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Will Alexander
Compression &
Purity
In this fire of fluidic jeopardy
diamonds uncoil
& reconstruct & re-condense
like adjudicated burins
or telepathic moon forms
like psychic drafts & diacritics
being pressure by conundrum & purity
compressed below the level of the gaunt reflecting metals
diamonds
crushed & glinting pions
incessant suns in the pedalfer vapors
where the sun quakes by quanta
by powerful interior fractual
like singular diamond
like a juggler or a hawk
in condensed mercator warrens
where signs ignite in the phosphenes
like the shape of a comet as Sedna
or holographic combustion
compressed
burning
the dialectic of the ice house
the ground as habitual day star
as aerolith
as perfect star in the fathoms
known as pyroxenes
as repetitious pyroclastics
as lowered concentrations of void
being basalt by subductive infinity
diamond as subduction
as errata of mist under vapor
& these diamonds in my mind
not of the human blood soil
of protracted avidity
but of blank alchemical stresses
being wealth as random mountain ore
being poetic spurs
being strange supraphysical hallucinatory hives
which come down & retreat in the ethers
like double blinded mountains
or a halting circuitous heat from the Permian or
Mississippian
not an avalanche of morals
or a decided human predicate
but the predicate as primordial
as helium
as olivine
as “hydrated minerals”
as feral ozone dosage
compression then
precocious
with neon reversals & flaring
with dense & angular heightening
being a fabulous schist
being monoxide & hearing
Exercise in Particle Neutrino
Being a blank incarnadine neutrino
I have exercised as monster
as opaque lunation burning under rainfall
much like watching a field grow bones
through dissolving exhibit
& I understand why the sea beds groan
why the underwater quakes
which like curious damage from the demiurge
with its ruthless inconsequent principates
with its rhetoric of lower feasting
perhaps
a pedagogical demonology
or a mange war
or a dazzled momentary havoc
like a horse inflamed in a volcanic river
striding towards a soil which erupts into sunspots
into ice white infernos
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Born and raised in the
tumultuous neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles, California, Will
Alexander grew up around the violence that has plagued this area in recent
decades. The only child of working class parents, he was mostly involved
throughout his childhood in sports. He graduated from Washington High School,
and in 1972, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Creative Writing
from UCLA.
Poet, novelist, essayist, fiction writer, and playwright,
Alexander has published several books, including Vertical Rainbow Climber, The Stratospheric Canticles, Asia &
Haiti, Above the Herman Nerve Domain, and Sunrise in Armageddon.
Copyright ©2006 by Will Alexander and Green Integer