A MYTH OF INSIGHT
Here
there’s an impediment
---------------------though not one of speech
because of the silence
The care with which we create
noisily
construes the exchange
A strategy
---------------------when identified
derives from a curious place
a bright and eager place
An innovative implementation
creates a myth of insight
of expressiveness
encouraging commitment
from a beginning at the bottom
which we hope leads to the beyond
An examination
----------------------seldom being deliberate
is often lost
as we change shapes
to hide in this place
in an act of minute tastelessness
SIGNIFIED AS A LABYRINTH
In doorways
[[[posed as parenthetical]]]
begins the labyrinth
Inclusion
[[[as well divided]]]
depicts a form the makes sense
While meandering
one forgoes a passage
into indulgence
creating passage
for non-identity
As strange as it may seem
stranger […] have happened
o have been said
o have been written
An iridescent cloak reveals
an act of disappearance
portrayed in a changing light
Hence the speculation
[[[as a response to tradition]]]
running parallel
[[[with obstruction]]]
to naive newness
as it exits
the parking structure
o a painting of
o a description of
o a referent
The weight
[[[on the most sensitive of scales]]]
reads allusive
when actually applied
as a signifier
BLURBS OF EXCLUSIVENESS
Resistant to systems of machinic functioning
we live in thirty (30) second blurbs
as perspectives
of rhizomatic proportions
generate questions
Bundling can exceed condensing
depending
and herein lies the line of inquiry
An orientation of strata
signifies the totality of a
o low
o shaky
o pitchy
sound of some direct inspiration
The lead
[[[concocted of sonar]]]
is comprised of bursts
[[[bursts leaning toward the kitchy]]]
yet still have managed to acquire a following
A cross-pollination of influences
induces sprouting
all at once
particling intentions of exclusiveness
AN AIR OF STUCKNESS
A synthesis
references a relatively reflexive silence
as embellishment moves forward identifying coincidences
Through hyperventilation
there’s a frank disposition at our disposal
with the potential to be anthologized
An air of stuckness
[[[with the constance of necessary nourishment
intravenous]]]
sustains with multiple summits
Height
o relative to height
o relative to sound
o relative to stillness
o relative to words
objective
with the nonchalance of retention
At this point
a modesty
[[[aroused in its tension]]]
garners approval
earned through effortless fragility
[[[but somehow charming]]]
and its tactile illusion
CULTIVATED FROM A SHARED INSTINCT
Once there’s a declaration of community
all technicality is lost
The flux approaching peakness
is distilled
and becomes a staple of the populous
alongside the approaching stasis
[[so much for the industrious]]
There’s skywriting
mentioning functionality
There was skywriting
mentioning functionality
This place is a spoken place
cultivated from a shared instinct after a brief period of existential crisis
resistant to the
o overwhelming
o immediate
o deafening
feeling of separation
and the occurrence of disregard
A continual collision floats overhead
forging menace
punctuating normal usage
and swaddling for the purpose of being close-knit
Calvin Pennix lives with his wife and daughter in Mission Viejo, CA where he is completing his MFA and MA in English
at Chapman University. He is currently an instructor at Everest College, where he teaches Composition, Literature and
Algebra. Calvin’s first book of poetry is being published by Argotist Books and will be out in early 2012. He currently
has work appearing in UCity Review, A Few Lines Magazine and Unlikely 2.0.
