by
Rochelle Owens
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XLV
Wild-Man & The Peeking Into The Cloud
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the Celestial
point.
from
this Region
we have been speaking
but we plunge
into the earth
we drink the gas every day of the moon.
The marks in the
sKy claim Possession
the privilege is the
completely PURE
distinct Soul in life & death,
only 3 points lie separate!
eyes & nose
/mouth calls IMPULSE!
Wild-Man dreamed &
was taught I WILL TEAR AWAY
marks between
the gaze the vision the pall the sleep the truth the
clouds the ivory the virtue the dubbed the sub-
stantial the word the place the marking the
movement the ideal the age the decline
the new the strength the year the
law the jaw the five the mean
ing the fires the quicken
ing the narrow the hole
the heaven the smell
the eyes the soul
the Ocean the
eternal the
biting
the
it is beyond us.
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XLVI
Wild-Man & The Righteous Perspective
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I found the Mohawk Valley
singly Wild-Man! He participated in
staggering discovery (shoot-his-mouth-off)
Oil I have found
Cumbustion I have made!
whatever the Sun bleaches is History
ripening apples faceless Father!
white Sulfer speaks perpetually
thousand say single intelligence shit of the
Mohawk flying crow the burnt word the
Singing Name
but to say that there are
kindnesses! the horse is
leaping & there is a record of
the Motion Full Sun
receives & is turning black
the dream of perfection
what belongs?
what holds?
what takes us up here?
what is oil-mortal?
what is Natural
envelopment?
what is O explain!
brilliance under the
Sun. the limit
has left the last
cold
/breast rib stomach Sighing hurr/
icane
Woman where is Wild-man?
water unites earth
the created things
understanding
No Numbers!
begotten
cubes rustle Hear!
existence forever.
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XLVII
The Funnel Of Steel In The Green Forest Bush
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Smiling so that between
the Skull this hour waits is magical &
Swinging Forward! My Soul! My Soul!
underneath the tree
most fabulous judgement the gleaming branches
in the shape of blood-bright forever
beginning /a mountain of
lead colder than a blue sky
Hum-Ho!
pipe o' iron
a funnel of steel
a shaft of rusty alum
iNum tardy-tar &
feather yr bum
sing Allel & tivili Tum! sing Allelu & tivili
TUM!
the course to the
earth beauty-slow & back
ward. the duration
of the dark body of human
what if I asked if your eyes were healing all that
was suspended above?
my blue of my revealed
breaths O Staring &
laughing instinct! O Shape of the Snake
& all that is moving
closer/
the voice
falls it is coming
into being
it is Always Found
it curves Without the burning/
all Moon in hope!
/what smell of the moment
is a color?
what is the texture
of the good
/eternity
what is the Name of Singing from
the Green Forest Bush?
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XLVIII
Wild-Man & The Rhythm Of The Mechanized System
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who belongs Devout
thousand rebirths mix
a few seeds
three days
thick at the top
how do these plants digest in full Sun/
6 submarines
fast frigates
1 battalion one onion
12 fast roses & a shower of s p e e d i n g
meteors I reconnaissance squadron 15 minesweepers
helpless in
the line of duty a
man dies
head sticking out of cement
/it's a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime
spectacle!
suck rubber & chop timber
/steel plants & the coming
Afrikanization of 12 hens & 24 cheeses/ 0 Boy!
a man with ideas
& a man whistling
in the light/tyme
of revolution
& bloody experience/
What about the
equipment
what about the fish throw them back in the Sea.
while the
gap
could
lead
to
Fearing Things
O Motor Vehicle
O Radio Station
O Meat & Wool
O Major Airline
O Sacred Mechanized
System
o'bliss!
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XLIX
Wild-Man & The Overhearing Of Disasters
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in India & Kenya
snails & slugs, moss animals lewd
Aardvark, rhinoceros Baboon Polar Bear
/all creatures with heads
severe with wave lengths of
radiation
moved 1 square foot
moved 1 square inch
moved 1 square T O N G U E
over the world's surface
much of the land has been devastated by
reckless lumbering & chronic killing
/Savage burning uprooting more & more
O Epidemic
O Earthquake
O Fire
O Flood
O Eruption
O Storm
O Cyclone
O B U B O N I C P L A G U E!
where's Rome?
fire!
where's plague?
jumping hot!
what's a shock to the human system?
The Black Death!
what's an Atomic disaster?
Hiroshima!
what's a hot seat?
Electric chair!
what's a mine disaster?
Suffocation!
where's the
future? peace propped
up on its
head!
in atmospheric
chemistry
the danger to Earth's inhabitants
/is feared dead meat dyed pink!
have a drink of black
water it willl take but
a few minutes
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L
Wild-Man & The Bad News Telegram
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life will take but a few
seconds/ have a drink of
black water
dead meat dyed pink!
danger to Earth's inhabitants is feared!
in atmospheric chemistry where's the future?
peace is
propped
up on its
head
suffocation is a mine disaster
the electric chair is a
HOT SEAT
Atomic disaster is an
event at Hiroshima
the Black Death is a
shock to the human system
plague is jumping hot!
fire is burning Rome
0 BUBONIK PLAGUE is not wonderful
Cyclone O
Storm O
Eruption O
Flood O
Fire O
Earthquake O
Epidemik O
land is devastated by lumbering industries
& chronik killing/
Savage burning
snails & slugs & moss animals &
lewd Aardvark, rhinos & some Baboon
polar bear/ all creatures with heads severed
& oozing wave lengths of radiation
moving 1 square
foot.
moving 1 square
inch
moving 1 square
tongue.
in India & Kenya & U.S.A. & over the whole
world's surface disaster.
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LI
Wild-Man & The Memory Of The Dying Poet
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to prevent a communist
victory confront the tribal
elder check his level of
literacy
& after a murderous
flash-flood
swim out to sea.
that a decomposed emperor made threatening
gestures. Defiance! --paid off the
government & smirked his
way to New Buenos Aires.
O fell in
the cement
cheated on
the rent
borrowed on
the grain &
fruit &
pondered on the wave of
social unrest/ Spastic
hopping legs quick off to
the new world!
after the war
the population of mixed ancestry
Germans, Catholic Argentinians, Jiving Jews
and Roman Japanese embraced the
People's Republic of China
dealt in money excesses & prevented
sweet strife & the spying on
of Uranus & Neptune
ejaculated
radio semen
intensified
the neutral
metals
& ruled with a
dictatorship &
laughed while fornicating & bull/
dozing on the Arctic ice
in the fifties we all revered ole ez pound
& now we pay a buck 29 fr
ground round!
& KNOW that ez pound
was derailed by FATHER TYME!
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Lll
Wild-Man & The Contemplation Of Lunar Incest
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there's almost NO LIMIT
to thinking in terms of miscellaneous Blood Groupings
WILD-MAN!
WYLD-MAYN!
WILDE-MAHN!
WHILD-MANE!
& so to radio-iodide
multi-movements & shortness
clear causes/ culture in
artificial energy fueling, excess
of grueling unknown streaming blood conditions
V I V A W I L D - M A N !
do the eyes look strange to you? then check
the mother
is she Sicilian?
Felonious intercourse/ sure quick vomit fast!
in case of rape
in case of incest
in case of
black & blue veins
do you smell
strange aromas? Lunar highlands
O neutral metals
the planets are large & the surfaces
furious the forces of the thick atmosphere
spring bigly & cause minor
night sweating of animals & friendly
injuns Animal Bites!
romance of the rose
the christian mystics the hydraulic
press & reverence & gas engines & iron
lungen burning your Bunsen!
fract/uring your calculating
machine!
So sweet.
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LIII
Wild-Man & The Essence Of The Crystal X-Rays
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free
with death the Power Project
will c o n t i n u e
rolling over &
crashing s u b m e r g i n g
life in Andorra
quickening the
babe fast
into War wound
existence
Voices on the Moon were heard
on Earth the infusion of
spice into the
old easygoing
exploited brown-skin
race spice is nicer
than boasting chinese
Socialism/ sez FRANCE. more Power!
more Meat! more Spies! more military coups!
more Zealots!
that they are beginning to make
an effort following the
clashes the overthrowing the
third dose
the time for body resistance to gory
peoples' protests. Selah!
& Wild-Man & General
stonewall jackson smelled out the sale
of rum
& the meeting of black slaves from Egypt & new raw
Bangkok that the world faces
the man who the police say is the purple thief
the man who understands the problem
the Wild-man who WILL
slay the owners of
rubber trees & tin mines
& plastic corn stalks/
licentious Higher Education for the
Coatzacoalcos indians
the middle-class movement
into inspiration!
the harmony in
which a
woman's position
is determined by
her praise of
crystal X-rays!
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LIV
Wild-Man & The Reverberation Of Poetry
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& one is says,
I desire thee
final & passing the
vision
the thrust
becoming the dead cold
& moving to what
I am/ &
knowing
the man sees Wild-Man crawl
ing with Suns
created
hung/slung Tung Bu
pouring the moment as trees drop
old bark
& then with radiant
energy
&
reverberation
feeling
I KNOW.
We love.
but the soundless the shining
rain
speaks dead heart
the pipes of TRANSLUCENCE! steel/
bunch
before
War
kiss
the
violets.
sing &
enter
that
emanation
muscle
stumble
light the what is
my song red flower droop
ing sad.
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LV
The Organization In The Jungle
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10,000 times the
circuit with largest bunch of violets
the 7.1% common fraction of life the forces produce
white & purple
influences
of power To call
the landscape grand flow
the earth
is farmland the
ceremonial palaces croak Sexual Attraction
the part
the microwave tapers
gravitation
natural sections
/Territory is scenic beauty so
killing/ly rare
the hope is the
loose mad exile to begin
to leave the wave of
secrets
which despite
the spears
rule the
lowest in the world
is noise cropping up
the head of the sheep
waves in jungle growth
The area extends below 60 degrees S.
the disputed islands in the South
theocratic worms
fill up in the hot & dry
lunatik desert .the heaven
drops glass
& rust
Wild-Man chews a blade of grass.
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LVI
The Mystery Of Wild-Woman & The Perfect Peace
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floods point the
westward migration reproduce the
extra
energy
reconvert it to SOUTHWESTERN ASIA AFRIKA
memory of the
Attraction of a celestial body for
Zero
physical change of mantowoman wild-woman
the catalyst of change/
GREAT!
call the manifestation
vision receiver Rare-Earth
it
continues
to
end
for
him/
wild-
woman
Saviour
of
Juice
& the land is luxuriant frag
rant with
voodoo
excess of bloodshed
rose in a
prime womb/ a
trembling hydrogen bomb sweet
mucous & texturous
Sacred design
throughout &
swarming everywhere the sucking bees the food juice
turning to her blood/her peace, perfect peace
Time
cuts back
to
Her power. flat rock.
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LVII
Wild-Woman & The Nature Of Horror & Love
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the glowing the blue
broken solid/earth melting I did
BEHOLD the field of Sloth
& eye
of GOD
the mental
soul cleansing
the body /& with a SWORD
purifying
the Awakening
the first is weight
& white crying sky
/the second is
hanging tongue &
joined fingers & yellow crookedness
transform & Exalt!
force the slipping
S N A K E the beast
taste of darkness &
pure DIsTORtion
how can you make the distinctions
/utter three sounds?
this bird
this wind
this now/
this pain
this passion/
this new-born
two pieces of
frog
this chunk of
stiff-necked barbaric
piss-pride!
this wish for/
virtue when the song
of wild-woman
is the nature of horror for/
through love
.know me like the sea.
O Beware!
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LVIII
Wild-Woman & The Thinking-On Of Putrefaction
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the subsoil in
the territory
& birds were found living the binding power
was joyful
now Woman has thrown
the scientific cowardice the
mocking forbidden
street
sewer
the distant backdrop
Divine service the matter
of the
skin
the sun between the
spine
bones
wonder of unknown cause
generation of the nucleus/
the TOTAL MASS
to bombing &
construction
an eagle flies over
the ravages of Frozen waste & disappears
to warm regions
the approach
to home &
the land
The wealth
of Great Rivers
the winging
System
readily
exploitable
made into desert (interior)
vileness in industry
consumption in Pacific
Ocean A hostile
climate makes birds
sluggish
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LIX
Wild-Woman And The Heart Of Things
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the swollen year
the single time endless falling down the night the
awareness of the death
of spreading leaves the
purged spiritinevil poured
water of horror
what I did today my mouth born
with such beauty I describe the source of
fishkill light
I Have Met The Spirit Before
near mountain-high flames
& have ye seen the god with the leather-ball
sitting in the jealous circle?
She was herself
dead on earth
she smiled &
threw off her
shield/
possessed by the
last existence the next
phase of the shimmering
heart of things
/As if all
the old structures
the decayed regions
not even a foul speck
on earth
captures the perpetual springing world! Selah,
we are
very tenacious/
the prey in the maw
of the hyena
inspired by the song/
of fury.
I received from my father
slow
drizzle great seriousness
I have made the fluid burn!
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LX
Wild-Woman And The Device Of Mangling
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leaving behind
the animals breakdown of
the beginning the judgement of separation
until the death &
sacrifice. the
cuts of Rolled Iron and
Steel Products the
chemicals &
Power Machinery
metallurgy the lunatik
National Anthem forces . anathema
slow sigh
hiss . slooc . soo .
gsp.
I fix my attention on
A skeleton reconciliation between particles &
ME I suggest the
value of
weakness to go to bed
without undressing
and move the lever
deal in cattle
whisk away the
human form I Am A Wonder Worker
I glance at others' eyes
I appear with wings and
a striking-fast switch
blade
I smash
obstructions
I cause acid to eat any
sort of hope
I dry up
the wetness of plants
I hold a device
and . mangle
it is the day of . derision
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LXI
Wild-Woman And The Vale Of Bones
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not in that great
matter contained the extreme
Star the depraved
guides transforming this process
the view point does not
fear the taboo all human
rose made
positive once
again is a
turtle
the old loving
history the spirit what cannot be known?
& by the power
I lift endlessly I believe the
Spring and Autumn
judgement
Since the current
forces
forces these words it is a
return .to the dirt. extinction no
no
not. to be.
what shows?
especially the beauty
of the world here &
now. The void. the
R
E
al Ity
directed
with the teachings
mother & daughter
of the earth
between heaven
you see the balanced
order
And rotten bones.
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LXII
Wild-Woman & The Profound Wishing
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it is not what the
present permanence is it perishes
the condition
is
craving. from one
the 3rd state
I am rescued
I function profoundly.
I am
of gold Wishing
Wishing
the kingly rule
my brilliance is the state
of force become the Sun/
the green purify/ed
&
eternal
drench &
burn laugh &
find gather &
stroke strike down
the evil nature/ O Empty!
this is what binds
first a thousand years the
comfort new-born thus true
existence
celebration of two wings
of a bird
the body
rising
forming &
wishing the
presence
& gazing wonder
the motion of
the Answer
is folding
life back
to blood.
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LXIII
Wild-Woman In The Windless Night
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tell the
doom white
smile forsaken
O a thing lonely
gizzard-grin
head of a fractured
clown. glaring pale-green eye zzz
at the upper part
of the jaw
drool decay.
with mad hands they HANG on a compound
of living
death. malice on the good name
biting muscle-game
elastic nether world
come now, we must plan
the planting.
there is the fact of dancing in mid-air flying
thru the light like
a rubber ball
Because it's
cool both halves Scatter the blast/
beetles split to a
Primary Cell
in the windless
night
whatever
is protected is unbroken Not
within the cavity
between things the poem of silence.
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LXIV
Breathing With Honey
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the Smile involves Pestilence
part of a fish no joy. nothing is born
this month the mechanism
puzzles We Know the instinkt
is a patch within
memory
at the time of Milk
moving quickly
saturating the
clusters of
flowers Peace is
the building material within a
generation of
fragrance.
glowing white. Selah!
I enkindle hum
an
ity clearness sing.
A bursting & inhaling in the inward search
the breathing
with honey
the first fruit of courage
furious bubble the moon between full Sun
the wishbone
spirals toward the state of
originating the slime-worm
is holy
it moves from place to
place its like is food its song
is wine From mucus
our Heads emerge
we lie face-up & laugh
at the Atomic sun
sometimes
we say fungus O fungus!
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LXV
The Victim Sings Freshly
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yield! & tell
me counsel the form of the right
Star it comes by
the wrathful the hungry
killer who is fulfilled
the pleasure light-quick
striking the black rock the hallowed
earth it's rolling from inside
our mind body everlasting
is perception
I practise
breathing it is my mouth that is
excellent I believe this.
walking in
kindness what is good in me?
the might of injected
Steam I throw the knife
in boldness the Victim sings
freshly & gushes
water from his side
what is hooking?
where is the deadly eye
hiding who conceals?
a block on
the crust of the earth is ready to flame
matter sings to it! Scolding earth!
what belongs to the
weasel? fleet
foot & crying tongue.
a cause is
adventure Salt formation
of a kiss
terror Earth
& good fat duck
sniff geranium
& give a fuck --
afore we turn white.
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LXVI
Wild-Woman & The Closeness Of The Gasp
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IT IS THE WORDING 3
justice/ it sweeps the Heaven &
earth the land is forced
to eyesight (reality)
Pure true the Mind the second of growing life
I embrace the
conduct
the function
of original nature
the desire of looking on the
gold fluid the strength always exists
it
is
for ever
where is the time of trapping
the effect of being
the lump of
death? slow it is in china
so far away.
I stir
then in
the mystery
of the
breath a
belief a
gasp a
taste of
the Name the
long dazzling
sound like
plucking with
the holy
fingers
I have had
my day
often &
the inner
light has
been
excessively
Christly
I think it
has irrigated
the world.
what a flood the 2nd time. speak
in the place of
shocking love
Copyright 1974 by Rochelle Owens. The Joe 82 Creation Poems, published by Black Sparrow Press, is still in print. Light and Dust @ Grist Mobile Anthology of Poetry.