Unlikely 2.0


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Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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Three Poems by Steve Dalachinsky

stories /// sons d'sons (Cecil Taylor - Tony Oxley Duo at the Village Vanguard 7/16-20/08)

1.
stitched per tour
first ran over her reason
mistakes made / prelude's faun
faux miles dubbed you see

2.
yarn blooms alien distaste
& murder shall be forgotten
& mornings overlapp(s)ed
keeping living sense
undoubted
& richly rewarding
the FALL

3.
        we are faced / defaced
looking into the actions of usurers
        we are listening /listed
not listless tho at times one needs
more with than as tentative aftersound
   & when gotten tis a blissful thing
   & n'er ways asways sons de sons
     (chansons — chance songs)
pale grinning lights & postures
          & just can't help those things
              the sting of many little unseen symbols
   the sea being awash in them!

              & here & there the serious list'ner
                             can only take it straight
        to another neighborhood
                               facing off & facing
           not a pose for poser's sake
                 but possession taken  possessed
          in a way by nosotros yah way figmento flagrento
                    in fragments    ala lyre-icisms
                                     unstoppable   flourishes
            here is the one thing that is known/un/known
                         eins    stein of wants & ways & instewtaneous
                                      eruptions nets & oft striped pants

                                                       &
                                             offed the perif
                                            if we only knew.


4. (for .j.j.)

            the way the notes c             d
                                             a       a      e
                                                sc
                                                                 down the page
              yellow lit as if it's skin(ned) had aged
                         just by opening the book
                                        andswayson taped to its abidingness

              bound affusions here navigated
                 guardians tixed the uneven coming together
                     spelled grino the flexion playing
                              grace attenuated & tuned
                                           the wirds the very signs
                                                 that l(e)and to the blurred
                                                       the way the 2 are sometimes blurred
                                                              as the notes cascade upward.


5.
       a.   regulation tis-of-eth the showering upon
                  schedules this intrinsic (sic) vile age of corruption

                    here the slogan is more than the promise can ever be
                    to drag ragged ugmas lesions caught

          & as the doors of cathedrals & palaces remain closed to us
here this tiny sanctuary bleeds its drapery onto the rug with august singularities


       b.    www. 7th as clubbed prestigious
                    if only nood the noggin
                          as if the entrance itself had eyes to see
                                     & then again
                     this same pale yellow
                               makes even these intruding voices
                                      seem like ancient parchment trapped
                                                 between his fingers
                                                             here gone off full cocked.


6.
anywise
here 2 madmen
balanced
upon the rocks     &
met with LIFE
in all its aspects

& buoyancy returned
unbalanced
unashamed
& tipped as always
as things
changed hands.




James Blood Ulmer at Bryant Park (JVC Festival 6/29/94)

we kill the father
   like blood in veins
seep thru
         run   flow clot
              vault itself away

  bet the continents
      the disconnected cables
           bet the very air

    these narrow lines that carry us to the feast
        that tightrope us across barbed gulfs
                   sunclouds at the father's wake
                      (s)unbrellas opening

   for the sum of our waiting   (we win)
                 we are the new generation
                         the logical choice
                           smoking hand
                             random flame
                               blues in vain
        we kill the father
                  only to become him.




confessional

i've signed my life away long ago
the way these lights lay on the molding
molding
the way rings & trinkets hang
from the pretty boy's
ear
        tiny lights
tromboning
       tiny festive lights
                  with their own noises
                          exploding quietly on the wall
                                 spreading & mingling with their shadows
                                            red blue green yellow
                                                    with that other worldly white @ their centers
                                                                  that births us all
   (& eventually does us in)
                                                i've signed it all away     long ago
                                                              holocaust & waste
                                                          chromosomes & ballads
                                                                & the way shadows mingle with their own light
                     i've exploited excess       become excess       like all these empties & this rain
                                              on the table outside on the table

i try to be the keys on the computer
clicking away the way
they do
for all the reasons i've imagined &
rebelled against
                               but can't
       oh i can click alright & cluck as well
               & still think i'm a harsh but pretty boy
                   i can dive inside the curls of the bleach blonde at the next table
                            & come up empty after nearly drowning
                                      i mean after all i've already signed my life away anyway
                                           for both of us all of us this driving quartet

                                                  "god"   if i could only mingle
                                                           or have good sex
                                                                  or possess every KOPEK ever built
               i want every kopek
                   or at least good sex      or good mingling
                                                    i wouldn't mind mingling
                                                         i'd really LOVE mingling

                                                 "GOD"          IF I COULD ONLY MINGLE

                                                                         with those tiny lights on the edge of the molding
                                                                                        red   yellow   green   blue
                                                 (the way this music mingles)
                                                                                                 on the wall from the EAR
                                                                       clicking    clicking clicking
                                                                                                       i try to be the keys
                                                                                                          but can only be the clicking.


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Steven Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn, New York sometime after the last Big War and before lots of useless little wars...he has been writing poetry since before then and has always...he is basically self-taught...his great loves and influences are the Beats, Blake, Kafka, Camus, Harpo, surreal and abstract painting and music......especially jazz and so-called "Avante Guarde" or "FREE" jazz. Two key elements in his poetry are spontaneity and the idea of transformation rather than description with a preference toward non-linear, non-narrative thought. He resides in Manhattan where he has lived for the past 30 years.