THE SLIP

GEORGE TYSH

B L A Z E V O X [ B O O K S ] Buffalo, New York

THE SLIP by George Tysh Copyright 2015 Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey Gatza Cover and interior art by Janet Hamrick First Edition ISBN: 978-1-60964-217-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015937798 BlazeVOX [books] 131 Euclid Ave Kenmore, NY 14217 Editor@blazevox.org

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The Slip sometimes set or whole a quiet fear wears sleeves of death dancers au pair a piano sounding the song we wish to hear "All Mysteries" rumbles in evening air of rain tracing snow trails to which we turn and ringing interrupts the dance

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"the separation of movement from steady rhythm" an embryo from an impresario plowing salting and then no matter "far from breaking up the whole, false continuities are" still there a quiet fear wearing sleeves of death's elegance aprs tout

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2. open palm above the cup emanate waves of oolong peripheral glimpse of wool cap as letters arrive resisting the impulse to move from a state of lesser to greater complexity accidentally a leg posed on this narrow plane of sun we (incomprehend) in the space between words tracing steps

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3. pursuit and capture confinement and restraint the pleasures of the spirit are inexhaustible: to be stolen from a room at night and taken to a faraway land to be held down somewhere what love that has such people if we have it to explain the surprise is "dutiful" as it drifts into further reaches unspoken

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4. quiet rains over nothing and back to solace save the mode water falling on iron hills a dragon sips welcome peace its icon arranged on the bottle a product of a particular malady that thus one may fear the throes of a "moist sweet" muffled by clothes or a distinct teardrop in underbrush a hailstorm through brambles the sighing of a penis in some forgotten hell

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5. what is it of the untried American partner that would lead "at this evening hour" to unseemly delight "I will leave you by yourself white dream," it seemed to say the words were hardly out of place in our murmuring and "shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraithlike apparel it contained" who would believe "now, I thought" these wrappings this incessant rain of longing and stirring

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6. "stepping forth" (an angel on a sidewalk) from clouds the not- yet-scandal of the thing shown its gai savoir of specters in heels thrown into illicit becoming as they undo the "specimen dream"

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7. the top of his head flies off in response to some screams it matters not that she inflates a divan with every breath their storm widens across the tranquil earth the heart throbs before the screen goes dark under formal eaves a fan turns slowly to bubbling brooks of laughter what is it that she now knows more? "or perhaps she rules through the beauty you sometimes mention" at night

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8. abstraction soaked in vinegar 23 seconds smoking weeds of an illusion rising with the sun in showers there is no doubt and floods the heart

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9. "sophisticated women" brush unthinkable hair and stare wildly at calamity as if playing with moss "illusions are more common than changes in fortune" says the lady who "would stop you as you went by" and "continue painting after the end of painting" pink lips and toes

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Nothing by You strange brew smoky surface and mahogany depths your love-lone-liness after midnight to hear it in my sleep "We move with ease from one to the other" nothing by you omitted without discomfort that aerosol in the face of thought (precisely what occasions) a persistent odor of whatever you like between women this our doing as night falls into night out of sleep (gender, femmes, "race," etc.)

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building casts a partial shadow there are cars and sun evidence of ignorance hooks in stays a voice in darkness calling id to idiot wanter to wanker to my place at the farther wall (modr) noble sentimental supple elemental practiced joy "Along the way our lives... repeatedly changed"