// Matthew Klane
 

 

 

From “Area 37”

 

"No one else in the wealthy area." -- Leslie Scalapino

"I would never see towns again, or green fields. I would never walk
down the street again, mixing with a crowd of people. And I would not see
any more sunshine." -- X127

 

 

                                   Day 1.

 

                                I did in . . .

               crushed the button . . .


                                               01:00

                                             din ion catacomb.


No one else amasses such              succession.

       No one else lets atoms lapse it's simple


                           concatenation:


       classes of metal phenomena, strata . . .

                                                 phren, abdominal.


No data-life graphed internally over

            yielded such infernal feelings,


       thoughts, impressions, things I did . . .

I confess,                                        my fiery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                             Day 1.

 

          Diposition lithosphere . . .

                                        (per loss of activity)


              I feel it going underground


Far from fences, flatland, highway, city:

                                                   into the cracks,

                                             through the flosses, and

                                                     past the axe.


                       As opposed to

                         natural disaster . . .


successful suicide,

                                  the status of spilt guts,


                 my last experiment:

                          cement in reference to something.


                                the sum of all crevices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                              Day 1.

 

             Heaven has the air frozen.


                   Char has a flare for.             Irrupting

  construction in general:                    skyscraper, sun,


                                    bus station, pressure,

                                           no weather.


                         No one else in the wealthy area.


                                                Only static symbols,

                    ashy statues grasping at plastic.


It's all still hyperbole . . .                         semantics:

        iota the land and

                                       into the isobar.

                             Parabola.


                                                    The hell up there.

 

 

//
Matthew Klane received an MA in poetics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2003. He now lives and writes outside of Albany, NY.

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