i'm playing with the idea of a kind of speculative poetry. no title for now.
adrian de la peña
i.​
wave swallower penumbras
condense
into who i am
collapse into
my eyes
this
time
​
this
clot
a second universe and spin
a pillow
pit and stake
​
pearl in one
knot-in-skein​
​
the carrying i
and
carrying the carrying i
and
does my carrying carry length yes
and
does a carried length spiral yes
does length as spiral carry yes
in spirals
tubular yes with the eyes of the visible
will rest again
and come to crave names
with the eyes and mouths of the visible
come to crave names and the yes
the yes and the carried names to carry distance
with
​
loss created distance
the inventor of gestures
creates the back
​
in the distance
between
the heart
and the throat
time created time this time
oh lonely p
lonely pau
i’ve grown fingers
they unfurl before me like
god
your direction
made an eye
and sees me
​
will i feel
before the fracture
don't fear
the
tempering skin
the
dimension of skin
veil of grace
​
architecture of veils
​​
the and
and
the with
​
the with and within
ii.​
until the bands were understood we were only one hand in
the next compression the replicative inorganic tULippmAymeN
each:had knowledge in spheres the walking thing the pirate breath
in the adjacent sphere the NiaNcheef sequence the nethtate the comatose chuss newpoint blessed and found direction and gifted gravity
in the fourpoint agreement mariner the throat-stars of NiaNcheef\blueing shadow the footagre::heart for body
tongue for motion
a longing for family
sink into skin
and lathing structures
emptiness progression
gel employed
the BeXt lexicon
the will to please
perfumed the enlightened
warrantee on a tender string
here to see everything​​
​
iii.​
under in and around a hole we smile holding folds
above the brevity holding folds what became an arm became water
​what became water was overwhelmed by currents ​
what moves inside of me turbulent light and water stands for what is gone
the problem of defining
the problem of living
shadow-seeking light
light-gifting shadows
​this and i
and here
​soliloquy of questioning ​
new distance ​
sacred doubt​
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​iv.​
in
​the orange recess the tether beat
waving and jawless
before the first silence: the multiples in pillows
considering and then the pillowing
and then the tar pea and periphery
form in the conscious quarter
the succulent archive
my walking core
stolen phenomena
atmospheric incision
knows the story tells
my heart and fabric in motion
my tip-memory considering
renew alin tarin tar
in tarin lean-tarin tar
and unveil
unveil
in
and unveil about
the inventor of gestures