BOOM! Thank you, Benno. You're the most multidimensional poet on Substack and have paved the way for showing the invisible reality we've both experienced.
I grew up in New Mexico, so you really transported me back to my childhood with references to cottonwoods, coyotes, and desert witches. Fucking cool poem!
I appreciate how you approach the poem with narrative in mind. I was pleasantly surprised having not read your work but enjoying your content for some time. You pivoted to poetry some time ago and I now see why.
Thanks for this poem, Ian. I was inspired to experiment by collaging some of your lines that were strangely alive to me and see what it would feel like in a compressed form. Shared below in playful curiosity and respect as a fellow poet-mystic and not as an "edit" of your work.
M Cave
Sekhmet's blood
ignited my infrared body
where the feds obliterated Kenny Veach
they'll never let us
this is why we have
fentanyl in the osprey's wings
listen: I hear helicopters coming —
with only two miles to go,
what are you saying?
he doesn't hear the coyotes crying
at the witch's temple
in the airless wind
***
It's cool how poetic voice doesn't just come through diction but the patterning of our organising principles. A physical reminder of the psychedelic hive-mind that is poetry, that is culture, relation, reality: part you, part me; us, not us... 🪔
This improv tinkering taught me a lot very fast. I'm remembering the value of this kind of writing-as-reading and setting the intention to mess around like this more.
This is my favorite poem by you! I see the vision, blending the city/commercial against a juxtaposing nature. Love it! Also works so well as a love poem.
I enjoy how you combine the mythopoetic with modern phenomena. This is what we need.
Boom! You're up next with your collection! Excited to get a copy
Love the negative spaces mid-line; adds really interesting rhythm to the piece
Thanks Sara!
Wonderful weaving of dimensions, opening up really exciting roads for your poetry!
BOOM! Thank you, Benno. You're the most multidimensional poet on Substack and have paved the way for showing the invisible reality we've both experienced.
Thank you brother, we continue to pave with words and I'm excited to see the roads you'll make through the desert!
you blow minds effortlessly
🖤🐦⬛
I grew up in New Mexico, so you really transported me back to my childhood with references to cottonwoods, coyotes, and desert witches. Fucking cool poem!
Hell yeah! Thinking about moving to Taos, which I feel like is the southwest aesthetic end-game
What is this type of poetry called, guy . I’m new to this
I appreciate how you approach the poem with narrative in mind. I was pleasantly surprised having not read your work but enjoying your content for some time. You pivoted to poetry some time ago and I now see why.
Gat DAMN this is good!
thank you, brother!
Love when a narrative is somewhat interrupted with a "listen."
Thanks for this poem, Ian. I was inspired to experiment by collaging some of your lines that were strangely alive to me and see what it would feel like in a compressed form. Shared below in playful curiosity and respect as a fellow poet-mystic and not as an "edit" of your work.
M Cave
Sekhmet's blood
ignited my infrared body
where the feds obliterated Kenny Veach
they'll never let us
this is why we have
fentanyl in the osprey's wings
listen: I hear helicopters coming —
with only two miles to go,
what are you saying?
he doesn't hear the coyotes crying
at the witch's temple
in the airless wind
***
It's cool how poetic voice doesn't just come through diction but the patterning of our organising principles. A physical reminder of the psychedelic hive-mind that is poetry, that is culture, relation, reality: part you, part me; us, not us... 🪔
This improv tinkering taught me a lot very fast. I'm remembering the value of this kind of writing-as-reading and setting the intention to mess around like this more.
This would be cool with some comic book-style illustrations, like William Blake meets Neil Gaiman.
agreed!
This is my favorite poem by you! I see the vision, blending the city/commercial against a juxtaposing nature. Love it! Also works so well as a love poem.
Thanks, brother! Let's keep it MOVING!
Took me a moment to adapt to it but this is really my style, vague and fragmented. Loved the ‘orb swarm’ internal rhyme too
Thank you, brother!
I couldn’t understand all of the imagery but surely felt the message and spirit you were expressing…
hey, thanks for reading and tapping into the spirit, James!!
Wow !
🐉
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Big man Martin Garcia rolling up!