
Tremendous
concentration of her sleep
To sunder
falsehood from the true
Realism a real turning breath
Jars keys
paperclip side with method all
Ok thumbs
opposed pose as paws
Turn top back on replace in
Demand charge office
Envelope
outline lined in a name
Curving walls of desk thrown
open on another mess
Simmel remarks
the eye's preponderance
in city life
Bus and church identity
Listen for the line that goes
right here
Parts so that language goes
unperceived
I am taking a little nap now
Ah money in the money in the
Agitated veil of thoughts clouds the downtown
street
Last little stubborn round
trailing
Are about ten between the two
All of us agent
the secret discontent of
friends
Can't discuss the music of
Patient science expanded painting
Here is my handle my
thought and spout
Thankless anklet sssh
The stairs had been carpeted
one by one
We perceive the object riddled with its error
Senseless parallels up and down which we
pad
Now tell me again your
theory one more time