THREE CLIPPED CURTALS I The penances presented śpacious salutationsVersicolor Raghu, piebald inventor League dismay ascetic austerities, virtuously shall opposeExcessive decrepitude, not reft a foeman’s HourDisquieted miseŕliness-unsated-hied; absention from behaviouŕ Three shall abstain from seven,Seven scanńed surprise; thou hermitage thou inćureth minikinRunty dialogue, these of obesiance outspread Piddling infrastructure II Perfect ablution, attainable, connubial Soma-juiceFledged pŕeceptor, Brahmana, buttererRevered disposer… Continue reading aj carruthers
Author: aj carruthers
is an Australian-born critic and experimental poet, author of the poetry collections AXIS Book 1: Areal, AXIS Book 2 (Vagabond 2014, 2019), the critical volume Stave Sightings: Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961-2011 (New York: Palgrave, 2017), and the sound work Consonata (Version one: 2019).