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“Mermaids”
Finning The Mesmeric Mermaid Wake
She springs from palatial calcareous open-shelled boudoir
wrapped in nacreous rash of nubile mythology
(breeze of prince's robes
mercurial Karsavina
tresses spun from conjugating spirogyra laze ambulant
shift in a reed-sway stream-sinewing hypnotic
miraculously coined
her hips slickened with newly minted scales
splash raga showers of a gold-spattering sun-crystalling micro-cymbalology
artfully toileted dagger decorated mirror approved
a form tucked and marmoreal
flush with flex
quivering in a suppling bloom
as a leather whip coils restlessly upon the wall
she rudders a property
merciless with sting
“Mermaid #2”
Mermaid Like Recalcitrant Thrush
oblong belonging genus barefisted siren song sling branchfinning trance spun
postal clocks leaf the forest
transportation is the song’s rebuttal
the horizon in capsize
eggshelling architect’s with caprice
what is architecture but the endeavor to formulate form with
bump as alterior extenuation as device that falters
& urges that primitive early zone the zone eliding time’s approval
where fin was capital & crown
slithering through sects of witholding
dispatching black patches
for vision
“Mermaid #3”
with
mermaid, ... finning
the suppling mesmeric
liquidity wake
smelling electrically leviathan tails silhouette the shoreline
platters of merriment guise taper-whip
follow Mermaid Tail is to be encouraged
to sink
sweet submergence
something there is that loves a tail
sprite, flippy, ... whim-si-Cal-ity
trawling hirsute bloomfields calibrate
suction sweet zone whorl swirl spiflicated lungy crucifixions
torso pliant, manageable, ... squishy
below, tegular crystal, -- capable, rebuke-Able, launch-Able, Dar-ing, a slapping
slippery seductress
In Frederick Leighton’s “The Fisherman and the Syren,” the fisherman is hooked. He is morsel, he is tail-tied, gripped by the tender sirloin he will undergo unprepared-for excruciations, ... he will be swallowed ... absorbed.
Hybridity pedals transference. Property interminglements. Disclosures race. The hybrid in its eco-clash, its torsionanl topo-skin, -- rashes — an inexplicable electro-marvel charged with animistic colli(u)sions. Human & animal in homomorphic concert.
slickly the succubi pool invitations
the road
to slick road
urge to glide splurge with slide ride runners giddy sled merrily merrily chide the chary
she excites
she invites
she slurps
she issues
in-sin-u’Ation
“Mermaid #4”
from mermaid this tail
bespook bedazzling jewell
ing jewelled .....
token to epidermis & calligraphy
cartography & pulse testimonial
terse lore trove trophy froth
in the bed of sapience a spear
probing penetrative
pierce
2009 Wood Coin: Help Like Kelp Issue: Levinson, “Mermaids”