Another South: Experimental Writing in the South

Hank Lazer

Hank Lazer from Days 28 of sudden veracities with drifts and jags torn dipolar incoherence for you jake broke the horizontal ligature of the line ra di al br ea k o f r i g h t r i n g f i n g e r fell well dim damp southern hole from The New Spirit teshuvah: heading south this or that or some such thing chuck when talking about a person’s capabilities called it wherewithall toward the middle trane played just ahead of any sense he already understood * bless departed ronald johnson who wrote anemone mnemonic to the least ARK 43 loomed am but for absolute bond density none better than zukofsky though ronald could sure as hell slow you down: at taps ARK 41 aft twilit lilac panicle rafter beam arch colonnade a cupola fran & ollie show what’s all the hoopla? chant a rant against the useful dance thinking of living of most instances of a few minutes honestly you’d have to say “what plot?” * 100 Hank Lazer when the saints came final things or better yet to very best could be consideration will be given could be we won’t wait in line after all they are marching in could be the doors could be the hallway could be the governor will unfold his arms & step aside * if flowers say it best what exactly is it that flowers say? lord always then of being homecoming starts with laughs * star spire fly forth into seven elements fled then into unraveled latitudes loose to lucid cupboard of summer syllables foment a cooling firmament bright hooves break along * furnished according to * Another South 101 reveals his glory early in the morning * we are much older than this would suggest so it might here become itself & here (& there) of adequate complexity singing as the sign singing as dasein assign the singing to our being here & there * my uncle tells me that neurophysiology research now shows that in order to see the eye must move constantly must make tiny movements so that the receptors are not over-saturated by a single image * we came across frozen archipelagoes * 102 Hank Lazer crossed wolf river ran along a road of words listened in the forward movement of john’s blue train distance is time & miles minutes crossed hobolochitto creek linguistic visitant beloved decadent protectorate & crossed it again & then the pearl river * tend the flowers change by season john the stuttered phrase accumulated layered phrasing piling on the seed words rose memory problem chapel crying vibration “led on by music” “in the middle of my life” necessity * Another South 103 finite times to return to this room that measures years to this room home of light loom permitted to return finite as in count your blessings for each one count this one having found that compact concatenation percussive sister * a constrained white boy’s chant but damn john it swings anyway soul swings to its own dissatisfactions that the soul’s genetic map hitched rhythm that & a whole lot more (the risk of course being flatness) * 104 Hank Lazer even with as much as gets forgotten what is is unforgettable much worth knowing or trying to know be sure to know or try to what love is & where it exists as a force apart from specific persons better yet whatever it is have it sing words on the page its bodily choreography the children get older which means your own function grows increasingly retrospective or prospective & insistent in ways that for others your vision has no context you chose a set of odd nutrients & now you’re precisely where they’ve gotten you when the saints in that number * Another South 105 no specific door or the best words of others these readings then teshuvah no other pur pose but the turning 7 x 7 years the first time through all seven cycles then begin again with gratitude & growing stress on retrospect speak it & sing it when these had been forbidden speak it & sing it resources begin again when the senses 106 Hank Lazer as before the seed phrase must be adequate to words in permutations that death not expected * crossed wolf river ran along a road of words listened in the forward movement...