There must be something to say:
a-proximity between the wasps and their gall
and the druggists and your warts (and all)
a werld, as if, on a wire, silken line
one thousand and one prescriptions
hanging high, fading ink, wearing thin
the edges—————especially!—————at the edges
so that the apparatus of and what has been
so many utterances against maladies looks
now so like the larval tear of the cocoon


Approximately between hypodermic
mosquitoes and hyperactive thyroid
in the dictionary (walking backwards,
saintly do): hypnotize ask and ask: who
has killed you and love is the answer, and
she shows me her very holy plagues
and her mortal holes which emit fire —————
rather than blood and where my ribspreaders,
creaking with overuse, inflamed
the crook of the lowest branch and
her dilated heart folded to make
place for what there was to write:          


Approximate lie how much withdrawn
and compounded ink (ynke) from the gall
on the oak lowest branches, I am asked:
will the ink of her wart's secretion
reach the letter of my silky case dripping
with invasive gunk I extract and extract:
turn it to KILLDED pest control potion,
I had a dream and you were in it,
————— opening your iris spatula
wings, a sly prytania pearl moth
jeweled ampules perfumer
debauch: pinion hopscotch logic
from the jump on the fly,
whose signalling foot decides:
carve and cast from sensory hairs
on the extreme digits (setae) —————
belladonna plastic cast setee
knocking back (upon) the fuzzy juice,
it's so faradizing a joint,
it's so gold-plated pills so to pass
thru the system, sugar plumbism,
without yielding benefit nor—————
in gameshow terms, we win what
the unseen veil, behind which (below
which) the mandragora lie "always accept
the switch!" the root screams, lobe or lip,
as it has been variously called            


There must be something to say:
connection between the chemist and
the cricket, there must be culling
of simples, find a blue-bottle-
rogue-mind begnawn absolute
begnawn with the bots,
————— seams toward
the watch of death—————
—————or Paracelsus acolyte
one who knows what the Devil knew, tettix or
cicada concern their song with heaven
and thought divine (as per the phaedrus)
or Darwin's worms actions to reveal
the beginnings, straight line between ink which
eats its page and paper and the wasps
gall and soon spreading gear
————— to dispatch
you straight KILLDED: adder's fork
and blind-worms sting, the mortification of
copper, to reduce its virtriol it renders
a beautiful crocus, P says, and yet ill-omened
whirr (Turgenev's insect like a Apotheke
named Mortal Drugs —————
tagline: "Death to Any that Utters Them"
but whatever man destroys man can restore
love is the method): why should a man die
who grows sage in his garden?             


Something to be said for:
we remember everything
wasp's gall, barber's ire
she hangs on a hanger of wire
prescription slips spiked and aligned
she slips past
again and again
yearslong erodes the corners
more than a Creepingthing
we a living
scribble word wad we
remember everything
what remains of the ten thousand things
but this cocoon of paper to realize
the really real proximity
in that : go they
forth, all of them in bands
orderly march, cut to
ribbons, draw a line in
like they all
i pharmacist, hath no king
guillotines and guillotines, cut to
she hangs on a hanger of wire
cure to differency
between a grub and imago
my eroding fade-cocoon of
the ten-thousand things rendered
illegible as jelly, how the butterfly
retains larval memories             


————— through the pupa stage
through the pupa stage!
rendered to jelly, brain
rendered to jelly, body
rendered to jelly, path-ways
experience, eat, shit,
rot, decompose, atom-ize,
re-call: ah, that's what it was
like when, like when
with-drawing the gall, inky
from the bulb of oak tree
to fill (to fade) a prescription
for what ails you, new sickness
hair from the bug what bit you
gnawing bone forceps
foreign body probe
drawing out, the obvious
proximity between the ingenious barber
and swarming insect
path, paved, burial of, by castings
divide sew one's smarts
among ten-thousand things
all in-fected, in-flame
ain't it swell, murmur
we're "all tender assent"
————— devices one's smarts
among ten-thousand friends
ain't it swell, froth, atom-ize
recall the before as imago
and finally: reap                     


Go forth in bands, I have seen
impossible to tell: as they say,
the forest from the trees, shake
a little from wind since
the bigger the front —————carmine
and cochineal bug derived red dye—————
the bigger the back, said who
started it? who tied this line
from my thoughts
to the mirror ear: such things
are such ear to me, there is
a tooth in my smile
which waggles
and the line vibrates in your ear
leans right on the mouth and the birds
on the line
about face: i'm a heel
what kind of bird are you?                   


Say something: envenomat-
ing spiracle structures signal
you scream so puppeted
————— the permanence of ancient tumuli
"banjo shaped murder bottles"
off in the distance
the locust's call and between the druggist's pole
sweet melody and they were singin' for me
a bee is a resource, honey, a technoprosthetic
extension capable of dance, capable of sting
deafness of worms
Galton, Mr., on the number of dead
or "I'm a fucking genius and I'm the only
whore who knows it!" and I kill more bees
with KILLDED rest forever
here in our hearts, take one
laroche febrifuge
these calciferous glands are highly remarkable
if chill returns, take one
she's got the bug—————
blossoms small and inconpicuous?
take one, hang it on a hanger of wire
take the time to pupate a technoprosthetic
extension of a pen's fountain of wasp gall inky
discharge, intelligences washed away
mould, thickness of, annually ejected, casings
of the periodical cicada: of course they answer
to to their names                     


Or something indexical, say:
it must be said,
as ama—————is love
subcut————— pearl —————buried
lined with leaves: dry, distintegration of,
in her heart in her heart—————
fields formerly ploughed
direction of, on a slope
so pharma ————— is love
————— acted on externally and internally
by atmospheric agencies
It should be said and said
between i pharmacist
and thee moth
spatula's iris zoomed in slowed down:
mimic a metabulator's breath, time
i do extract —————
compounding of ink left
to the lady of the house
————— thickness of layer formed from
during a year, viscous
————— extra-stomachal,
organs swinging hanging wiring on a wire
hanger: the cocoon of fading ink and
the retained mending
is I breakem bone, hanger on, prescribe:
take the airs                     


Say somehow the pharmacist is buggy, say:
on burrowing, the power of
half a murder ant, midsectioned tinctured ————
i've a buzzing cenotaph to
well wellness ————— on stones
in the gizzards, ————— tower-like,
from near Calcutta, great stones and
fanlight transoms iron grill breeze circulates
tills the very thin layer of topsoil
a monument of great antiquity
pine-leaves used in plugging up burrows
pictured here before the windlike
diseases carried on the night air
inscribed elsewhere on these organs: "hard that
his name it should not save,
who first poured forth the sable wave"


A proximity abused, of course of
course of corrosion by, —————
of code where the "insect"
is both powerful and weak
symbolic values which threaten
and unsteady already sayings
one cannot abide and love the bug
gone buzzing against the fanlight
corner and cornered by jarcarders
in the black owned pharamacy on jackson
and magnolia, with Blue ————— tenderly
made something of a fascination with maggots
from meat now cure uncertain —————
stumbling Buzz between the light ————— and
they called them bugs
save a life, they call you bugs
they cannot be stark and swat
at the harmless good                      


said closeby just inside the outside of the
pill roller's carapace
————— ampule's jewls
withdraw as breath
poison for poison —————
i can dive ————— so deep
, is a makem ynke by
corals, mud derived from
if your cup be empty
ynscribe—————chitinous—————yntiers..............
tattoo—————my ynside walls
powdered belladonna
decaying plaster broadcast
bright cussed cousins custards
having cast broad both
burials of the remains of
a pearl for which i dive so deep
saliva, doubtful whether any secreted
sew into my breast
decay of leaves not hastened by the secretion
with which they are bathed
against piracy, against wan ————— hate
————— consumed-by
wasps controlled-by fungus
destitute of eyes
to her a recipe calls for just that and
extract of capsicum (
they abound in paved court-yards
soluable lead to keep it off,
methyl salicylate, oil of camphor, sweet chill
————— swallowed as food
the wart at the crook of the lowest branch
a trocar to the abscesses draining of the fluid
i love the bug ————— paper, triangles of
hearing, sense of,
land, denudation of
living walls of jet                        


A gleaming blank face the moon as a house
with laughing windows out of which
sickly gloam the compound eyes
of the extraterrestrial
insectoid alien selenites would see
everyone die beneath the world-ending rock
but Professor Barbenfouillis extracts sample
suction bulb cannonade
my le Voyage dans la Lune mask
is cracking and drawing in pencil real tears
which wet the waste: a bowl of rose petals
and dead bees, those that took life from thee


Approximate distance between pill -bug
and -pusher: dropped eaves, a sign of spring
tis the season a soup of smoke of
ten-thousand wings diaphanous rabble
detached bodiless under the door
hooking and pulling, linement
smeared as heat rub, thinning the skin taut
over joints faradized by
fresh caught lightning current
the italian method
under the arm and over our
pavements, ancient, subsidence of,
at Silchester
there's a druggist with his long fingers
through the mask crack of the transom
what have you got in that paper bag
logwood is the heartwood—————
I have no time for Western lesson
encampments, ancient
knowledge in small thin vials like


many bones, ashes, oyster-shells,
broken pottery, gum arabic
gallo-tannic acid, knoppers, iron sulfate,
render copper less
vitriolic—————mordant, fish gelatin, glair
wa wa water—————triangles of paper
hatched from unsatisfied anger:
near or far o tell us nearer
or far-er near or far pharma to bug
sugar eaten by
sugar excreted by
screaming root
and we'll collaboratively reveal our many
velvet undersides, sipping from egg
many limbed
eat the egg case, then the host
crawling over your window
you think I'm confused
I'm waiting for the divergent wasp
to complete my current ruse                     


how near or far between free naturalist and
observed cicada emergences by
Benjamin Benneker free discoverer
of brood x: I like forgot to inform,
that if their lives are Short they are
merry, they begin to Sing or make a noise from
the first they come out of Earth till they die
when the effect came, it was almost unnoticed
because it came to such a small form of life
————— from oak branch a buck moth
caterpillar drops on neck
on my neck from oak's branch
on ave Napoleon &
Prytania & the sting sings
in my voice


————— call it Phase IV call it
Bald's leechbook say it's miraculous! curaga draw
from the belly of a bee
itself born of the dead oxen
doda bumble doodle bug hexes
Doc hatches a little spell like a botfly
and I'm cured by becoming mother
to the muscoid
Häxan and other arthropoda who like me
trail a long bridal train stringed and prominent
ovipositor hiding
the darling million eggs
where you'll never ————— Dr. Engel's drawer
when one pulls it out: pinned and crosstabbed
earwigs withdrawn
from the auditory canals
of however many madmen, frenzy of:
pain and paranoia
and wax which they steal
(back) after 10,000 years of "collaboration"
with the bug, and his labels reveal depths and
qualities of madness,
record distance from lobe
to their blue chambers
to the tenthousandth
although to mine eye difference is moot:
every battletwig
looks the same ————— your unjointed
mandibles inscribe the tale: an insect born
from a rotten corpse mother
whose offspring purge
the bad flesh ————— how they named
"harvestmen" maybe, however inaccurately


mouths of lie motionless near
i do ynke
—————small do i border
the word—————less page
on denudation
plugged up
we slit the sheets
green vitriol, a binder, egg white:
black ynke of wasp gall ————— imaginary line
there is no difference between the "ant" and i
ash-tree petrioles of
ways to death
heaven is a swarm of locusts
like teeth are a collection of truths


my girl of fabric crushed ants
instead of graphite for the HB #2 pencil my
girl a factory which fills lead
of ground up ants for the #2,
all in on the technology of knowledge
an octopus communicates fear in ink
the same technology
what sort of insects
do you rejoice in,
where you come from?


wonder strikes
the curious
during the unfolding punchline
bees on an ancient radio
static and noise, buzzing message
tell the bees the funeral notice
bees on her comb and brush. tell them
everything, tympanal organs, chalk-formation,
surface of, much denuded,
plumbist in me
"perfume soaked rags" paths inhabited by
taste, power of,
the ink, the pen as a stinger
injure not any insect which might have fed
on the dead
lined with black earth
flints standing vertically in the residue
over the chalk
tower-like Nice-adjacent


la cucaracha la cucaracha
lacks last legs ————— an injury
to one is an injury to all
la cucaracha la cucaracha
brings the war home
and hangs the panzer from the deck
in the streets a stenciled roach
holds a protest sign:
revolution is a resource


die apotheke die apotheke
armed and clandestine
heat, perception of,
die apotheke die apotheke
anesthetize the nerve centers of empire
crowns or ridges on old ploughed fields,
the cocoon like sheaths
she slices the grapefruit and boils the eggs
concretions of lime
a bomb a sack a void
triturated in the gizzards
obliteration of old furrows on ploughed land
————— on the washing away
sage, leaves of, not eaten by
the old bat is always down with something
the fruit flies fall like this
odours, degree of sensitiveness to,              


approximately between the apothecary vest
and the roach's panzer shell a gossamer wing
defines the undersheen
the lustresoft nothing of a ten-thousand
palmettos in lab coat
mental qualities ————— fluid qualities
————— extract to,
extract from —————
entresol structure
highly sensitive to touch
compounding ink
under wing
blown to leeward
depths of burrows
power of prehension
recipe is a little buggy
their decay not hastened by
the alkaline secretion with which
they are bathed


walls, ancient, at Abinger,
penetrated by worms
boogie woogie ————— on acidity
contents of the intestines
nosegays of sweet olive
"power in preventing and arresting scurvy"
thoughtless hand ————— use of
the process how short
our productive lives mechanized
lumps of cabbage, ten thousand legs
skittering remove the top to reveal ten
thousand fewer insects than expected but only
the head of a lifelike babydoll
Möbius on the habits of a pike
that music so moved him
carapace against the door
a language whisperingly
these days even the devil
is getting overturned